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Definition: TO PLAY UPON |
TO PLAY UPON1. (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. |
Crosswords: TO PLAY UPON |
| English words defined with "TO PLAY UPON": Fum ♦ Illude. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO PLAY UPON": fum. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TO PLAY UPON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | tovább játszik (to play on). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay ayplay onupay | ||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      50 4C 41 59      55 50 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010000 01001100 01000001 01011001 00100000 01010101 01010000 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   P L A Y   U P O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0050 004C 0041 0059      0055 0050 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449250463559255504948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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