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Card-playing

Definition: Card-playing

Card-playing

Adjective

1. Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies".

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

Date "card-playing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

 

Synonyms: Card-playing

Synonyms: betting (adj), dissipated (adj), gambling (adj), sporting (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Card-playing

English words defined with "card-playing": bettingdissipatedgamblingsporting. (references)

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Modern Translations: Card-playing

Language Translations for "card-playing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

卡片"奏. (various references)

   

German

  

kartenspiel (card game, deck of cards, pack, pack of cards). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

표 노. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ard-playingcay

   

Swedish

  

kortspel (card game, muggins). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Card-playing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-g-i-l-n-p-r-y"

-1 letter: placarding.

-2 letters: carpingly, parlaying.

-3 letters: agrypnia, arcading, carangid, cardigan, cardinal, craaling, cradling, daringly, lapidary, parading, plagiary, prandial, radiancy, rancidly.

-4 letters: acridly, airplay, angrily, carding, carinal, carling, carping, claying, claypan, cranial, craping, cyprian, darling, draping, draying, garland, grandly, grandpa, graplin, laniard, laniary, lanyard, larding, nadiral, paginal, paladin, parling, placard, placing, playing, pliancy, praying, pyralid, radical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Card-playing


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

43 61 72 64 2D 70 6C 61 79 69 6E 67

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

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

01000011 01100001 01110010 01100100 00101101 01110000 01101100 01100001 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#45 &#112 &#108 &#97 &#121 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0064 002D 0070 006C 0061 0079 0069 006E 0067

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

376784701582786791758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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