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Definition: TROPIST |
TROPISTNoun1. One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech. |
Etymology: Tropist \Trop"ist\, noun. [Compare to the French expression tropiste. See Trope.]. (Websters 1913) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TROPIST": tropistic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: protist. | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: prosit, ripost, stript, tripos. | |
-2 letters: ports, posit, prost, riots, rotis, spirt, sport, sprit, stirp, stopt, strip, strop, tiros, toits, topis, torsi, torts, trios, trips, trois, trots. | |
-3 letters: opts, orts, piso, pits, pois, port, post, pots, pros, riot, rips, roti, rots, sori, sort, spit, spot, stir, stop, tips, tiro, tits, toit, topi, tops, tori. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: outstrip, patriots, postriot, protists, spottier. | |
+2 letters: outsprint, outstrips, parotitis, poortiths, portliest, portraits, posterity, posttrial, potteries, printouts, prostatic, protistan, proustite, sportiest, tropistic, tutorship. | |
+3 letters: footprints, introspect, multisport, operettist, orthoepist, outsprints, partitions, patriotism, pinspotter, pirouettes, podiatrist, postscript, poststrike, proglottis, prosciutti, prosciutto, prostatism, prosthetic, prostitute, protesting, protistans, proustites, respotting, stipulator, stroppiest, tightropes, tropotaxis, tutorships. | |
+4 letters: antiprotons, antistrophe, captivators, comparatist, compatriots, competitors, computerist, corporatist, disportment, extirpators, graptolites, interpoints, introspects, lithotripsy, operettists, opportunist, optometries, optometrist, orthoepists, orthopedist, outsprinted, outstripped, parotitises, pastoralist, patriotisms, peridotites, periostitis, peritonitis, petitioners, petrologist, photoresist, pinspotters, pittosporum, podiatrists, poltergeist, portraitist, posterities, postmarital, postorbital, postscripts, pretentious, proglottids, propitiates, prosciuttos, prostatisms, prostatitis, prosthetics, prosthetist, prostituted, prostitutes, prostitutor, prostrating, prostration, protagonist, protections, protostelic, protreptics, pyrrhotites, repetitions, repetitious, reputations, septentrion, stereotypic, stipulators, stipulatory, tetraploids, tetrasporic, torpidities, triceratops, triphthongs. | |
| 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 52 4F 50 49 53 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. --- .--. .. ... - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01001001 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T R O P I S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0052 004F 0050 0049 0053 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54524950435354 |
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