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DOWNTHROW

Definition: DOWNTHROW

DOWNTHROW

Noun

1. The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: DOWNTHROW

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. The downthrown side of a fault b. The amount of downward vertical displacement of a fault. CF:upthrow;heave. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: DOWNTHROW

Specialty definitions using "DOWNTHROW": fault terrace. (references)

Modern Translation: DOWNTHROW

Language		Translations for "DOWNTHROW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		сваляне (landing, overturn, rush, subversion). (various references)

Hungarian		levetett réteg. (various references)

Pig Latin		ownthrowday

Portuguese		garganta abaixo. (various references)

Russian		сброс (chop, unset). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zbačen, oboren. (various references)

Spanish		metimiento. (various references)

Ukrainian		скид. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: DOWNTHROW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-h-n-o-o-r-t-w-w"
	-3 letters: hotrod, thoron, thrown.
	-4 letters: donor, drown, honor, nohow, north, ortho, rondo, rowth, thorn, thoro, throw, tondo, whort, worth, wroth.
	-5 letters: dhow, door, doth, down, hood, hoot, horn, nowt, odor, onto, ordo, rood, root, roto, thro, toon, torn, toro, town, trod, trow, wont, wood, word, worn, wort.
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Alternative Orthography: DOWNTHROW

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

44 4F 57 4E 54 48 52 4F 57

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 01001111 01010111 01001110 01010100 01001000 01010010 01001111 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#87 &#78 &#84 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0057 004E 0054 0048 0052 004F 0057

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

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

384957485442524957

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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