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Definition: Disconfirming |
DisconfirmingAdjective1. (medicine) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; "the HIV test was negative". 2. Establishing as invalid or untrue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disconfirming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
Synonyms: DisconfirmingSynonyms: invalidating (adj), negative (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: positive (adj). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "disconfirming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 驳斥 (refutation). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isconfirmingday | ||||
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"Disconfirming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disconforming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-f-g-i-i-i-m-n-n-o-r-s" | |
-3 letters: confirming, crimsoning, disconfirm, miscoining. | |
-4 letters: confiding, disciform, incomings, indorsing, infirming, informing, miscoding, misfiring. | |
-5 letters: confirms, cordings, crinoids, discoing, findings, incising, incision, incoming, iodising, ionising, ironings, midirons, minoring, misdoing, mornings, nigrosin, nonrigid, rosining, scorning, signiori. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 63 6F 6E 66 69 72 6D 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -.-. --- -. ..-. .. .-. -- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100110 01101001 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s c o n f i r m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0063 006F 006E 0066 0069 0072 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758569818072758479758073 |
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Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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