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EMBAR

Definitions: EMBAR

EMBAR

Transitive verb

1. To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.

2. To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EMBAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Embar \Em*bar"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Embarred; present participle verb or noun Embanking.]. (Websters 1913)

 

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Crosswords: EMBAR

English words defined with "EMBAR": Embanking, Embarred. (references)

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Modern Translations: EMBAR

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

Ukranian 

  

ув'язнювати (confine, constrain, dungeon, gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, pound, prison, quod), заважати (baffle, balk, clog, cut across, embarrass, empeach, hinder, impeach, incommode, interfere, obscure, obstruct, preclude, prohibit), забороняти (bar, disallow, enjoin, forbid, inhibit, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, provide, suppress, taboo, tabu, veto). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: EMBAR

Derivations

Words beginning with "EMBAR": embarcadero, embarcaderos, embargo, embargoed, embargoes, embargoing, embark, embarkation, embarkations, embarked, embarking, embarkment, embarkments, embarks, embarrass, embarrassable, embarrassed, embarrassedly, embarrasses, embarrassing, embarrassingly, embarrassment, embarrassments, embarred, embarring, embars. (additional references)

Words containing "EMBAR": disembark, disembarkation, disembarkations, disembarked, disembarking, disembarks, disembarrass, disembarrassed, disembarrasses, disembarrassing, preembargo, reembark, reembarked, reembarking, reembarks, unembarrassed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: EMBAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amber, bream.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-m-r"

-1 letter: bare, barm, beam, bear, bema, berm, brae, mabe, mare, ream.

-2 letters: arb, are, arm, bam, bar, bra, ear, era, mae, mar, ram, reb, rem.

-3 letters: ab, ae, am, ar, ba, be, em, er, ma, me, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-m-r"
 

+1 letter: ambeer, ambers, ambery, ambler, barmen, barmie, blamer, breams, bregma, camber, crambe, embark, embars, ferbam, lamber, marble, ramble, umbrae.

 

+2 letters: ambeers, amblers, ambries, balmier, barmier, beamier, becharm, besmear, beswarm, blamers, bramble, breamed, brecham, bromate, cambers, chamber, clamber, crambes, embargo, embarks, embrace, ferbams, gambier, gambler, gambrel, lambers, lambert, lambier, macaber, macabre, marbled, marbler, marbles, megabar, rambled, rambler, rambles, rumbaed, umbrage.

 

+3 letters: abampere, aerobium, ambaries, amberies, amberina, amberoid, ambivert, ambusher, atremble, bargeman, bargemen, barmiest, becharms, beclamor, bedframe, bedmaker, beglamor, bergamot, bermudas, besmears, beswarms, biramose, boardmen, brakeman, brakemen, brambled, brambles, breaming, brechams, bregmata, bregmate, bromated, bromates, cambered, chambers, clambers, combater, crabmeat, cramboes, cymbaler, drumbeat, embalmer, embarked, embarred, emblazer, embraced, embracer, embraces, farmable, fimbriae, formable, framable, gambiers, gamblers, gambrels, hornbeam, imbalmer, imbarked, jamboree, jeroboam, lamberts, marblers, marblier, megabars, membrane, micawber, penumbra, preamble, ramblers, reembark, rehoboam, rhabdome, rhumbaed, scramble, subframe, umbellar, umbrages, umbrella, vambrace, verbatim, wamblier.

 

+4 letters: abamperes, admirable, adumbrate, airmobile, ambergris, amberinas, amberjack, amberoids, ambiverts, ambrotype, ambushers, arboretum, assembler, bacterium, barometer, barometry, becharmed, beclamors, bedframes, bedmakers, beglamors, beglamour, benchmark, bergamots, besmeared, beswarmed, bicameral, biomarker, bombarded, boogerman, bookmaker, boomerang, bramblier, bromelain, bromeliad, brominate, broodmare, broomrape, brummagem, buckramed, cablegram, cambering, carbamate, carbamide, chambered, clambered, clamberer, combaters, crabmeats, crossbeam, cymbalers, debarment, disembark, drumbeats, embalmers, embargoed, embargoes, embarking, embarrass, embarring, emblazers, embraceor, embracers, embracery, embracing, embracive, embrangle, embrasure, embryonal, fimbriate, frambesia, framboise, frameable, hamburger, herbarium, hornbeams, imbalmers, imbricate, jamborees, jeroboams, lamebrain, lumberman, marbleise, marbleize, marbliest, membraned, membranes, memorable, memorably, micawbers, microbeam, miserable, miserably, numerable, penumbrae, penumbral, penumbras, permeable, preambles, rebaptism, reembarks, rehoboams, removable, removably, rhabdomes, sawtimber, scrambled, scrambler, scrambles, streambed, subdermal, subframes, submarine, submarket, tamboured, tambourer, timberman, tribesman, umbrellas, vambraces, verbalism.

 

+5 letters: abridgment, adumbrated, adumbrates, affirmable, amberjacks, ambrotypes, ambuscader, amerciable, arboretums, assemblers, bacteremia, bacteremic, bandmaster, barometers, barometric, bathymetry, becharming, beclamored, bedchamber, beglamored, beglamours, benchmarks, besmearing, beswarming, bichromate, biomarkers, blasphemer, blastoderm, blastomere, bombardier, bookmakers, bookmarked, bookmarker, boomerangs, brambliest, breadcrumb, bridesmaid, bromegrass, bromelains, bromeliads, brominated, brominates, broodmares, broomrapes, brummagems, bushmaster, cablegrams, carbamates, carbamides, chambering, clamberers, clambering, comparable, crossbeams, debarments, deformable, descramble, disbarment, disembarks, drumbeater, dumbwaiter, embargoing, embarkment, emblazoner, emblazonry, embraceors, embrangled, embrangles, embrasures, enumerable, fimbriated, formidable, frambesias, framboises, garbageman, garbagemen, hamburgers, herbariums, imbricated, imbricates, impartible, importable, improbable, improvable, irremeable, lambrequin, lamebrains, lebensraum, liberalism, lobsterman, lumberjack, lumberyard, marbleised, marbleises, marbleized, marbleizes, marketable, marrowbone, masturbate, measurable, measurably, membranous, mensurable, microbeams, misbehaver, misbranded, miserables, mislabored, numberable, permutable, phlebogram, preembargo, presumable, presumably, promotable, rabblement, reassemble, reassembly, rebaptisms, redeemable, reembarked, reformable, remarkable, remarkably, remediable, remittable, removeable, resemblant, rhabdomere, sawtimbers, scramblers, seaborgium, streambeds, submanager, submarined, submariner, submarines, submarkets, subprimate, tambourers, tambourine, temperable, terminable, terminably, timberhead, timberland, umbrageous, umbrellaed, unscramble, verbalisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EMBAR


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

45 4D 42 41 52

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)

01000101 01001101 01000010 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#66 &#65 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D 0042 0041 0052

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

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

3947363552

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INDEX

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


  

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