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Definition: POLT |
POLTAdjective1. Distorted. Noun1. A blow or thump. |
Etymology: Polt \Polt\, noun. [Compare to English pelt, from Latin expression pultare to beat, strike.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Slang in 1811 | POLT. A blow. Lend him a polt in the muns; give him a knock in the face. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: POLT |
| Non-English Usage: "POLT" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (bang, blast, blast explosion, clap, concussion, crack, crack sound, detonation, explosion, flap, rap, report, shot, snap, stroke, thump). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "POLT": Polt-foot, Polt-footed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
polt | 19 |
polt gerhard | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POLT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | сильный удар (bang, bash, biff, clip, humming blow, lick, pelt, plunk, slog, staggerer, swinger, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vẹo b n chân (polt-foot), b n chân vẹo (polt-foot). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "POLT": poltergeist, poltergeists, poltroon, poltrooneries, poltroonery, poltroons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "olt": Nolt, Smolt. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: plot. | |
| Words within the letters "l-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: lop, lot, opt, pol, pot, top. | |
-2 letters: lo, op, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pilot, plots, plotz, poult. | |
+2 letters: coplot, laptop, lepton, patrol, pelota, petrol, peyotl, phytol, pilots, piolet, pistol, plotty, pluton, polite, polity, pontil, portal, portly, postal, potful, pottle, poults, protyl, putlog, replot, spoilt, tapalo, topful, topple, tupelo. | |
+3 letters: apostil, apostle, caltrop, capitol, coalpit, complot, copilot, coplots, couplet, diplont, droplet, eelpout, exploit, flattop, galipot, gluepot, haplont, hilltop, hoplite, laptops, leptons, marplot, naphtol, octuple, octuply, optical, optimal, opulent, outleap, outplan, outplay, outplod, outplot, outpoll, outpull, outyelp, paletot, patrols, pelotas, petiole, petrols, peyotls, phytols, piloted, pinitol, piolets, pistole, pistols, pivotal, platoon, plotted, plotter, plotzed, plotzes, plutons, poitrel, polecat, polenta, politer, politic, pollist, pollute, poloist, polycot, pontils, portals, postals, potable, potboil, potfuls, pothole, potlach, potlike, potline, potluck, pottles, poulter, poultry, poutful, premolt, prolate, protyle, protyls, pullout, putlogs, replots, rolltop, slipout, splotch, spotlit, stopple, subplot, tadpole, talipot, tapalos, taphole, topfull, topical, topless, topline, toppled, topples, topsail, topsoil, tripoli, trollop, tupelos. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4C 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-.. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001100 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O L T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004C 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50494654 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | русский, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | вьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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