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GLEAMY

Definition: GLEAMY

GLEAMY

Adjective

1. Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GLEAMY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)


Modern Translations: GLEAMY

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

Arabic 

  

‏متلألئ (dazzling, glistening, glittering, radiant, shimmering, shining, sparkling). (various references)

   

German

  

glänzend (bright, brilliant, brilliantly, clinking, dazzling, effulgent, effulgently, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossily, glossing, glossy, ingenious, ingeniously, lustered, lustrous, lustrously, marvelous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, resplendently, sheeny, shinily, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendid, splendidly, vintage). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eamyglay

   

Romanian

  

scãpãrãtor (gleaming, scintillating, sparkling), licãritor. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GLEAMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gamely.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-m-y"

-1 letter: agley, gamey, gleam, mealy.

-2 letters: agly, alme, amyl, egal, elmy, gale, game, gamy, gley, lame, mage, male, meal, ylem.

-3 letters: age, ale, aye, elm, gae, gal, gam, gay, gel, gem, gey, gym, lag, lam, lay, lea, leg, ley, lye, mae, mag, may, meg, mel, yam, yea.

-4 letters: ae, ag, al, am, ay, el, em.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-m-y"
 

+2 letters: amygdale, amygdule, amylogen, meagerly, meagrely, mealybug.

 

+3 letters: amygdalae, amygdales, amygdules, amylogens, clergyman, geminally, germanely, mealybugs, meaningly, megacycle.

 

+4 letters: acromegaly, gamesomely, germinally, gladsomely, hematology, legitimacy, manageably, megacycles, menacingly, metagalaxy, metallurgy, mineralogy, nematology, polygamies, polygamize.

 

+5 letters: amblygonite, cleistogamy, clergywoman, cytomegalic, demandingly, dermatology, embracingly, gametically, gentlemanly, impregnably, lammergeyer, maddeningly, methylating, multiagency, polygamized, polygamizes, screamingly, segmentally, semasiology.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GLEAMY


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

47 4C 45 41 4D 59

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 01001100 01000101 01000001 01001101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#76 &#69 &#65 &#77 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 0045 0041 004D 0059

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

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

414639354759

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INDEX

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


  

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