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DISPOSURE

Definition: DISPOSURE

DISPOSURE

Noun

1. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture.

2. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISPOSURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Note: Disposure \Dis*po"sure\, noun. [From Dispose.]. (Websters 1913)


Historic Usage: DISPOSURE

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Every one is at the disposure of his own will, when those who had, by the delegation of the society, the declaring of the public will, are excluded from it, and others usurp the place, who have no such authority or delegation. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: DISPOSURE

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISPOSURE": disposures. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DISPOSURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-p-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: desirous, disposer, dropsies, suspired.

-2 letters: dispose, dossier, dousers, periods, poisers, poseurs, poussie, prissed, prossie, pseudos, pussier, serious, soupier, spiders, spoused, sudsier, suspire, updries, uprises, upsides.

-3 letters: dipsos, disuse, dopers, dopier, dories, dosers, dosser, douser, douses, drupes, druses, dupers, duress, issued, issuer, opuses, osiers, pedros, perdus, period, pissed, pisser, poised, poiser, poises, posers, poseur.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-p-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: disposures, subperiods.

 

+2 letters: superoxides.

 

+3 letters: discomposure, superimposed, urediospores.

 

+4 letters: avoirdupoises, discomposures, praseodymiums, serendipitous, splendiferous.

 

+5 letters: perfidiousness, prodigiousness, productiveness, pseudomorphism, pseudoscorpion, superadditions, supercolliders, superdiplomats, urediniospores.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DISPOSURE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 53 50 4F 53 55 52 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    .--.    ---    ...    ..-    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010011 01010000 01001111 01010011 01010101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#80 &#79 &#83 &#85 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0050 004F 0053 0055 0052 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384353504953555239

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Historic
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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