Dream Up

  

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Dream Up

Definition: Dream Up

Dream Up

Verb

1. Devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software".

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


Synonyms: Dream Up

Synonyms: concoct (v), hatch (v), think of (v), think up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dream Up

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Imagination

Verb: imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Dream Up

Language Translations for "dream up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përfytyroj (conceive, depicture, dream, envision, fancy, figure, figure to oneself, give rein to one's imagination, image, imagine, picture, realize, visualize), përftoj në mendje, mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تخيل (conceive, envisage, fancy, feature, fiction, figure, figure to oneself, image, imagine, make believe, picture, project oneself, see, think, vision, visualization, visualize). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, evolve, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vymyslet si (manufacture). (various references)

   

French

  

inventer, imaginer. (various references)

   

German

  

phantasieren (be delirious, dream, dreamed, fantasise, fantasize, have visions, improvise, rave, ravings, romance), einfallen lassen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ονειρεύομαι (dream, to dream). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kiötöl. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fantasticare (daydream, fancy, imagine, lionize, romanticize). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

作り出す (to dream up, to invent, to manufacture, to produce, to raise). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

つくり す (to dream up, to invent, to manufacture, to produce, to raise). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eamdray upay

   

Portuguese

  

inventar (coin, concoct, contrive, cook up, create, devise, discover, feign, forge, fudge, invent, make up, manufacture, mint), bolar (kick, serve, trundle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выдумывать (excogitate, invent), придумывать (concoct, contrive, devise, excogitate, fictionalize, invent). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izmisliti (cook up, devise, fudge, invent, make up, think up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inventar (devise, fabricate, father, figure up, forge, invent, inventory, make up, originate, think up), imaginar cosas, idear (comprehend, contrive, design, develop, devise, grasp, ideate, invent, originate, realize, think, think out, think up, understand). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hitta på (conceive, concoct, contrive, devise, excogitate, fabricate, fake, fake up, feign, find out, invent, manufacture), fantisera ihop (imagine). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uydurmak (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, concoct, conform, cook, cook up, fabricate, fake up, fashion, feign, fib, fit, forge, frame, fudge, gear, improvise, invent, key, make up, manufacture, mint, quadrate, reconcile, romance, spin, Square, square with, suit, syntonize, tailor, talk through one's hat, tally up, tell a fib, trump up, tune, tune up), icat etmek (cogitate, contrive, devise, father, invent, mint, originate, strike out), hayalinde yaratmak (fantasize). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вигадувати (coin, conceit, concoct, contrive, devise, excogitate, fabricate, feign, fib, fudge, invent, make believe, mint, romance, think out). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dream Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-p-r-u"

-1 letter: damper, dumper, ramped, remuda.

-2 letters: armed, demur, derma, drape, dream, drupe, duper, madre, mudra, mured, padre, pared, pareu, perdu, prude, purda, raped, remap, umped.

-3 letters: aped, aper, arum, dame, damp, dare, dear, derm, dram, drum, duma, dump, dupe, dura, dure, made, mare, maud, mead, mura, mure, pard, pare, pear, perm, pram, prau, puma.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-p-r-u"
 

+2 letters: harumphed.

 

+3 letters: epicardium, harrumphed, praesidium, unhampered, unimpaired.

 

+4 letters: pericardium, pompadoured, praesidiums, premeasured, proctodaeum, promulgated.

 

+5 letters: mousetrapped, perambulated, praseodymium, proctodaeums, pseudorandom, subepidermal, superstardom, underpayment, unprogrammed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dream Up


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

44 72 65 61 6D      55 70

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

    

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

01000100 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101101 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#109 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0065 0061 006D      0055 0070

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

388471677925582

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INDEX

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


  

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