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Definition: TO LOSE ONE'S SELF |
TO LOSE ONE'S SELF1. (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. |
| Author | Quotation |
Antoine Rivarol | To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "TO LOSE ONE'S SELF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | elveszti hidegvérét (to lose face, to lose one's self-control), elveszti önuralmát (to lose one's self-control). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay oselay one'say elfsay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-e-e-e-f-l-l-n-o-o-o-s-s-s-t" | |
-5 letters: fellnesses, solonetses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      4C 4F 53 45      4F 4E 45 27 53      53 45 4C 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01001100 01001111 01010011 01000101 00100000 01001111 01001110 01000101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01010011 01000101 01001100 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   L O S E   O N E ' S   S E L F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      004C 004F 0053 0045      004F 004E 0045 0027 0053      0053 0045 004C 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54492464953392494839953253394640 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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