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Endways

Definitions: Endways

Endways

Adverb

1. On end or upright; "sticks leaning against the wall endways".

2. In or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise; "endways pressure".

3. With the end forward or toward the observer; "houses built endways".

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

Date "endways" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)



Synonyms: Endways

Synonyms: end on (adv), endwise (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Endways

English words defined with "endways": -ways. (references)

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Modern Translations: Endways

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

Albanian

  

vertikalisht (endwise, Plumb, vertically), për së gjati (endwise, longways, longwise), në këmbë (afoot, endwise, on the hoof, upright, upstanding), kokë me kokë, drejt fundit (endwise). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

с края напред (endwise), с допрени краища (endwise), по дължина (endwise, longitudinal, longwise), изправено (endwise, straight, upright). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zdlouhavý (circuitous, lengthy, long, tardy, tedious), podélný (longitudinal), podél (along, alongside, by, endwise, lengthways, up), po délce (endwise, longways, longwise). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نوک بنوک (Endwise), سربسر (Endwise), ازطول (Endwise), ازانتها (Endwise). (various references)

   

German

  

mit den enden aneinander (endwise), mit dem ende nach vorne (endwise). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מקצ" אל קצ" (from stem to stern), עם קצ" ק"ימ". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

végével egymáshoz illesztve (end to end, endwise), hosszában (all along, along, alongside, endlong, endwise, fore-and-aft, lengthways, lengthwise, longways, longwise), felállítva (endwise, on end). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tegak (endwise, erect). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

똑"로 (Endwise, straight). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ny hassoo (standing, stationary), er e lhiurid, er e chione. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

endwaysay

   

Portuguese

  

sofredor (sufferer, suffering), de pé (standing, up, upstanding). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, equitable, erect, even, evenly, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright), cu capul înainte (headlong), cap la cap, în picioare (erect, on one's feet, standing), în lung (longways, longwise). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стоймя (endlong, endwise, on end), вверх (endwise, up, upstair, upward, upwardly, upwards), вдоль (along, lengthways, up), отвесно (endwise, sheer), прямо (avowedly, bang, direct, directly, endlong, endwise, erect, foursquare, head-on, in plain English, just, on the level, outright, plainly, plump, point blank, slap, spang, squarely, straight, straight from the shoulder, straight out, straightly, up and down, uprightly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uspravno (endwise, uprightly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rectamente (aright, endwise, fairly, uprightly), de punta (endwise, on end), de pie (endwise), de lado (edgeways, endwise, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

upprest (endwise, raised), på enda (endwise), med spetsen före (endwise). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ucu öne doğru (endwise), uç uca (endwise), dik olarak (endwise, on end, perpendicularly, straight, upright). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сторч (an-end, apeak, endlong, endwise, on end), уздовж (aboard, along, endwise, lengthways, up), кінцем уперед (endwise). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Endways

Derivations

Words ending with "endways": bendways. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Endways" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Endaby, kennaways, lendvay, Nduwayo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Endways

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-s-w-y"

-1 letter: dewans, sawney, snawed, swayed, yawned.

-2 letters: awned, dawen, dawns, deans, dewan, dynes, newsy, sandy, saned, sawed, sedan, sewan, wades, wands, waned, wanes, waney, weans, wends, wynds, yawed, yawns, yeans.

-3 letters: ands, anes, anew, awed, awes, awns, awny, ayes, dawn, daws, days, dean, dens, deny, dews, dewy, deys, dyes, dyne, easy, ends, eyas, nays, news, sade, sand, sane, sawn, send, sewn, snaw, sned, snye, swan, sway, syne, wade, wads, wady, waes, wand, wane, wans, wany, ways, wean, weds, wend, wens, wyes, wynd, wyns, yawn, yaws, yean, yeas, yens, yews.

-4 letters: ads, and, ane, any, awe, awn, aye, ays, daw, day, den, dew, dey, dye, eds, end, ens, nae, naw, nay, new, sad, sae, saw, say, sea, sen, sew, syn, wad, wae, wan, was, way, wed, wen, wye, wyn, yaw, yea, yen, yes, yew.

-5 letters: ad, ae, an, as, aw, ay, de, ed, en, es, na, ne, we, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-s-w-y"
 

+1 letter: bendways, unswayed.

 

+3 letters: wyandottes.

 

+4 letters: waywardness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Endways


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

45 6E 64 77 61 79 73

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -.    -..    .--.    .-    -.--.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000101 01101110 01100100 01110111 01100001 01111001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#100 &#119 &#97 &#121 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0064 0077 0061 0079 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

39807089679185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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