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Definition: Beacon Light |
Beacon LightNoun1. 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 LightSynonyms: beacon (n), lighthouse (n), pharos (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Beacon Light |
| English words defined with "beacon light": beam, beam of light ♦ light beam ♦ ray, ray of light ♦ shaft, shaft of light. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beacon light": recovery package. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beacon light | 41 |
rotating beacon light | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 сигнальный огонь (balefire, beacon fire, flashlight). (various references) lửa hiệu (beacon fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 61 63 6F 6E      4C 69 67 68 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101111 01101110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a c o n   L i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 0063 006F 006E      004C 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36716769818024675737486 |
| 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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