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TO HOLD WATER

Definition: TO HOLD WATER

TO HOLD WATER

1. See under Hold , v. t.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO HOLD WATER

Specialty definitions using "TO HOLD WATER": Evaporation Pan. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO HOLD WATER": Sentine. (references)

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Expression: TO HOLD WATER

Expression using "TO HOLD WATER": not to hold water. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: TO HOLD WATER

Language Translations for "TO HOLD WATER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

vízhatlan (immersible, impermeable, waterproof, water-proof, watertight, watertightal, weatherproof), nem ereszti át a vizet, megállja az, ellenőrzés próbáját, elbírja a behatóbb vizsgálatot. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay oldhay aterway

   

Romanian

  

nu sta în picioare (not to hold water), nu ţine apã (not to hold water), curge (course, drip, elapse, flow, fly, glide, hang, not to hold water, pour, rain, run, start, stream, suppurate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO HOLD WATER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-o-o-r-t-t-w"

-2 letters: heartwood.

-3 letters: latewood, leadwort, throated, thwarted, toolhead, waterloo.

-4 letters: delator, dottrel, leotard, loathed, loather, rathole, rattled, rootlet, rotated, thrawed, toehold, toothed, tootled, tootler, totaled, towhead, trawled, trothed, wattled, whorled, whortle, woolhat, worthed, wrathed.

-5 letters: daleth, dartle, dearth, dehort, dewool, dhoora, dottel, dotter, dottle, haloed, halted, halter, harlot, hatred, hatted, hatter, herald, holard, holder, hooted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO HOLD WATER


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

54 4F      48 4F 4C 44      57 41 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001000 01001111 01001100 01000100 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#72 &#79 &#76 &#68 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0048 004F 004C 0044      0057 0041 0054 0045 0052

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

544924249463825735543952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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