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Definition: FULMINE |
FULMINETransitive verb1. To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. Verb1. To thunder. |
Date "FULMINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: FULMINE |
| Specialty definitions using "FULMINE": Bolt from the Blue. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FULMINE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (bolt, flash, flash of lightning, lightning, thunderbolt), Latin (crushing blow, flash, lightning, thunderbolt). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Colpo di fulmine (1985) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fulmine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FULMINE": fulmined, fulmines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-m-n-u" | |
-2 letters: elfin, filum, flume, ileum, limen, linum, lumen. | |
-3 letters: file, film, fine, flue, fuel, fume, lief, lien, lieu, life, lime, limn, line, lune, menu, mien, mile, mine, mule, muni, neif, neum. | |
-4 letters: elf, elm, emf, emu, fem, fen, feu, fie, fil, fin, flu, fun, lei, leu, lie, lin, lum, mel, men, mil, mun, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-m-n-u" | |
+1 letter: fulmined, fulmines, unfilmed. | |
+2 letters: fulminate, remindful. | |
+3 letters: fulminated, fulminates, meaningful, unmerciful. | |
+4 letters: emulsifying, filamentous, fulfillment, mellifluent, mindfulness, sulfonamide, unamplified. | |
+5 letters: circumfluent, fulfillments, luminiferous, meaningfully, mercifulness, mirthfulness, munificently, sulfonamides, unmercifully, unmodifiable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 55 4C 4D 49 4E 45 |
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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 01010101 01001100 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F U L M I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0055 004C 004D 0049 004E 0045 |
| 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)40554647434839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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