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Gargoylism

Definition: Gargoylism

Gargoylism

Noun

1. Hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation.

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

Synonyms: Gargoylism

Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex (n), lipochondrodystrophy (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gargoylism

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

gargoylism

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gargoylism

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

Pig Latin

  

argoylismgay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Gargoylism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-l-m-o-r-s-y"

-2 letters: algorism, royalism.

-3 letters: girasol, glamors, gliomas, glorias, isogamy, isogram, loggias, oralism, soggily.

-4 letters: aggros, algors, aliyos, amigos, argils, argols, argosy, gamily, glairs, glairy, glamor, glioma, gloams, gloria, gorals, gorily, grails, grimly, grisly, imagos, largos, loggia, lyrism, mayors, mislay, molars, morals, morays, ogrism, orgasm, riyals, rosily, royals, sailor, slaggy, smoggy.

-5 letters: aggro, agios, agism, algor, amigo, amirs, amyls, argil, argol, arils, aryls, gaily, gaols, gigas, girls, girly, giros, gismo, glair, glary, glias, glims, gloam, gloms, glory, goals, goral, gorsy, goyim, grail, grams, grays, grigs, grimy, grogs, gyral, gyros, imago, lairs, largo, laris, liars, limas, limos, liras, loams, loamy, loggy, logia, loris, mails, mairs, marls, marly, mayor, mayos, miggs, milos, moggy, moils, moira, molar, molas, moral, moras, moray, ogams, orals, raggy, ragis, rails, rials, riyal, roams, roils, roily, royal, saggy, salmi, sigma, simar, slimy, soggy, solar, yagis, yogas, yogis.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-l-m-o-r-s-y"
 

+5 letters: lymphangiograms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Gargoylism


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

47 61 72 67 6F 79 6C 69 73 6D

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)

01000111 01100001 01110010 01100111 01101111 01111001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#114 &#103 &#111 &#121 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0072 0067 006F 0079 006C 0069 0073 006D

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

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

41678473819178758579

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INDEX

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


  

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