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NAIL ONE'S COLOURS TO THE MAST

Specialty Definition: NAIL ONE'S COLOURS TO THE MAST

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Literature

Nail One's Colours to the Mast (To). To refuse to surrender. When the colours are nailed to the mast they cannot be lowered in proof of submission. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: NAIL ONE'S COLOURS TO THE MAST

Specialty definitions using "NAIL ONE'S COLOURS TO THE MAST": Nail One's Colours to the Mast. (references)

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Modern Translation: NAIL ONE'S COLOURS TO THE MAST

Language Translations for "NAIL ONE'S COLOURS TO THE MAST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

otevřenì se hlásit ke svým názorùm. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailnay one'say olourscay otay ethay astmay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Alternative Orthography: NAIL ONE'S COLOURS TO THE MAST


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

4E 41 49 4C      4F 4E 45 27 53      43 4F 4C 4F 55 52 53      54 4F      54 48 45      4D 41 53 54

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

                    

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

01001110 01000001 01001001 01001100 00100000 01001111 01001110 01000101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001100 01001111 01010101 01010010 01010011 00100000 01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001101 01000001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#65 &#73 &#76 &#32 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#76 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#83 &#32 &#84 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#77 &#65 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0041 0049 004C      004F 004E 0045 0027 0053      0043 004F 004C 004F 0055 0052 0053      0054 004F      0054 0048 0045      004D 0041 0053 0054

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

483543462494839953237494649555253254492544239247355354

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1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Orthography
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