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GAINSTRIVE

Definition: GAINSTRIVE

GAINSTRIVE

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To strive or struggle against; to withstand.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GAINSTRIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Gainstrive \Gain"strive`\, transitive and intransitive verb. [See Again, and Strive.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: GAINSTRIVE

Language Translations for "gainstrive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ainstrivegay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GAINSTRIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-n-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: grainiest, gravities, grievants, seriating, vintagers.

-2 letters: angriest, astringe, averting, ganister, gantries, granites, grievant, igniters, inertias, ingrates, inviters, rainiest, rangiest, resiting, revising, riveting, starving, stingier, striving, vanities, vestigia, vinegars, vintager, vintages, virgates, vitrains, vitrines.

-3 letters: aigrets, airiest, airings, airting, anestri, antsier, argents, arising, earings, easting, eatings, erasing, eviting, gainers, gaiters, garnets, gastrin, granite, gratine, gratins, gravest, gravies, grivets, igniter, ignites, inertia, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, inverts, inviter, invites, isatine, naivest, nastier, natives, raising, ratines, ratings, ravines, ravings, reagins, reaving, regains, reginas, reiving, resting, retains, retinas, retsina, revisit, rivages, seagirt, searing, seating, senarii, seringa, servant, serving, sieving, stagier, stainer, staring, staving, stearin, stinger, strange, striven, tangier, taverns, tearing, teasing, tiering, triages, vainest, vastier, veritas, versant, versing, vesting, vinegar, viniest, vintage, virgate, virgins, visaing, viseing, visiter, vitrain, vitrine.

-4 letters: ageist, agents, aigret, airest, airing, aivers, angers, antres, argent, arisen, arsine, astern, averts, earing, easing, eating, engirt, estrin, gainer, gainst, gaiter, ganevs, garnet, gaster, giants, givens, givers, grains, grants, grates, gratin, gratis, graven, graves, greats, grivet, ignite, inerts, ingate, ingest, insert, instar, inters, invars, invert, invest, invite, isatin, naiver, naives, native, navies, niters, nitres, raisin, ranges, rasing, ratine, rating, ravens, ravine, raving, ravins, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, resign, retags, retain, retina, rising, rivage, rivets, riving, sagier, sanger, santir, sating, satire, savine, saving, seniti, sering, signer, signet, singer, sinter, siring, siting, stager, starve, sterna, stiver, strain, strang, striae, string, strive, targes, taring, tavern, tenias, terais, tieing, tigers, tineas, tinges, tinier, tiring, tisane, trains, traves, triage, triens, trines, trivia, vainer, varies, vaster, vegans, verist, vinier, virgas, virgin, visage, vising.

-5 letters: aegis, agent, agers, agist, airns, airts, aiver, anger, angst, anise, antes, antis, antre, arise, aster, astir, avens, avers, avert, earns, entia, etnas, gains, gaits, ganev, garni, gates, gears, genii, gents, getas, giant, girns, girts, given, giver, gives, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grate, grave, great, grins, grist, grits, inert, inset, inter, intis, invar, irate, iring, ivies, naevi, naive, nares, naris, nates, naves, nears, neats, neist, nerts, nisei, niter, nites, nitre, rages, ragis, rains, raise, range, ranis, rants, rates, raven, raves, ravin, regna, reign, reins, renig, rents, resin, retag, retia, riant, rings, rinse, risen, rites, riven, rives, rivet, sager, saint, saner, sarge, sarin, satin, saver, savin, segni, sengi, senti, serai, serin, singe, siren, sitar, siver, snare, stage, staig, stain, stair, stane, stang, stare, stave, stein, stern, sting, stria, tains, tangs, tares, targe, tarns, tarsi, tears, tenia, terai, terga, terns, tiers, tiger, tinea, tines, tinge, tings, tires, tragi, train, trans, trave, tries, trigs.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-n-r-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: advertising, invigorates.

 

+2 letters: advertisings, eviscerating, investigator, revitalising, variegations, vinaigrettes.

 

+3 letters: antigravities, investigators, investigatory, overstraining, reinvestigate, reinvigorates, vegetarianism.

 

+4 letters: coinvestigator, conservatizing, disintegrative, figurativeness, interrogatives, overestimating, reinvestigated, reinvestigates, reinvigorators, seronegativity, tergiversating, tergiversation, vegetarianisms, verbigerations.

 

+5 letters: antiprogressive, circumnavigates, coinvestigators, overadvertising, overstimulating, prognosticative, reinvestigating, reinvestigation, reinvigorations, tergiversations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GAINSTRIVE


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

47 41 49 4E 53 54 52 49 56 45

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    ..    -.    ...    -    .-.    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000111 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 0049 004E 0053 0054 0052 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

41354348535452435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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