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TO PLAY UPON

Definition: TO PLAY UPON

TO PLAY UPON

1. (a) To make sport of; to deceive. Art thou alive? Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight. --Shak. (b) To use in a droll manner; to give a droll expression or application to; as, to play upon words.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO PLAY UPON

English words defined with "TO PLAY UPON": FumIllude. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO PLAY UPON": fum. (references)

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Modern Translation: TO PLAY UPON

Language Translations for "TO PLAY UPON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

tovább játszik (to play on). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ayplay onupay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO PLAY UPON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-n-o-o-p-p-t-u-y"

-3 letters: outplan, outplay, panoply, platoon, unaptly.

-4 letters: auntly, laptop, layout, outlay, payout, pluton, yaupon, youpon.

-5 letters: apply, aptly, atony, atopy, aunty, layup, loony, loopy, loppy, nappy, nopal, notal, panto, panty, patly, plant, platy, polyp, poult, pouty, poyou, pulpy, punto, punty, pupal, puton, pylon, talon, tolan, tonal, toyon, typal, ulpan, unapt, unlay, yapon, yulan, yupon.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO PLAY UPON


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

54 4F      50 4C 41 59      55 50 4F 4E

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

        

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010000 01001100 01000001 01011001 00100000 01010101 01010000 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#80 &#76 &#65 &#89 &#32 &#85 &#80 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0050 004C 0041 0059      0055 0050 004F 004E

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

5449250463559255504948

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INDEX

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


  

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