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PARAVAIL

Definition: PARAVAIL

PARAVAIL

Adjective

1. At the bottom; lowest.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Paravail \Par`a*vail"\, adjective. [Old French expression par aval below; par through (L. per) aval down; a- (L. ad) val (L. vallis) valley. Compare to Paramount.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: PARAVAIL

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

French

  

tenancier de rang inférieur d'un seigneur prochain (tenant paravail). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aravailpay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PARAVAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-p-r-v"

-3 letters: arval, avail, laari, larva, pilar, rival, varia, viral.

-4 letters: alar, aria, aril, lair, lari, lava, liar, lipa, lira, pail, pair, para, pial, raia, rail, rial, vail, vair, vara, vial, virl.

-5 letters: aal, ail, air, ala, alp, ava, lap, lar, lav, lip, pal, par, pia, rap, ria, rip, var, via.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PARAVAIL


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

50 41 52 41 56 41 49 4C

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)

01010000 01000001 01010010 01000001 01010110 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#65 &#82 &#65 &#86 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0041 0052 0041 0056 0041 0049 004C

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

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

5035523556354346

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INDEX

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


  

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