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TO LOSE ONE'S HEAD

Definition: TO LOSE ONE'S HEAD

TO LOSE ONE'S HEAD

1. To be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment. In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads. --Whitney.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Translation: TO LOSE ONE'S HEAD

Language		Translations for "TO LOSE ONE'S HEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		den Kopf verlieren. (various references)

Hungarian		elveszti a fejét (lose one's head, lose one's nerve, lose one's temper, to get flurried, to lose one's cool, to lose one's nerve, to panic). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		泡�'食う (to be confused, to be flurried). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あわ�'くう (to be confused, to be flurried). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay oselay one'say eadhay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO LOSE ONE'S HEAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-a-d-e-e-e-h-l-n-o-o-o-s-s-t"
	-5 letters: elatedness, headstones, loadstones, lodestones, steelheads.
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Alternative Orthography: TO LOSE ONE'S HEAD

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

54 4F 4C 4F 53 45 4F 4E 45 27 53 48 45 41 44

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

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001100 01001111 01010011 01000101 00100000 01001111 01001110 01000101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#76 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 004C 004F 0053 0045 004F 004E 0045 0027 0053 0048 0045 0041 0044

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

54492464953392494839953242393538

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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