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Definition: Lost Cause |
Lost CauseNoun1. A defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Lost Cause |
| English words defined with "lost cause": disorient, disorientate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lost cause": bang path ♦ FUEL-OIL CLERK. (references) |
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Lost Cause is an album by Jandek (1992). Corwood Industries release #0759.
Track Listing:
Album Cover Description
Color snapshot of head and shoulders of Boy Jandek, looking about 17 although it's hard to tell, wearing a plaid shirt and standing in front of a curtain (apparently Jandek's liking for drawn curtains is of long standing). His hair is cut conservatively short, the only such photo of him (although he looks a little older than the Follow Your Footsteps cover guitarist, who clearly hadn't had a haircut in quite some time). -- Seth Tisue
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![]() | The lost cause. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Six advertising labels for "Lost Cause" Pearline, manufactured by Barnum & Starbird, Louisville, K.Y., showing head-and-shoulders portrait photographs of G.T. Beauregard, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, John H. Morgan, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, and Stone. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Hartmann | Look, David, I know you're counting on me to play a key role in your hollow charade, but I'm afraid it's a lost cause. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lost cause | 46 |
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| Language | Translations for "lost cause"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ע ין אבו" (hopeless case). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostlay ausecay cauzã pierdutã. (various references) безнадежное дело (forlorn hope). (various references) kaybedilmiş sayılan iş, ümitsiz iş. (various references) sự nghiệp chắc chắn thất bại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cassoulet, osculates. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: coatless, cutlases, lacteous, lactoses, locustae, osculate, outclass, seascout. | |
-2 letters: acetous, caestus, caseous, castles, clauses, closest, closets, coteaus, cuestas, cutlass, lactose, locates, locusta, locusts, lotuses, oscules, salutes, solaces, solates, solutes, sulcate, talcose, talcous, taluses, tousles. | |
-3 letters: acutes, ascots, castes, castle, caules, causes, cestas, cestos, cestus, clasts, clause, cleats, closes, closet, clouts, coasts, coleus, cosets. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cassoulets, consulates, outclassed, outclasses. | |
+2 letters: inosculates, leucoplasts, sansculotte, speculators. | |
+3 letters: emasculators, postulancies, sansculottes, speculations. | |
+4 letters: autocatalyses, cleistogamous, consultancies, counterblasts, emasculations, gesticulators, nucleotidases, proconsulates, subadolescent, vesiculations. | |
+5 letters: claustrophobes, conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, constabularies, counterassault, documentalists, encapsulations, gesticulations, overspeculates, subadolescents, subcutaneously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 6F 73 74      43 61 75 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L o s t   C a u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 006F 0073 0074      0043 0061 0075 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4681858623767878571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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