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HELD WATER

Specialty Definition: HELD WATER

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Geography

Subsurface water that partially occupies interstices in the zone of aeration. It comprises hygroscopic, pellicular, mobile, and fringe water. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: HELD WATER

Specialty definitions using "HELD WATER": water of capillarity. (references)

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Use in Literature: HELD WATER

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He could not see the base of the tree, for it grew out of a little swale that held water longer than the level places.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: HELD WATER

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

French

  

eau suspendue. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eldhay aterway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HELD WATER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-l-r-t-w"

-1 letter: haltered, lathered, wreathed.

-2 letters: alerted, altered, dewater, earthed, haltere, hearted, leather, leeward, related, tarweed, thrawed, trawled, treadle, watered, weather, whereat, wrathed, wreathe.

-3 letters: adhere, aether, daleth, dartle, dealer, dearth, delate, derate, drawee, elated, elater, halted, halter, hatred, header, healed, healer, heated, heater, herald, hereat, lathed, lather, leader, lewder, redate, reheat, relate, reweld, teared.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-l-r-t-w"
 

+2 letters: cartwheeled, leatherwood.

 

+3 letters: leatherwoods, wholehearted.

 

+4 letters: downheartedly.

 

+5 letters: wholeheartedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HELD WATER


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

48 45 4C 44      57 41 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01001000 01000101 01001100 01000100 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#76 &#68 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 004C 0044      0057 0041 0054 0045 0052

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

4239463825735543952

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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