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OVERHOLD

Definition: OVERHOLD

OVERHOLD

Transitive verb

1. To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OVERHOLD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Note: Overhold \O`ver*hold"\, transitive verb. To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear rate. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Derivations: OVERHOLD

Derivations

Words beginning with "OVERHOLD": overholding, overholds. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: OVERHOLD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: holdover.

Words within the letters "d-e-h-l-o-o-r-v"

-2 letters: holder, hooved, overdo.

-3 letters: dhole, dolor, drool, drove, holed, horde, hovel, hover, looed, loved, lover, older, oohed, rodeo, roved, voled.

-4 letters: doer, dole, door, dore, dove, held, helo, herd, herl, hero, hoed, hoer, hold, hole, hood, hove, lehr, levo, lode, lord, lore, love, odor, ohed, oleo, ordo, orle, over, redo, rode, role, rood.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-l-o-o-r-v"
 

+1 letter: holdovers, overholds.

 

+3 letters: overholding.

 

+4 letters: dichlorvoses, overlordship, overwithhold.

 

+5 letters: overlordships, overwithholds.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OVERHOLD


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

4F 56 45 52 48 4F 4C 44

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01001000 01001111 01001100 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0048 004F 004C 0044

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

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

4956395242494638

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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