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GRICK

Specialty Definition: GRICK

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Grick /grik/ (WPI, first used by Tim Haven to describe "grick trigonometry", a shortcut method of determing attack angles in grid-based games like Star Trek) Any integral increment of measurement. E.g. "Please turn the stereo up a few gricks". (1995-01-31). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Anagrams: GRICK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-i-k-r"

-1 letter: rick.

-2 letters: cig, ick, irk, kir, rig.

 Words containing the letters "c-g-i-k-r"
 

+2 letters: arcking, carking, corking, racking, recking, ricking, rocking, rucking.

 

+3 letters: bricking, charking, chirking, clerking, cracking, cranking, creaking, cricking, croaking, crocking, crooking, frocking, garlicky, gimcrack, gridlock, gripsack, pricking, ringneck, rockling, ruckling, tracking, tricking, trocking, trucking, wracking, wrecking, wricking.

 

+4 letters: bickering, cankering, cockering, crackings, crackling, crankling, crinkling, dackering, dickering, freckling, garlicked, gimcracks, gimmickry, goldbrick, greensick, gridlocks, gripsacks, kingcraft, lackering, nickering, prickings, prickling, puckering, racketing, rackingly, ragpicker, reckoning, recocking, recooking, recorking, redocking, relocking, repacking, reracking, retacking, ringnecks, rocketing, rocklings, screaking, suckering, trackings, trickling, truckings, truckling, tuckering, uncorking, wreckings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GRICK


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

47 52 49 43 4B

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 01010010 01001001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0049 0043 004B

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

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

4152433745

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