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CLOAKING DEVICE

Specialty Definition: CLOAKING DEVICE

DomainDefinition

Slang

Noun. Source: From one of the Trekkies. The image of cloak is used as a protection from enemies. Definition: Cloaking device can make a ship or object invisible, completely invisible. Context: Used when a ship is in am emergncy or fighting. Social Source: Trekkies. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Modern Usage: CLOAKING DEVICE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Cloaking device available on all flight modes. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; writing credit: Leonard Nimoy; Harve Bennett)

These guys must have some kind of what-do-you-call-it, cloaking device. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Marty Eisenberg)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CLOAKING DEVICE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cloaking device

8

cloaking device freelancer

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CLOAKING DEVICE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-g-i-i-k-l-n-o-v"

-5 letters: ceilinged, coleading, concealed, conceived, congealed, covalence, deceiving, deleaving, devoicing, diligence, evangelic, evildoing, gavelkind, genocidal, inveigled, lidocaine, vigilance.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CLOAKING DEVICE


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

43 4C 4F 41 4B 49 4E 47      44 45 56 49 43 45

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

    

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

01000011 01001100 01001111 01000001 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000100 01000101 01010110 01001001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#76 &#79 &#65 &#75 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#86 &#73 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004C 004F 0041 004B 0049 004E 0047      0044 0045 0056 0049 0043 0045

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

37464935454348412383956433739

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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