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Definition: DISSERT |
DISSERTIntransitive verb1. To discourse or dispute; to discuss. |
Date "DISSERT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Etymology: Dissert \Dis*sert"\, intransitive verb. [Latin expression dissertus, past participle of disserere; dis- serere to join, connect: compare to the French expression disserter. See Series.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissertation | Verb: expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DISSERT |
| Etymologies containing "DISSERT": Disert, Dissertate. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "DISSERT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkruaj disertacion (dissertate), arsyetoj (descant, dissertate, expostulate, justify, motivate, ratiocinate, rationalize, reason, recognize, reflect, speculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разсъждавам (dissertate, ratiocinate, reason, reflect), пиша дисертация (dissertate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مباحثه کردن (Debate, Dispute), بحث کردن (Argue, Bandy, Discuss, Treat, Tussle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | értekezik (communicate, dissertate, to consult, to discourse, to dissert). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issertday рассуждать (dissertate, reason). (various references) diskutovati (discuss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DISSERT": dissertate, dissertated, dissertates, dissertating, dissertation, dissertational, dissertations, dissertator, dissertators, disserted, disserting, disserts. (additional references) | |
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"DISSERT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dassert, deassert, decert, desserte, diseet, diser, Disert, Disser, dosseret, dosset, Dysert, Lissett. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: strides. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: deists, desist, direst, driest, resids, resist, sister, stride. | |
-2 letters: deist, diets, dirts, dites, dress, drest, dries, edits, resid, rests, rides, rises, rites, sides, sired, sires, sited, sites, stied, sties, stirs, tides, tiers, tired, tires, tress, tried, tries. | |
-3 letters: dies, diet, dire, dirt, diss, dite, dits, edit, erst, ides, ired, ires, reds, reis, rest. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: diasters, diesters, diestrus, disaster, disrates, disserts, distress, editress, resisted, sistered, steroids, striders, studiers, sturdies. | |
+2 letters: asteroids, bestrides, destriers, diestrous, diestrums, digesters, digestors, dirtiness, disasters, disherits, disinters, disputers, dissector, dissenter, disserted, dressiest, drossiest, drowsiest, missorted, outsiders, persisted, redigests, redshifts, redshirts, residents, restudies, satirised, siderites, steadiers, sturdiest, tardiness, tiredness, topsiders. | |
+3 letters: adroitness, advertises, asterisked, bastardies, bastardise, carditises, courtsides, crassitude, denturists, depositors, dermatosis, dermestids, desertions, detersives, diestruses, directness, directress, discredits, dishwaters, disorients, dispersant, disreputes, disrespect, disrupters, dissectors, dissenters, dissertate, disserting, dissipater, distempers, distillers, distorters, distressed, distresses, distrusted, disturbers, dosimeters, draftiness, dramatises, dripstones, editresses, estradiols, industries, intradoses, midstories, midstreams, misdirects, misstarted, missteered, mistrusted, mistrysted, modernists, nightdress, ostracised, outstrides, predigests, presidents, recordists, redeposits, redistills, semidesert, servitudes, shirtdress, sidestream, sidestroke, sidetracks, sisterhood, spermatids, spideriest, streamside, stridences, sturdiness, subeditors, sudatories, tawdriness, therapsids, torridness, tracksides, trendiness, turbidness, turgidness, waitressed, watersides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 53 45 52 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ... . .-. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01010010 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S S E R T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0053 0045 0052 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38435353395254 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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