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NOCTUARY

Definition: NOCTUARY

NOCTUARY

Noun

1. A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal; -- distinguished from diary.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Noctuary \Noc"tu*a*ry\, noun. [Latin expression noctu by night.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Commercial Usage: NOCTUARY

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NOCTUARY

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
per Day

noctuary

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "NOCTUARY"

Words rhyming with "NOCTUARY" (pronounced 'Noc"tu*a*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: NOCTUARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-r-t-u-y"

-1 letter: country, courant, truancy.

-2 letters: aroynt, cantor, carton, contra, cornua, county, craton, crayon, notary, outcry, outran, toucan, turaco.

-3 letters: acorn, actor, atony, aunty, canto, canty, carny, cornu, corny, cotan, count, court, crony, cyano, cyton, narco, octan, racon, rayon, runty, taroc, trona, unary, uncoy, yourn, yurta.

-4 letters: arco, arty, aunt, auto, cant, carn, cart, coat, cony.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-r-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: cautionary, countryman, incubatory.

 

+3 letters: backcountry, counterplay, countryseat, documentary, functionary, granulocyte, inculpatory, manufactory, nocturnally, paramountcy, subcontrary, uncustomary.

 

+4 letters: agranulocyte, annunciatory, binocularity, connaturally, constabulary, consummatory, counterplays, counterrally, countryseats, countrywoman, denunciatory, elocutionary, granulocytes, granulocytic, neurotically, renunciatory.

 

+5 letters: agranulocytes, anfractuosity, communicatory, confabulatory, conjecturally, connaturality, contractually, counterplayer, documentarily, hallucinatory, illocutionary, intraocularly, precautionary, uncomfortably, uncustomarily.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NOCTUARY


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

4E 4F 43 54 55 41 52 59

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 01001111 01000011 01010100 01010101 01000001 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#79 &#67 &#84 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 0043 0054 0055 0041 0052 0059

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

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

4849375455355259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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