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NATANT

Definitions: NATANT

NATANT

Adjective

1. Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.

2. Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Natant \Na"tant\, adjective. [Latin expression natans, -antis, from swim, intensive verb from nare to swim: compare to the French expression natant.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: NATANT

Etymologies containing "NATANT": Natation. (references)

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Modern Translations: NATANT

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

Arabic 

  

‏عائم (floating). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

плуващ (on the float). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κολυμβών, επιπλέων (afloat, floater, floe, to boot). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שוח" (dugout, pit), צף (afloat, buoy, float, floating). (various references)

   

Italian

  

natante (boat, craft). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atantnay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

yüzen (buoyant, floating). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: NATANT

Derivations

Words beginning with "NATANT": natantly. (additional references)

Words ending with "NATANT": supernatant. (additional references)

Words containing "NATANT": supernatants. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "NATANT"

Words rhyming with "NATANT" (pronounced 'Na"tant'): Amplectant, Blatant, Distant, Dotant, Equidistant, Extant, Flotant, Gestant, humectant, important, Inequidistant, Lactant, Montant, Nutant, Octant, Pregustant, reluctant, Remontant, Reptant, Restant, Saltant, Sectant, self-important, sextant, Spectant, statant, supernatant. (additional references)

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Anagrams: NATANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-n-n-t-t"

-2 letters: anna, anta, naan, nana.

-3 letters: ana, ant, att, nan, tan, tat.

-4 letters: aa, an, at, na, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-n-n-t-t"
 

+1 letter: annatto, tannate.

 

+2 letters: annattos, annotate, antitank, nanowatt, natantly, natation, stagnant, tannates.

 

+3 letters: annotated, annotates, annotator, annuitant, antenatal, attaining, attendant, manhattan, nanowatts, natations, tanzanite, tarnation.

 

+4 letters: accountant, annotating, annotation, annotative, annotators, annuitants, antagonist, antedating, anticipant, antinature, arctangent, attainment, attainting, attendance, attendants, catenating, catenation, constantan, denaturant, inhabitant, manhattans, notational, nutational, patinating, patination, plantation, sanitating, sanitation, stagnantly, stagnating, stagnation, tangential, tantamount, tanzanites, tarnations, tenantable, tramontane, transplant.

 

+5 letters: accountants, alternating, alternation, annotations, antagonists, antenatally, antenuptial, antianxiety, anticipants, antinatural, antinatures, antioxidant, antiozonant, antiquating, antiquation, antitarnish, antivitamin, appurtenant, aquatinting, arctangents, assentation, attainments, attendances, attentional, attenuating, attenuation, catenations, concatenate, constantans, contaminant, contaminate, decantation, denaturants, incantation, incantatory, infatuating, infatuation, inhabitants, instantiate, interactant, lamentation, manifestant, methanation, nationalist, nationality, nonabstract, nonattached, patinations, pentavalent, plantations, reattaining, recantation, sanitations, stagnations, supernatant, tantalising, tantalizing, tramontanes, transacting, transaction, transhumant, translating, translation, transparent, transplants, trepanation, trinitarian, unannotated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NATANT


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

4E 41 54 41 4E 54

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)

01001110 01000001 01010100 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#65 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0041 0054 0041 004E 0054

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

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

483554354854

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INDEX

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


  

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