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Definition: PROTACTIC |
PROTACTICAdjective1. Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory. |
Etymology: Protactic \Pro*tac"tic\, adjective. [Greek expression placing or placed before, from to place in front; before to arrange.]. (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 |
protactic | 6 |
club golf protactic | 3 |
golf protactic | 3 |
adidas protactic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "PROTACTIC" (pronounced 'Pro*tac"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: catoptric. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: protatic. | |
-2 letters: acrotic, apricot, aprotic, citator, parotic, patriot, practic, ricotta, tipcart. | |
-3 letters: aortic, arctic, atopic, capric, captor, cartop, cottar, picaro, ptotic, tactic, tictac, tictoc, tipcat, tricot, tropic. | |
-4 letters: actor, aport, atrip, attic, cacti, carpi, circa, coact, coapt, coati, copra, coria, cotta, croci, optic, ottar, patio, picot, ratio, tacit, tapir, taroc, tarot, topic, toric, tract. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-o-p-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: plutocratic. | |
+3 letters: catadioptric, cataphoretic, catastrophic, compatriotic. | |
+4 letters: contraception, contraceptive, ectoparasitic, pantisocratic. | |
+5 letters: contraceptions, contraceptives. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 4F 54 41 43 54 49 43 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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 01001111 01010100 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R O T A C T I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 004F 0054 0041 0043 0054 0049 0043 |
| 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)505249543537544337 |
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