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Definition: FTICTION |
FTICTIONNoun1. A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress. 2. The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion. 3. The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action. |
Etymology: Ftiction \Ftic"tion\, noun. [Latin expression frictio, from fricare, frictum,to rub: compare to the French expression friction. See Fray to rub, arid compare to Dentifrice.]. (Websters 1913) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-i-i-n-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: fiction. | |
-2 letters: confit, otitic. | |
-3 letters: ficin, ionic, ontic, tinct, tonic. | |
-4 letters: cion, coft, coif, coin, coni, fico, fino, foci, foin, font, icon, info, inti, into, otic, tint, titi, toft, toit. | |
-5 letters: con, cot, fin, fit, fon, ion, nit, not, oft, tic, tin, tit, ton, tot. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-i-i-n-o-t-t" | |
+2 letters: fictionist. | |
+3 letters: fictionists, metafiction, pontificate. | |
+4 letters: antifriction, citification, facilitation, felicitation, fictionality, metafictions, notification, petrifaction, pontificated, pontificates, pontificator, ratification, satisfaction, trifurcation, typification. | |
+5 letters: abortifacient, acetification, antifrictions, autoinfection, beatification, certification, citifications, facilitations, factorization, felicitations, fianchettoing, fortification, fractionating, fractionation, functionalist, functionality, gratification, justification, lithification, metafictional, mortification, multifunction, mystification, nitrification, notifications, perfectionist, petrifactions, petrification, pontificating, pontification, pontificators, postinfection, ratifications, rectification, satisfactions, trifurcations, typifications, vitrification. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 54 49 43 54 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. - .. -.-. - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F T I C T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0054 0049 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| 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)4054433754434948 |
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