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Fingerbreadth

Definition: Fingerbreadth

Fingerbreadth

Noun

1. The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.

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

Synonyms: Fingerbreadth

Synonyms: digit (n), finger (n), finger's breadth (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Fingerbreadth

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

Hebrew 

  

אצבע "מרא" (forefinger, index). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Fingerbreadth

Misspellings

"Fingerbreadth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fingrebreadth. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Fingerbreadth

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-g-h-i-n-r-r-t"

-2 letters: harbingered, rethreading.

-3 letters: bighearted, brightened, brightener, feathering, federating, frightened, hibernated, inbreathed, ingathered, intergrade, redrafting, retreading.

-4 letters: bartender, bartering, befringed, beheading, benighted, breathier, breathing, debarring, defeating, deferring, denigrate, deterring, engrafted, fathering, ferreting, firebrand, freighted, freighter, gaberdine, gratineed, grenadier, harbinger, herniated, hibernate, inbreathe, inearthed, ingrafted, interbred, irredenta, refrained, regrafted, regranted, rehearing, reheating, rereading, retarding, retearing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fingerbreadth


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

46 69 6E 67 65 72 62 72 65 61 64 74 68

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)

01000110 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#114 &#98 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072 0062 0072 0065 0061 0064 0074 0068

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

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

40758073718468847167708674

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INDEX

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


  

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