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Definition: Desperate Measure |
Desperate MeasureNoun1. Desperate actions taken as a means to an end; "he had to resort to desperate measures". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
desperate measure | 13 |
call desperate desperate measure times | 2 |
desperate measure soundtrack | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "desperate measure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 窮策 (expedient of last resort), 窮余の策 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | きゅうさく (expedient of last resort, one's old publication), きゅうよのさく. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | esperateday easuremay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-e-e-m-p-r-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-5 letters: premeasured, premeasures. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 73 70 65 72 61 74 65      4D 65 61 73 75 72 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e s p e r a t e   M e a s u r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0073 0070 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065      004D 0065 0061 0073 0075 0072 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387185827184678671247716785878471 |
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