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EXCAVE

Definition: EXCAVE

EXCAVE

Transitive verb

1. To excavate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Excave \Ex*cave"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression excavare.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: EXCAVE

Non-English Usage: "EXCAVE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (excavates).

Anagrams: EXCAVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-v-x"
	-2 letters: cave, eave, exec.
	-3 letters: ace, ave, axe, cee, eve, vac, vee, vex.
	-4 letters: ae, ax, ex.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-v-x"
	+1 letter: exclave.
	+2 letters: excavate, exclaves.
	+3 letters: excavated, excavates.
	+4 letters: excitative, execrative, extractive.
	+5 letters: expectative, explicative, extractives.
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Alternative Orthography: EXCAVE

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

45 58 43 41 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

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 01011000 01000011 01000001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#67 &#65 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0043 0041 0056 0045

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

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

395837355639

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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