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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | High Ropes To be on the high ropes. To be very grand and mighty in demeanour. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | HIGH ROPES. To be on the high ropes; to be in a passion. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitation | Stung to the quick, up, on one;s high ropes. |
Pride | On one's dignity, on one's high horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur. |
Resentment | Flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HIGH ROPES |
| Specialty definitions using "HIGH ROPES": Ropes. (references) |
Expressions using "HIGH ROPES": be on the high ropes ♦ on one's high ropes ♦ on the high ropes ♦ s high ropes. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "HIGH ROPES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | в повишено настроение (on the high ropes). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ighhay opesray a-şi da aere (attitudinize, be on the high horse, be on the high ropes, cut a dash, feel one's oats, give oneself airs, look big, put on airs, ride the high horse). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-i-o-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: gophers, ogreish, pishoge, porgies, serpigo. | |
-3 letters: ephori, ephors, gopher, gripes, gropes, higher, hopers, hosier, ogrish, orgies, perish, pogies, poiser, posher, reship, sigher. | |
-4 letters: ephor, giros, girsh, goers, gores, gorps, gorse, gripe, grips, grope, heigh, heirs, heros, highs, hires, hoers, hoise, hoper, hopes, horse, ogres, osier, peris, piers, pirog, poise, pores, poser, pries, prigs. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-h-i-o-p-r-s" | |
+2 letters: heliographs, hieroglyphs. | |
+3 letters: holographies. | |
+4 letters: chirographers, chirographies, chorographies, ethnographies, hagiographers, hagiographies, hieroglyphics, horsewhipping, hydrographies, lithographers, lithographies, mythographies, orthographies, phonographies, photographies, physiographer. | |
+5 letters: choreographies, chronographies, lymphographies, phlebographies, phosphorescing, physiographers, physiographies, shadowgraphies, thermographies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 49 47 48      52 4F 50 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001001 01000111 01001000 00100000 01010010 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H I G H   R O P E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0049 0047 0048      0052 004F 0050 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4243414225249503953 |
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