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UNDERSONG

Definition: UNDERSONG

UNDERSONG

Noun

1. Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone.

2. The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "UNDERSONG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1819. (references)

Commercial Usage: UNDERSONG

Domain	Title
Books	Undersong (reference) Vowel undersong : studies of vocalic timbre and chroneme patterning in German lyric poetry (reference) Zami ; Sister outsider ; Undersong (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: UNDERSONG

Language		Translations for "UNDERSONG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		refren (chorus, refrain), kuptim i fshehtë. (various references)

Bulgarian		скрит смисъл (inner meaning), припев (burden, chorus, refrain). (various references)

Hungarian		kísérõ dallam. (various references)

Pig Latin		ersongunday

Portuguese		refrão (burden, chorus, refrain), estribilho (Bob, chorus, faldstool, refrain). (various references)

Russian		скрытый смысл. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		završna rima, pripev (burden, chorus, overturn, refrain), napev (chorus). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: UNDERSONG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-n-n-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: dungeons, guerdons.
	-2 letters: drogues, dungeon, enduros, gerunds, gourdes, grounds, groused, guenons, guerdon, gunners, neurons, nondrug, nonuser, nudgers, resound, sounder, surgeon, undergo, undoers.
	-3 letters: douser, drogue, drones, dunner, enduro, erugos, genros, gerund, goners, gourde, gourds, ground, grouse, guenon, gunned, gunner, neuron, nonuse, nudger, nudges, nursed, redons, rogued, rogues, rouens, rouged, rouges, rounds, roused, rugose.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-n-n-o-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: groundsmen, resounding.
	+2 letters: enshrouding, unsoldering.
	+3 letters: nongraduates, resoundingly, undergrounds, underscoring.
	+4 letters: countersigned, dangerousness, rediscounting, rendezvousing, undercoatings, underexposing, undershooting.
	+5 letters: bildungsromane, countershading, deconstructing, degranulations, groundlessness, pseudopregnant, superabounding, underclothings, undergrounders.
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Alternative Orthography: UNDERSONG

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

55 4E 44 45 52 53 4F 4E 47

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..- -. -.. . .-. ... --- -. --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01010011 01001111 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#79 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 0053 004F 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

554838395253494841

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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