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Definition: FANTOCCINI |
FANTOCCININoun plural1. Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used. |
Etymology: Fantoccini \Fan`toc*ci"ni\, plural noun. [Italian expression, diminutive from fante child.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Fantoccini [fanto-cheny ]. A dramatic performance by puppets. (Italian, fantoccio, a puppet.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Representation | Figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette. |
The Drama | Theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini; marionettes, Punch and Judy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "FANTOCCINI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | театр марионеток, марионетки. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "FANTOCCINI" (pronounced 'Fan`toc*ci"ni'): Decani, Doni, Hernani, Kahani, Lazzaroni, macaroni, Marconi, Platyrhini, rani, Suradanni, Taglioni, Yoni, Zemni. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-f-i-i-n-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: aconitic, cationic, inaction. | |
-3 letters: actinic, actinon, anionic, canonic, contain, faction, fiction, fontina, nicotin, nonfact. | |
-4 letters: acinic, action, anoint, atonic, cannot, cantic, canton, cation, cocain, confit, fanion, iconic, incant, infant, nation, niacin, nonfat, tannic. | |
-5 letters: acini, actin, ancon, anion, antic, cacti, canon, canto, coact, coati, conic, conin, cotan, faint, fanon, ficin, ictic, inion, ionic, niton. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-f-i-i-n-n-o-t" | |
+2 letters: confiscating, confiscation. | |
+3 letters: confiscations, cornification. | |
+4 letters: cornifications, sanctification. | |
+5 letters: confectionaries, frenchification, functionalistic, noncertificated, sanctifications. | |
| 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)46 41 4E 54 4F 43 43 49 4E 49 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in 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)01000110 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001111 01000011 01000011 01001001 01001110 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A N T O C C I N I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 004E 0054 004F 0043 0043 0049 004E 0049 |
| 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)40354854493737434843 |
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