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DIUTURNAL

Definition: DIUTURNAL

DIUTURNAL

Adjective

1. Of long continuance; lasting.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Diuturnal \Di`u*tur"nal\, adjective. [Latin expression diuturnus, from diu long time, by day; akin to dies day.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: DIUTURNAL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Diuturnity

Adjective: durable; lasting; Verb: of long duration, of long-standing; permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient, intransitive; intransmutable, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent, sempervirid; unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting; perpetual.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIUTURNAL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

diuturnal

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DIUTURNAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-n-r-t-u-u"

-2 letters: diurnal, unadult, undular, unitard.

-3 letters: aldrin, durian, indult, lurdan, nutria, ratlin, ritual, trinal, tuladi, tundra, unlaid, urinal.

-4 letters: adult, audit, daunt, dinar, drail, drain, dulia, dural, laird, liard, lidar, lunar, lurid, nadir, nidal, ranid, riant, rutin, tidal, trail, train, triad, trial, ulnad, ulnar, ultra, unlit, until, urial.

-5 letters: adit, airn, airt, alit, anil, anti.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-n-r-t-u-u"
 

+3 letters: uncirculated.

 

+4 letters: unarticulated.

 

+5 letters: superinsulated, undervaluation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DIUTURNAL


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

44 49 55 54 55 52 4E 41 4C

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)

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

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

01000100 01001001 01010101 01010100 01010101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#85 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#78 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0055 0054 0055 0052 004E 0041 004C

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

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

384355545552483546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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