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GHAUT

Definitions: GHAUT

GHAUT

Noun

1. Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

2. A range of mountains.

3. A pass through a mountain.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GHAUT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

Synonyms within Context: GHAUT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Narrowness Thinness

Middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Non-Fiction Usage: GHAUT

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Business

Another highlight of the government's infrastructure developments for 2000 was the construction of the S$1.0 billion 5-km, underground, Marina MRT Line with six stations linking Dhoby Ghaut to Stadium Boulevard. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GHAUT

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

Hungarian

  

hegylánc (ghat, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains, Sierra), hágó (ghat, pass, saddle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

autghay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: GHAUT

Derivations

Words beginning with "GHAUT": ghauts. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "GHAUT"

Words ending with "at": Ghat, Gnat, Kat, LAT, Skat, sprat, VAT, What. (additional references)
Words ending with "aut ": Ghat. (additional references)
Words ending with "aut": Ghat, Haut, taut. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GHAUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aught.

Words within the letters "a-g-h-t-u"

-1 letter: ghat, haut, thug.

-2 letters: gat, gut, hag, hat, hug, hut, tag, tau, tug, ugh, uta.

-3 letters: ag, ah, at, ha, ta, uh, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-t-u"
 

+1 letter: aughts, caught, ghauts, hagbut, naught, taught, waught.

 

+2 letters: abought, claught, draught, fraught, hagbuts, hangout, haughty, naughts, naughty, paughty, waughts.

 

+3 letters: although, bushgoat, claughts, daughter, draughts, draughty, fraughts, gauchest, ghastful, hangouts, haunting, laughter, outlaugh, retaught, shantung, uncaught, untaught, upgather, waughted.

 

+4 letters: authoring, autograph, bushgoats, chaunting, claughted, daughters, draughted, fraughted, gatehouse, goalmouth, hamstrung, haughtier, haughtily, laughters, mistaught, naughtier, naughtily, onslaught, outcaught, outcharge, outlaughs, roughcast, shantungs, shogunate, slaughter, staghound, straphung, ultrahigh, unhatting, upgathers, wauchting, waughting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GHAUT


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

47 48 41 55 54

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 01001000 01000001 01010101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#72 &#65 &#85 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0048 0041 0055 0054

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

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

4142355554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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