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VALVATE

Definitions: VALVATE

VALVATE

Adjective

1. Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.

2. Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation.

3. Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Valvate \Valv"ate\, adjective. [Latin expression valvatus having folding doors.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: VALVATE

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

Arabic 

  

‏صمامي (valvular). (various references)

   

French

  

valvulaire (valvular). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έχων βαλβίδα (valved), ομοιάζων βαλβίδα. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alvatevay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "VALVATE"

Words rhyming with "VALVATE" (pronounced 'Valv"ate'): Acerbate, Archprelate, Binervate, Conformate, Delirate, Denudate, Diffusate, Distillate, Dogeate, Elixate, Eloignate, Eloinate, Eluxate, Epalate, Excitate, Fluate, frigate, Gagate, Granate, Hydrofluate, legate, Litate, Lithate, Malamate, maleate, Mandarinate, Multistriate, Nervate, Osmiamate, Ovate-rotundate, Ovato-rotundate, Oxalurate, Oxamate, Pedate, Pertusate, Phthalate, Resultate, Retractate, Rotundate, senate, shogunate, Succinamate, Sulphamate, Tartramate, Tetrarchate, Thymate, Tractate, Trinervate, Unnervate, Zonate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VALVATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-t-v-v"

-2 letters: alate, valet, valve.

-3 letters: alae, late, lava, lave, leva, tael, tala, tale, teal, tela, vale, veal, vela.

-4 letters: aal, ala, ale, alt, ate, ava, ave, eat, eta, lat, lav, lea, let, lev, tae, tav, tea, tel, vat, vav, vet.

-5 letters: aa, ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-t-v-v"
 

+3 letters: evaluative.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VALVATE


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

56 41 4C 56 41 54 45

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)

01010110 01000001 01001100 01010110 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#65 &#76 &#86 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0041 004C 0056 0041 0054 0045

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

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

56354656355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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