MASKED BATTERY

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MASKED BATTERY

Definition: MASKED BATTERY

MASKED BATTERY

1. (Mil.), a battery so placed as not to be seen by an enemy until it opens fire. --H. L. Scott.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: MASKED BATTERY

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Concealment	Seal of secrecy; screen; disguise; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place; cryptography, steganography; freemasonry.
Deception	Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Photo Album: MASKED BATTERY

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The masked battery or Loco-Foco strategy. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Anagrams: MASKED BATTERY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-k-m-r-s-t-t-y"
	-3 letters: tastemaker.
	-4 letters: bakemeats, bayadeers, bayaderes, bedmakers, daybreaks, makebates, makeready, smattered, streambed, teamakers, terabytes, trabeated.
	-5 letters: abetters, amreetas, bakemeat, basketry, bastardy, battered, bayadeer, bayadere, bedmaker, bedmates, beeyards, berettas, betrayed, breasted, bystreet, daybreak, daymares, debaters, embarked, estrayed, makebate, marketed, mastered, mattered, meerkats, restated, retasted, seatmate, stearate, streaked, streamed, tabarets, teamaker, teamster, terabyte, trabeate, yattered.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: MASKED BATTERY

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

4D 41 53 4B 45 44 42 41 54 54 45 52 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01001101 01000001 01010011 01001011 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000010 01000001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#83 &#75 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#66 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0053 004B 0045 0044 0042 0041 0054 0054 0045 0052 0059

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

473553453938236355454395259

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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