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Headspring

Definition: Headspring

Headspring

Noun

1. The source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream".

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

Synonyms: Headspring

Synonyms: fountainhead (n), head (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Headspring

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

Bulgarian 

  

извор (font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, head, lymph, origin, rise, seepage, source, spring, well, wellhead, wellspring). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pramen (fountain, head, source, spring, strand, streak, well, wellspring). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

forrás (boil, boiling, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, fermentation, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, parent, resource, seethe, source, spring, spring-head, well). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadspringhay

   

Portuguese

  

patrão de baleeira, nascente (draw well, fount, fountain, incipient, nastily, Orient, orientate, source, spring, Springhead, well, wellspring). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

izvor (beginning, bourn, Bourne, efflux, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, head, mine, mother, origin, origination, parent, quarry, rise, source, spring, well, wellhead). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

источник (derivation, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, grassroots, mine, mint, origin, parent, progenitor, provenance, radix, source, sources, spring, springhead, well, wellhead, well-head, wellspring). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

glavni izvor. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

primavera de cabeza. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kaynak (authorship, basis, beginning, birth, bottom, chapter and verse, context, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, fund, genesis, grass roots, inquiries, origin, parent, paternity, principle, provenance, quarter, reserve, resource, rise, root, root stock, roots, seeds, source, source material, source of supply, spore, spring, weld, welding, well, wellhead, wellspring, womb). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

джерело (authorship, beginning, channel, cradle, derivation, fount, fountain-head, lymph, origin, parent, paternity, principle, progenitor, quarry, radix, source, spring, well, wellspring, whence). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Headspring

Derivations

Words beginning with "headspring": headsprings. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Headspring

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: springhead.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-n-p-r-s"

-1 letter: garnished, handgrips, reshaping, respading, spreading.

-2 letters: adhering, deanship, deashing, deraigns, digraphs, gradines, hagrides, handgrip, harpings, headings, headpins, hearings, hearsing, heparins, phrasing, pinheads, raphides, readings, seraphin, sharping, shearing, spearing, sphering, sprained, springed.

-3 letters: airshed, aphides, aspired, dangers, daphnes, darings, dashier, dashing, deraign, despair, diapers, digraph, dingers, diphase, dishpan, dishrag, draping, earings, engirds, erasing, gainers, ganders, gardens, garnish, gnashed, gradine, gradins, grained, graphed, grasped, hagride, handier, hangers, hardens, hardies, harpies, harping, harpins, hasping, heading, headpin, heaping, hearing, hegaris, hegiras, heparin, herding, hernias, hinders, hingers, inphase, nerdish, panders, pandies, paniers, pardine, parings, parsing, pashing, phasing, phrased, pinders, pingers, pinhead, praised, pranged, randies, raphide, rapines, rasping, reading, reagins, reaping, regains, reginas, rehangs, sandier, sardine, searing, seringa, shadier, shading, shaping, sharing, sharped, sharpen, sharpie, shrined, spading, spaeing, sparged, sparing, spinage, springe.

-4 letters: aiders, angers, aphids, arisen, arpens, arshin, arsine, ashier, ashing, aspire, danger, danish, daphne, daring, dasher, deairs, deigns, denari, denars, design, diaper, dinars, diners, dinger, dinges, dirges, drains, drapes, dreigh, driegh, earing, easing, engird, gained, gainer, gander, gapers, garden, garish, gashed, gasher, gasped, gasper, geisha, genips, gerahs, girned, grades, gradin, grains, grands, grapes, graphs, grides, grinds, griped, gripes, hading, haeing, haired, hanged, hanger, harden, haring, harped, harpin, hasped, hegari, hegira, hernia, hiders, hinder, hinged, hinger, hinges, irades, nadirs, neighs, nighed, nigher, padres, pagers, pained, paired, pander, panged, panier, pardie, parged, parges, paries, paring, parish, parsed, pashed, perish, phages, phased, phrase, pinder, pinged, pinger, pished, praise, prangs, prides, prised, radish, rained, raised, ranged, ranges, ranids, raphes, raphis, rapids, rapine, raping, rasing, rasped, reagin, redans, redias, reding, redips, regain, regina, rehang, reigns, renigs, repaid, repand, repins, resaid, reship, resign, ridges, ringed, rinsed, ripens, sagier, sained, sander, sandhi, sanger, seraph, sering, shader, shaird, shairn, shaped, shapen, shaper, shared, sherpa, shined, shiner, shrine, sighed, sigher, signed, signer, singed, singer, snared, snider, sniped, sniper, spader, spared, sparge, sparid, spider, spined, spirea, spired, sprain, sprang, spread, spring.

-5 letters: aegis, agers, aider, aides, aired, airns, anger, anise, apers, aphid, aphis, aping, apish, apres, arise, arpen, ashed, ashen, aside, aspen, asper, dangs, dares, darns, dashi, deair, deans, dears, deash, degas, deign, denar, dinar, diner, dines, dinge, dings, dirge, drags, drain, drape, dregs, dries, drips, earns, egads, ephas, gadis, gains, gaped, gaper, gapes, garni, gears, genip, gerah, girds, girns, girsh, gnars, gnash, grade, grads, grain, grand, grans, grape, graph, grasp, gride, grids, grind, grins, gripe, grips, hades, hairs, hands, hangs, hanse, hards, hared, hares, harps, heads, heaps, heard, hears, heirs, herds, herns, hider, hides, hinds, hinge, hired, hires.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-n-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: headsprings, springheads.

 

+2 letters: spearheading.

 

+3 letters: pharyngitides.

 

+4 letters: predischarging, superhardening.

 

+5 letters: misapprehending, pseudepigraphon.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Headspring


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

48 65 61 64 73 70 72 69 6E 67

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01110011 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#115 &#112 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0064 0073 0070 0072 0069 006E 0067

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

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

42716770858284758073

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INDEX

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


  

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