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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Rock ahead (A). A sea-phrase, meaning that a rock is in the path of the ship, which the helmsman must steer clear of; a danger threatens; an opponent; an obstruction. "That yonker ... has been a rock ahead to me all my life."- Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. liv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Danger | Cause for alarm; source of danger. rock ahead, breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering; warning; alarm. |
Pitfall | Noun: rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt, syrtis; Goodwin sands, sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ROCK AHEAD |
| Specialty definitions using "ROCK AHEAD": channel slide rail. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-h-k-o-r" | |
-2 letters: charade, charked, croaked, roached. | |
-3 letters: arcade, arched, arcked, carked, chadar, chador, chakra, chared, charka, choked, choker, chorea, chored, cohead, corked, dacker, docker, echard, hacked, hacker, harked, hocked, hocker, ochrea, ochred, orache, racked, redock, rocked. | |
-4 letters: aahed, ached, acred, adore, ahead, arced, areca, cadre, caked, cared, cedar, chard, chare, chark, choke, chord, chore, coder. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 43 4B 41 48 45 41 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011 00100000 01000001 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O C K   A H E A D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0043 004B 0041 0048 0045 0041 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5249374523542393538 |
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