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TO LOSE ONE'S SELF

Definition: TO LOSE ONE'S SELF

TO LOSE ONE'S SELF

1. (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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Familiar Quotations: TO LOSE ONE'S SELF

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Modern Translation: TO LOSE ONE'S SELF

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO LOSE ONE'S SELF

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO LOSE ONE'S SELF


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)

            

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)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#76 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#76 &#70

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Familiar
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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