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Desperate Measure

Definition: Desperate Measure

Desperate Measure

Noun

1. 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.
 


Frequency of Internet Keywords: Desperate Measure

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

  desperate measure

13

  call desperate desperate measure times

2

  desperate measure soundtrack

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

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Modern Translations: Desperate Measure

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Desperate Measure

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Desperate Measure


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)

    

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)

&#68 &#101 &#115 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#32 &#77 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#117 &#114 &#101

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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