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Definition: PRETEX |
PRETEXTransitive verb1. To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely. |
Etymology: Pretex \Pre*tex"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression praetexere. See Pretext.]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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 |
pretex | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PRETEX": pretext, pretexted, pretexting, pretexts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: expert. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-t-x" | |
-1 letter: exert, peter. | |
-2 letters: peer, pert, pree, prex, rete, tree. | |
-3 letters: ere, pee, per, pet, ree, rep, ret, rex, tee. | |
-4 letters: er, et, ex, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-t-x" | |
+1 letter: excerpt, experts, pretext. | |
+2 letters: excerpts, experted, expertly, exported, exporter, inexpert, preexist, pretexts, reexport, unexpert. | |
+3 letters: apteryxes, excerpted, excerpter, excerptor, expediter, expeditor, experting, expertise, expertism, expertize, expletory, exploiter, exporters, expurgate, extempore, extirpate, hypertext, inexperts, metroplex, nonexpert, preexists, pretexted, reexports, triplexes, xerophyte. | |
+4 letters: ciphertext, exasperate, excerpters, excerpting, excerption, excerptors, expatriate, expediters, expeditors, experiment, expertises, expertisms, expertized, expertizes, expertness, exploiters, exportable, expurgated, expurgates, extemporal, externship, extirpated, extirpates, hypertexts, inexpertly, nonexperts, perplexity, preexisted, pretexting, pyroxenite, reexported, supertaxes, xerophytes. | |
| 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 52 45 54 45 58 |
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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 01010010 01000101 01010100 01000101 01011000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E T E X |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0054 0045 0058 |
| 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)505239543958 |
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