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Battle Of Ypres

Definitions: Battle Of Ypres

Battle Of Ypres

Noun

1. Battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery.

2. Battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient.

3. Battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others.

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



Synonyms: Battle Of Ypres

Synonyms: first battle of Ypres (n), second battle of Ypres (n), third battle of Ypres (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Battle Of Ypres

English words defined with "battle of Ypres": first battle of Ypressecond battle of Ypresthird battle of Ypres. (references)

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Expressions: Battle Of Ypres

Expressions using "battle of Ypres": first battle of Ypres second battle of Ypres third battle of Ypres. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Battle Of Ypres

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

battle of ypres

31
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Anagrams: Battle Of Ypres

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-l-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"

-4 letters: bespatter, foreplays, foretaste, operettas, poetaster, polyester, portables, prebattle, proselyte, rebottles, roseately, saltpeter, splayfeet, spottable, stylobate, tabletops, teleports, terabytes, toeplates, tolerates.

-5 letters: abetters, abettors, alertest, arbelest, battlers, beefalos, berettas, blatters, bleaters, bloaters, blotters, bottlers, brattles, bystreet, earlobes, easterly, eyebolts, falsetto, flatters, flattery, flattops, floaters, flyboats, flytraps, forebays, forepast, foreplay, forestal, forestay, layettes, oleaster, operable, operably, operates, operetta, paletots, palettes, palfreys, parolees, partlets, peartest, petrales, petrosal, peytrals, peytrels, plastery, platters, pleaters, plotters, polestar, portable, portably, potables, prattles, prelates, pretaste, probates, proettes, prostate, prostyle, protease, protyles, psaltery, pterylae, pyrostat, rebottle, reflates, refloats, replates, retables, seatbelt, serotype, sortable, sortably, splatter, sprattle, storable, tabletop, taborets, tapestry, teleport, terabyte, testable, toeplate, tolerate, treetops, typeable, typebars.

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Alternative Orthography: Battle Of Ypres


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

42 61 74 74 6C 65      4F 66      59 70 72 65 73

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

        

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

01000010 01100001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01011001 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#116 &#116 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#89 &#112 &#114 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0074 0074 006C 0065      004F 0066      0059 0070 0072 0065 0073

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

3667868678712497225982847185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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