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Definitions: ENCHASE |
ENCHASETransitive verb1. 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. |
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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: ENCHASE |
| English words defined with "ENCHASE": Enchased, Enchasing ♦ Inchase. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ENCHASE": Encase. (references) |
| 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 | 镶 (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 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) оправлять, инкрустировать (encrust). (various references) ukrasiti (adorn, array, decorate, emblazon, garnish, illuminate, ornament, trim). (various references) incrustar (embed, encrust, incrust, inlay). (various references) เลี่ยม (inlaid), ฝังอัญม"ีลงไปบนเครื่องประ"ับ. (various references) 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) гнатися (chase, chivvy, chivy, pursue), відганяти (banish, fend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ENCHASE": enchased, enchaser, enchasers, enchases. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4E 43 48 41 53 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.-. .... .- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001110 01000011 01001000 01000001 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E N C H A S E |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39483742355339 |
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