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Definitions: Ideal |
IdealAdjective1. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal. 2. Represented in the abstract rather than as they really are. 3. Constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception; "a poem or essay may be typical of its period in idea or ideal content". 4. Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas. Noun1. The idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain. 2. Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ideal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | IDEAL 1. Ideal DEductive Applicative Language. A language by Pier Bosco and Elio Giovannetti combining Miranda and Prolog. Function definitions can have a guard condition (introduced by ":-") which is a conjunction of equalities between arbitrary terms, including functions. These guards are solved by normal Prolog resolution and unification. It was originally compiled into C-Prolog but was eventually to be compiled to K-leaf. 2. A numerical constraint language written by Van Wyk of Stanford in 1980 for typesetting graphics in documents. It was inspired partly by Metafont and is distributed as part of Troff. ["A High-Level Language for Specifying Pictures", C.J. Van Wyk, ACM Trans Graphics 1(2):163-182 (Apr 1982)]. (1994-12-15) ideal |
Dream Interpretation | For a young woman to dream of meeting her ideal, foretells a season of uninterrupted pleasure and contentment. For a bachelor to dream of meeting his ideal, denotes he will soon experience a favorable change in his affairs. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| 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 |
IDEAL | English | Interactive Dialogues for Explanation And Learning | Computing, European Union |
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Synonyms: IdealSynonyms: idealistic (adj), apotheosis (n), nonesuch (n), nonpareil (n), nonsuch (n), paragon (n), saint (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Noun: beauty, the beautiful, gr/to kalon/gr, le beau ideal. |
Completeness | Entirety; perfection; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne plus ultra, ideal, limit. |
Error | Illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal; (imaginary); spurious; deceitful; perverted. |
Imagination | Ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus; unsubsantial; illusory; (fallacious). |
Inexistence | Fabulous, ideal; (imaginary), supposititious. |
Perfection | Pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit. |
Prototype | Noun: prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype, antitype; protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm; lay-figure. |
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Screenplays | Ideal for your purposes. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) A private study is an ideal place for observing facets of a man's character. (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer) It just dawned on me! This scroll of Broken Sword's isn't about sword technique but about swordsmanship's ultimate ideal. Swordsmanship's first achievement is the unity of man and sword. (Ying xiong; writing credit: Feng Li; Bin Wang) That's no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) My ideal weight if I were 11 feet tall. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Lyrics | He's my ideal as a matter of fact ("My Guy"; performing artist: Mary Wells) | |
Clever | Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (references; author: Mark Twain) Adult Education Topic: How to be the ideal shopping companion. Relaxation, exercises, meditation and breathing techniques. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | An Ideal Husband (1969) Un Marido ideal (1947) Hermoso ideal (1947) An Ideal Husband (1947) Caro ideal! Torna (1939) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | U.S. American National Red Cross Convalescent Hospital No.1, St. Julien-Beycheville, France. : An ideal place to get well.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Anne Sophie Swetchine | The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. |
Cogito | The real and concrete truth, not the methodical and ideal, is: homo sum, ergo cogito. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. |
George Sand | Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. |
Lord Byron | This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. |
Nietzsche | I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the apes of their ideal. |
Pir Vilayat Khan | A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. |
Thomas Carlyle | The actual well seen is ideal. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | In my contemplation, be stood as the ideal of his class. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Style is the force of the ideal, rhythm is its movement. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Subsets of stage I must be fully defined and ideal treatment determined. (references) | |
Identification of all children with hearing impairment at birth is ideal. (references) | ||
Nevertheless, recent studies show that 2 weeks of triple therapy is ideal. (references) | ||
Business | They are ideal for telemetry purposes. (references) | |
Exhibiting at a trade show in France is an ideal tool for penetrating the French market. (references) | ||
The international trade fairs held in Chile are ideal for foreign companies to market their products. (references) | ||
Economic History | South Africa | CCTV is ideal for this purpose, being accepted as evidence in court. (references) |
Portugal | One distributor that is appointed on an exclusive basis is the ideal. (references) | |
India | A small distributor could be ideal where a flexible strategy is called for. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yugoslavia | The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, which visited prisons during the year, reported that, while conditions were not ideal, there has been an overall improvement since the prison riots that occurred in November 2000. The Government has improved living conditions and provides adequate food, medical care, and heating. (references) |
Political Economy | SWEDEN | Enforcement of the law, however, has been less than ideal, although a contradiction between Sweden's constitution and its international obligations to protect unpublished, copyrighted material has been resolved in a satisfactory manner. (references) |
Trade | Luxembourg | With an express bill of lading, goods are automatically transferred to the designated consignee without presentation of the original B/L. This is ideal for internal company shipments of goods sold on open account. (references) |
Travel | Ireland | Wool jackets and hats are ideal. (references) |
Austria | For people wanting unlimited travel the ideal way to travel is the Eurail ticket giving an option to travel in and between 27 countries in Europe and including two extra bonuses at the Hilton International (reduction on room rates) and Hertz rent-a-car (reduction on car rental). (references) | |
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Bob Costas | I think for a lot of people it would. The ideal is if the commissioner is jointly selected and jointly paid by the players and the owners. I think the players would be less interested in that than you might think. |
Dennis Miller | Because the truth is, the secret to building the ideal American family has nothing to do with gender or genetics or color. |
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Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The ideal, or even my own ideal, I shall probably not attain. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | It's time to give people more choice in government by reviving the ideal of the citizen politician who comes not to stay, but to serve. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Throughout our history, we haven't always honored that ideal and we've never fully lived up to it. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | This ideal of America is the hope of all mankind. |
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| "Ideal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 73.79% of the time. "Ideal" is used about 4,006 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 73.79% | 2,956 | 3,160 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.11% | 1,046 | 7,128 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.05% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,006 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Greece | Ideal Group SA | United Kingdom | Ideal Shopping Direct P.L.C. |
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1. Ideal, GA (city, FIPS 40812) 2. Ideal, SD |
Expressions using "ideal": beau ideal ♦ Carnot's ideal cycle ♦ ego ideal ♦ ideal figure ♦ ideal fluid ♦ ideal gas ♦ ideal image ♦ ideal reproducing head ♦ ideal society ♦ ideal solid ♦ ideal state ♦ le beau ideal. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ideal": ideal-average, ideal-standard, ideal-type, ideal-types, ideal-typical, ideal-typically. | |
Ending with "ideal": near-ideal, non-ideal. | |
| 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 |
ideal weight | 1,038 |
ideal | 521 |
ideal body weight | 446 |
ideal cut diamond | 236 |
ideal weight chart | 162 |
ideal weight calculator | 112 |
ideal industry | 103 |
ideal tool | 96 |
ideal standard | 83 |
la ideal | 82 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ideal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | ideaal. (various references) | |
Albanian | ideal (it, mental, nonpareil), model i përkryer. (various references) | |
Arabic | مفهومي (notional), مثل أعلى (idea), مثالي (exemplary, idealistic, model, perfect, platonic, starry eyed, typical, unearthly, utopian, visionary), مثال أعلى, مثال (copy, epitome, example, exemplar, image, model, paradigm, pattern, picture, quintessence, specimen, symbol, type), هدف (aim, butt, clout, end, goal, intent, intention, mark, object, objective, plan, purpose, study, target, tendency, view), ذهني (intellectual, mental), خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary), المثالي (idealist, quixotic, utopist). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвършен (consummate, finished, full, indefectible, masterly, out and out, outright, perfect, right-down, spheral, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, transcendent, unexceptionable, very), въображаем (abstract, fancy, fictional, imaginary, mythical, mythological, notional, phantom, unreal, visional, visionary), образцов (classic, classical, exemplary, master, model, pattern, show, standard), образец (copy, epitome, example, exemplar, form, mirror, model, mould, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, piece, sample, sampling, scantling, shape, specimen, swatch, type), нереален (aerial, aeriform, chimerical, fanciful, insubstantial, metaphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous), мислен (mental), идеален (perfect), идеал (dream, idea, it). (various references) | |
Chinese | 理想 . (various references) | |
Czech | ideální, ideál, vzorný (exemplary, immaculate, model, perfect), vzor (design, exemplar, model, mould, paradigm, paragon, pattern, representative, standard, type), dokonalý (accomplished, cast iron, consummate, immaculate, impeccable, perfect, proficient, thorough, unqualified, utter, very). (various references) | |
Danish | ideal. (various references) | |
Dutch | ideaal. (various references) | |
Esperanto | idealo, ideala. (various references) | |
Faeroese | fyrimyndarligur (classic, classical). (various references) | |
Farsi | هدف زندگی , کمال مطلوب , ایده ال , ارمان , ارزو (Ambition, Appetite, Desire, Will, Wish), دلخواه (Accord, Arbitrary, Wish). (various references) | |
Finnish | ihanteellinen (idealistic), ihanne, aatteellinen (high-minded, idealistic, non-profit-making, non-real). (various references) | |
French | idéal (ideals). (various references) | |
Frisian | ideaal. (various references) | |
German | ideal (ideally, perfect), vorbildlich (exemplary, model, perfect). (various references) | |
Greek | ιδεώδησ, ιδανικόσ (imaginary), ιδανικό (aspiration). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מופתי (exemplary, model), מופת (example, exemplar, model, pattern, proof), משאת פש, אי"אלי, אי"אל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ideális, ideál (beau ideal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | idaman (appetite, craving), gayuh (aspiration, hang low), cita-cita (aspiration, goal, grief). (various references) | |
Italian | ideale (cause). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 誂え向き (most suitable), 観念的 , 理想的 , 理想 , 絶好 (best, perfect), 究竟 (appropriate, excellent, final, handy, superb, ultimate), 持って来い (just right, perfectly suitable), 最良 (the best), 典型的 (model, representative, typical), 好適 (fit, fitted, fitting, suitable), アイソトープ治療 (ID card, idea, idea man, idealism, identification card, isolation, isolation syndrome, isolator, isometric, isometrics, isoparametric, isotonic, isotope therapy, item, something that one "just has to have"). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぜっ"う (best, breach, perfect, school), くっきょう (appropriate, excellent, handy, muscular, obstinate, robust, sturdy, superb), さいりょう (admeasure, discretion, management, measurement, superintendence, supervision, supervisor, the best), か"ね"てき, "うてき (fit, fitted, fitting, official, public, public enemy, suitable), りそうてき, りそう, あつらえむき (most suitable), アイディアル , もって"い (just right, perfectly suitable), て"けいてき (model, representative, typical). (various references) | |
Korean | 이상 (Abnormalities, Abnormality). (various references) | |
Manx | slanjeant, ard-smooinaght. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ideell, forbilde. (various references) | |
Papiamen | ideal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idealay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imaginário (aerial, airy, etherization, fancy, fantastic, fictitious, imaginary, imagination, notional, of fantasy, overground, unreal), plano (cadre, champaign, concoction, design, designing, device, diagram, dodge, dodgy, draught, even, flat, flat constraint set, frame, framing, game, groundwork, inset, layout, level, line, plain, plan, plane, project, proposition, scheme, smattering, smooth, surface, system, tier), ídolo (idol, image). (various references) | |
Romanian | ideal (excellent, ideally, idol, lodestar), ţintã (aim, blaze, butt, clout, design, end, goal, hobnail, nail, object, objective, peg, pin, purport, purpose, pursuit, tack, target, weltnail, whither). (various references) | |
Russian | идеальный (unimprovable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | idealan, ideal, uzor (classic, model, paragon, standard, type). (various references) | |
Spanish | ideal (dream, lead, nonesuch). (various references) | |
Swedish | ideal (exemplar, ideals), idealisk (quixotic). (various references) | |
Thai | แบบอย่างที่"ี, อุ"มคติ, ซึ่งอยู่ในความคิ", "ีเลิศ (royal, select, superb). (various references) | |
Turkish | ideal (aim, apotheosis, dream, dreamboat, goal, mission, optimal, optimum, pattern, soaring, utopian), mükemmel şey (dainty, groove, prime, snorter), kusursuz örnek, gaye (aim, cause, consummation, intent, intention, object, purpose), erek (aim, drift, end, goal, intention, land of promise, objective, promised land, terminus), amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, cause, consummation, design, destination, dream, drift, function, goal, idea, intent, intention, meaning, mission, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, sense, target, terminus, turn, use, view, wherefore, will), ülkü (halo). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ideal (r). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ідеальний (theoretical), ідеалістичний (idealistic), ідеал (nonesuch, nonpareil), взірець (cast, exemplar, fugleman, nonesuch, norm, number, sampling), мислений (mental, tacit), абстрактний (abstract, abstracted, abstractive, noetic, non-figurative, nonrepresentational, notional, presentative), досконалий (accomplished, complete, in depth, perfect, precious). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật lý tưởng cái tinh thần, lý tưởng người lý tưởng, chỉ có trong trí tưởng tượng. (various references) | |
Welsh | delfrydol, delfryd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exemplar, exemplari, exemplaria, exemplarque, specimen. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | idealis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ideal": idealess, idealise, idealised, idealises, idealising, idealism, idealisms, idealist, idealistic, idealistically, idealists, idealities, ideality, idealization, idealizations, idealize, idealized, idealizer, idealizers, idealizes, idealizing, idealless, ideally, idealogies, idealogue, idealogues, idealogy, ideals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ideal": nonideal, unideal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ideal": overidealistic, overidealize, overidealized, overidealizes, overidealizing. (additional references) | |
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"Ideal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cidhal, Dibela, Edela, Edgealt, eleal, Fidoao, idaea, idaian, idal, ideaa, idead, idealy, idean, idear, ideel, idei, ideia, idel, idela, idella, idely, ideog, Ideval, Idgah, Idil, idila, idiol, idoel, idyla, igeal, ileal, imeal, Inderal, Indral, irdial, irela, Itela, Iudaei, izeal, odeal, Rideau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ideal" (pronounced īdē"l) |
| 3 | -d ē" l | deal, diel, ordeal. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ailed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l" | |
-1 letter: aide, dale, deal, deil, deli, dial, diel, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lead, lied. | |
-2 letters: aid, ail, ale, dal, del, die, eld, lad, lea, led, lei, lid, lie. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, de, ed, el, id, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l" | |
+1 letter: aedile, afield, aisled, alined, aliped, allied, ariled, audile, bailed, deasil, denial, derail, detail, dialed, dialer, dilate, eidola, elapid, failed, hailed, halide, ideals, jailed, laddie, ladies, laired, lazied, mailed, medial, nailed, pleiad, railed, redial, relaid, sailed, tailed, vailed, vialed, wailed. | |
+2 letters: addible, aediles, aidless, alcaide, alibied, alidade, aliened, aligned, alipeds, aliunde, annelid, anviled, applied, audible, audiles, availed, baldies, beadily, bedrail, bipedal, brailed, caviled, cedilla, citadel, claimed, dailies, dallied, dallier, dallies, dariole, dealing, decimal, declaim, decrial, delaine, deliria, deltaic, denials, derails, details, devisal, dialect, dialers, dialled, diallel, dialler, dialyse, dialyze, diazole, dilated, dilater, dilates, dilemma, disable, dualize, edictal, elapids, emailed, flailed, gallied, geoidal, gladier, glaired, glaived, halides, headily, helipad, hidable, ideally, impaled, implead, inhaled, inlaced, isolead, laddies, lapides, lardier, leadier, leading, liaised, ligated, limeade, lindane, medials, medical, melodia, miauled, misdeal, mislead, oedipal, palsied, piebald, plaided, plained, plaited, pleiads, predial, quailed, radiale, radicel, radicle, rallied, readily, redials, redtail, ridable, rivaled, sallied, sedilia, snailed, taliped, tallied, trailed, unideal, uredial, vedalia, vialled. | |
+3 letters: abseiled, aecidial, airfield, alcaides, alcidine, algicide, alidades, alighted, alkoxide, altitude, annelids, anvilled, arillode, articled, assailed, assoiled, audibles, auricled, beadlike, bedrails, beladied, beladies, bewailed, biasedly, biddable, bidental, bilander, billhead, bindable, bivalved, blindage, brailled, buddleia, calcined, calibred, camailed, canfield, cavilled, cedillas, chaliced, ciliated, citadels, climaxed, dalliers, darioles, darklier, dateline, datively, dawnlike, dayflies, deadlier, deadlift, deadline, dealfish, dealings, decidual, decimals, declaims, decrials, defilade, deicidal, deifical, delaines, delating, delation, delaying, delicacy, delicate, deniable, deniably, dentalia, dentinal, depilate, deprival, derailed, detailed, detailer, detrital, devisals, diablery, diacetyl, dialects, diallage, diallers, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, dialysed, dialyser, dialyses, dialyzed, dialyzer, dialyzes, diastole, diazoles, dihedral, dilatate, dilaters, dilative, dilemmas, dimmable, diplegia, dippable, dipteral, disabled, disables, dismaler, displace, disvalue, divalent, dovetail, dragline, drawlier, dreamily, drearily, drivable, dualized, dualizes, dulcinea, dutiable, dyslexia, ecdysial, ecocidal, editable, elaterid, endemial, enfilade, entailed, epidural, evadible, exordial, fairlead, filiated, finagled, findable, finialed, foliaged, foliated, gadflies, gilthead, gimbaled, gladiate, gladiest, gladlier, gliadine, glissade, goadlike, grillade, guidable, halidome, handlike, hardline, hayfield, headline, headsail, helipads, heraldic, hilloaed, idealess, idealise, idealism, idealist, ideality, idealize, idealogy, idolater, imbalmed, imblazed, impleads, inflamed, inflated, inlander, inwalled, islanded, islander, isolated, isoleads, keloidal, khedival, labiated, lacertid, ladening, ladylike, laicised, laicized, lakeside, landline, landmine, landside, lapidate, lardiest, lardlike, lariated, latitude, latticed, lavished, leadiest, leadings, librated, limeades, lindanes, lineated, liquated, maidenly, maladies, maledict, maligned, mandible, medaling, medalist, medallic, medially, medianly, medicals, medieval, melamdim, melanoid, melodias, melodica, miladies, misdeals, misdealt, misleads, misplead, nailhead, nonideal, oeillade, overlaid, oxidable, palinode, palisade, panicled, pantiled, parslied, pedalier, pedaling, pedipalp, peridial, petaloid, piebalds, pileated, pillaged, pillared, pineland, pleading, pleiades, plicated, praedial, radiable, radicels, radicles, railhead, realised, realized, redialed, redtails, remailed, remedial, renailed, resailed, residual, retailed, rideable, rivalled, salaried, salified, sandlike, sandpile, semibald, sepaloid, sidereal, sidewalk, sidewall, signaled, slidable, slideway, sodalite, spadille, spiraled, steadily, tailored, talipeds, tideland, toadlike, tripedal, unallied, unhailed, unnailed, validate, variedly, vedalias, violated, voidable, windable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 64 65 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -.. . .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100100 01100101 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I d e a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0064 0065 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4370716778 |