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Definition: IMPAWN |
IMPAWNTransitive verb1. To put in pawn; to pledge. |
Date "IMPAWN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
Note: Impawn \Im*pawn"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Impawned; present participle verb or noun Impawning.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Security | Verb: give security, give bail, give substantial bail; go bail; pawn, impawn, spout, mortgage, hypothecate, impignorate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: IMPAWN |
| English words defined with "IMPAWN": Empawn ♦ Impawned, Impawning. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "IMPAWN": Empawn. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "IMPAWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lë peng (hock, pledge, put away), jap në borxh. (various references) | |
Czech | dát do zástavy (pawn, pledge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zálogba tesz (Gage, pawn, to hypothecate, to spout). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impawnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | penhorar (bond, flog, Gage, garnishee order), empenhar (commit, engage, flog, Gage, hock, mortgage, pawn, pledge, plinth, to pawn, to pledge, to secure), destemido (aweless, Dauntless, fearnought, gallant, Hardy, high-spirited, plucky, undaunted, unshrinking). (various references) | |
Russian | отдавать в залог (give on gage, shove in). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | založiti (hock, mortgage, pawn, pledge). (various references) | |
Spanish | poner (add, adjust, affix, alight, append, arrange, attach, bet, call, clap, connect, contribute, deposit, do, dress, drop, encase, enclose, entangle, expend, fasten, get down, get on, give, give in, impose, inclose, insert, instal, install, invest, job, jug, kick out, land, lay, lay down, light, make, open, perform, place, play back, pose, post, provoke, put, put down, put into, put on, put out, put through, put up, raise, read, send, set, set up, slip on, stake, stand, start, stick, stick down, Stow, suppose, switch on, tag on, take, take along, throw in, translate, turn on, wear). (various references) | |
Swedish | pantsätta (hock, pawn, pledge, to pawn, to pledge, to secure), ansvara (answer for, be liable for, be responsible for, responsible for, warrant). (various references) | |
Turkish | söz vermek (assure, commit, covenant, engage, give an undertaking, give one's word, guarantee, make a promise, pledge, pledge one's word, plight, promise, take the pledge, undertake), rehine koymak (pawn, pledge, pop, put in pledge). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ручатися (answer, avouch, certify, ensure, mortgage, pawn, pledge, undertake), заставляти (hypothecate, mortgage, pignorate, pledge). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "IMPAWN": impawned, impawning, impawns. (additional references) | |
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"IMPAWN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impa, Mimpow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-n-p-w" | |
-2 letters: amin, main, mawn, mina, nipa, pain, pawn, pian, pima, pina, wain, wimp. | |
-3 letters: aim, ain, ami, amp, ani, awn, imp, man, map, maw, nam, nap, naw, nim, nip, pam, pan, paw, pia, pin, wan, wap, win. | |
-4 letters: ai, am, an, aw, in, ma, mi, na, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-n-p-w" | |
+1 letter: impawns. | |
+2 letters: impawned, swamping. | |
+3 letters: impawning. | |
+4 letters: pitchwoman, prewarming, swampiness, wampishing. | |
+5 letters: policewoman, showmanship, workmanship. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4D 50 41 57 4E |
| 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 01001101 01010000 01000001 01010111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M P A W N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0050 0041 0057 004E |
| 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)434750355748 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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