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Birth Pangs

Definition: Birth Pangs

Birth Pangs

Noun

1. 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 Pangs

Synonyms: labor pains (n), labour pains (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Birth Pangs

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Energy book : a look at the death throes of one energy era and the birth pangs of another (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: Birth Pangs

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Birth Pangs

Misspellings

"Birth Pangs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: birthpangs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Birth Pangs

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Birth Pangs


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

42 69 72 74 68      50 61 6E 67 73

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

    

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

01000010 01101001 01110010 01110100 01101000 00100000 01010000 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#32 &#80 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0072 0074 0068      0050 0061 006E 0067 0073

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

367584867425067807385

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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