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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MAINSAIL MAchine INdependent SAIL. From XIDAK, Palo Alto CA, (415) 855-9271. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Bible | Main-sail (Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," near the prow, or the "fore-sail," as likely to be most useful in bringing a ship's head to the wind in the circumstances described (Acts 27:40). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Date "MAIN-SAIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "MAIN-SAIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 主要风帆. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 주"하 돛. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ain-sailmay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mainsail. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-l-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: animals, laminas, manilas, mislain. | |
-2 letters: aaliis, animal, animas, animis, lamias, lamina, lanais, lianas, limans, limina, manias, manila, nasial, saimin, salami, salina, simian, simlin. | |
-3 letters: aalii, alans, alias, almas, amain, amias, amins, amnia, anils, anima, animi, anlas, lamas, lamia, lanai, liana, liman, limas, limns, mails, mains, manas, mania, milia, minas, minis, nails, nasal, salmi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-l-m-n-s" | |
+1 letter: animalism, mainsails. | |
+2 letters: animaliers, animalisms, animalizes, laminarias, laminarins, leishmania, luminarias, nialamides, simoniacal, talismanic. | |
+3 letters: animalistic, animalities, antimonials, antimusical, antirealism, cannibalism, laminarians, laminations, leishmanial, leishmanias, manorialism, mediastinal, misalliance, misanalysis, nationalism, rationalism. | |
+4 letters: acclimations, albuminurias, antiblackism, anticlimaxes, antirealisms, assimilating, assimilation, bibliomanias, cannibalisms, caramelising, disclamation, factionalism, familiarness, lacrimations, malignancies, manorialisms, marginalizes, millenarians, milliradians, misalliances, misbalancing, nationalisms, rationalisms, salvationism, simoniacally, supraliminal. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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