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FIRST OR LAST

Definition: FIRST OR LAST

FIRST OR LAST

1. At one time or another; at the beginning or end. And all are fools and lovers first or last. --Dryden.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: FIRST OR LAST

English words defined with "FIRST OR LAST": alpha ♦ Chain rule, Choriambus, crescent ♦ half-moon, heliac, heliacal ♦ Intermediate terms ♦ omega ♦ Tetrachord ♦ Z. (references)

Specialty definitions using "FIRST OR LAST": Backus-Naur Form, block caving, book sewer, BOOK-SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR I ♦ CARD CHANGER, JACQUARD LOOM, card hanger, Catch-word, COLLATING-MACHINE OPERATOR, constant applicative form, context clash, crystallization interval ♦ dot notation ♦ Female, File Allocation Table ♦ green flash ♦ incremental backup, Intersil 6100 ♦ jacquard-pattern servicer ♦ multilayer perceptron ♦ pattern changer and repairer, pattern hanger ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ set-making-machine operator, Small Hog Operation Payment, soul ♦ tape-sewing-machine operator ♦ user name ♦ vaxocentrism. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: FIRST OR LAST

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Ukraine	Alcohol and tobacco product advertising is prohibited on television, and may not be placed on the first or last pages of newspapers or magazines. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translations: FIRST OR LAST

Language		Translations for "FIRST OR LAST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		előbb-utóbb (early or late, soon or late). (various references)

Pig Latin		irstfay oray astlay

Russian		рано или поздно....первый или последний, рано или поздно (sooner or later). (various references)

Turkish		er geç (sooner or later). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: FIRST OR LAST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-i-l-o-r-r-s-s-t-t"
	-3 letters: altoists, florists, oralists, traitors.
	-4 letters: altoist, aorists, aristos, artists, florist, oralist, rialtos, rostral, safrols, sailors, sartors, satoris, starlit, stators, straits, tailors, traitor, tsarist.
	-5 letters: afrits, aorist, aristo, artist, assoil, assort, fatsos, firsts, flairs, flirts, floats, floras, flotas, foists, foliar, forrit, fortis, fossil, frails, friars, fritts, frosts, ottars, ratios, rialto, roasts, rostra, safrol, sailor.
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.

Alternative Orthography: FIRST OR LAST

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

46 49 52 53 54 4F 52 4C 41 53 54

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01010010 01010011 01010100 00100000 01001111 01010010 00100000 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#82 &#83 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#82 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0052 0053 0054 004F 0052 004C 0041 0053 0054

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

404352535424952246355354

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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