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PREDAL

Definition: PREDAL

PREDAL

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Predal \Pre"dal\, adjective. [Latin expression praeda prey.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PREDAL

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

Stealing

Adjective: thieving; Verb: thievish, light-fingered; furacious, furtive; piratical; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; raptorial; (rapacious).

Taking

Adjective: taking;Verb: privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "PREDAL"

Words rhyming with "PREDAL" (pronounced 'Pre"dal'): Abdal, Acnodal, Bicaudal, Caudal, Chordal, Crunodal, Dasypaedal, feudal, Furibundal, modal, Notochordal, Ooidal, Ordal, Paludal, Parachordal, Perichordal, Prebendal, Prochordal, Pudendal, scandal, Subcaudal, Subnotochordal, Tindal, Urochordal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PREDAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: parled, pedlar.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-p-r"

-1 letter: alder, drape, lader, padle, padre, paled, paler, pared, parle, pearl, pedal, plead, raped.

-2 letters: aped, aper, dale, dare, deal, dear, earl, lade, lard, lead, leap, lear, pale, pard, pare, peal, pear, plea, pled, rale, rape, read, real, reap.

-3 letters: ale, alp, ape, are, dal, dap, del, ear, eld, era, lad, lap, lar, lea.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-p-r"
 

+1 letter: leopard, paddler, paroled, pearled, pedlars, pedlary, pleader, predial, ralphed, replead.

 

+2 letters: dapperly, deprival, dipteral, drapable, epidural, feldspar, grappled, lappered, larruped, leopards, paddlers, paltered, parceled, parlayed, parleyed, parslied, pedalfer, pedalier, pendular, peridial, pillared, pleaders, poleward, portaled, poularde, praedial, prattled, preadult, rappeled, relapsed, repandly, repealed, replaced, replated, replayed, repleads, spandrel, sparkled, spiraled, spraddle, sprawled, trampled, tripedal, underlap, uplander.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PREDAL


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

50 52 45 44 41 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)

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

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

01010000 01010010 01000101 01000100 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#68 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 0044 0041 004C

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

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

505239383546

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INDEX

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


  

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