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OPTATION

Definition: OPTATION

OPTATION

Noun

1. The act of optating; a wish.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Optation \Op*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression optatio. See Option.]. (Websters 1913)


Expression: OPTATION

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "OPTATION": co-optation.

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

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Modern Translations: OPTATION

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

Romanian

  

opţiune (choice, choosing, option). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การเลือก (choice, co-optation, election, option). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

бажання (appetite, desire, pleasure, volition, will, wish), побажання (desire, wish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "OPTATION"

Words rhyming with "OPTATION" (pronounced 'Op*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OPTATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: potation.

Words within the letters "a-i-n-o-o-p-t-t"

-1 letter: antipot.

-2 letters: option, potato, potion.

-3 letters: inapt, paint, panto, patin, patio, piano, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point, potto, taint, tanto, titan, topoi.

-4 letters: anti, atop, into, iota, naoi, nipa, nota, onto, otto, pain, pant, pian, pina, pint, pion, pita, poon, tain, tint, toit, toon, toot, topi.

-5 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, apt, att, ion, nap.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-n-o-o-p-t-t"
 

+1 letter: potations.

 

+2 letters: antiproton, coaptation.

 

+3 letters: adoptionist, antiprotons, coaptations, computation, contraption, deportation, exportation, importation, mountaintop, optionality, phonotactic, postulation, potentiator, prostration, protagonist, protonating, protonation, protraction, taphonomist.

 

+4 letters: adoptionists, autohypnotic, coadaptation, computations, constipation, contraptions, deportations, exploitation, exportations, importations, interpolator, metropolitan, mountaintops, operationist, optimisation, optimization, phonotactics, photostating, polytonality, pontificator, postabortion, postromantic, postulations, potentiation, potentiators, propitiation, prostrations, protagonists, protestation, protonations, protractions, somatotropin, taphonomists, trapshooting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OPTATION


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

4F 50 54 41 54 49 4F 4E

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)

01001111 01010000 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#80 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0050 0054 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

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

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

4950543554434948

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INDEX

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


  

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