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Definition: TO BREAK GROUND |
TO BREAK GROUND1. (a) To open the earth as for planting; to commence excavation, as for building, siege operations, and the like; as, to break ground for a foundation, a canal, or a railroad. (b) Fig.: To begin to execute any plan. (c) (Naut.) To release the anchor from the bottom. |
Crosswords: TO BREAK GROUND |
| English words defined with "TO BREAK GROUND": Piccage ♦ Tail of the trenches. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO BREAK GROUND": balic, box-ridge, Break Ground ♦ drag cut ♦ easer holes ♦ nine-point sample ♦ pyramid cut ♦ tie-ridge. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-k-n-o-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-4 letters: outbarked, outranged, outranked, outroared, undertook. | |
-5 letters: arboured, bourgeon, breadnut, breakout, burgonet, datebook, dragonet, garroted, grandeur, grounder, obdurate, obtruder, outbaked, outboard, outbreak, outdrank, outraged, outrange, ragouted, ratooned, ratooner, reground, roborant, taboured, tabourer, toreador, trudgeon, trueborn, turbaned, unbarred, unbraked, unrooted. | |
| 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)54 4F      42 52 45 41 4B      47 52 4F 55 4E 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001011 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   B R E A K   G R O U N D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0042 0052 0045 0041 004B      0047 0052 004F 0055 004E 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449236523935452415249554838 |
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