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TOUCH-NEEDLE

Definition: TOUCH-NEEDLE

TOUCH-NEEDLE

Noun

1. A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TOUCH-NEEDLE

Language Translations for "TOUCH-NEEDLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

接触'. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zkoumací rydlo. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

만지 "늘. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouch-needletay

   

Russian 

  

пробирная игла. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TOUCH-NEEDLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-h-l-n-o-t-u"

-2 letters: echeloned, unclothed, unelected.

-3 letters: duecento, unclothe.

-4 letters: cholent, chutnee, clothed, clouted, counted, echelon, elected, leeched, letched, lunched, noctule, notched, toluene, touched.

-5 letters: cenote, chuted, cloned, clothe, cohune, coulee, decent, delete, denote, docent, douche, dulcet, echoed, eluent, eluted, encode, etched, ethene, heeled, hented, holden, hondle, hunted, leched, louche, louden, louted, lucent, lunted, needle, nodule, ouched.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TOUCH-NEEDLE


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

54 4F 55 43 48 2D 4E 45 45 44 4C 45

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

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

01010100 01001111 01010101 01000011 01001000 00101101 01001110 01000101 01000101 01000100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#85 &#67 &#72 &#45 &#78 &#69 &#69 &#68 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0055 0043 0048 002D 004E 0045 0045 0044 004C 0045

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

544955374215483939384639

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INDEX

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


  

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