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HEMISTICH

Definition: HEMISTICH

HEMISTICH

Noun

1. Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Modern Translation: HEMISTICH

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

Arabic 

  

‏مصراع (shutter, valve), ‏نصف سطر, ‏شطر (bisect, bisector, fission, halve, intersect, sunder). (various references)

   

French

  

hémistiche. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פסק" (clause, paragraph, passage, section), חצי שור", צלע (beam, leg, rib, side). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félsor vers. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emistichhay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

hemistquio. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

emistih. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

полустишие. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polustih. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hemistiquio, de hemistiquio. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hålsöm (hemstitch), sy hålsöm på (hemstitch). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yarım mısra. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

піввірш. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nửa câu thơ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: HEMISTICH

Derivations

Words beginning with "HEMISTICH": hemistichs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"HEMISTICH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hemistichs. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "HEMISTICH"

Words rhyming with "HEMISTICH" (pronounced 'Hem"i*stich'): Decastich, Monostich, Pentastich, Stich. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HEMISTICH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-h-i-i-m-s-t"

-2 letters: chemist, heimish, hitches, isthmic, miscite.

-3 letters: cheths, chimes, cities, ethics, heishi, iciest, isthmi, itches, miches, theism.

-4 letters: cesti, chest, cheth, chime, chits, cites, emits, ethic, heist, hemic, heths, hitch, items, mesic, meths, metis, miche, mites, mitis, smite, smith, stich, stime, times.

-5 letters: chis, chit, cist, cite, emic, emit, etch, eths, etic, hehs, hems, hest.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-h-i-i-m-s-t"
 

+1 letter: hemistichs.

 

+3 letters: hemstitching.

 

+4 letters: histochemical, rhythmicities, stichomythies.

 

+5 letters: histochemistry.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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