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Definition: Fingerspell |
FingerspellVerb1. Communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to Sign Language; "The Deaf often fingerspell". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
fingerspell | 2 |
asl fingerspell | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Fingerspell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fingerspellng, fingerspelt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-i-l-l-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: preselling, respelling. | |
-2 letters: refelling, repelling, reselling. | |
-3 letters: feelings, feigners, fleering, flingers, peelings, pilsener, prefiles, sleeping, speeling, speering, spelling, spinelle. | |
-4 letters: ellipse, erepsin, feeling, feigner, felines, fellers, fellies, felling, ferlies, fillers, fingers, fleeing, flenser, flinger, freeing, fresnel, fringes, gillers, greisen, grilles, leering, liernes, lingers, nellies, peeling, peering, pensile, pilfers, pilsner, pingers, preeing, prefile, prelife, presell. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6E 67 65 72 73 70 65 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01000110 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110000 01100101 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i n g e r s p e l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072 0073 0070 0065 006C 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)4075807371848582717878 |
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