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Definition: GLOAM |
GLOAMIntransitive verb1. To be sullen or morose. 2. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky. Noun1. The twilight; gloaming. |
Date "GLOAM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1819. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sullenness | Verb: be sullen; Adjective: sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam, pout, have a hangdog look, glout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLOAM": gloaming, gloamings, gloams. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: gaol, glom, goal, loam, mola, ogam. | |
-2 letters: ago, gal, gam, goa, lag, lam, log, mag, moa, mog, mol. | |
-3 letters: ag, al, am, go, la, lo, ma, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: gambol, glamor, glioma, gloams, logjam. | |
+2 letters: gambols, glamors, glamour, gliomas, glomera, gomeral, loaming, logjams, lumbago, mangold, moulage. | |
+3 letters: algorism, allogamy, amylogen, beglamor, coagulum, flamingo, gamboled, gladsome, glamours, glaucoma, gliomata, gloaming, gnomical, gomerals, hologamy, hologram, kilogram, logogram, logomach, lumbagos, magnolia, mangolds, mangonel, marigold, megalops, megavolt, mesoglea, moulages, plumbago, polygamy. | |
+4 letters: algorisms, algorithm, amylogens, angleworm, beglamors, beglamour, cladogram, clamoring, coagulums, flamingos, gamboling, gambolled, gladsomer, glamorise, glamorize, glamorous, glamoured, glaucomas, gloamings, globalism, goalmouth, granuloma, guacamole, holograms, kilograms, lagomorph, logarithm, lognormal, logograms, logomachs, logomachy, magnolias, mammalogy, mangonels, marigolds, megavolts, mesogleas, mesogloea, plumbagos, polygamic, rigmarole, scalogram, sigmoidal, slaloming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4C 4F 41 4D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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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)01000111 01001100 01001111 01000001 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G L O A M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004C 004F 0041 004D |
| 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)4146493547 |
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