Noose

Definitions: Noose

Noose

Noun

1. A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose.

2. A loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled.

Verb

1. Make a noose in or of.

2. Secure with a noose.

Date "noose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Noose

Synonyms: gin (n), running noose (n), slip noose (n), snare (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Circularity	Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo.
Connection	Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders.
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.
Scourge	Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Noose

English words defined with "noose": clench, clinch ♦ gin ♦ Laqueary, loosen ♦ Noosed, Noosing ♦ Panter ♦ relax, running noose ♦ slip noose, snare, Springe ♦ To let slip. (references)

Specialty definitions using "noose": CHOKE SETTER ♦ knitted cord heald. (references)

Etymologies containing "noose": Ablaqueate ♦ Harl ♦ Laqueary ♦ node, Nowes. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Just like they say, no noose is good noose. (Robin Hood: Men in Tights; writing credit: Mel Brooks, J. David Shapiro) Well, then why don't you tie a noose and slip it 'round your head? (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) I knew that loose was too noose. (Heathers; writing credit: Daniel Waters) I walked to the gallows, and they put the noose around my neck. (Hold Back Tomorrow; writing credit: Hugo Haas) You know how on All in the Family when Edith would be yapping about something and Archie would pretend to make a noose and hang himself or shoot himself in the head? (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)
Movie/TV Titles	Nylon Noose (1963) Good Noose (1962) Noose for a Gunman (1960) The Noose Hangs High (1948) Noose (1948)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Longarm and the Hangman's Noose (reference) N Is for Noose (reference) Noose at Sundown (Avalon Westerns) (reference) The Hangman's Noose [LARGE PRINT] (reference) The Noose of Time (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Noose Hangs High (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Hangman's Noose (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Joanne and Frank removing noose from a baby Northern Spotted Owl.Credit: Carol Kauder.		We will cut off all roads to the evil enemy, he will not escape from this noose!] / Kukryniksy.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Noose" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Noose" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	104	31,955

Expressions using "noose": hangman's noose ♦ running noose ♦ slip noose. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "noose": noose-mark.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "noose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zë me lak, martohem (espouse, get married, make a match, marry, match, mate, splice), martesë (cross, espousal, marriage, match, matrimony, nuptial, splice, union, wedding, wedlock), lak (halter, lasso, loop, mesh, necklace, slipknot, tag, thong, trap), kurth (corral, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, pitfall, plant, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap, wile), kap me lak (lasso), ilik (buttonhole, mesh, shank, stitch, tab, tag), grackë (booby trap, cobweb, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, pitfall, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap), fut në grackë. (various references)

Arabic		‏عقدة حبل المشنقة, ‏إنشوطة, ‏أنشوطة (loop), ‏أحبولة (snare). (various references)

Bulgarian		ярем (collar, oxbow, yoke), улавям с ласо (lariat, lasso), улавям с примка, хомот (oxbow, yoke), клуп (loop, mesh, sling), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, string, tie, touch), връзвам на клуп (loop), впримчвам (decoy, ensnare, entrap, implicate, mesh, snare, vamp), ласо (lariat, lasso, rope), правя клуп на, примка (deadfall, game, halter, loop, mesh, snare, trap). (various references)

Chinese		繯 (bind, tie). (various references)

Czech		zadrhnout, smyèka (kink, knot, loop, sling), oprátka (halter), oko (eye, kink, mesh, pip, snare, spot, springe, tarn), manželské pouto, chytit do smyèky. (various references)

Farsi		کمند (Lariat, Lasso, Snare, Snarl, Tether), تله (Grin, Hook, Pitfall, Quicksand, Snare, Snarl, Train, Trepanation), خفت (Contempt, Disgrace, Opprobrium), دام (Ambush, Decoy, Grin, Net, Pitfall, Quicksand, Snare, Toil, Trap), درکمندانداختن , بند (Article, Bond, Clamp, Clause, Dam, Dike, Fascia, Fit, Hinge, Internode, Joggle, Joint, Levee, Ligament, Ligature, Line, Link, Manacle, Paragraph, Provision, Proviso, Segment, Sling, Snare, Stanza, Tie, Trawl, Weir, Wristband). (various references)

Finnish		silmukka (choker, eye, eyelet, grommet, loop, mesh, pigtail, ring, stitch, stitch coil, strop). (various references)

French		n�"ud coulant, lasso, corde, collet (crank pin bearing roll nock). (various references)

German		schlinge (ansa, gin, guelder rose, halter, loop, mesh, sling, snare, snarl, snowball). (various references)

Greek		κρεμάλα (gallows, gibbet, scaffold), βρόχοσ (bight, loop, mesh, snare, springe), παγίδα (catch, fish trap, gin, impurity trap, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, sink, snare, springe, store, trap, trap net), θηλιά (loop, slip knot, snarl, stitch, strop, tab), θήλεια (she), δένω θηλειά. (various references)

Hebrew		מוקש (mine, snare, trap), לולאת תלי�" (halter), לולא�" (bow, buttonhole, hitch, loop, tab), קולר (clip, collar, neck chain, torque), קשר (bond, communication, connection, converse, knot, liaison, link, linkage, linking, loop, nexus, node, relation, relationship, tie), ע� יב�" (cravat, knot, loop, necktie, tie). (various references)

Hungarian		meghurkol, kelepce (bailed hook, dead-fall, gin, net, nett, paddle, pitfall, snare, trap), hurok (bight, bow, halter, hitch, kink, knot, lobe, loop, sling, slip knot, snare, snarl, springe), csapda (ambuscade, ambush, bailed hook, catch, decoy, gin, man-trap, net, nett, pit, pitfall, snare, track, trap). (various references)

Indonesian		sosok (body, buttonhole, eye, figure, form, shape), jeratan (trap), jerat (halter, lasso, trap). (various references)

Italian		nodo scorsoio (slipknot), scorsoio (slipknot), laccio (lace, lasso, loop, snare, string, thong, tie, tourniquet, trap), cappio (bow, loop), accalappiare (capture, catch, snare). (various references)

Manx		sniemmey (affix, alligation, anchylosis, joining, knit, knot, knotting, tie; knitting, tying), cur cribbag er, cribbag (loop). (various references)

Pig Latin		oosenay

Portuguese		nó corredio (slipknot), prisão (accouchement, apprehension, arrest, bastille, bond, cage, captivity, choky, confinement, constrained, custody, detention, during, entente, ex, gaol, improbability, jail, jug, limbo, pokey, prison, quad, quod), passar uma corda, passar um laço, meio-dia (at noon, midday, midden, noon, noonday, noontime, South), laços matrimoniais, laço corredio, laçar (lacker, lacquer, lassoer), cilada (ambush, intrigue, mantrap, pitfall, pothole, snare, trap), armar um nó corredio, armadilha (booby trap, decoy, decoy duck, fish trap, gin, jaw trap, mantrap, mesh, pitfall, pothole, snare, toil, toils, trap, trap net, trapping center, trapping centre), apanhar com um laço, alçapão (drop, hatch, hate, impurity trap, pitfall, scuttle, snare, trap, trapdoor). (various references)

Romanian		nod (bend, bow, Burl, gnarl, half-hitch, joint, kink, knar, knob, knot, knurl, loop, lump, node, nodosity, snub), prinde cu lassoul, prinde cu laţul, prinde cu arcanul, pirostrii, lasso (lariat, lasso), lanţul cãsniciei, laţ (gin, lath, link, loop, sling, snare, springe, trap, wire), face un nod la, face un laţ la, capcanã (catcher, death trap, decoy, gin, hook, net, pit fall, pitfall, snare, toil, trap, wait), ştreang (halter, tug), arcan (lariat, lasso), întinde o cursã (lay an ambush, set a trap), întinde o capcanã. (various references)

Russian		петля (ansa, buttonhole, hinge, hitch, kink, loop, mesh, self-loop, stitch, tag). (various references)

Scottish		lùb (bend, consent, humble, incline, loop, snare, stoop, yield). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zapetljati (embrangle, tie), zamka (bight, catch, deadfall, gin, mesh, pitfall, snare, springe, trap), uhvatiti u zamku (ensnare, snare), petlja (eye, hoop, loop, runner, sphincter, stitch), omča (bight, loop, sling, springe), klopka (deadfall, mousetrap, pitfall, trap). (various references)

Spanish		nudo corredizo (slipknot), lazo (attachment, bind, bond, bow, connection, halter, knot, lace, lariat, lasso, league, link, list, loop, snare, springe, tether, tie, tying), dogal (halter, rope), coger con lazo (rope). (various references)

Swedish		snara (ensnare, entrap, gin, halter, hook, loop, snare, springe, trap). (various references)

Thai		ทำบ่วงหรือห่วง, ห่วงหรือบ่วง. (various references)

Turkish		tuzak (a warm corner, ambuscade, ambush, catch, cobweb, come on, complot, decoy, gin, hook, lure, net, snare, springe, toil, toilets, toils, trap, wire), kementle yakalamak (lasso, rope, rope in), kement (halter, lariat, lasso, longe, rope), ilmik yapmak, ilmik (bowknot, eye, knot, loop, slipknot, stitch), ilmek (bowknot, knot, loop, slipknot, stitch, thumb knot), ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, connexion, contact, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, dealings, gallantry, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, rapport, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, sexual intercourse, truck), bağlantı (channel, commitment, communication, concern, connecting, connection, connexion, contact, contact man, coordination, coupling, dealings, header, hookup, intercourse, liaison, link, linkage, linkup, relation, tap, tie, tie in, tie up), bağ (alliance, bandage, beginnings, binder, bond, brace, connection, connexion, copula, copulation, cord, corelate, daughter, desmo-, fascia, fastener, fastening, header, knot, lace, league, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, linkup, nexus, relation, relationship, string, tie, tie up, truss, vinculum, vine, vineyard, yoke). (various references)

Turkmen		syrma (knot), hepbik (snare). (various references)

Ukranian		спіймати в пастку, спіймати арканом, шлюбні узи, мертва петля, затяжний вузол, зав'язати петлею, заарканити, аркан (lariat, lasso), ласо (lasso), повісити людину, петля (button hole, kink, loop, necklace, ply, stitch, tag, twitch), пастка (await, booby trap, catch, deadfall, decoy, gin, leash, net, save-all, trap, trepan). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	laquei, laqueis, laqueo, laqueos, laqueum, laqueus, laqueus,, nodus. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	las. (various references)
Old Proven�al	900-1500	nous. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Leviticus Chapter 21, Verse 18
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	PaV anqrwpoV w an h en autw mwmoV ou proseleusetai anqrwpoV cwloV h tufloV h koloborrin h wtotmhtoV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Nec accedet ad ministerium eius si caecus fuerit si claudus si vel parvo vel grandi et torto naso
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	If he were blynde; if halt; if other with litil, or with greet, and crokid noose;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Ffor none that hath any blemysh shall come nere: whether he be blynde lame snot nosed or that hath any monstrous mebre,
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For whatever man he may be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Leviticus Chapter 21, Verse 18
Cebuano	Kay bisan kinsa nga tawohana nga adunay ikasaway, siya dili magaduol: usa ka tawong buta, kun piang, kun kadtong may ilong nga pislaton, kun bisan unsa nga kapin sa kinaiya,
Chinese	� 為凡有殘疾的、無論是瞎眼的、瘸腿的、塌鼻子的、肢 �" 有餘的、
Croatian	Ni jedan na kome bude mane ne smije se primaknuti: nitko koji je slijep ili sakat; nitko izoblièen ili iznakažena kojeg uda;
Danish	det må ingen, som har en Legemsfejl, hverken en blind eller en halt eller en med vansiret Ansigt eller for lang en Legemsdel
Dutch	Want geen man, in wien een gebrek zal zijn, zal naderen, hij zij een blind man, of kreupel, of te kort, of te lang in leden;
Finnish	Älköön lähestykö kukaan, jossa on joku vamma, älköön kukaan sokea tai ontuva, kukaan kasvoiltaan tahi jäseniltään muodoton,
French	Tout homme qui aura un défaut corporel ne pourra s`approcher: un homme aveugle, boiteux, ayant le nez camus ou un membre allongé;
German	Denn keiner, an dem ein Fehl ist, soll herzutreten; er sei blind, lahm, mit einer seltsamen Nase, mit ungewöhnlichem Glied,
Hungarian	Mert senki sem áldozhat, a kiben fogyatkozás van: vagy vak, vagy sánta vagy csonka orrú, vagy hosszú tagú.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang yang mempersembahkan kurban tak boleh cacat badannya, yaitu orang buta atau lumpuh, orang yang cacat mukanya atau anggota badannya,
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka dari pada segala orang yang berkecelaan itu seorangpun jangan datang hampir, baik orang yang buta atau yang timpang atau yang sumbing bibirnya atau telinganya,
Italian	perché nessun uomo che abbia qualche deformit� potr� accostarsi: né il cieco, né lo zoppo, né chi abbia il viso deforme per difetto o per eccesso,
Maori	Kaua hoki e whakatata mai tetahi tangata he koha tona: te matapo, te kopa, te tangata he ihu parehe tona, i hira ake ranei tetahi wahi ona,
Norwegian	Ingen som har noget lyte, skal trede nær, ingen som er blind eller halt eller har noget ansiktslyte eller et lem som er for stort,
Portuguese	Pois nenhum homem que tiver algum defeito se chegará: como homem cego, ou coxo, ou de nariz chato, ou de membros demasiadamente compridos,
Rumanian	Niciun om care va avea o meteahnq trupeascq nu va putea sq se apropie: wi anume nici un om orb, wchiop, cu nasul ckrn sau cu un mqdular mai lung;
Russian	ОЙЛФП, Х ЛПЗП ОБ ФЕМЕ ЕУФШ ОЕ�"ПУФБФПЛ, ОЕ �"ПМЦЕО � ТЙУФХ� БФШ, ОЙ УМЕ� ПК, ОЙ ИТПНПК, ОЙ ХТП�"МЙЧЩК,
Spanish	Ciertamente ningún hombre que tenga algún defecto se acercará, sea ciego, cojo, mutilado, desproporcionado,
Swedish	Ingen skall träda fram, som har något lyte, varken en blind eller en halt, eller en som har lyte i ansiktet, eller som har någon lem för stor,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "noose": noosed, nooser, noosers, nooses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "noose": burnoose. (additional references)
	Words containing "noose": burnoosed, burnooses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Noose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anosov, foose, joose, nefos, neos, Niobe, nios, Nkosi, Nogos, Nonoise, nooge, nooke, noone, nooser, noosy, noote, nooze, noozle, nos, nosay, nosc, nosea, nosen, noset, nosf, nosi, Noske, nosl, nosode, nosq, Nossen, Nosso, nosu, nourse, nouse, Nouste, Nouwen, nouz, Novoye, noxe, noyse, noze, nuqe, nuse, nusi, nuze, Nwosu, oose, osoe, snoose, woose. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "noose" (pronounced nuw"s)
2	-uw" s	abstruse, abuse, caboose, coos, deduce, Deuce, diffuse, disabuse, disuse, Duce, excuse, goose, induce, introduce, juice, loose, Luce, misuse, moose, mousse, obtuse, overproduce, produce, profuse, recluse, reduce, reintroduce, reproduce, reuse, seduce, sluice, Spruce, truce, use.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-n-o-o-s"
	-1 letter: eons, noes, nose, ones, sone, soon.
	-2 letters: ens, eon, noo, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sen, son.
	-3 letters: en, es, ne, no, oe, on, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "e-n-o-o-s"
	+1 letter: loosen, nodose, noosed, nooser, nooses, odeons, ozones, snooze, sooner.
	+2 letters: bongoes, boonies, cojones, colones, condoes, congoes, console, eftsoon, enroots, erosion, festoon, gentoos, gooneys, goonies, hognose, ionones, isogone, isotone, looneys, loonies, loosens, mongoes, moonset, noisome, nonegos, noodges, noodles, nookies, noosers, onerous, onshore, operons, orgones, ozonise, secondo, snooded, snooked, snooker, snooled, snooped, snooper, snooted, snoozed, snoozer, snoozes, snoozle, someone, sooners, soonest, spooned, spooney, swooned, swooner, testoon, unloose, woolens.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 6F 73 65

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 01101111 01101111 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#111 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 006F 0073 0065

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

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

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
noose	129	hangmans make noose	3
hangmans noose	40	hangman noose	3
noose tie	34	hangmans noose photo	3
make noose	18	in neck noose	3
noose play	12	medallion noose	2
nipple noose	12	hung noose she	2
hangmans noose tie	10	noose pretty	2
noose tying	8	noose woman	2
noose picture	7	knot noose	2
boot chap cowboy hangmans noose rope	7	dancing hanging noose	2
asphyxia noose	5	her neck noose	2
hang noose	5	duck in noose	2
bondage noose	4	knots noose	2
lyrics noose pretty	4	asphyxia noose pic	2
gallows noose	4	hanging neck noose	2
noose rope	4	asphyxia hanging noose	2
asphyx noose strangling	4	art clip noose	2
e noose string	4	noose tree	2
hanging noose	4	making noose	2
gallows hanging noose woman	3	hanging noose woman	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Noose

Definitions: Noose

Noose

Noun

Verb

Synonyms: Noose

Synonyms within Context: Noose

Circularity

Connection

Deception

Scourge

Crosswords: Noose

Modern Usage: Noose

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Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Noose

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Noose

Photos:Noose

Illustrations:Noose

Computer Images:Noose

Photo Album: Noose

Usage Frequency: Noose

Expressions: Noose

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Noose

Modern Translations: Noose

Albanian

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Bulgarian

Chinese

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Farsi

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Greek

Hebrew

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Indonesian

Italian

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Scottish

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukranian

Ancestral Language Translations: Noose

Bible Trace: Noose

Matched Bible Translations: Noose

Derivations & Misspellings: Noose

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Noose"

Anagrams: Noose

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Noose

4E 6F 6F 73 65

-. --- --- ... .

01001110 01101111 01101111 01110011 01100101

&#78 &#111 &#111 &#115 &#101

004E 006F 006F 0073 0065

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