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Press Of Sail

Definition: Press Of Sail

Press Of Sail

Noun

1. The greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Press Of Sail

Synonym: press of canvas (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Press Of Sail

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Velocity	Under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and steam; velis et remis, on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with rapid strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant; in seven league boots; whip and spur; ventre a terre; as fast as one's legs will carry one, as fast as one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to the ground, at the top of one;s speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Press Of Sail

Language		Translations for "press of sail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		minden vitorlát felvon (to carry a press of sail). (various references)

Pig Latin		esspray ofay ailsay

Spanish		velamen máximo (press of canvas). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Press Of Sail

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-o-p-r-s-s-s"
	-2 letters: foresails, polarises, psoriases, solarises.
	-3 letters: felspars, flossier, flossies, foresail, lassoers, pelorias, plessors, polarise, profiles, prossies, psiloses, reposals, rissoles, safroles, soapless, solarise, spoilers.
	-4 letters: airless, asepsis, aspires, aspises, assoils, espials, falsies, felspar, flosses, flossie, fossils, fraises, frasses, lapises, lapsers, lassies, lassoer, lassoes, lessors, lipases, lispers, loafers, lorises, oarless, palsies, paresis, parises, paroles, passels, passers.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-o-p-r-s-s-s"
	+2 letters: professionals.
	+3 letters: passionflowers.
	+4 letters: professionalism, subprofessional, unprofessionals.
	+5 letters: nonprofessionals, professionalisms, professionalizes, profitablenesses, semiprofessional, subprofessionals.
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Alternative Orthography: Press Of Sail

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

50 72 65 73 73 4F 66 53 61 69 6C

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

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

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010011 01100001 01101001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#83 &#97 &#105 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0073 0073 004F 0066 0053 0061 0069 006C

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

508471858524972253677578

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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