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ENCHASE

Definitions: ENCHASE

ENCHASE

Transitive verb

1. To delineate or describe, as by writing.

2. To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.

3. To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ENCHASE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Enchase \En*chase"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Enchased; present participle verb or noun Enchasing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: ENCHASE

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

Junction

Braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ENCHASE

English words defined with "ENCHASE": Enchased, EnchasingInchase. (references)
Etymologies containing "ENCHASE": Encase. (references)

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Modern Translations: ENCHASE

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

Albanian

  

stolis (adorn, array, bedizen, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, ornament, prank, tire, trap, trick up, trim), gdhend (adz, adze, carve, chase, chisel, die, engrave, gouge, incise, inscribe, intaglio, Nick, polish, rasp, refine, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, shape, shave). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

украсявам (adorn, array, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, enrich, flatter, garnish, glorify, grace, lard, ornament, prank, set, titivate, trim), гравирам (chase, cut, engrave, etch, incise, rout out, sink). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(Enchased, Enchasing). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مرصع کردن (Gem, Jewel, Stud), نشاندن (Embed, Imprint, Infix, Seat, Set, Stud), کارگذاشتن (Fix, Set), قلم زدن (Engrave), سوارکردن (Assemble, Mount, Set), درنگین گذاشتن . (various references)

   

French

  

traquer. (various references)

   

German

  

eingravieren (engrave, incise, inscribe, to enchase, to engrave), treiben (battue, be adrift, be up to, beat, blowing, bring, budding, carry on, chase, commit, create, cupellation, do, drift, drive, drive on, drove, droving, exertion of pressure, float, force, hustle and bustle, impel, jack up, leaven, make, make rise, move, production, propel, pursue, push, push out, put forth, put out, rush, shoo, shooting, sprout, sprouting, stretching, swim, swirling, throw out, thrust, to beat, to drive, to enchase, trailing, urge, work, wreak). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

cizellál (to chase, to chisel, to emboss). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spingere (blow, crowd, drive, exertion of pressure, float, go, hustle, impel, induce, jog, jostle, perform, poke, production, prompt, propel, push, rush, shove, slide, thrust, to press, to push, to rush, urge, wheel, wreak). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enchaseay

   

Portuguese

  

engastar (embed, Mount, set, to embed, to mount flush), gravar (carve, character, chase, chip, chisel, cut, engrain, engrave, grave, impress, imprint, incision, infix, ingraft, inscribe, print, record, score, scrimshaw, stamp), feiticeira (Circe, hag, sorceress, witch). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

оправлять, инкрустировать (encrust). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ukrasiti (adorn, array, decorate, emblazon, garnish, illuminate, ornament, trim). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incrustar (embed, encrust, incrust, inlay). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เลี่ยม (inlaid), ฝังอัญม"ีลงไปบนเครื่องประ"ับ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), kabartmalarla süslemek, çerçevelemek (border, enframe, frame, inlay). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

гнатися (chase, chivvy, chivy, pursue), відганяти (banish, fend). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ENCHASE

Derivations

Words beginning with "ENCHASE": enchased, enchaser, enchasers, enchases. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ENCHASE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anchusa, Echave, Eichhausen, enchufe, Enschede, Ferchase, Nechacv, rechase. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ENCHASE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: achenes.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-n-s"

-1 letter: achene, encase, encash, hances, naches, seance, seneca.

-2 letters: aches, acnes, ashen, canes, cease, cense, chase, eches, hance, hanse, hence, scena, scene, sheen.

-3 letters: aces, ache, acne, anes, cane, cans, case, cash, cees, each, ease, eche, haen, haes, hens, sane, scan, seen, sene, shea.

-4 letters: ace, ane, ash, can, cee, ens, hae, has, hen, hes, nae, nah, nee, sac, sae, sea, sec, see, sen, sha, she.

-5 letters: ae, ah, an, as, eh, en, es, ha, he, na, ne, sh.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-n-s"
 

+1 letter: cheapens, encashed, encashes, enchased, enchaser, enchases, enhances.

 

+2 letters: bechances, camphenes, chanteuse, chastened, chastener, cheapness, enchasers, enhancers, exchanges, hesitance, menarches, rechanges, revanches, seneschal, unteaches.

 

+3 letters: achinesses, adherences, anesthetic, anthelices, archnesses, challenges, chameleons, chanceries, chandelles, changeless, channelers, chanteuses, chaperones, chasteners, chasteness, echinaceas, encashable, encashment, enchanters, encroaches, endarchies, entrechats, escheating, exchangers, franchisee, gaucheness, hesitances, houseclean, mechanizes, pachytenes, phenacites, rebranches, rechannels, relaunches, seneschals, shankpiece.

 

+4 letters: abhorrences, aerenchymas, anaesthetic, anchoresses, anesthetics, antechapels, anthracenes, archenemies, backbenches, carragheens, catechumens, ceanothuses, cellophanes, cephalexins, chainwheels, challengers, chandeliers, chandleries, changeovers, channelizes, charinesses, chatelaines, cheapnesses, chicaneries, chimpanzees, decahedrons, detachments, encashments, enchantress, encroachers, enfranchise, esthetician, ethicalness, franchisees, gearchanges, hesitancies, housecleans, lecithinase, leprechauns, machineries, manchineels, mechanizers, merchandise, mesenchymal, pentarchies, phenacaines, phenacetins, planchettes, preachiness, preachments, researching, shacklebone, shankpieces, unaesthetic.

 

+5 letters: achievements, aesthetician, anaesthetics, antechambers, archenterons, backbenchers, benchwarmers, buccaneerish, candlefishes, chalcedonies, chancinesses, changelessly, chanterelles, chanticleers, chaperonages, chastenesses, chastisement, chattinesses, cheeseparing, chinaberries, cyclohexanes, detachedness, disenchanted, disenchanter, encephalitis, enchainments, enchantments, enfranchised, enfranchises, enhancements, estheticians, furtherances, gauchenesses, gemeinschaft, happenstance, housecleaned, impeachments, inchoateness, inheritances, interchanges, kitchenwares, knuckleheads, leathernecks, lecithinases, melancholies, merchandised, merchandiser, merchandises, merchandizes, mesencephala, mischanneled, neurasthenic, nonaesthetic, patchinesses, rechallenges, scenographer, sclerenchyma, shacklebones, trenchancies, unchasteness, undercharges, unsearchable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ENCHASE


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

45 4E 43 48 41 53 45

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)

01000101 01001110 01000011 01001000 01000001 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0043 0048 0041 0053 0045

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

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

39483742355339

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INDEX

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


  

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