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Definition: WEASAND |
WEASANDNoun1. The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil. |
Date "WEASAND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Airpipe | Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack. |
Opening | Outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle; placket. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: WEASAND |
| English words defined with "WEASAND": Weazand, Wesand, Wesil, Wezand. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "WEASAND": Weasy. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "WEASAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гърло (gorge, gullet, manhole, mouth, neck, pharynx, swallow, throat, whistle), гръклян (adam's apple, throat, throttle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | morløser (gullet, oesophagus, weasands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | keeldarm (gullet, oesophagus, weasands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kurkku (cucumber, throat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oesophage des ruminants (weasands), oesophage (weasands), herbière (weasands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlund (gullet, jaws, maw, pharynx). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gola (defile, gorge, gullet, neck, throat, throttle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sluggid (glottis, whirlpool), aajioogh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easandway глотка (gizzard, gorge, gullet, larynx, pharynx, swallow, throat). (various references) tragadero (gullet, oesophagus, weasands). (various references) khí quản thực quản họng, cổ họng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "WEASAND": weasands. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "WEASAND" (pronounced 'Wea"sand'): greensand, Quicksand. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-n-s-w" | |
-1 letter: dewans, seawan, snawed. | |
-2 letters: ansae, awned, dawen, dawns, deans, dewan, nadas, saned, sawed, sedan, sewan, wades, wands, waned, wanes, weans, wends. | |
-3 letters: anas, ands, anes, anew, ansa, asea, awed, awes, awns, dawn, daws, dean, dens, dews, ends, nada, news, sade, sand, sane, sawn, send, sewn, snaw, sned, swan, wade, wads, waes, wand, wane. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-n-s-w" | |
+1 letter: weasands, weazands. | |
+2 letters: sweatband, wasteland, wavebands. | |
+3 letters: chainsawed, rainwashed, sweatbands, wastelands. | |
+4 letters: awkwardness, brainwashed, heavenwards, meadowlands, waywardness. | |
+5 letters: backwardness, disallowance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 41 53 41 4E 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .- ... .- -. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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