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Blate

Definitions: Blate

Blate

Adjective

1. Disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful).

Verb

1. Cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating".

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


Synonyms: Blate

Synonyms: bashful (adj), baa (v), blat (v), bleat (v). (additional references)

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Derivations: Blate

Derivations

Words ending with "blate": ablate, oblate, sublate. (additional references)

Words containing "blate": ablated, ablates, oblately, oblateness, oblatenesses, oblates, sublated, sublates. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Blate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bleat, table.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-t"

-1 letter: abet, able, bale, bate, beat, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet, late, tael, tale, teal, tela.

-2 letters: alb, ale, alt, ate, bal, bat, bel, bet, eat, eta, lab, lat, lea, let, tab, tae, tea, tel.

-3 letters: ab, ae, al, at, ba, be, el, et, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-t"
 

+1 letter: ablate, ablest, albeit, albite, ballet, battle, bleats, boatel, cablet, labret, lobate, oblate, stable, tabled, tables, tablet.

 

+2 letters: abettal, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, actable, albites, astilbe, baldest, ballets, ballute, bastile, batlike, battled, battler, battles, beastly, belated, beleapt, beltway, benthal, bestial, bimetal, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boatels, brattle, bullate, cablets, citable, datable, eatable, flatbed, getable, globate, halbert, hatable, labiate, labrets, lambent, lambert, librate, limbate, lobated, mutable, notable, oblates, potable, ratable, retable, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, sublate, tableau, tablets, takable, tamable, taxable, teabowl, tenable, tenably, timbale, totable, triable, tunable, typable, votable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Blate


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

42 6C 61 74 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3678678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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