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Definition: UNLIMBER |
UNLIMBERTransitive verb1. To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun. |
Date "UNLIMBER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hardness | Adjective: hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "UNLIMBER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 准备行动. (various references) | ||||||||||
Farsi | مهیاشدن , اماده کردن (Dight, Gird, Prime, Provide, Ready). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | abprotzen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | λύω τηλεβόλο από τον κιλίβαντα. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | imberunlay brösta av. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UNLIMBER": unlimbered, unlimbering, unlimbers. (additional references) | |
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"UNLIMBER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nilambar, unliner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "UNLIMBER" (pronounced 'Un*lim"ber'): Accumber, Antenumber, Assober, Beblubber, Berber, Beslabber, Beslobber, Beslubber, Bibber, Blabber, Blobber, Bobber, Clubber, Clumber, Crabber, Craber, Dabber, December, Encomber, Encumber, fibber, Gabber, grabber, jobber, Liber, lubber, Megaweber, Microweber, Milliweber, Misnumber, misremember, Nonmember, November, October, Outnumber, remember, robber, rubber, Scomber, Scraber, scrubber, Sea-blubber, September, Slibber, stabber, Swobber, tuber, Unencumber, Unmember, Webber. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-m-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: nimbler. | |
-2 letters: berlin, burnie, erbium, imbrue, limber, limner, lumber, lunier, merlin, milneb, murein, murine, nimble, nubile, number, rumble. | |
-3 letters: birle, bluer, blume, brine, bruin, brume, burin, ileum, imbue, inure, lemur, liber, limen, liner, linum, lumen, miler, miner, ruble, rumen, umbel, umber, urine. | |
-4 letters: berm, bier, bile, bine, birl, blin, blue, blur, bren, brie, brim. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-m-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: lumbering, unlimbers. | |
+2 letters: lambrequin, replumbing, slumbering, unlimbered. | |
+3 letters: crumbliness, innumerable, innumerably, lambrequins, subterminal, umbrellaing, unlimbering. | |
+4 letters: beglamouring, hibernaculum, immensurable. | |
+5 letters: crumblinesses, enumerability, mensurability, multibranched, perambulating, perambulation, republicanism, troublemaking, unproblematic, unreclaimable. | |
| 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)55 4E 4C 49 4D 42 45 52 |
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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)01010101 01001110 01001100 01001001 01001101 01000010 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N L I M B E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 004C 0049 004D 0042 0045 0052 |
| 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)5548464347363952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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