HEAD MOVEMENTS

  

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HEAD MOVEMENTS

Specialty Definition: HEAD MOVEMENTS

DomainDefinition

Health

Voluntary or involuntary motion of head that may be relative to or independent of body; includes animals and humans. (references)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: HEAD MOVEMENTS

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Health

For example, a child who is unable to speak or write but can make head movements may be able to learn to control a computer using a special light pointer that attaches to a headband. (references)

Travel

Bulgaria

One charming but confusing custom is that head movements indicating agreement or disagreement are reversed in Bulgaria. (references)

Bulgaria

The rocking of the head from left-to-right, often with a slight smile, means "yes" while nodding up-and-down indicates "no." But with foreign language fluency growing, some Bulgarians will use head movements in typical western fashion. (references)

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

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Anagrams: HEAD MOVEMENTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-m-m-n-o-s-t-v"

-3 letters: methadones.

-4 letters: deathsmen, emendates, headnotes, headstone, homestead, mementoes, methadone, methadons, movements, nematodes.

-5 letters: anthemed, daemones, demetons, devotees, easement, emendate, endostea, enmeshed, handsome, hastened, headmost, headnote, headsmen, homemade, mementos, methadon, methanes, movement, nematode, vehement.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HEAD MOVEMENTS


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

48 45 41 44      4D 4F 56 45 4D 45 4E 54 53

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

    

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

01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01001101 01001111 01010110 01000101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#77 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0044      004D 004F 0056 0045 004D 0045 004E 0054 0053

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

423935382474956394739485453

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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