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LIBRATORY

Definition: LIBRATORY

LIBRATORY

Adjective

1. Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: LIBRATORY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Evolution

Adjective: oscillating; Verb: oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory, libratory, rectilinear; vibratory, vibratile; pendulous.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: LIBRATORY

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

Portuguese

  

livraria (bookshop, bookstore), libratório. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

oscilatoriu (oscillating), oscilant (oscillating, oscillatory). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lúc lắc (momently, waggly), bập bềnh (dancing), đu đưa (dingle-dangle, flickering). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LIBRATORY

Derivations

Words ending with "LIBRATORY": equilibratory. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LIBRATORY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: labatory, labratory, liberatory. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LIBRATORY"

Words rhyming with "LIBRATORY" (pronounced 'Li"bra*to*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LIBRATORY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-l-o-r-r-t-y"

-2 letters: library, orality, orbital.

-3 letters: aliyot, artily, bailor, barrio, briary, rarity, rialto, rotary, tailor, tribal, trilby.

-4 letters: aboil, abort, arbor, bialy, biota, bloat, boart, bolar, boral, borty, boyar, boyla, brail, briar, broil, labor, laity, libra, lirot, lobar, lorry, lyart, orbit, ratio, riyal, roily, royal, tabor, tarry, tolar, trail, trial, triol.

-5 letters: ably, abri, airt, airy.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-l-o-r-r-t-y"
 

+4 letters: equilibratory, reformability, tricarboxylic.

 

+5 letters: barometrically, erythroblastic, gyrostabilizer, irremovability, irrevocability, performability, proportionably, recoverability.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LIBRATORY


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

4C 49 42 52 41 54 4F 52 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)

.-..    ..    -...    .-.    .-    -    ---    .-.    -.--.

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

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

01001100 01001001 01000010 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#66 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 0042 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052 0059

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

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

464336523554495259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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