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Highland Fling

Definition: Highland Fling

Highland Fling

Noun

1. A vigorous Scottish reel.

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

Modern Usage: Highland Fling

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Highland Fling (1936)

The Highland Fling (1898)

Highland Fling (1898)

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

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Commercial Usage: Highland Fling

DomainTitle

Books

  • Highland Fling (Black Lace) (reference)

  • Highland Fling (reference)

  • The Highland Fling Murders: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery, a Novel (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Amazing Grace: A Real Highland Fling (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Highland Fling

Photos:
Highland Fling

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Illustrations:
Highland Fling

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Highland Fling

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

  highland fling

13
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Modern Translations: Highland Fling

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

Romanian

  

dans impetuos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бурный шотландский танец. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Highland Fling

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-g-h-h-i-i-l-l-n-n"

-4 letters: finagling, infalling.

-5 letters: aligning, dangling, dialling, flailing, flanging, flinging, handling, highland, inhaling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Highland Fling


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

48 69 67 68 6C 61 6E 64      46 6C 69 6E 67

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

    

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

01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000110 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#70 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068 006C 0061 006E 0064      0046 006C 0069 006E 0067

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

427573747867807024078758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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