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EXPOLISH

Definition: EXPOLISH

EXPOLISH

Transitive verb

1. To polish thoroughly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Expolish \Ex*pol"ish\, transitive verb. [Compare to Latin expolire. See Polish.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "EXPOLISH"

Words rhyming with "EXPOLISH" (pronounced 'Ex*pol"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EXPOLISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-o-p-s-x"

-1 letter: phloxes.

-2 letters: helios, holies, isohel, oxlips, pilose, pixels, poleis, polies, polish.

-3 letters: expos, heils, helio, helix, helos, helps, hoise, holes, hopes, hosel, lexis, lopes, loxes, oxlip, phlox, piles, pixel, pixes, plies, poise, poles, polis, poxes, sheol, shiel, shlep, silex, slipe, slope, solei, speil, spiel, spile, spoil.

-4 letters: elhi, epos, expo, heil, helo, help, hies.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-o-p-s-x"
 

+1 letter: oxyphiles.

 

+2 letters: hexaploids, xenophiles.

 

+3 letters: toxophilies, xerophilies, xerophilous.

 

+4 letters: hexaploidies, phyllotaxies, phytoalexins, toxophilites, xylographies.

 

+5 letters: flexographies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXPOLISH


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

45 58 50 4F 4C 49 53 48

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 01011000 01010000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#80 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0050 004F 004C 0049 0053 0048

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

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

3958504946435342

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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