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RECUMBENCE

Definition: RECUMBENCE

RECUMBENCE

Noun

1. The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RECUMBENCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)



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Crosswords: RECUMBENCE

English words defined with "RECUMBENCE": Recubation, Recumbency. (references)

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Modern Translations: RECUMBENCE

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

Albanian

  

qëndrim i shtrirë (recumbency). (various references)

   

Czech

  

poloha vleže. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecumbenceray

   

Portuguese

  

repouso (lying, mark, recumbency, refreshment, repose, rest, rest and de-energised, rest and de-energized, space, time out), posição deitada (recumbency), descanso (bracket, break, crutch, halt, landing, laystall, leisure, lounge, pillow, pillow block, placement, quiescence, quiescency, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, repose, requiem, respite, rest, resting, saddle, sleep, stand, time out, touch down, truce). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

posición de yacer (recumbency). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

лежаче положення (recumbency). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RECUMBENCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-c-e-e-e-m-n-r-u"

-2 letters: encumber.

-3 letters: cerumen.

-4 letters: cumber, embrue, number.

-5 letters: berme, brume, cecum, creme, crumb, cuber, ember, emcee, emeer, enure, neume, rebec, recce, rumen, umber.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-c-e-e-e-m-n-r-u"
 

+2 letters: recumbencies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RECUMBENCE


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

52 45 43 55 4D 42 45 4E 43 45

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)

01010010 01000101 01000011 01010101 01001101 01000010 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#67 &#85 &#77 &#66 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0043 0055 004D 0042 0045 004E 0043 0045

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

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

52393755473639483739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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