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DISSERT

Definition: DISSERT

DISSERT

Intransitive verb

1. To discourse or dispute; to discuss.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)


Synonyms within Context: DISSERT

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: DISSERT

Etymologies containing "DISSERT": Disert, Dissertate. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DISSERT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Tumor Stroma in Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: Interstitial Collagen and Tumor Interstitial Fluid Pressure (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala dissert (reference)

  • Structural and Functional Studies of the Density Enhanced Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Dep-1 (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala dissert (reference)

  • Effects and Th-1 and Th-2 Cytokines and Reactive Oxygen Species on Normal Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala dissert (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translation: DISSERT

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

   

Russian 

  

рассуждать (dissertate, reason). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

diskutovati (discuss). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DISSERT

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISSERT": dissertate, dissertated, dissertates, dissertating, dissertation, dissertational, dissertations, dissertator, dissertators, disserted, disserting, disserts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: DISSERT

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISSERT


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

44 49 53 53 45 52 54

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 01010011 01000101 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#82 &#84

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)

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

38435353395254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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