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Espial

Definition: Espial

Espial

Noun

1. 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: Espial

Synonyms: catching (n), detection (n), spotting (n), spying (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Espial

English words defined with "espial": Espiaille. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Espial

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

espial

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Espial

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

   

Portuguese

  

esperanto (Esperanto). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

urmãrire (chase, drive, eye, hunting, prosecution, pursuance, pursuit), spionare. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тайное наблюдение. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

špijuniranje (spying). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

espionaje (espionage, spying). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вистежування. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự theo dõi, sự dọ thám (recce). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Espial

Derivations

Words beginning with "espial": espials. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Espial"

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)

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Anagrams: Espial

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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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Espial


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

45 73 70 69 61 6C

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 01110011 01110000 01101001 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#115 &#112 &#105 &#97 &#108

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)

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

398582756778

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INDEX

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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