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Endwise

Definitions: Endwise

Endwise

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



Synonyms: Endwise

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

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Synonyms within Context: Endwise

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

Verticality

Adverb: vertically; Adjective: up, on end; up on end, right on end; a plomb, endwise; one one's legs; at right angles.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Endwise

English words defined with "endwise": End playJoint boltTelescopical, thrust bearing, toggle joint-ways. (references)

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Modern Translations: Endwise

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

Albanian

  

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

   

Arabic 

  

‏طولا (lengthwise), ‏رأسا لراس, ‏بالطول (lengthways, lengthwise, longwise). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

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

   

Czech

  

podél (along, alongside, by, endways, lengthways, up), po délce (endways, longways, longwise). (various references)

   

Danish

  

aksialt tryk (compression parallel to the grain, end compression, endwise compression). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

druk in de langsrichting (compression parallel to the grain, end compression, endwise compression). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

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

   

Finnish

  

puristuslujuus puun syiden suuntaan (compression parallel to the grain, end compression, endwise compression). (various references)

   

French

  

en long, bout bout. (various references)

   

German

  

aufrecht (direct, directly, erect, straigh ahead, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αξονική(διαμήκης)συμπίεσις,συμπίεσις ινών,συμπίεσις παράλληλος προς τας ίνας (compression parallel to the grain, end compression, endwise compression). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

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

   

Indonesian

  

terdiri (consist, consist of, suddenly stand up), tegak (endways, erect). (various references)

   

Italian

  

di faccia. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

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

   

Pig Latin

  

endwiseay

   

Portuguese

  

longitudinalmente (enema, lengthwise, lengthy, long lasting, long winded, Looby). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стоймя (endlong, endways, on end). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uspravno (endways, uprightly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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

   

Swedish

  

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

   

Turkish

  

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

   

Ukranian 

  

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

   

Vietnamese 

  

đầu dựng ngược đầu quay về phía người nhìn (endwaysa), đầu đưa ra đằng trước châu đầu v o nhau (endwaysa). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Endwise

Derivations

Words ending with "endwise": bendwise. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Endwise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endis, endise, endism, endris, enwies, genwise. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Endwise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sinewed.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-s-w"

-1 letter: denies, dienes, dwines, newies, newsie, seined, widens.

-2 letters: denes, dense, diene, dines, dwine, needs, newie, nides, seine, sewed, sinew, snide, swede, swine, weeds, weens, wends, widen, wides, winds, wined, wines, wised.

-3 letters: dees, dene, deni, dens, dews, dies, dine, dins, eide, ends, ewes, ides, need, news, nide, seed, seen, send, sene, sewn, side, sine, sned, weds, weed, ween, wees, wend, wens, wide, wind, wine, wins, wise.

-4 letters: dee, den, dew, die, din, dis, eds, end, ens, ewe, ids, ins, nee, new, see, sei, sen, sew, sin, wed, wee, wen, win, wis.

-5 letters: de, ed, en, es, id, in, is, ne, si, we.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-s-w"
 

+1 letter: bendwise, dewiness, pinweeds, rewidens, wideners, wideness.

 

+2 letters: bindweeds, entwisted, ironweeds, rewinders, rosinweed, stinkweed, swineherd, weediness, weirdness, wendigoes, witnessed.

 

+3 letters: dewinesses, disendowed, disendower, eiderdowns, indwellers, jimsonweed, midwestern, rosinweeds, sidewinder, stinkweeds, swineherds, tweediness, underwires, wardenries, wickedness, widenesses, wilderness, wildnesses, windscreen.

 

+4 letters: bawdinesses, dinnerwares, disendowers, dowdinesses, jimsonweeds, rowdinesses, sidewinders, underwrites, unwieldiest, unwitnessed, viewfinders, weedinesses, weirdnesses, westernised, westernized, wilderments, windinesses, windscreens, wintertides, woodinesses, wordinesses.

 

+5 letters: breadwinners, disendowment, drowsinesses, intertwisted, inwardnesses, misknowledge, tawdrinesses, tweedinesses, underweights, underwriters, unwieldiness, wickednesses, wildernesses, windbreakers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Endwise


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

45 6E 64 77 69 73 65

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 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#100 &#119 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0064 0077 0069 0073 0065

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

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

39807089758571

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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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