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SINEWS OF WAR

Specialty Definition: SINEWS OF WAR

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Literature

Sinews of War Money, which buys the sinews, and makes them act vigorously. Men will not fight without wages, and the materials of war must be paid for. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: SINEWS OF WAR

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Money

Noun: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets;(property); wealth; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash; mammon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: SINEWS OF WAR

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Movie/TV Titles

The Sinews of War (1913)

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Photo Album: SINEWS OF WAR

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Steel production. Iron for the sinews of war. Huge ore piles feed the hungry maws of the blast furnaces. From the iron here produced will be made the various steels required by our armed forces. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Provide the sinews of war, buy Liberty Bonds / Joseph Pennell del. ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y. Imp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Provide the sinews of war, buy Liberty Bonds / Joseph Pennell del. ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y. Imp. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Familiar Quotations: SINEWS OF WAR

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Marcus T. Cicero

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

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Anagrams: SINEWS OF WAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-n-o-r-s-s-w-w"

-3 letters: erasions, fairness, farinose, sanserif, sensoria, wariness, warisons.

-4 letters: answers, arsines, erasion, fanwise, farness, fawners, fawnier, foresaw, fraises, frisson, infares, insofar, rawness, reasons, seniors, senoras, snowier, sonsier, warison, weasons, worsens, wowsers.

-5 letters: anises, answer, ariose, arisen, arises, arseno, arsine, arsino, arsons, enosis, eosins, essoin, fainer, fawner, ferias, fossae, fraise, frises, frowns, infare, infers, irones.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SINEWS OF WAR


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

53 49 4E 45 57 53      4F 46      57 41 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010111 01010011 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#87 &#83 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 004E 0045 0057 0053      004F 0046      0057 0041 0052

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

534348395753249402573552

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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