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HOMOPLASY

Definition: HOMOPLASY

HOMOPLASY

Noun

1. See Homogeny.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Homoplasy \Ho*mop"la*sy\, noun. [Homo- Greek expression to form, mold.]. (references)

 

Frequency of Internet Expressions: HOMOPLASY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

homoplasy

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: HOMOPLASY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-l-m-o-o-p-s-y"

-1 letter: omphalos, polyomas.

-2 letters: hooplas, moolahs, oompahs, polyoma, shampoo.

-3 letters: hoopla, lymphs, moolah, moolas, oompah, oomphs, plashy, poshly, saloop, shalom, shamoy, shoaly, sholom, yahoos.

-4 letters: amply, amyls, halms, halos, haply, holms, homos, hooly, hoops, hoyas, hylas, hypos, lamps, loams, loamy, looms, loops, loopy, lymph, mashy, mayos, molas, moola, mools, oomph, opahs, opals, osmol, palms, palmy.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-l-m-o-o-p-s-y"
 

+2 letters: amorphously.

 

+3 letters: lymphomatous.

 

+4 letters: chlamydospore, lymphomatoses, lymphomatosis, lymphosarcoma.

 

+5 letters: chlamydospores, isomorphically, lymphosarcomas, megasporophyll, metapsychology, ophthalmoscopy, physiognomical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HOMOPLASY


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

48 4F 4D 4F 50 4C 41 53 59

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001000 01001111 01001101 01001111 01010000 01001100 01000001 01010011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

H O M O P L A S Y

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 004D 004F 0050 004C 0041 0053 0059

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

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

424947495046355359

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