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SYRT

Definition: SYRT

SYRT

Noun

1. A quicksand; a bog.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Syrt \Syrt\, noun. [Latin expression syrtis sand bank in the sea: compare to the French expression syrte.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: SYRT

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

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.

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Crosswords: SYRT

English words defined with "SYRT": Syrtic. (references)
Etymologies containing "SYRT": Syrtis. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SYRT" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Turkmen (backside, bottom).

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Anagrams: SYRT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "r-s-t-y"

-1 letter: sty, try.

 Words containing the letters "r-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: artsy, rusty, ryots, satyr, story, stray, stroy, trays, treys, troys, tryst, tyers, tyres, tyros, yurts.

 

+2 letters: astray, crusty, crypts, curtsy, dryest, estray, frosty, lyrist, oyster, pastry, satyrs, sentry, shirty, shorty, smarty, sporty, starry, stayer, storey, stormy, stoury, strawy, strays, stripy, stroys, sturdy, stylar, styler, styrax, sultry, surety, swarty, thyrse, thyrsi, toyers, trashy, tressy, trusty, tryste, trysts, tuyers, twyers, vestry, wastry, wristy, wryest, xyster, yarest, yester, yirths.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SYRT


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

53 59 52 54

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 01011001 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#89 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0059 0052 0054

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

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

53595254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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