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VORTIGINOUS

Definition: VORTIGINOUS

VORTIGINOUS

Adjective

1. Moving rapidly round a center; vortical.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Vortiginous \Vor*tig"i*nous\, adjective. [Compare to Vertiginous.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: VORTIGINOUS

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

Bulgarian 

  

вихрообразен (vortical). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

örvénylő (vertiginous, vortical, whirling). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortiginousvay

   

Vietnamese 

  

xoáy cuộn, xoáy (vorticular). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "VORTIGINOUS"

Words rhyming with "VORTIGINOUS" (pronounced 'Vor*tig"i*nous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Absonous, Acrogenous, Acuminous, Adenous, Adipogenous, AEruginous, Agynous, Alburnous, Altisonous, Aluminous, Ambaginous, Ambigenous, Amnigenous, Amphigenous, Amphigonous, Anachronous, Anisostemonous, Annotinous, Anodynous, Antherogenous, Asparaginous, asynchronous, Athermanous, Bimanous, Binominous, Binotonous, Binous, Bituminous, Blennogenous, Bombycinous, Calcigenous, Caliginous, Caprigenous, Cartilaginous, Cerasinous, Ceruminous, Chitinous, Chondrigenous, Chromatogenous, Collagenous, Concinnous, Consonous, Conterminous, Coralligenous, Coterminous, Covenous, Criminous, Cymophanous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VORTIGINOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-o-o-r-s-t-u-v"

-3 letters: goitrous, ignitors, outgrins, outrings, roosting, rousting, striving, tourings, vigorous, virtuosi, virtuoso, visoring.

-4 letters: ignitor, ironist, isogriv, nitroso, nitrous, origins, ousting, outgrin, outings, outring, outsing, rioting, riotous, roosing, rooting, rousing, routing, rovings, rusting, signior, signori, sooting, sorting, souring, storing, suiting, torsion, touring, tousing, trigons, trogons, unroots, vigours, virgins, virions, visitor.

-5 letters: girons, griots, grison.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-o-o-r-s-t-u-v"
 

+4 letters: overdiscounting, revolutionising.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VORTIGINOUS


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

56 4F 52 54 49 47 49 4E 4F 55 53

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 01001111 01010010 01010100 01001001 01000111 01001001 01001110 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#73 &#71 &#73 &#78 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 004F 0052 0054 0049 0047 0049 004E 004F 0055 0053

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

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

5649525443414348495553

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INDEX

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


  

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