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PRESCIND

Definition: PRESCIND

PRESCIND

Transitive verb

1. To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.

2. To cut off; to abstract.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Expression: PRESCIND

Expression using "PRESCIND": prescind from. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: PRESCIND

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

Bulgarian 

  

откъсвам се (break away, calve, fly off the handle, pull ahead, pull away, tear oneself away), откъсвам вниманието си, откъсвам (break away, break off, dissociate, island, pick off, pull, pull off, rend, rip off, tear away, tear off, tear out, tweak, uproot, win away), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), абстрахирам се (disregard). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elvonatkoztat. (various references)

   

Italian

  

prescindere (leave aside). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

escindpray

   

Portuguese

  

prescindir, abstrair (abstract). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отвлекать внимание (grab attention), абстрагировать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ne uzimati u obzir. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

prescindir (abstract, deatch, detach, dispense with, go without, leave aside, leave out, prescind from, put aside, separate, sever, unfasten). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skära bort (cut away, excise, lop, pare off). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

абстрагуватися, абстрагувати (abstract). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PRESCIND

Derivations

Words beginning with "PRESCIND": prescinded, prescinding, prescinds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PRESCIND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-n-p-r-s"

-1 letter: cinders, crisped, crispen, discern, pincers, pinders, princes, rescind.

-2 letters: ciders, cinder, cripes, dicers, diners, pincer, pinder, precis, priced, prices, prides, prince, prised, redips, repins, rinsed, ripens, scried, snider, sniped, sniper, spiced, spicer, spider, spined, spired.

-3 letters: cedis, cider, cines, cires, cried, cries, cripe, crisp, dicer, dices, diner, dines, dries, drips, epics, nerds, nicer.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-n-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: conspired, crispened, incorpsed, prescinds.

 

+2 letters: discrepant, necropsied, prescinded, presidency, princedoms, scorpaenid, unscripted.

 

+3 letters: caparisoned, conscripted, copresident, decryptions, description, discipliner, discrepancy, imprudences, interspaced, nondescript, predictions, predynastic, prescinding, probenecids, proceedings, providences, reinspected, scorpaenids, superceding, superinduce, underprices.

 

+4 letters: copresidents, deprecations, descriptions, discipliners, discrepantly, handicappers, introspected, nondescripts, periodontics, precedencies, predeceasing, predicaments, predications, presidencies, proboscidean, processioned, ropedancings, stepchildren, superinduced, superinduces, transpierced.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PRESCIND


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

50 52 45 53 43 49 4E 44

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 01010010 01000101 01010011 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#67 &#73 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 0053 0043 0049 004E 0044

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

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

5052395337434838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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