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A La Carte

Definitions: A La Carte

A La Carte

Adjective

1. (of a restaurant meal) having unlimited choices with a separate price for each item.

Adverb

1. By ordering items listed individually on a menu; "we ate a la carte".

Noun

1. A menu having individual dishes listed with separate prices.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Antonyms: prix fixe (adj), table d'hote (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: A La Carte

Non-English Usage: "A La Carte" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (a la carte).

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Modern Usage: A La Carte

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Airlift a la Carte (1971)

Revue a la Carte (1935)

Divorce a la Carte (1931)

Marriage a la Carte (1916)

Flirtation a la Carte (1916)

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

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Commercial Usage: A La Carte

DomainTitle

Books

  • Inspector Maigret's Case Files Murder: Murder a LA Carte (reference)

  • Stars a LA Carte With Magic Stack-N-Wack Bonus Projects: With Magic Stack-N-Whack Bonus Projects (reference)

  • The Third Rumpole Omnibus: Rumpole and the Age of Miracles, Rumpole a LA Carte, Rumpole and the Angel of Death (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: A La Carte

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Herman Odessey On the right eating breakfast a la carte.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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

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Modern Translations: A La Carte

Language Translations for "a la carte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

étlap szerint. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

アモルファス半導" (alarm, alert, alignment, Allah, alliance, amorphous semiconductor, around, Ayatollah). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アラカルト . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aay alay artecay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

порционный. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

a la carte. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

alâkart, menüden seçerek. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

theo món, gọi theo món, đặt theo món. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: A La Carte

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-l-r-t"

-2 letters: acetal, carate, cartel, claret, rectal.

-3 letters: aceta, alate, alert, altar, alter, areal, areca, artal, artel, carat, caret, carle, carte, cater, clear, cleat, craal, crate, eclat, lacer, later, ratal, ratel, react, reata, recta, talar, taler, trace.

-4 letters: acre, acta, alae, alar, alec, area, care, carl, cart, cate, celt, earl, lace, late, lear, race, rale, rate, real, tace, tael, tala, talc, tale, tare, teal, tear, tela.

-5 letters: aal, ace, act, ala, ale, alt, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cel, ear, eat, era, eta, lac, lar, lat, lea, let, rat, rec, ret, tae, tar, tea, tel.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-e-l-r-t"
 

+2 letters: abacterial, acetabular, metacarpal.

 

+3 letters: cardinalate, metacarpals, sacramental.

 

+4 letters: abstractable, aeronautical, cardinalates, extracranial, galactorrhea, sacramentals, tabernacular.

 

+5 letters: antibacterial, ascertainable, baccalaureate, charlatanries, contralateral, cyanoacrylate, extragalactic, extravascular, galactorrheas, metacercarial, rarefactional, sacramentally.

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

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Alternative Orthography: A La Carte


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

41      4C 61      43 61 72 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 00100000 01001100 01100001 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#32 &#76 &#97 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041      004C 0061      0043 0061 0072 0074 0065

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

352466723767848671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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