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RESPERSION

Definition: RESPERSION

RESPERSION

Noun

1. The act of sprinkling or scattering.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: RESPERSION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Noun: {opp. } dispersion; disjunction; divergence; aspersion; scattering; Verb: dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment; spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction; affusion. waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra; waveson.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RESPERSION

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  respersion

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "RESPERSION"

Words rhyming with "RESPERSION" (pronounced 'Re*sper"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RESPERSION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: repression.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-s"

-1 letter: isoprenes, prerinses, prisoners.

-2 letters: erepsins, isoprene, pioneers, prerinse, prioress, priseres, prisoner, repiners, reposers, reprises, respires, response, ripeners, ripeness, roperies, ropiness, roseries.

-3 letters: eosines, erepsin, ironers, onerier, openers, orpines, orrises, penises, peonies, pereion, perries, perrons, persons, pioneer, poesies, poisers, pornier, presser, pressor, prisere, prisons, prosers, prosier, prossie, reopens, repiner, repines, reposer, reposes, repress, reprise.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: interposers, perversions, repressions.

 

+2 letters: derepression, improperness, irresponsive, personifiers, prerecession, reimpression, repercussion, reprocessing, responsories.

 

+3 letters: arsenopyrites, corresponsive, derepressions, interspersion, irresponsible, preprocessing, preservations, pretermission, reimpressions, repercussions, reprehensions, repressionist, superheroines, temporariness, unprogressive.

 

+4 letters: countersnipers, impropernesses, interspersions, irresponsibles, isoproterenols, nonprogressive, overimpressing, overpersuasion, overprocessing, peremptoriness, perseverations, precariousness, precentorships, predestinators, prerevisionist, pretermissions, protrusiveness, redescriptions, retrospections, scleroproteins, sportfishermen, urediniospores.

 

+5 letters: antiprogressive, appropriateness, hypermodernists, hyperresponsive, hypersecretions, incorruptnesses, nonprogressives, overcompressing, overpersuasions, perfunctoriness, preprofessional, prerevisionists, preservationist, progressiveness, proletarianises, representations, supererogations, temporarinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RESPERSION


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

52 45 53 50 45 52 53 49 4F 4E

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 01010011 01010000 01000101 01010010 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0053 0050 0045 0052 0053 0049 004F 004E

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

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

52395350395253434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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