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TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN

Definition: TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN

TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN

1. To confuse by putting things awry; to throw into disorder. This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN

English words defined with "TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN": Underturn. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN": Underturn. (references)

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Modern Translation: TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN

Language Translations for "TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

auf den Kopf stellen (invert, kill). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

逆になる , 反す (to change, to turn over), 反る (to be arched, to be curved, to be warped, to bend, to change, to curve, to turn over, to warp), 俯向ける (to turndownward). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さかになる, うつむける (to turndownward), かえす (to change, to hatch, to incubate, to return something, to send back, to turn over), かえる (frog, to alter, to amend, to change, to come back, to come home, to convert, to exchange, to go back, to go home, to hatch out, to interchange, to replace, to return, to revise, to send back, to substitute, to turn over, to vary). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay urntay ideupsay ownday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

perverto, perverto perverti perversum. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

whelmen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t-u-u-w"

-5 letters: endodontist, outsprinted, outstridden, undistorted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN


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

54 4F      54 55 52 4E      55 50 53 49 44 45      44 4F 57 4E

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

            

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01010101 01010010 01001110 00100000 01010101 01010000 01010011 01001001 01000100 01000101 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#78 &#32 &#85 &#80 &#83 &#73 &#68 &#69 &#32 &#68 &#79 &#87 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0054 0055 0052 004E      0055 0050 0053 0049 0044 0045      0044 004F 0057 004E

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

54492545552482555053433839238495748

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INDEX

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


  

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