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MAINTOP

Definition: MAINTOP

MAINTOP

Noun

1. The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MAINTOP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

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Crosswords: MAINTOP

Specialty definitions using "MAINTOP": Mizentop, maintop, foretop. (references)

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Modern Translations: MAINTOP

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

Albanian

  

platformë në majë të direkut. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гротмарс. (various references)

   

Czech

  

koš nad hlavním stìžnìm. (various references)

   

German

  

großmars. (various references)

   

Manx

  

cronnag y chroan veanagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aintopmay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

defesa (advantage, aegis, avail, behoof, blindage, boot, breastwork, Bunce, cover-point, defence, defense, egis, fender, firelock, household troops, interdictory, Parry, pleading, preservative, profit, protection, save, security, shield, spar, tower, vindication, ward). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

грот-мачта (main, mainmast). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

velekoš. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

palo mayor (mainmast). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stormärs. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: MAINTOP

Derivations

Words beginning with "MAINTOP": maintops. (additional references)


Misspellings

"MAINTOP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amintor, Macindoe, maint, Maisto, maniot, manitos, matinox, maynot, Meinkopt, Miniato, minitape. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: MAINTOP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ptomain, tampion, timpano.

Words within the letters "a-i-m-n-o-p-t"

-1 letter: manito, optima, pitman, potman, tampon.

-2 letters: amino, amnio, inapt, matin, paint, panto, patin, patio, piano, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point, toman.

-3 letters: amin, anti, atom, atop, into, iota, main, mano, mina, mint, moan, moat, naoi, nipa, noma, nota, omit, pain, pant, pian, pima, pina, pint, pion, pita, tain, tamp, topi.

-4 letters: aim, ain, ait, ami, amp, ani, ant, apt, imp, ion, man, map, mat, moa, mon, mop, mot, nam, nap, nim, nip, nit, nom, not, oat, opt, pam, pan, pat, pia, pin, pit, poi, pom, pot, tam, tan, tao, tap, tin, tip, tom, ton, top.

-5 letters: ai, am, an, at, in, it, ma, mi, mo, na, no, om, on, op, pa, pi, ta, ti, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-m-n-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: maintops, pivotman, pointman, protamin, ptomaine, ptomains, tampions.

 

+2 letters: complaint, compliant, impaction, important, nonimpact, palmation, pantomime, patrimony, protamine, protamins, ptomaines, tamponing.

 

+3 letters: amputation, assumption, compacting, compaction, comparting, complaints, impactions, importance, importancy, imputation, miscaption, morphactin, nonoptimal, palmations, pantomimed, pantomimes, pantomimic, patronymic, permeation, phonematic, pitchwoman, portamenti, postmating, protamines, provitamin, taphonomic, temptation, trampoline, utopianism.

 

+4 letters: accompanist, adoptianism, adoptionism, aminopterin, amphictyony, amputations, amylopectin, appointment, assumptions, compactions, compilation, complainant, complaisant, compliantly, computation, emancipator, impartation, impersonate, impetration, implication, importances, importantly, importation, importunate, imprecation, impregnator, imputations, incompliant, kleptomania, malposition, manipulator, metanephroi, misanthrope, misanthropy, miscaptions, morphactins, mountaintop, nonemphatic, pantomiming, pantomimist, patrimonial, patrimonies, patronymics, permeations, permutation, phantomlike, postmarking, predominant, predominate, prenominate, preromantic, prognathism, promotional, provitamins, taphonomies, taphonomist, temptations, toponymical, trampoliner, trampolines, unimportant, utopianisms.

 

+5 letters: accompanists, actinomorphy, adoptianisms, adoptionisms, aminopterins, amphictyonic, amylopectins, anisotropism, antimonopoly, antinepotism, appointments, camphorating, companionate, compellation, compensating, compensation, compensative, compilations, complainants, complexation, complicating, complication, componential, compurgation, computations, cosmopolitan, emancipation, emancipators, enantiomorph, epithalamion, impartations, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impetrations, implantation, implications, importancies, importations, imprecations, impregnation, impregnators, incompatible, incompatibly, incomputable, incomputably, intercompany, intercompare, intracompany, kleptomaniac, kleptomanias, malpositions, manipulation, manipulators, manipulatory, metropolitan, misanthropes, misanthropic, miscaptioned, monosynaptic, mountaintops, noncompliant, onomatopoeia, onomatopoeic, operationism, optimisation, optimization, palindromist, panchromatic, pantomimists, paronomastic, permutations, phentolamine, photodynamic, photomapping, pigmentation, pinealectomy, postromantic, predominated, predominates, preformation, premigration, prenominated, prenominates, proclamation, prognathisms, promulgating, promulgation, protactinium, prothalamion, reassumption, slumpflation, somatotropin, sycophantism, taphonomists, trampoliners, trampolining, trampolinist, undiplomatic, unimportance.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MAINTOP


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

4D 41 49 4E 54 4F 50

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)

01001101 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010100 01001111 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#79 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0049 004E 0054 004F 0050

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

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

47354348544950

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INDEX

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


  

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