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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ISL Interface Specification Language. Xerox PARC. Interface description language used by the ILU (Inter-Language Unification) system. Includes descriptions of multiple inheritance, exceptions and garbage collection. E-mail: Bill Janssen |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ISL | English | Initial System Loading | N/A |
ISL | French | Israël | N/A |
ISL | German | Republik Island | Geography, Law |
ISL | Italian | Repubblica d'Islanda | N/A |
ISL | Spanish | Enlace intersatélite | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ISL |
| Specialty definitions using "ISL": TLAs. (references) |
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
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Periodicals |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Mission, Madeline Isl. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | New Zealand | The automated clearing function is run by EDS (N.Z.) Ltd. under contract to ISL. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "ISL": Saint George Isl ♦ Saint Simons Isl. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
isl | 66 |
activity grammar isl | 7 |
isl product | 4 |
cummins isl | 2 |
isl server | 2 |
cook isl | 2 |
cayman isl | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ISL": island, islanded, islander, islanders, islanding, islands, isle, isled, isleless, isles, islet, islets, isling. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ISL": aisle, aisled, aisles, aisleway, aisleways, antislaveries, antislavery, antisleep, antislip, brisling, brislings, cislunar, dislikable, dislike, dislikeable, disliked, disliker, dislikers, dislikes, disliking, dislimn, dislimned, dislimning, dislimns, dislocate, dislocated, dislocates, dislocating, dislocation, dislocations, dislodge, dislodged, dislodgement, dislodgements, dislodges, dislodging, dislodgment, dislodgments, disloyal, disloyally, disloyalties, disloyalty, enisle, enisled, enisles, enisling, grislier, grisliest, grisliness, grislinesses, grisly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lis. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: ails, fils, ilks, ills, isle, leis, libs, lids, lies, lins, lips, lisp, list, lits, mils, nils, oils, sail, sial, sild, silk, sill, silo, silt, slid, slim, slip, slit, soil, soli, syli, tils. | |
+2 letters: aisle, alias, alifs, alist, anils, arils, axils, bails, basil, biles, bilks, bills, birls, blips, bliss, boils, ceils, clips, clits, coils, deils, delis, dials, dills, diols, dirls, evils, fails, files, fills, films, filos, flics, flies, flips, flits, foils, fusil, gilds, gills, gilts, girls, glias, glims, hails, heils, hills, hilts, hilus, idles, idols, idyls, iglus, ileus, isled, isles, islet, istle, jails, jills, jilts, kails, kills, kilns, kilos, kilts, laics, lairs, lapis, laris, lenis, lewis, lexis, liars, licks, lidos, liens, liers, lieus, lifts, likes, lilts, limas, limbs, limes, limns, limos, limps, lines, lings, links, linns, linos, lints, lions, liras, lisle, lisps, lists, litas, lives, loins, loris, louis, lweis, lysin, lysis, mails, miles, milks, mills, milos, milts, moils, nails, nills, noils, olios, pails, piles, pilis, pills, pilus, plies, polis, pulis, rails, rials, riels, riles, rills, roils, sails, salic, salmi, shiel, shill, shily, sials, sibyl, sidle, sigil, silds, silex, silks, silky, sills, silly, silos, silts, silty, silva, sisal, skill, skirl, slain, slice, slick, slide, slier, slily, slime, slims, slimy, sling, slink, slipe, slips, slipt, slits, sloid, smile, snail, soils, soldi, solei, solid, spail, speil, spiel, spile, spill, spilt, split, spoil, stile, still, stilt, styli, sulci, swail, swill, swirl, sylis, tails, tiles, tills, tilts, tirls, toils, vails, veils, vials, vills, viols, virls, wails, wilds, wiles, wills, wilts, yills, zills. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 53 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. ... .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01010011 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I S L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0053 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)435346 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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