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Latchstring

Definition: Latchstring

Latchstring

Noun

1. Opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside.

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

Synonyms within Context: Latchstring

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Friendship

Verb: be friendly; Adjective:, be friends; be acquainted with; Adjective: know; have the ear of; keep company with;(sociality); hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will; (benevolent); love; make much of; befriend; (aid); introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly; Adjective: make friends; with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.

Sociality

Be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Latchstring

English words defined with "latchstring": Sneck bandTo find the latchstring out. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Latchstring

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Latchstring Was Always Out: A History of Lodging, Hospitality, and Tourism in Bartlett, New Hampshire (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Expression: Latchstring

Expression using "latchstring": To find the latchstring out. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Latchstring

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

Greek 

  

σπάγγοσ ανοίγματοσ αυτόματου κλείθρου. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atchstringlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Latchstring

Derivations

Words beginning with "latchstring": latchstrings. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Latchstring

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-l-n-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: stringhalt.

-2 letters: rattlings, starching, starlight, startling, trachling.

-3 letters: archings, carlings, castling, catlings, chagrins, charting, chartist, chatting, clashing, crashing, inthrals, latching, lathings, rattling, ringhals, scarting, scathing, scatting, slatting, starling, starting, straight, tracings, trashing.

-4 letters: actings, alights, alright, archils, arching, astrict, athirst, carling, carlins, carlish, carting, cashing, casting, catling, catlins, catting, cattish, chagrin, charing, chasing, chitals, citrals, crating, garlics, garnish, gastric, gastrin, gnathic, gratins, halting, hasting, hatting, inthral, lacings, largish, lashing, lasting, lathing, lattins, narcist, racings, ratings, ratlins, ratting, rattish, sacring, salting, scaling, scaring, scraigh, sharing, slating, staling, staring, starlit, stating, tachist, talcing, tantric, tarnish, tarting, tartish, tasting, tincals, tracing, tragics, transit.

-5 letters: aching, acting, actins, airths, algins, alight, aligns, antics, archil, arcing, argils, aright, arshin, artist, ashing, attics, cairns, canthi, caring, carlin, casing, catlin, chains, chairs, changs, chants, charts, chinas, chints, chiral, chital, cigars, citral, clangs, clings, crista, gainst, garish, garlic, garths, gaslit, giants, girths, glacis, glairs, glints, glitch, gnarls, grails, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, grinch, griths, haling, haring, hating, inarch, instal, instar, intact, lacing, laichs, laighs, lasing, lathis, latish, lattin, liangs, lichts, ligans, lights, linacs, lingas, nastic, nights, rachis, racing, racist, rasing, rating, ratlin, rhinal, rictal, rights, santir, sating, shairn, shanti, signal, slatch, slight, snatch, snitch, stanch, starch, static, stitch, strain, strait, strang, strath, strati, strict, string, tahsil, taints, tanist, taring, things, thirls, thirst, ticals, tights, tilths, tincal, tincts, titans, tracts, tragic, trails, trains, traits, triacs, trials, trinal.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-l-n-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: latchstrings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Latchstring


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

4C 61 74 63 68 73 74 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)

.-..    .-    -    -.-.    ....    ...    -    .-.    ..    -.    --.

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

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

01001100 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0074 0063 0068 0073 0074 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)

4667866974858684758073

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INDEX

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


  

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