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Definition: TAINTURE |
TAINTURENoun1. Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. |
Date "TAINTURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Etymology: Tainture \Tain"ture\, noun. [French expression teinture. See Taint to stain, and compare to Tincture.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Defilement, contamination; Verb: defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "tainture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ainturetay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "TAINTURE" (pronounced 'Tain"ture'): Acture, Admixture, Affixture, Anfracture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, Attainture, Aventure, Belecture, Cincture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Conjuncture, Connature, Constructure, Contexture, Contracture, Creature, Decocture, Defeature, Dejecture, Denature, Denture, Departure, Depasture, Depicture, Deporture, Dictature, Digesture, Disadventure, Disaventure, Disfeature, Disjuncture, Disrupture, Distasture, Distincture, Disventure, Divesture, Ducture, Enacture, Encincture, Enrapture, Esture, Exhausture, Exploiture, Exposture, Facture, feature, Fellow-creature, fixture, Fructure, Galvanopuncture, Imbosture, Immixture, Impasture, imposture, Incommixture, Inculture, Insculpture, Insisture, intermixture, Intertexture, juncture, Loture, Metallifacture, misadventure, Misaventure, misfeature, Misnurture, mixture, moisture, Multure, Overmoisture, Overpicture, Painture, Paraventure, Parture, Photosculpture, Pisciculture, Pretexture, Pretorture, Projecture, Prompture, Purpresture, Quitture, Redempture, Repasture, Retexture, Revestture, Ricture, Scripture, Self-culture, Self-imposture, self-torture, stricture, structure, substructure, superstructure, suture, Teinture, Transnature, Treature, Unculture, Vecture, Vesture, Vincture, Vitrifacture, Voiture, Vulture, Wafture. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: intreat, iterant, nattier, nitrate, nuttier, ruinate, taunter, taurine, tertian, uranite, urinate. | |
-2 letters: attire, attune, auntie, natter, nature, nutate, nutria, nutter, ratine, ratite, ratten, retain, retina, retint, tauten, tauter, tenuti, tinter, triune, truant, uniter. | |
-3 letters: antre, aurei, entia, inert, inter, inure, irate, niter, nitre, retia, riant, rutin, taint, tater, taunt, tenia, terai, tetra, tinea, titan, titer, titre, train, trait, treat, trine, trite, tuner, unite, untie, uraei, urate, urine, uteri, utter. | |
-4 letters: airn, airt, ante, anti, aunt, earn, etna, etui, near, neat, nett, nite, rain, rani, rant, rate, rein, rent, rite, ruin, rune, runt, tain, tare, tarn, tart, tate, taut, tear, teat, tent, tern, tier, tine, tint, tire, tret, true, tuna, tune, turn, unai, unit, urea. | |
-5 letters: ain, air, ait, ane, ani, ant, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, eau, era, ern, eta, ire, nae, net, nit, nut, ran, rat, rei, ret, ria, rin, rue, run, rut, tae, tan, tar, tat, tau, tea, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit, tui, tun, tut, urn, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: tribunate, turbinate. | |
+2 letters: antihunter, antinature, aquatinter, eructating, eructation, neutralist, neutrality, parturient, quaternity, refutation, reputation, tribunates, truantries, turbinated, turbinates. | |
+3 letters: adventurist, anticruelty, antinatures, antineutron, antitruster, aquatinters, curtailment, deuterating, deuteration, elutriating, elutriation, eructations, importunate, ingratitude, ingurgitate, natriuretic, neutralists, parturients, permutation, refutations, reluctating, reluctation, reputations, squattering, tranquilest, triangulate, uncertainty, unresistant, unrestraint. | |
+4 letters: adulterating, adulteration, adventurists, antineutrino, antineutrons, antitrusters, carburetting, counterstain, curtailments, denaturation, deuterations, elutriations, encrustation, extrauterine, inarticulate, ingratitudes, ingurgitated, ingurgitates, instrumental, interfaculty, intertextual, intrauterine, menstruating, menstruation, natriuretics, neutralistic, neutralities, permutations, perpetuating, perpetuation, perturbation, putrefaction, quaternities, reluctations, renaturation, reputational, reticulating, reticulation, sternutation, superstation, titaniferous, tranquillest, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, ultraviolent, unattractive, unattributed, understating, undistracted, unflattering, unintegrated, unrestraints, unstratified, vituperating, vituperation. | |
+5 letters: adulterations, adventuristic, antineutrinos, antirheumatic, argumentation, argumentative, authenticator, cauterization, counteracting, counteraction, counteractive, counterstains, denaturations, deuteragonist, documentarist, encrustations, frequentation, frequentative, importunately, inarticulates, instrumentals, integumentary, intercultural, intermountain, macronutrient, menstruations, mouthwatering, multistranded, multiterminal, naturopathies, permutational, perpetuations, perturbations, putrefactions, reattributing, reattribution, recomputation, recultivating, regurgitating, regurgitation, renaturations, repunctuation, restimulating, restimulation, resuscitating, resuscitation, reticulations, reutilization, sequestrating, sequestration, sternutations, superfetation, supermilitant, superstations, taciturnities, tranquilities, transmutative, ultradistance, unarticulated, uncertainties, underactivity, underestimate, untheoretical, unthreatening, vituperations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 41 49 4E 54 55 52 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .. -. - ..- .-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A I N T U R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 0049 004E 0054 0055 0052 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5435434854555239 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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