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Definitions: ENGRAIN |
ENGRAINTransitive verb1. To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. 3. To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. |
Note: Engrain \En*grain"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Engrained; present participle verb or noun Engraining.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ENGRAIN |
| English words defined with "ENGRAIN": Engrained, Engraining. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "ENGRAIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përforcoj (add, aggrandize, confirm, establish, exalt, extend, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, redouble, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, truss, underpin), ngjyros (color, colour, dye, embroider, tinge), fut (accept, cram into, drive, drive in, embed, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, submerge, take on, thrust, tuck, usher in), fus (accept for, Bury, cram into, drive, embroil, enclose, enter, get in, inclose, interpolate, introduce, launch, mix in, pack, plunge, poke, pour into, press in, put, put in the picture, set, shove, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, work in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | насаждам дълбоко, боядисвам (color, colour, decorate, dip, paint, wash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | žilkovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bevés (engrave, etch, incise, ingrain, inscribe, to engrain, to engrave, to etch, to grave, to incise, to ingrain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | meresapkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | includere (comprehend, comprise, embody, enclose, inclose, include, incorporate), imprimere (be impressed, engrave, give, impart, impress, imprint, incuse, print, stamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | engrainay tingir (bepaint, dye, imitate, stain, tint), inculcar (inculcate), gravar (carve, character, chase, chip, chisel, cut, enchase, engrave, grave, impress, imprint, incision, infix, ingraft, inscribe, print, record, score, scrimshaw, stamp), dentear (Dent, indent, jagg). (various references) impregna (imbue, permeate, process), colora intens, întipãri (enface, engraft, grave, stamp). (various references) красить кошенилью, красить в пряже, внедрять (embed, enroot, imbed, implant, impregnate, inculcate, intrude, plant, root). (various references) radicarse. (various references) içine işletmek (ingrain), ham iken boyamak (ingrain), boyamak (color, color-wash, colour, decorate, dye, imbrue, paint, polish, stain, wash). (various references) впроваджувати (root). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | graine. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ENGRAIN": engrained, engraining, engrains. (additional references) | |
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"ENGRAIN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elgaren, endgrain, Engadin, Engai, engoran, Engrais, Engria, Fengtai, negreni, negroni, Penygraig. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aginner, earning, grannie, nearing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: earing, gainer, ginner, inaner, narine, reagin, regain, regina. | |
-2 letters: anger, garni, grain, inane, inner, range, regna, reign, renig, renin. | |
-3 letters: ager, agin, airn, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gien, girn, gnar, gran, grin, near, nine, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rein, ring. | |
-4 letters: age, ain, air, ane, ani, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar, gen, gie, gin, inn, ire, nae, nag, nan, rag, ran, reg, rei, ria, rig, rin. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, ar, en, er, in, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: aginners, anearing, angering, arginine, earnings, engrains, enraging, grannies, learning, ravening, recaning, renaming, yearning. | |
+2 letters: angriness, answering, argentine, arginines, bannering, bantering, brazening, cankering, cantering, careening, caverning, cravening, dandering, dangering, darkening, deranging, enamoring, endearing, enframing, engrained, engraving, enlarging, ensnaring, gandering, gannister, gardening, garnering, grenadine, hankering, hardening, harkening, ignorance, ingrained, integrand, intergang, learnings, nattering, omnirange, organzine, pandering, parenting, ranginess, rattening, ravenings, reasoning, recanting, reearning, regaining, rehanging, reloaning, remaining, remanding, remanning, renailing, retaining, tangerine, unbearing, wandering, yearnings. | |
+3 letters: androgenic, argentines, astringent, bartending, begroaning, blarneying, brigandine, brigantine, broadening, carcinogen, chagrinned, coarsening, daringness, daundering, denaturing, deraigning, detraining, enamouring, enervating, engrafting, engrailing, engraining, engravings, ensnarling, entraining, entrancing, entrapping, entreating, enwrapping, estranging, fingernail, frangipane, gangrening, gannisters, garmenting, generating, generation, gingersnap, graininess, grandniece, greatening, grenadines, gynandries, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, hearkening, heartening, herniating, hoarsening, ignorances, impregnant, increasing, inearthing, integrands, interabang, interorgan, interregna, intragenic, intreating, laundering, margenting, maundering, meandering, nonbearing, nonearning, nonreading, numerating, omniranges, organzines, outearning, parentings, partnering, patterning, pertaining, prewarning, preweaning, readorning, realigning, reannexing, reasonings, rechanging, recleaning, reenacting, reengaging, refraining, regnancies, regranting, rehandling, reinvading, relearning, renaturing, renegading, renovating, repainting, repaneling, replanning, replanting, resinating, resonating, retraining, rewakening, sanderling, sauntering, serenading, sharpening, slandering, smartening, tangerines, transgenic, trepanning, uncreating, unearthing, ungainlier, unlearning, unraveling, unswearing, untreading, unwavering, venerating, wanderings, yearningly. | |
+4 letters: adventuring, alternating, anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, angrinesses, anteverting, antiforeign, arraignment, astringency, astringents, banteringly, baserunning, bedarkening, brigandines, brigantines, calendaring, calendering, carcinogens, carrageenin, centimorgan, chaperoning, coenamoring, darlingness, denervating, denigrating, denigration, embrangling, encouraging, encroaching, endangering, endearingly, endeavoring, enrapturing, enravishing, enthralling, enumerating, enwreathing, exonerating, fingernails, firefanging, forewarning, fragmenting, frangipanes, freelancing, garnishment, generations, germanizing, germinating, germination, gingersnaps, glaringness, grandnieces, gratineeing, handwringer, hibernating, impregnants, inbreathing, inebriating, infrangible, ingathering, ingrainedly, innervating, integrating, integration, interabangs, interacting, interagency, interchange, interfacing, interlacing, interlaying, interrobang, itinerating, lavendering, legionnaire, linearising, linearizing, malingering, maneuvering, manoeuvring, merchanting, mislearning, nitrogenase, nonallergic, nonearnings, nonintegral, orientating, ornamenting, outlearning, overhanding, overhanging, overmanning, patternings, penetrating, perennating, personating, precleaning, preenacting, prefranking, pregnancies, preplanning, preplanting, pretraining, promenading, ranginesses, reaccenting, realignment, reanalyzing, reanimating, reanointing, rearranging, reascending, reassigning, reattaining, reawakening, rebalancing, rebranching, redemanding, reengraving, reexamining, refastening, refinancing, rehardening, reimagining, reinflating, reinstating, relaunching, reobtaining, reordaining, repanelling, reseasoning, resignation, restraining, ropedancing, sanderlings, squandering, straitening, strangering, terminating, threatening, tragedienne, transecting, trapnesting, underacting, undereating, underlaying, underpaying, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, unendearing, unfaltering, ungarnished, unignorable, unorganized, unravelling, unreasoning, unrewarding, unthreading, unwreathing, vernalizing. | |
+5 letters: androgenesis, androgenetic, anorexigenic, antiestrogen, antireligion, appertaining, apprehending, apprenticing, arraignments, ascertaining, astringently, baserunnings, benchmarking, boomeranging, breadwinning, buccaneering, carcinogenic, carpentering, carrageenins, centimorgans, centralising, centralizing, cocarcinogen, cogeneration, congregating, congregation, consecrating, contravening, copartnering, daringnesses, degenerating, degeneration, denigrations, deracinating, emargination, endeavouring, energization, engarlanding, entertaining, entreatingly, eternalizing, exenterating, fraternizing, freestanding, garnisheeing, garnishments, generalising, generalizing, generational, germinations, graininesses, graspingness, grecianizing, greenmailing, guaranteeing, handwringers, harbingering, heartburning, hearteningly, heartrending, ignorantness, impregnating, impregnation, incinerating, increasingly, ingatherings, integrations, intenerating, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interfacings, intergrading, interlapping, interlarding, interleaving, interplaying, interrobangs, interspacing, interweaving, intransigent, keratinizing, kindergarten, legionnaires, menstruating, mineralising, mineralizing, neutralising, neutralizing, newspapering, nitrogenases, nonagenarian, nonbreathing, nonirrigated, nonoperating, nonstrategic, octogenarian, overcleaning, overhandling, overlearning, overmanaging, overplanning, overplanting, oversanguine, overtraining, paperhanging, philandering, prearranging, preassigning, precanceling, prefinancing, premalignant, preordaining, realignments, reappointing, reassignment, recanalizing, rechanneling, recognizance, recontacting, refashioning, regenerating, regeneration, rehumanizing, reimplanting, reinhabiting, reinitiating, reinstalling, rejuvenating, remaindering, remunerating, renominating, reorganizing, repatterning, reprimanding, repugnancies, resignations, ropedancings, sandpapering, sexagenarian, sloganeering, streamlining, tabernacling, tragediennes, transcending, transfecting, transferring, undercoating, underlapping, underplaying, understating, undertakings, undervaluing, unflattering, ungerminated, unharnessing, unintegrated, unwaveringly, urinogenital, warmongering. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4E 47 52 41 49 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. --. .-. .- .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001110 01000111 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E N G R A I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004E 0047 0052 0041 0049 004E |
| 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)39484152354348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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