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HARBORED

Definition: HARBORED

HARBORED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Harbor

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HARBORED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

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Crosswords: HARBORED

Etymologies containing "HARBORED": Unharbored. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: HARBORED

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The investigators discovered that most of the affected children lived near wooded areas that harbored ticks. (references)

AIDS is an immunodeficiency disorder caused by a virus that destroys helper T cells and that is harbored in macrophages as well as helper (T4) T cells. (references)

Comparative and phylogenetic analyses of derived sequence data demonstrated that the hantavirus associated with the HPS outbreak (SNV) was a novel virus most closely related to Prospect Hill virus (PHV). In addition, a direct genetic link was made between the human HPS cases and the virus harbored by peridomestic P. maniculatus rodents. (references)

Children

Cameroon

The Yaounde-based Center for Helpless Children, created by the Minister of Social Affairs in 1997, currently harbored 24 abandoned or abused children, a small fraction of the suspected cases of abused, abandoned, or neglected children. (references)

Economic History

Somalia

At the March 1983 Nonaligned Movement summit in New Delhi, President Siad stated that Somalia harbored no expansionist aims and was willing to negotiate with Ethiopia. (references)

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

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Modern Translations: HARBORED

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

Chinese 

  

怀有 (Harboring). (various references)

   

German

  

beherbergte (accommodated, housed). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ì •ë°•í•˜ëŠ" (Anchored). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arboredhay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: HARBORED

Misspellings

"HARBORED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haberer, Hagbourne, Harberler, harboard, Harbord, Harbourhead, Harbourne, Marbore. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "HARBORED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "HARBORED" (pronounced hÄ"rberd)
5-Ä" r b er dstarboard.
3-b er dbelabored, blackbird, chambered, clambered, clobbered, cupboard, dismembered, encumbered, labored, membered, misremembered, numbered, outnumbered, remembered, scabbard, sobered, unencumbered.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: HARBORED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: abhorred.

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-h-o-r-r"

-1 letter: arbored, boarder, broader, hoarder, reboard.

-2 letters: adorer, barred, border, harbor, harder, roared.

-3 letters: abhor, abode, adobe, adore, arbor, ardeb, ardor, barde, bared, barer, barre, beard, board, bohea, bored, borer, bread, broad, darer, debar, dobra, drear, hared, heard, hoard, horde, oared, obeah, orbed, order, oread, rared, rebar, rehab, robed.

-4 letters: abed, aero, bade, bard, bare, bead, bear, boar, bode, bora, bore, brad, brae, bred, darb, dare, dear, doer, dore, dorr, drab, hade, haed, hard, hare, head, hear, herb, herd, hero, hoar, hoed, hoer, hora, odea, ohed, orad, orra, rare, read, rear, redo, rhea, road, roar, robe, rode.

-5 letters: abo, ado, arb, are, bad, bah, bar, bed, boa, bod, bra, bro, brr, dab, dah, deb, doe, dor, ear, edh, era, err, had, hae, hao, her, hob, hod, hoe, oar, obe, ode, ora, orb, ore, rad, rah, reb, red, rho, rob, rod, roe.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-h-o-r-r"
 

+1 letter: harboured.

 

+2 letters: harborside, rhabdomere, shortbread.

 

+3 letters: charbroiled, motherboard, rhabdomeres, rhombohedra, shortbreads.

 

+4 letters: breechloader, carbohydrase, carbohydrate, checkerboard, motherboards, rhabdomancer, rhombohedral, turbocharged, weatherboard.

 

+5 letters: breechloaders, brokenhearted, carbohydrases, carbohydrates, checkerboards, rhabdomancers, rhabdoviruses, weatherboards, wheelbarrowed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HARBORED


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

48 41 52 42 4F 52 45 44

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)

01001000 01000001 01010010 01000010 01001111 01010010 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#82 &#66 &#79 &#82 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0052 0042 004F 0052 0045 0044

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

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

4235523649523938

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INDEX

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


  

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