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Definition: TO FLING DOWN |
TO FLING DOWN1. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge. This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. --Tennyson. (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. |
| Language | Translations for "TO FLING DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | leheveredik (to doss down, to fling down to sg, to lie down), ledobja magát vmire (to fling down to sg), kesztyűt dob vkinek (to fling down the gauntlet, to throw down the gauntlet). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay ingflay ownday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-g-i-l-n-n-o-o-t-w" | |
-3 letters: flooding, fondling, footling, noodling. | |
-4 letters: downing, flowing, folding, fonding, fooling, footing, fowling, glonoin, lofting, looting, tooling, twofold, witloof, wolfing, wonting, wooding, woofing. | |
-5 letters: diglot, doling, doting, dowing, godown, godwit, gonion, inflow, infold, intown, logion, looing, lotion, lowing, noting, notion, owning, tiglon, toling, toning, towing, wonton, wooing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      46 4C 49 4E 47      44 4F 57 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   F L I N G   D O W N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0046 004C 0049 004E 0047      0044 004F 0057 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544924046434841238495748 |
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