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Definition: Birth Pangs |
Birth PangsNoun1. A regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Birth PangsSynonyms: labor pains (n), labour pains (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "birth pangs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | wehen (blow, contraction, drift, fly, labor, labor pains, labour, labour pains, pains, to breeze, waft, wave), geburtswehen (labor pains, labour pains, throes). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | צירי ל×"×" (labor pains, labour pains, travail). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | irthbay angspay | ||||
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"Birth Pangs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: birthpangs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-h-i-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: harpings, partings, phrasing, sharping, tranship, trashing. | |
-3 letters: absinth, bashing, basting, bathing, brights, brisant, garnish, gastrin, gratins, harping, harpins, harpist, hasping, hasting, hatpins, parings, parsing, parting, pashing, pasting, phasing, prating, rasping, ratings, sabring, shaping, sharing, sparing, spirant, spright, staring, tarnish. | |
-4 letters: airths, aright, arshin, ashing, bairns, banish, baring, basing, bating, bhangs, bights, births, brains. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-h-i-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+5 letters: preestablishing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 72 74 68      50 61 6E 67 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01110010 01110100 01101000 00100000 01010000 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i r t h   P a n g s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0072 0074 0068      0050 0061 006E 0067 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367584867425067807385 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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