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Definition: Espial |
EspialNoun1. The act of detecting something; catching sight of something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "espial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1819. (references) |
Etymology: Espial \Es*pi"al\, noun. [from Old English expression Norm. French espiaille. See Espy.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: EspialSynonyms: catching (n), detection (n), spotting (n), spying (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Espial |
| English words defined with "espial": Espiaille. (references) |
| 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 |
espial | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "espial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vëzhgim (look out, monitoring, notice, sampling, surveillance, watch), spiunim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съзиране, шпиониране (espionage), дебнене (prowl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | špionážní (undercover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | remarque. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατασκόπευση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kémlelés (probing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spiare (spy, spy on, wait for), spiamento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | speeikeyrys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | espialay esperanto (Esperanto). (various references) urmãrire (chase, drive, eye, hunting, prosecution, pursuance, pursuit), spionare. (various references) тайное наблюдение. (various references) špijuniranje (spying). (various references) espionaje (espionage, spying). (various references) вистежування. (various references) sự theo dõi, sự dọ thám (recce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "espial": espials. (additional references) | |
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"Espial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aspal, eapial, ecpial, edpial, eepial, empisal, epeal, epia, Epinal, episal, epual, Espgan, espiar, espinal, Eusapia, Resipol, Vespidae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "espial" (pronounced 'Es*pi"al'): Abyssal, Accrual, Accusal, Actinozoal, Adjournal, Albuminoidal, Amenorrhoeal, Anomal, Anthropoidal, Apogeal, Apohyal, Appraisal, Apprizal, Approval, Arachnoidal, Arctogeal, Arousal, Arrival, Asteroidal, Avowal, Axal, Balmoral, Banal, Basihyal, Beheadal, Bequeathal, Bestowal, Betrayal, Betrothal, Botryoid, Botryoidal, Burghal, Carousal, Catarrhal, Cemental, Ceratohyal, Choroidal, Cital, Coastal, Cockal, Colloidal, Comprisal, Conchoidal, Conoidal, Convival, CORAL, Coralloidal, Cordal, Cotidal, Crinoidal. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lipase. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: aisle, lapis, lapse, leaps, pails, paise, pales, peals, pilea, piles, pleas, plies, salep, sepal, sepia, slipe, spail, spale, speil, spiel, spile. | |
-2 letters: ails, ales, alps, apes, apse, ilea, isle, laps, lase, leap, leas, leis, lies, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, pail, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, pial, pias, pies, pile, plea, plie, sail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: alipeds, alpines, aplites, applies, elapids, espials, impales, lapides, lapises, lipases, paisley, paliest, palsied, palsies, pineals, plaices, platies, pleiads, spaniel, special, splenia, talipes. | |
+2 letters: allspice, appliers, biplanes, calipees, calipers, capelins, displace, earlship, elapsing, epiblast, episomal, espalier, especial, explains, fleapits, haplites, harelips, helipads, impalers, impanels, impearls, impleads, jalopies, lapsible, lempiras, maniples, misplace, misplead, opalines, painless, paisleys, palewise, palisade, palliest, palmiest, panelist, panicles, pantiles, parslied, passible, pastille, pelicans, pelorias, penalise, perillas, piebalds, pilaster, pillages, pinwales, plainest, plaister, plaiters, plashier, platiest, plausive, pleasing, pleiades, polarise, pralines, prevails, replicas, reprisal, sandpile, sepaline, sepaloid, septical, skiplane, slipcase, slippage, slipware, soaplike, spadille, spaniels, sparlike, specials, spiculae, spillage, spinulae, spiracle, spiraled, spirulae, splenial, spoilage, spoliate, stapelia, talipeds, tieclasp, wasplike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 73 70 69 61 6C |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ... .--. .. .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110011 01110000 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E s p i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0073 0070 0069 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398582756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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