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HIGH ROPES

Specialty Definition: HIGH ROPES

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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.

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Synonyms within Context: HIGH ROPES

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: HIGH ROPES

Specialty definitions using "HIGH ROPES": Ropes. (references)

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Expressions: HIGH ROPES

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.

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Modern Translation: HIGH ROPES

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

Bulgarian 

  

в повишено настроение (on the high ropes). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Romanian

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HIGH ROPES

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HIGH ROPES


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

48 49 47 48      52 4F 50 45 53

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

    

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

01001000 01001001 01000111 01001000 00100000 01010010 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#32 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#83

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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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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