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Date "UNGUEM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Unguem Ad unguem. To the minutest point. To finish a statue ad unguem is to finish it so smoothly and perfectly that when the nail is run over the surface it can detect no imperfection. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Perfection | AdVerb: to perfection; perfectly; Adjective: ad unguem; clean, - as a whistle. |
Truth | Exactly; Adjective: ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: UNGUEM |
| Specialty definitions using "UNGUEM": Fingers' Ends, Finished to the Finger-nail. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-m-n-u-u" | |
-2 letters: genu, geum, menu, neum. | |
-3 letters: emu, eng, gem, gen, gnu, gum, gun, meg, men, mug, mun. | |
-4 letters: em, en, me, mu, ne, nu, um, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-m-n-u-u" | |
+3 letters: unguentum. | |
+4 letters: argumentum, curmudgeon, leguminous. | |
+5 letters: bemurmuring, curmudgeons, mundunguses, muskellunge. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 47 55 45 4D |
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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)01010101 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N G U E M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0047 0055 0045 004D |
| 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)554841553947 |
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