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Definition: STICKING PLACE |
STICKING PLACE1. The place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. --Shak. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Take courage, muster courage, summon up courage, pluck up courage; nerve oneself, take heart; take heart, pluck up heart of grace; hold up one's head, screw one's courage to the sticking place; come up to scratch; stick to one's guns, standfire, stand against; bear up, bear up against; hold out; (persevere) a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STICKING PLACE |
| English words defined with "STICKING PLACE": sticking point. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-i-k-l-n-p-s-t" | |
-3 letters: panickiest, plasticine, speciating. | |
-4 letters: accepting, anglicise, canticles, casketing, cisalpine, cisplatin, clingiest, eclipsing, ecliptics, enclitics, gainliest, genitalic, giantlike, inelastic, kingliest, packeting, picketing, plaitings, pliancies, saintlike, sceptical, sciential, skeptical, spackling, speckling, stickling, tacklings. | |
-5 letters: alienist, alpinist, antislip, cackling, calcines, calcites, canities, canticle, capelins, capeskin, capsicin, castling, catlings, ceilings, ciliates, clacking, clasping, cleating, clicking, ecliptic, elapsing. | |
| 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)53 54 49 43 4B 49 4E 47 50 4C 41 43 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010000 01001100 01000001 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T I C K I N G   P L A C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0049 0043 004B 0049 004E 0047 0050 004C 0041 0043 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)535443374543484125046353739 |
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