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WAFTAGE

Definition: WAFTAGE

WAFTAGE

Noun

1. Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WAFTAGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Modern Translations: WAFTAGE

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

Hungarian

  

szállítási díj, szállítás (carriage, carrying, conveyance, freightage, haul, haulage, portage, porterage, putting, shipping, supply, tote, trans, transport, transportation), kereskedelmi hajókaraván. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aftageway

   

Ukranian 

  

струмінь (current, fluent, jet, spout, stream, whiffle), подув (air, blow, blowing, breath, breathing, flatus, sigh, waft, whiff), переправа (crossing, ferriage, ferry, passing, traject). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WAFTAGE

Derivations

Words beginning with "WAFTAGE": waftages. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "WAFTAGE"

Words rhyming with "WAFTAGE" (pronounced 'Waft"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Demorage, Disusage, Dockage, Domage, Doomage, Dosage, Drainage, Drayage, Driftage, Drownage, Dumpage, Eatage. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WAFTAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-g-t-w"

-2 letters: agate, fatwa.

-3 letters: fate, feat, feta, gate, geta, twae, waft, wage, weft.

-4 letters: aft, aga, age, ate, awa, awe, eat, eft, eta, fag, fat, fet, few, gae, gat, get, tae, tag, taw, tea, teg, tew, twa, wae, wag, wat, wet.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, at, aw, ef, et, fa, ta, we.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-g-t-w"
 

+1 letter: waftages.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WAFTAGE


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

57 41 46 54 41 47 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)

01010111 01000001 01000110 01010100 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#70 &#84 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0046 0054 0041 0047 0045

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

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

57354054354139

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INDEX

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


  

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