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Definitions: Bear Down On |
Bear Down OnVerb1. Sail towards another vessel, of ships. 2. Exert a force with a heavy weight; "The snow bore down on the roof". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Bear Down OnSynonyms: bear down (v), bear down upon (v), drag down (v), press down on (v), weigh down (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bear Down On |
| English words defined with "bear down on": To ride down. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bear down on": Articles interchanged ♦ drool-proof paper ♦ HOVEL ♦ INFALAPSARIAN ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ vibrating screen. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "bear down on"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ráront az ellenségre (to bear down on the enemy), lecsap az ellenségre (to bear down on the enemy, to dive on the enemy), úton van vmi felé (to bear down on sg, to bear down upon sg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | premere (be of interest, bear down, depress, matter, oppress, press, pull, push, squeeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earbay ownday onay se nãpusti asupra (bear down upon, dash against, fall over, hurl oneself at, jump upon, pounce at, swoop upon). (various references) acercarse a (accost, advance on, approach, border, come near, gain on, gain upon, stand in to). (various references) yaklaşmak (approach, approximate, be pushing, close, come close to, come near, come on, come up, converge, draw, draw close, draw near, draw on, get hotter, get warmer, go on for, near, push, step up, verge, walk up, walk up to), ağır gelmek (bear hard on, preponderate), üstüne varmak (get at, lean upon, press smb. close, provoke), üstüne gelmek (beleaguer, come at, come down on, come on, come upon, hang over, overlap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-n-n-o-o-r-w" | |
-2 letters: bearwood, rawboned, wanderoo. | |
-3 letters: bandore, baronne, bradoon, branned, broaden, browned, newborn, nonword, onboard. | |
-4 letters: bander, banned, banner, bonder, borane, browed, downer, nonwar, onward, redowa, renown, roadeo, roband, wander, wanned, wanner, warden, warned, wonder, wonned, wonner, wooden. | |
-5 letters: abode, aboon, adobe, adobo, adore, adorn, adown, anode, ardeb, awned, baned, barde, bared, baron, beano, beard, board, boned, boner, bonne, booed, bored, borne, boron, bowed, bower, brand, brawn, bread, broad, brood, brown, dawen, debar, denar, dewan, dewar, dobra, dobro, donna, donne, donor, dower, drawn, drone, drown, endow, oared, odeon, orbed, oread, owned, owner, radon, redan, redon, rewan, rewon, robed, rodeo, rondo, rowan, rowed, rowen, wader, waned, wared, wooed, wooer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 61 72      44 6F 77 6E      4F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 00100000 01001111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a r   D o w n   O n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 0072      0044 006F 0077 006E      004F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671678423881898024980 |
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