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Definition: Gantlet |
GantletNoun1. The convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gantlet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A narrowing of two single railway tracks almost into the space of one, as on a bridge or in a tunnel, without breaking the continuity of either track by a switch, the two tracks overlapping each other. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Bell the cat, take the bull by the horns, beard the lion in his den, march up to the cannon's mouth, go through fire and water, run the gantlet. |
Punishment | Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gantlet |
| English words defined with "gantlet": Gantlope ♦ To run the gantlet. (references) |
Expressions using "gantlet": fling down the gantlet ♦ run the gantlet ♦ To run the gantlet. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "gantlet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndëshkim me rrahje (gauntlet), dorashka pune (gauntlet), dorëz kalorësie (gauntlet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рицарска ръкавица (gauntlet), официална дамска ръкавица (gauntlet). (various references) | |
Farsi | محل تلاقی دوخطراه اهن , تلاقی کردن , دستکش (Chevron, Glove). (various references) | |
Greek | περιχειρίσ (muff, wristlet), τιμωρία (castigation, chastisement, correction, penalization, penalty, punishment, retribution). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágányfonódás (gauntlet), páncélkesztyû (gauntlet), hosszúszárú kesztyû (gauntlet). (various references) | |
Italian | guanto di sfida (gauntlet), guanto di armatura (gauntlet), guanto (gauntlet, glove), manopola (gauntlet, grip, hand grip, handgrip, handle, knob, mitt, mitten). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antletgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ganóide, manopla (gauntlet, hook). (various references) | |
Russian | сквозь строй. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rukavica u znak izazova (gauntlet), šiba (birch, gauntlet, splint, switch). (various references) | |
Spanish | guantelete (gauntlet), pozo (cesspool, core, cored hole, draw well, fountain, gauntlet, hole, hopper, kike, lifting hole, mine, pit, pool, shaft, sink, slot, well, wells). (various references) | |
Turkish | zırh eldiveni (gauntlet), eldiven (glove, mitt, mitten), düelloya davet için yere atılan eldiven (gauntlet). (various references) | |
Ukranian | рукавиця (gauntlet, mitten, muffler), проганяння крізь стрій (gauntlet). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gantlet": gantleted, gantleting, gantlets. (additional references) | |
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"Gantlet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gansleit, gantelet, Gantzer, Gattleton, gautlet, genotext, gontlet, guantlet, Guntley, mantelet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gantlet" (pronounced gô"ntlut) |
| 7 | g ô" n t l u t | gauntlet. |
| 4 | -t l u t | platelet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: gelant, latent, latten, talent, tangle. | |
-2 letters: agent, aglet, angel, angle, glean, laten, latte, leant. | |
-3 letters: ante, egal, elan, etna, gaen, gale, gane, gate, gelt, gent, geta, glen, gnat, lane, lang, late, lean, lent, neat, nett, tael, tale, tang, tate, teal, teat, tela, tent. | |
-4 letters: age, ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, att, eat, eng, eta, gae, gal, gan, gat, gel, gen, get, lag, lat, lea, leg, let, nae, nag, net, tae, tag, tan, tat, tea, teg, tel, ten, tet. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, al, an, at, el, en, et, la, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: gantlets, gauntlet. | |
+2 letters: gantleted, gauntlets, gestalten, tableting, tangliest, tegmental. | |
+3 letters: alightment, blattering, clattering, embattling, ethylating, etiolating, flattening, flattering, gantleting, gauntleted, levitating, tabletting, tangential, tanglement, tetragonal, tolerating. | |
+4 letters: acetylating, agglutinate, alightments, altercating, alternating, battlewagon, elutriating, gauntleting, gestational, gesticulant, glutathione, integrality, leafletting, maltreating, methylating, outbleating, reallotting, reluctating, retaliating, splattering, stalemating, strangulate, tanglements, teetotaling, telecasting, triangulate, ventilating. | |
+5 letters: adulterating, agglutinated, agglutinates, alliterating, astringently, battleground, battlewagons, clatteringly, conglutinate, congratulate, debilitating, earsplitting, entanglement, entreatingly, felicitating, flatteringly, glutathiones, hesitatingly, intertillage, legitimating, legitimation, multimegaton, nematologist, obliterating, preallotting, reticulating, scatteringly, shatteringly, snaggleteeth, snaggletooth, strangulated, strangulates, stringhalted, tangentially, teetotalling, tessellating, tetragonally, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, unflattering, vegetational. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6E 74 6C 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -. - .-.. . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a n t l e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006E 0074 006C 0065 0074 |
| 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)41678086787186 |
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