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Basify

Definition: Basify

Basify

Verb

1. Turn basic and less acidic, of solutions and substances.

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

Note: Basify \Ba"si*fy\, transitive verb. [Base -fy.]. (references)


Synonyms: Basify

Synonyms: alkalify (v), alkalise (v), alkalize (v). (additional references)
Antonym: acidify (v). (additional references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Basify

Derivations

Words beginning with "basify": basifying. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Basify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baif, basf, bassary, Bassiry, Bodifit, bodify, Busefi, nazify. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Basify"

Words rhyming with "basify" (pronounced 'Ba"si*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Devitrify, Finify, Fishify, Foolify, Foresignify, Frenchify, Fumify, Glorify, gratify, horrify, indemnify, interstratify, jellify, jiffy, lenify. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Basify

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-s-y"

-2 letters: abys, bays, bias, fays, fibs, isba.

-3 letters: abs, aby, ais, ays, bas, bay, bis, bys, fas, fay, fib, ifs, sab, say, sib.

-4 letters: ab, ai, as, ay, ba, bi, by, fa, if, is, si, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-s-y"
 

+2 letters: feasibly.

 

+3 letters: basifying, biosafety, subfamily, syllabify.

 

+5 letters: fashionably, feasibility, fishability, justifiably, subclassify, syllabified, syllabifies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Basify


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

42 61 73 69 66 79

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)

01000010 01100001 01110011 01101001 01100110 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#115 &#105 &#102 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0073 0069 0066 0079

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

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

366785757291

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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