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Definition: TWIRE |
TWIREIntransitive verb1. To sing, or twitter. 2. To twinkle; to glance; to gleam. 3. To peep; to glance obliquely; to leer. Noun1. A twisted filament; a thread. |
Date "TWIRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TWIRE": Twire-pipe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TWIRE": tightwire. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TWIRE": tightwires. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: twier, write. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: rite, tier, tire, weir, wert, wire, wite, writ. | |
-2 letters: ire, rei, ret, tew, tie, wet, wit. | |
-3 letters: er, et, it, re, ti, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twiers, twiner, waiter, whiter, winter, wither, wriest, writer, writes, writhe. | |
+2 letters: awaiter, cowrite, retwist, rewrite, swifter, swither, tawnier, thewier, tinware, twiners, twinier, twirled, twirler, twister, twitter, waister, waiters, wariest, wartier, wartime, wastrie, whither, whitier, whitter, wiftier, winters, wintery, wiretap, wiriest, withers, withier, wittier, writers, writeup, writhed, writhen, writher, writhes, written. | |
+3 letters: antiwear, atwitter, awaiters, cowrites, fewtrils, giftware, herewith, howitzer, interrow, interwar, knitwear, misthrew, miswrite, miswrote, outwrite, pilewort, retwists, rewriter, rewrites, rowdiest, skywrite, strawier, strewing, sweatier, swifters, switcher, swithers, tawdrier, tawdries, timework, timeworn, tinwares, towerier, towering, tripwire, twangier, tweakier, tweedier, twiddler, twiggier, twinkler, twirlers, twirlier, twisters, twistier, twitcher, twitters, twittery, waisters, waitress, wartiest, wartimes, wartlike, wasterie, wastries, waterier, waterily, watering, waterish, weariest, weighter, weirdest, whistler, whitener, whitters, whittler, whittret, wintered, winterer, winterly, wintrier, wiretaps, wisteria, witchery, witchier, withdrew, withered, witherer, wordiest, wormiest, worrited, worthier, worthies, wrathier, wresting, wristier, wristlet, writable, writeoff, writerly, writeups, writhers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 57 49 52 45 |
| 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 01010111 01001001 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T W I R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0057 0049 0052 0045 |
| 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)5457435239 |
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