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Beacon Light

Definition: Beacon Light

Beacon Light

Noun

1. A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.

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



Synonyms: Beacon Light

Synonyms: beacon (n), lighthouse (n), pharos (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Beacon Light

English words defined with "beacon light": beam, beam of lightlight beamray, ray of lightshaft, shaft of light. (references)
Specialty definitions using "beacon light": recovery package. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: Beacon Light

AuthorQuotation

F. R. Havergal

So your fiery trial is still unextinguished. But what if it be but His beacon light on your upward path?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Beacon Light

AuthorDateQuotation

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1945)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beacon Light

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

beacon light

41

rotating beacon light

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Beacon Light

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

Chinese 

  

標燈 (beacon). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

標識灯 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひょうしきとう. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eaconbay ightlay

   

Russian 

  

сигнальный огонь (balefire, beacon fire, flashlight). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lửa hiệu (beacon fire). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Beacon Light

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-h-i-l-n-o-t"

-1 letter: beclothing.

-2 letters: aitchbone, bleaching, blotching, chelating, chelation, cobaltine, cogitable.

-3 letters: atheling, batching, beaching, belching, biathlon, bioclean, bleating, bloating, botching, cheating, cleating, clothing, coinable, ethnical, gelation, inchoate, latching, leaching, legation, letching, loathing, locating, obligate, octangle, tailbone, tangible, teaching, teiglach.

-4 letters: achiote, aconite, aloetic, anethol, angelic, anglice, antilog, atingle, baching, bathing, beating, begonia, belting, benthal, benthic, biltong, binocle, biotech, boating, bolting, botanic, cabinet, cabling, catling, chalone, cholate, cholent, choline, citable, coagent, coalbin, coaling, coating, cognate, cohabit, coinage, congeal, echoing, elating, elation, etching, ethanol, ethical, gahnite, galenic, gelatin, genital, globate, gnathic, halogen, haloing, halting, healing, heating, helicon, hobnail, hotline, iceboat, ignoble, lactone, lathing, leching, lection, lentigo, lighten, neolith, niobate, notable, otalgic, tabling, talcing, tangelo, tholing, toenail.

-5 letters: acetin, aching, acting, action, aeonic, agonic, aiglet, albeit, albino, albite, alight, alnico, atelic, atonic, bagnio, baling, bangle, bating, beacon, beclog, belong, binate, biogen, blanch, bleach, blench, blight, blithe, blotch, boatel, boleti, bonaci, bonita, cablet, canthi, cantle, cation, catlin, centai, cental, chaine, chalet, chalot, change, chigoe, chital, chiton, cineol, citola, citole, client, clothe, cobalt, cogent, coigne, coital, coting, eating, eching, eloign, enatic, enhalo, enolic, entail, entoil, eolian, eolith, etalon, ethion, ethnic, gabion, galiot, gelant, gelati, gelato, genial, gentil, giblet, gitano, glance, glitch, globin, goalie, goblet, goblin, gothic, habile, haeing, haling, halite, hantle, hating, heliac, henbit, hoagie, hoeing, hogtie, holing, incage, ingate, inhale, inlace, lacing, lancet, latigo, latino, lectin, legato, legion, length, lentic, lichen, ligate, linage, loathe, lobate, locate, lochan, lochia, noetic, notice, obelia, oblate, oblige, obtain, octane, oilcan, talion, tangle, tenail, thecal, thenal, tiglon, tincal, tineal, tingle, toeing, tolane, toling.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-g-h-i-l-n-o-t"
 

+4 letters: uncopyrightable.

 

+5 letters: biotechnological.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Beacon Light


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

42 65 61 63 6F 6E      4C 69 67 68 74

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

    

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

01000010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101111 01101110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#97 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0061 0063 006F 006E      004C 0069 0067 0068 0074

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

36716769818024675737486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Historic
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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