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Definition: Emigrant |
EmigrantNoun1. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emigrant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Diversity | One who leaves his/her country of origin to reside in a foreign country. (references) |
Public Administration | Person who moves to another country for personal, economic, social or political reasons. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EmigrantSynonyms: emigre (n), emigree (n), outgoer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Egress | Export, expatriation; emigration, remigration; debouch, debouche; emunctory; exodus; (departure); emigrant. |
Extraneousness | Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot. |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Emigrant |
| English words defined with "emigrant": Emigrator. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "emigrant": 59027 ♦ 95715 ♦ Beefington. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Emigrant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (emigrant, expatriate), Czech (emigrant, refugee), German (émigré, emigrant), Romanian (émigré, emigrant), Serbo-Croatian (emigrant), Swedish (émigré, emigrant). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Emigrant (1910) Emigrant (1910) | |
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Oregon Trail near Emigrant Trail ReservoirLower Snake River District.Credit: W. Meyer. | Indian Emigrant relations interpretative area along the Oregon Trail showing where the trail was located, Rock Springs Field Office.Credit: Jerry Sintz. | ||
![]() | Southern Pacific snow shed, Emigrant Gap, Calif.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Lookout Point into Bear Valley, Emigrant Gap, Calif., operated by Canteen Service Station Co. and Pacific Gas and Electric, free for the convenience of motorists.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Owner of the El Rito, an emigrant from Yugoslavia.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Snow on Emigrant Pass. Eureka County, Nevada.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Emigrant Pass. Eureka County, Nevada.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Mission San Jose, California. Tombstone of emigrant to California from Sao Jorge, Azores Islands.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The loss of the Pennsylvania New York packet ship; the Lockwoods emigrant ship; the Saint Andrew packet ship; and the Victoria from Charleston, near Liverpool, during the hurricane [...] Jany. 7th & 8th, 1839 / painted by Samuel Walters ; drawn on stone.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Emigration--Detailing the progress and vicissitudes of an emigrant / C.J. Grant, invent. & lith.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | This problem used to be evident in areas close to urban centers and was limited to low-cost houses built by in-country emigrant workers who had left their villages in hope of a better life in the cities. (references) | |
Political Economy | GREECE | Tourism receipts, emigrant remittances, shipping receipts, and transfers from the EU form the core of Greece's invisible earnings. (references) |
Ecuador | The principal exports are oil, bananas, shrimp, and cut flowers, which, together with emigrant remittances and tourism, are the country's leading sources of foreign income. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Emigrant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.94% of the time. "Emigrant" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 52.94% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 44.12% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Emigrant, MT |
Expressions using "emigrant": emigrant community ♦ emigrant fare ♦ Emigrant Gap ♦ emigrant remittance ♦ political emigrant. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
emigrant savings bank | 92 |
the irish emigrant | 44 |
the emigrant | 41 |
bank emigrant | 40 |
emigrant wilderness | 28 |
emigrant mt | 22 |
emigrant mortgage | 18 |
emigrant lake | 16 |
emigrant gap ca | 13 |
emigrant savings | 11 |
emigrant montana | 10 |
emigrant mortgage company | 7 |
emigrant ship | 6 |
emigrant gap | 6 |
emigrant trail | 5 |
emigrant lake oregon | 5 |
croisieres emigrant | 4 |
emigrant hell | 3 |
emigrant springs | 2 |
emigrant trail wilderness | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "emigrant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | emigrues, emigrant (expatriate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهاجر (emigrating, immigrant, migrant, migratory), نازح, المهاجر (immigrant, migrant, pilgrim), النازح (bailer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | емигрантски, емигрант. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 移出境者, 僑 (reside abroad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | emigrantský, emigrant (refugee), vystìhovalec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | emigrant, udvandrer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | emigrant (migrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مهاجر (Colonist, Evacuee, Immigrant, Income, Migrant, Pilgrim, Refugee), کوچ کننده (Migrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | siirtolainen (colonist, immigrant, migrant, settler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | émigrant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | auswanderer (emigrants, expatriate, migrant, migrants), aussiedler (evacuee, migrant, refugee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άποικοσ (colonist, settler), απόδημοσ (ιmigrι, migrant), απόδημος,μετανάστης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ"'ר (immigrant, migratory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | emigráns (émigré, jimmy, migrant), kivándorló. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emigrante (migrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 移民 (emigration, immigrant, immigration), 移住者 (immigrant), 移住民 (immigrant), エマルジョン塗料 (ejaculation, emerald, emerald green, emery board, EMIfilter, emigration, eminent, emollient, emotion, emotionalism, emulate, emulation, emulator, emulsion, emulsion paint, error, error message, error-signal, M size, medium size). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いじゅうしゃ (immigrant), いじゅうみ" (immigrant), いみ" (emigration, immigrant, immigration), エミグラント . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이주민. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | arragher magh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | utvandrer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emigrantay emigrante (emigrate, migrant), emético (emetic, emetine, vomit, vomitive, vomitory). (various references) emigrant (émigré), de emigrant. (various references) эмигрант (йmigrй, emigre, expat, expatriate, refugee, remittance-man). (various references) emigrantski, emigrant, iseljenik (expatriate). (various references) emigrante (migrant). (various references) emigrant (émigré), utvandrare. (various references) muhacir (immigrant, refugee), göçmen (immigrant, incomer, migrant, migratory, settler). (various references) емігруючий, емігрант (exile, expatriate), переселенець (immigrant, migrant), перелітний (emigratory, migrant, migratory, visitant). (various references) người di cư (transmigrant, transmigrator), di cư (emigratory, transmigratory). (various references) ymfudwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emigrant": emigrants. (additional references) | |
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"Emigrant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amyrgian, Demorgan, Eigerman, emergant, emigrante, emmergant, emmigrant, imagrant, imegrant, imigrant, Lemagrut, Meigant, Meurant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emigrant" (pronounced e"mugrunt) |
| 7 | -m u g r u n t | immigrant. |
| 5 | -g r u n t | flagrant, fragrant, migrant, vagrant. |
| 4 | -r u n t | aberrant, abhorrent, adherent, apparent, arrant, celebrant, coherent, Courant, declarant, deterrent, entrant, errant, grandparent, hydrant, incoherent, indifferent, inherent, parent, quadrant, recalcitrant, registrant, seafront, torrent, transparent, tyrant, vibrant, warrant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, harassment, hesitant, ignorant, immanent, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vigilant, violent, virulent, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: remating. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: garment, germina, granite, gratine, ingrate, mangier, margent, marting, metring, migrant, migrate, minaret, mintage, ragtime, raiment, reaming, tangier, teaming, tearing, tegmina, terming. | |
-2 letters: aigret, airmen, argent, arming, earing, eating, engirt, engram, enigma, etamin, gainer, gaiter, gamier, gamine, garnet, german, gratin, imager, imaret, ingate, inmate, magnet, maigre, manger, margin, marine, marten, martin, mating, meting, minter, mirage, ragmen, ratine, rating, reagin, regain, regina, remain, remint, retain, retina, tamein, taming, taring, triage. | |
-3 letters: agent, aimer, ament, amine, anger, anime, antre, armet, entia, gamer, gamin, garni, giant, grain, grant, grate, great, grime, image, inarm, inert, inter, irate, mange, marge, mater, matin, meant, menta, merit, minae, miner, miter, mitre, namer, niter, nitre, ramen, ramet, ramie, range, regma, regna, reign, reman, remit, renig, retag, retia, riant, tamer, targe, tenia, terai, terga, tiger, timer, tinea, tinge, tragi, train, trine. | |
-4 letters: ager, agin, airn, airt, amen, amie, amin, amir, ante, anti, earn, emir, emit, etna, gaen, gain, gait, game, gane, gate, gear, gent, germ, geta, gien, girn, girt, gnar, gnat, gram, gran, grat, grim, grin, grit, item, mage, magi, main, mair, mane, mare, mart, mate, mean, meat, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mire, mite, name, near, neat, nema, nite, rage, ragi, rain, rami, rang, rani, rant, rate, ream, rein, rent, rime, ring, rite, tain, tame, tang, tare, tarn, team, tear, term, tern, tier, time, tine, ting, tire, tram, trig, trim. | |
-5 letters: age, aim, ain, air, ait, ami, ane, ani, ant, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eng, era, erg, ern, eta, gae, gam, gan, gar, gat, gem, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ire, mae, mag, man, mar, mat, meg, men, met, mig, mir, nae, nag, nam, net, nim, nit, rag, ram, ran, rat, reg, rei, rem, ret, ria, rig, rim, rin, tae, tag, tam, tan, tar, tea, teg, ten, tie, tin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: centigram, cremating, emigrants, germinate, marginate, marketing, mastering, mattering, morganite, nightmare, reteaming, streaming, tampering, trameling. | |
+2 letters: abridgment, antimerger, centigrams, emarginate, emigrating, emigration, ergotamine, garmenting, germinated, germinates, impregnant, impregnate, macerating, magnetizer, margenting, marginated, marginates, marketings, martingale, moderating, morganites, multirange, nightmares, numerating, permeating, pigmentary, regimental, rematching, restamping, ringmaster, smartening, smattering, stammering, steamering, streamings, tramelling, trammeling, trigeminal, triggerman. | |
+3 letters: abridgement, abridgments, argumentive, arraignment, attempering, centimorgan, charmingest, demarcating, drumbeating, earthmoving, emigrations, enumerating, ergotamines, ferrimagnet, fragmenting, fragmentize, gangsterism, garnishment, germinating, germination, germinative, impetrating, imprecating, impregnants, impregnated, impregnates, impregnator, magnetizers, maltreating, martingales, meliorating, merchanting, mercurating, misaltering, miscreating, misrelating, mistreating, ornamenting, outdreaming, prestamping, readmitting, realignment, reanimating, regimentals, remarketing, remastering, remediating, remigration, ringmasters, smatterings, terminating, trammelling, trigeminals. | |
+4 letters: abridgements, aeromagnetic, aggrievement, ameliorating, arraignments, centimorgans, counterimage, demagnetizer, disagreement, drumbeatings, earthmovings, emargination, ferrimagnets, fragmentized, fragmentizes, gangsterisms, garnishments, gastrocnemii, gastronomies, geometrician, germinations, gyromagnetic, heartwarming, impregnating, impregnation, impregnators, mastersinger, menstruating, metalworking, mineralogist, overmatching, paramagnetic, preadmitting, premalignant, premarketing, premigration, realignments, reassignment, reattempting, reestimating, reformatting, reimplanting, remigrations, remortgaging, remotivating, remunerating, renominating, steamrolling, streamlining, telegramming, terraforming, thermalizing, trademarking, transmigrate, ungerminated, watermarking. | |
+5 letters: administering, aggiornamento, agglomerating, agglomeration, aggrievements, anagrammatize, animadverting, argumentation, argumentative, cinematograph, commemorating, commiserating, conglomeratic, counterimages, demagnetizers, democratizing, demonstrating, disagreements, disparagement, emarginations, exterminating, ferrimagnetic, ferromagnetic, fragmentarily, fragmentating, fragmentation, fragmentizing, galvanometric, gastrocnemius, geometricians, germanization, germinability, histaminergic, hydromagnetic, impersonating, impregnations, integumentary, interferogram, intermarginal, intermarriage, intermarrying, magnetometric, mainstreaming, marginalities, masterminding, mastersingers, materialising, materializing, metalworkings, mineralogists, mousetrapping, mouthwatering, multiregional, overmastering, paramagnetism, parametrizing, perambulating, predominating, preformatting, premarketings, premeditating, prenominating, reassignments, recriminating, reformulating, regimentation, remonstrating, restimulating, slipstreaming, somersaulting, spermatogenic, spermatogonia, telemarketing, temporalizing, thermostating, transmigrated, transmigrates, troublemaking, vegetarianism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 69 67 72 61 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- .. --. .-. .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01101001 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m i g r a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0069 0067 0072 0061 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3979757384678086 |
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