PRELIMINARY CANTER

  

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PRELIMINARY CANTER

Specialty Definition: PRELIMINARY CANTER

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Preliminary Canter (A). Metaphorically, means something which precedes the real business in hand. The reference is to the preliminary canter of horses before the race itself begins.
"The real business of the sessions commenced last night ... Everything that has preceded the introduction of this measure has been a preliminary canter."- Newspaper paragraph, April 14th, 1894. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: PRELIMINARY CANTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-p-r-r-r-t-y"

-5 letters: impertinency, interlaminar.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PRELIMINARY CANTER


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

50 52 45 4C 49 4D 49 4E 41 52 59      43 41 4E 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01010000 01010010 01000101 01001100 01001001 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010010 01011001 00100000 01000011 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#82 &#89 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 004C 0049 004D 0049 004E 0041 0052 0059      0043 0041 004E 0054 0045 0052

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

50523946434743483552592373548543952

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2. Orthography
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