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VECTURE

Definition: VECTURE

VECTURE

Noun

1. The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VECTURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Etymology: Vecture \Vec"ture\, noun. [Latin expression vectura, from vehere, vectum, to carry. Compare to Vettura, Voiture.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: VECTURE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Transference

Transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling; Verb: vection, vecture, vectitation; shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition; (interchange); traction.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: VECTURE

Etymologies containing "VECTURE": Vettura. (references)

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Rhyming with "VECTURE"

Words rhyming with "VECTURE" (pronounced 'Vec"ture'): Acture, Admixture, Affixture, Anfracture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, Attainture, Aventure, Belecture, Cincture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Conjuncture, Connature, Constructure, Contexture, Contracture, Creature, Decocture, Defeature, Dejecture, Denature, Denture, Departure, Depasture, Depicture, Deporture, Dictature, Digesture, Disadventure, Disaventure, Disfeature, Disjuncture, Disrupture, Distasture, Distincture, Disventure, Divesture, Ducture, Enacture, Encincture, Enrapture, Esture, Exhausture, Exploiture, Exposture, Facture, feature, Fellow-creature, fixture, Fructure, Galvanopuncture, Imbosture, Immixture, Impasture, imposture, Incommixture, Inculture, Insculpture, Insisture, intermixture, Intertexture, juncture, Loture, Metallifacture, misadventure, Misaventure, misfeature, Misnurture, mixture, moisture, Multure, Overmoisture, Overpicture, Painture, Paraventure, Parture, Photosculpture, Pisciculture, Pretexture, Pretorture, Projecture, Prompture, Purpresture, Quitture, Redempture, Repasture, Retexture, Revestture, Ricture, Scripture, Self-culture, Self-imposture, self-torture, stricture, structure, substructure, superstructure, suture, Tainture, Teinture, Transnature, Treature, Unculture, Vesture, Vincture, Vitrifacture, Voiture, Vulture, Wafture. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VECTURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-r-t-u-v"

-1 letter: curvet.

-2 letters: cruet, curet, curve, cuter, erect, eruct, evert, recut, revet, revue, terce, truce, vertu.

-3 letters: cere, cete, cure, curt, cute, ecru, ever, rete, tree, true, veer, vert.

-4 letters: cee, cue, cur, cut, ecu, ere, eve, rec, ree, ret, rev, rue, rut, tee, vee, vet.

-5 letters: er, et, re, ut.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-r-t-u-v"
 

+1 letter: curveted.

 

+2 letters: coverture, curvetted, reductive.

 

+3 letters: covertures, surjective, ulcerative, uncreative.

 

+4 letters: countermove, counterview, destructive, neuroactive, overcounted, overeducate, persecutive, recultivate, reductively, reeducative, revictualed, unconverted, underactive, unreceptive, vermiculate, vermiculite.

 

+5 letters: circumvented, countermoved, countermoves, counterviews, multiservice, overdocument, overeducated, overeducates, putrefactive, recultivated, recultivates, recuperative, renunciative, reproductive, revictualled, unperceptive, unreflective, venipuncture, vermiculated, vermiculites.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VECTURE


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

56 45 43 54 55 52 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 01000101 01000011 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0045 0043 0054 0055 0052 0045

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

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

56393754555239

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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