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OVERPOISE

Definition: OVERPOISE

OVERPOISE

Noun

1. Preponderant weight; a counterbalance.

Transitive verb

1. To outweigh; to overbalance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: OVERPOISE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Counteraction

Undo, neutralize; counterpoise; (compensate); overpoise.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: OVERPOISE

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

Albanian

  

kam epërsi në peshë, epërsi në peshë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

натежаване, превишаване, превишавам (exceed, go beyond, outmatch, overtop, stretch). (various references)

   

French

  

balance. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

többet nyom (outweigh, to outweigh), súlyban felülmúl (outweigh). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

overpoiseay

   

Portuguese

  

sobra (balance, end, hang up, leftover, offal, over, remainder, remnant, rest, waste), pesar mais que (outbalance, outweigh, overbalance). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

перевешивать (outbalance, outweigh, overbalance, overrule, preponderate, weigh down), перевес (better hand, odds, overbalance, overweight, plurality, preponderance). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pretezati, pretezanje, pretegnuti (outbalance, outweigh, overbalance, weigh down), preteg (overbalance). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

preponderar (preponderate), pesar más. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

переважувати (outbalance, overbalance). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OVERPOISE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-o-o-p-r-s-v"

-2 letters: erosive, operose, previse, proviso.

-3 letters: poiser, pooris, pooves, porose, proves, reives, repose, revise, soever, soiree, vesper, vipers, vireos.

-4 letters: erose, oorie, osier, overs, peers, peise, peris, perse, piers, poise, poori, poove, pores, poser, prees, prese, pries, prise, prose, proso, prove, reive, repos, ripes, rives, roose, ropes, roves, serve, servo, sever, sieve, siree, siver.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-o-o-p-r-s-v"
 

+2 letters: overpromise.

 

+3 letters: cooperatives, overexploits, overexposing, overpromised, overpromises, seropositive.

 

+4 letters: corresponsive, nonresponsive, overexpansion, postoperative, promotiveness, reprovisioned.

 

+5 letters: nonprogressive, overexpansions, overpersuasion, overprocessing, overresponding, preconventions.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OVERPOISE


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

4F 56 45 52 50 4F 49 53 45

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 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010000 01001111 01001001 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#80 &#79 &#73 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0050 004F 0049 0053 0045

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

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

495639525049435339

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Non-English Dictionaries with "OVERPOISE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanais, albán, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, албанський, албанка, албанець

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, болгарський

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, френски език, френски, français, francia, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, французька мова, французький

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, hongrois, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugais, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeservo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, espagnol, spanyol, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, іспанський, іспанська мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisht, ukrainas, украинец, украински език, ukrainien, ukrán, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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