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DRY PILE

Definition: DRY PILE

DRY PILE

1. (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also Zamboni's , from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: DRY PILE

English words defined with "DRY PILE": Diagometer. (references)

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Modern Translation: DRY PILE

Language Translations for "DRY PILE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

szárazelem (dry battery, dry cell, pile). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ydray ilepay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DRY PILE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-p-r-y"

-1 letter: direly, ridley, ripely.

-2 letters: drily, idler, perdy, peril, piled, plied, plier, plyer, pride, pried, redip, redly, reply, riled, riley, riped, yield.

-3 letters: deil, deli, diel, dire, dirl, drip, dyer, idle, idly, idyl, ired, lied, lier, lipe, lire, lyre, peri, pied, pier, pile, pily, pled, plie, prey, pyre, rely, ride, riel, rile, ripe, yeld.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-p-r-y"
 

+2 letters: pyrolized, redisplay.

 

+3 letters: decrepitly, depilatory, hyperploid, intrepidly, preholiday, pridefully, redisplays, spiritedly.

 

+4 letters: deploringly, disparately, dispersedly, hyperboloid, hyperlinked, hyperploids, hyperploidy, imprudently, interplayed, polyandries, polymerised, polymerized, predelivery, predictably, providently, pteridology, redeploying, redisplayed, tetraploidy.

 

+5 letters: depolymerize, depressingly, depressively, despairingly, discrepantly, dispersively, dispiritedly, disreputably, disruptively, drapeability, heteroploidy, hyperbolized, hyperboloids, imponderably, perfidiously, periodically, policyholder, polydisperse, polyhedrosis, postdelivery, predictively, productively, proselytised, proselytized, prudentially, redisplaying, reproducibly, spheroidally, underplaying.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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