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DROPLIGHT

Definition: DROPLIGHT

DROPLIGHT

Noun

1. An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DROPLIGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references)

Derivations & Misspellings: DROPLIGHT

Derivations
	Words beginning with "DROPLIGHT": droplights. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"DROPLIGHT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dropleted. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: DROPLIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-h-i-l-o-p-r-t"
	-3 letters: diglot, liroth, plight, righto, torpid, tripod.
	-4 letters: dhoti, dight, dript, droit, dropt, girth, griot, gript, grith, light, lirot, litho, pilot, pirog, right, thiol, third, thirl, thorp, thrip, tophi, trigo, triol.
	-5 letters: diol, dipt, dirl, dirt, doit, dolt, dorp, doth, drip, drop, gild, gilt, gird, girl, giro, girt, glop, gold, gorp, grid, grip, grit.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-h-i-l-o-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: droplights.
	+3 letters: lithographed.
	+4 letters: trothplighted.
	+5 letters: dermatoglyphic, radiotelegraph.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: DROPLIGHT

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

44 52 4F 50 4C 49 47 48 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 01010010 01001111 01010000 01001100 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#76 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 004F 0050 004C 0049 0047 0048 0054

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

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

385249504643414254

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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