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Definition: FINGER POST |
FINGER POST1. A guide post bearing an index finger. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | FINGER POST. A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself. Like the finger post, he points out a way he has never been, and probably will never go, i.e. the way to heaven. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FINGER POST |
| Specialty definitions using "FINGER POST": FINGER POST ♦ PARSON. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "FINGER POST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | tabelã de marcaj, stâlp indicator al direcţiei (direction post, sign post). (various references) | |
Turkish | yön işareti, ima (adumbration, allusion, glance at, hint, implicitness, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, mention, office, pointer, reference, smell, suggestion, whiff, whisper), dolaylı anlatma (implication). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fingerpost. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-n-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: foresting, fostering, progestin. | |
-2 letters: firepots, forspent, frosting, genitors, perigons, pieforts, pointers, porniest, postfire, proteins, reposing, spongier, sporting, tropines. | |
-3 letters: epigons, eringos, fingers, firepot, foreign, forgets, forints, forties, fringes, frontes, genitor, goiters, goitres, goriest, ignores, norites, oestrin, orients, orpines, perigon, piefort, pigeons, pingers, pingoes, pintoes, pirogen, pointer, pointes, porgies, porting, postern, posting, presift, presong. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-n-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fingerposts. | |
+4 letters: prefigurations, waterproofings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 4E 47 45 52 50 4F 53 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010000 01001111 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I N G E R   P O S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 004E 0047 0045 0052 0050 004F 0053 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)404348413952250495354 |
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