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Date "QUIXADA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Quixada (Gutierre). Lord of Villagarcia. He discharged a javelin at Sire de Haburdin with such force as to pierce the left shoulder, overthrow the knight, and pin him to the ground. Don Quixote calls himself a descendant of this brave knight. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
quixada | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-q-u-x" | |
-3 letters: aqua, qaid, quad, quai, quid. | |
-4 letters: aid, dui, qua. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ai, ax, id, xi, xu. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)51 55 49 58 41 44 41 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in 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)01010001 01010101 01001001 01011000 01000001 01000100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Q U I X A D A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0051 0055 0049 0058 0041 0044 0041 |
| 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)51554358353835 |
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