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UNTHREAD

Definition: UNTHREAD

UNTHREAD

Transitive verb

1. To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path.

2. To deprive of ligaments; to loose the ligaments of.

3. To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNTHREAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)


Synonyms: UNTHREAD

Synonyms by domain: ground unthread switch (military & defense, transportation), to unthread text (computing).

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Expression: UNTHREAD

Expression using "UNTHREAD": to unthread text. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNTHREAD

Language Translations for "UNTHREAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

heq pe nga gjilpëra. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разгадавам (make out, puzzle out, read, study, unpuzzle, unriddle), намирам изход от, изнизвам, измъквам се (escape, fink, get out of, hike, recede, ride up, skin away, skip, skulk off, slip off, slope, steal away, steal out, weasel, work off), издявам. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyvléknout. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نخ بیرون اوردن از(مثلاازسوزن). (various references)

   

German

  

ausfädeln (unloading), abfädeln (unstring). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kifûz (unlace). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sfilare (get unthreaded, parade, process, slip, slip off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadunthray

   

Portuguese

  

sair de (check out, vacant, vacate), desenfiar (defilade). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вынуть нитку. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

provući se (get by, pull through, scrape, scrape through, squeeze through), izvući konac, iskobeljati se (wriggle out of). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yolunu bulmak (conjure, find one's bearings, get around, get one's bearings, manage), ipten çıkarmak (unstring), ipini çıkarmak (unstring), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: UNTHREAD

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNTHREAD": unthreaded, unthreading, unthreads. (additional references)


Misspellings

"UNTHREAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unther. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: UNTHREAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-n-r-t-u"

-1 letter: daunter, haunted, haunter, natured, thunder, unearth, unheard, unrated, untread, urethan.

-2 letters: anther, ardent, dearth, dhurna, hanted, harden, hatred, hunted, hunter, nature, ranted, thenar, thread, tundra, turned, unread.

-3 letters: anted, antre, dater, daunt, death, denar, derat, earth, hared, hated, hater, haunt, haute, heard, heart, neath, nuder, rated, rathe, redan, tared, thane, trade, tread, trend.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-n-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: uncharted, unearthed, unthreads.

 

+2 letters: earthbound, headhunter, subtrahend, underneath, unfathered, unthreaded, unwreathed.

 

+3 letters: antheridium, draughtsmen, dreadnought, headhunters, hindquarter, subtrahends, thunderclap, thunderhead, unchartered, unharvested, untarnished, unthreading, unweathered.

 

+4 letters: dreadnoughts, hindquarters, housetrained, thunderclaps, thunderheads, unauthorized.

 

+5 letters: chateaubriand, diathermanous, granddaughter, multibranched, unchlorinated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: UNTHREAD


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

55 4E 54 48 52 45 41 44

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 01010100 01001000 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#84 &#72 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0054 0048 0052 0045 0041 0044

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

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

5548544252393538

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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