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MORGIANA

Date "MORGIANA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)


Specialty Definition: MORGIANA

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Literature

Morgiana The clever, faithful, female slave of Ali Baba, who pries into the forty jars, and discovers that every jar, but one, contains a man. She takes oil from the only one containing it, and, having made it boiling hot, pours enough into each jar to kill the thief concealed there. At last she kills the captain of the gang, and marries her master's son. (Arabian Nights: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MORGIANA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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morgiana

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Anagrams: MORGIANA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-m-n-o-r"

-1 letter: angioma, roaming.

-2 letters: airman, angora, arming, magian, margin, marina, morgan, oaring, onagri, organa, origan, ragman.

-3 letters: again, agora, agria, amain, amiga, amigo, amino, amnia, amnio, among, anima, argon, aroma, gamin, garni, giron, gonia, grain, grama, grana, groan, groin, imago, inarm, mango, mania, manor, maria, minor, moira, naira, noria, orang, organ, roman.

-4 letters: agar, agin.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-m-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: angiogram.

 

+2 letters: angiograms, morganatic, organismal, parmigiano.

 

+3 letters: aromatizing, marathoning, margination, menorrhagia, micromanage, migrational, spermagonia.

 

+4 letters: aeromagnetic, ameliorating, camphorating, emargination, marathonings, marginations, menorrhagias, micromanaged, micromanager, micromanages, overmanaging.

 

+5 letters: achromatizing, aggiornamento, agglomerating, agglomeration, agronomically, antilogarithm, approximating, argumentation, cholangiogram, cinematograph, emarginations, fragmentation, galvanometric, gastronomical, germanization, glamorization, immigrational, mastigophoran, megasporangia, micromanagers, micromanaging, mineralogical, monogrammatic, nonmanagerial, oleomargarine, spermatogonia, transmigrator.

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Alternative Orthography: MORGIANA


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

4D 4F 52 47 49 41 4E 41

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)

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

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

01001101 01001111 01010010 01000111 01001001 01000001 01001110 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#82 &#71 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0052 0047 0049 0041 004E 0041

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

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

4749524143354835

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2. Images: Slideshow
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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