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TO SHORTEN SAIL

Definition: TO SHORTEN SAIL

TO SHORTEN SAIL

1. (Naut.), to reduce the extent of sail, or take in a part.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TO SHORTEN SAIL

Language Translations for "TO SHORTEN SAIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

mindske sejl (to take in sail). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zeil minderen (to take in sail). (various references)

   

French

  

diminuer de voile (to take in sail). (various references)

   

German

  

Segel vermindern (to take in sail), Segel verkleinern (to take in sail). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαζεύω μερικά από τα ιστία (to take in sail), μαζεύω μερικά από τα πανιά (to take in sail). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ortenshay ailsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO SHORTEN SAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-l-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-1 letter: anorthosites.

-2 letters: anorthosite, throatiness, tolerations.

-3 letters: anorthites, hailstones, heliostats, horsetails, natrolites, northeasts, ornithoses, ostensoria, senhoritas, sitosterol, stationers, sterilants, toleration, triathlons.

-4 letters: aeroliths, anorthite, assertion, erosional, hailstone, halitoses, heliostat, hoariness, holsteins, horntails, horsetail, insolates, isolators, loathness, lotharios, natrolite, northeast, oestriols, oilstones, orientals, ostinatos, relations, resistant, rheostats, rotations, senhorita, senoritas, sensorial, serotinal, shoaliest, shortlist, siltstone, slatterns.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-l-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+4 letters: neuropathologists.

 

+5 letters: rehospitalizations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO SHORTEN SAIL


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

54 4F      53 48 4F 52 54 45 4E      53 41 49 4C

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

        

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01001000 01001111 01010010 01010100 01000101 01001110 00100000 01010011 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#72 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#32 &#83 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0048 004F 0052 0054 0045 004E      0053 0041 0049 004C

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

5449253424952543948253354346

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INDEX

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


  

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