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Definition: RELUCT |
RELUCTIntransitive verb1. To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance. |
Date "RELUCT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contention | Contend; with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush; n. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at; oppose; reluct. |
Resistance | Verb: resist; not submit; repugn, reluct, reluctate, withstand; stand up against, strive against, bear up under, bear up against, be proof against, make head against; stand, stand firm, stand one's ground, stand the brunt of, stand out; hold one's grounds, hold one's own, hold out, hold firm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: RELUCT |
| Etymologies containing "RELUCT": reluctant. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "RELUCT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | боря се (antagonize, contend, fight, grapple, militate, scramble, struggle, tussle, wrestle), противя се (demur). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eluctray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RELUCT": reluctance, reluctances, reluctancies, reluctancy, reluctant, reluctantly, reluctate, reluctated, reluctates, reluctating, reluctation, reluctations, relucted, relucting, relucts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RELUCT": unreluctant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cutler. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cruel, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, eruct, lucre, recut, truce, ulcer. | |
-2 letters: celt, clue, cult, cure, curl, curt, cute, ecru, luce, lure, lute, rule, true, tule. | |
-3 letters: cel, cue, cur, cut, ecu, let, leu, rec, ret, rue, rut, tel. | |
-4 letters: el, er, et, re, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cloture, clouter, cluster, clutter, coulter, cruelty, culture, culvert, cutlers, cutlery, lecture, relucts, truckle, utricle. | |
+2 letters: clotured, clotures, clouters, clusters, clustery, clutters, cluttery, coulters, cruelest, cultrate, cultured, cultures, culverts, curliest, electrum, lectured, lecturer, lectures, occulter, plectrum, relucent, relucted, resculpt, reticula, reticule, telluric, trauchle, truckled, truckler, truckles, tubercle, ulcerate, utricles. | |
+3 letters: antiulcer, arcuately, butcherly, calenture, caterwaul, circulate, clustered, cluttered, coculture, consulter, corpulent, courtlier, creatural, credulity, crenulate, cruellest, cruelties, crustless, currently, curtailed, curtailer, curtilage, cutleries, electrums, electuary, graticule, interclub, lecturers, lecturing, lubricate, lucrative, nucleator, occulters, peculator, plectrums, pleuritic, reluctant, reluctate, relucting, resculpts, reticular, reticules, reticulum, revictual, scrutable, sculpture, scutellar, trabecula, trauchled, trauchles, trucklers, truckline, truculent, tubercles, tularemic, ulcerated, ulcerates, unclutter, urceolate, ureotelic, victualer. | |
| 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)52 45 4C 55 43 54 |
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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)01010010 01000101 01001100 01010101 01000011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E L U C T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 004C 0055 0043 0054 |
| 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)523946553754 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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