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WIREDRAW

Definitions: WIREDRAW

WIREDRAW

Transitive verb

1. To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction.

2. Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument.

3. Hence, to draw by art or violence.

4. To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WIREDRAW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Wiredraw \Wire"draw`\, transitive verb. [Imperative Wiredrew; present participle Wiredrawn; present participle verb or noun Wiredrawing.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: WIREDRAW

English words defined with "WIREDRAW": Wiredrawing, Wiredrawn, Wiredrew. (references)
Specialty definitions using "WIREDRAW": TO WIREDRAW. (references)

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Modern Translations: WIREDRAW

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

Bulgarian 

  

цепя косъма, протакам (drag, draw out, protract, put over), източвам (draft, draw, draw off, run off). (various references)

   

French

  

tréfiler. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iredrawway

   

Romanian

  

trefila, subtiliza în mod exagerat. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to), kılı kırk yarmak (go over smth. with a fine comb, niggle, quibble, refine, split, split hairs, strain a gnat), haddeden çekip tel yapmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WIREDRAW

Derivations

Words beginning with "WIREDRAW": wiredrawer, wiredrawers, wiredrawing, wiredrawn, wiredraws. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: WIREDRAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-r-r-w-w"

-2 letters: arider, drawer, raider, redraw, reward, waired, warder, warier, warred.

-3 letters: aider, aired, airer, darer, deair, dewar, direr, drear, drier, irade, rared, rawer, redia, rider, wader, wared, weird, wider, wired, wirer, wirra, wried, wrier.

-4 letters: aide, arid, awed, dare, dear, dire, draw, drew, idea, ired, raid, rare, read, rear, ride, wade, wadi, wair, ward.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-r-r-w-w"
 

+1 letter: wiredrawn, wiredraws.

 

+2 letters: wiredrawer.

 

+3 letters: whitherward, wiredrawers, wiredrawing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WIREDRAW


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

57 49 52 45 44 52 41 57

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 01001001 01010010 01000101 01000100 01010010 01000001 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#68 &#82 &#65 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 0052 0045 0044 0052 0041 0057

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

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

5743523938523557

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INDEX

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


  

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