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SLIVERING

Definition: SLIVERING

SLIVERING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Sliver

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SLIVERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Photo Album: SLIVERING

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Fig. 1 - Bait chopper; Fig. 2 - Bait slivering knife Fig. 3 - Halibut killer and gob stick; Fig. 4 - Wooden hand nipper Fig. 5 - Halibut gaff; Fig. 6 - Trawl buoy and black ball Fig. 7 - Canvas skate for section of trawl; Fig. 8 - Dory scoop Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Slivering menhaden for bait From Report U. S. Fish Commission, Part V, 1877. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

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

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Modern Translation: SLIVERING

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

German

  

splitternd (splintering, splinting). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iveringslay

   

Russian 

  

расщеплять разрывание. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SLIVERING

Misspellings

"SLIVERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slivaring, spiering. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SLIVERING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: silvering.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-l-n-r-s-v"

-1 letter: reliving, resiling, reviling, revising, riesling, veilings.

-2 letters: girlies, inliers, lingers, lingier, liviers, livings, reiving, serving, sieving, silvern, slinger, veiling, versing, virgins, viseing.

-3 letters: ervils, girlie, givens, givers, grilse, ingles, inlier, isling, levins, ligers, liners, linger, linier, livens, livers, livier, living, livres, reigns, renigs, resign, riling, rising, riving, sering, signer, sileni, silver, singer, single.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-l-n-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: inveiglers, shriveling.

 

+2 letters: desilvering, pulverising, resilvering, shrivelling, surveilling, vainglories.

 

+3 letters: griseofulvin, overslipping, redissolving, revitalising.

 

+4 letters: griseofulvins, vertiginously.

 

+5 letters: silversmithing, universalizing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SLIVERING


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

53 4C 49 56 45 52 49 4E 47

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)

01010011 01001100 01001001 01010110 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#76 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004C 0049 0056 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047

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

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

534643563952434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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