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Mull Over

Definition: Mull Over

Mull Over

Verb

1. Reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate".

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


Synonyms: Mull Over

Synonyms: chew over (v), contemplate (v), excogotate (v), meditate (v), mull (v), muse (v), ponder (v), reflect (v), ruminate (v), speculate (v), think over (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Mull Over

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

Albanian

  

mendoj mirë, rrah me mend (debate). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هدس (cogitate). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

мисля върху (debate, mull). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

醞釀 (carry on a preliminary round of exploratory discussions). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přemítat o. (various references)

   

French

  

mâcher, ruminer, réfléchir . (various references)

   

German

  

sich durch den kopf gehen lassen. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"ר"ר ב- (cogitate, think over). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tanakodik (to deliberate), töpreng (ponder, ruminate, speculate, thought, to brood on sg, to brood over sg, to mull, to mull over sg, to reflect, to reflect on, to speculate, to think), tûnõdik valamin. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mempertimbangkan (balance, consider, envisage, ponder), berbatin. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ullmay overay

   

Russian 

  

размышлять (cogitate, contemplate, meditate, meditated, meditating, muse about, perpend, ratiocinate, reason, reflect, speculate, speculated, speculates), обмозговать (turn over in one's mind). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razmišljati (cogitate, contemplate, debate, deliberate, meditate, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

meditar sobre. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uzun uzadıya düşünmek, derin düşünmek, düşünüp taşınmak (calculate, chew, cogitate, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think over, turn over, turn over in one's mind, weigh, worry out). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ikirjinlemek (think upon). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

обмірковувати (cast, chew, deliberate, discuss, perpend, ponder, ponderate, revolve, think over, turn over). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Mull Over

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-l-m-o-r-u-v"

-2 letters: louver, louvre, muller, vellum, velour, volume.

-3 letters: lemur, lover, morel, mover, oleum, ovule, velum, vomer.

-4 letters: euro, levo, lore, lour, love, lure, mell, meou, merl, mole, moll, more, moue, move, mule, mull, mure, omer, orle, over, ovum, role, roll, roue, rove, rule, vole.

-5 letters: ell, elm, emu, leu, lev, lum, luv, mel, mol, mor.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-l-m-o-r-u-v"
 

+2 letters: marvellous.

 

+3 letters: marvelously.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Mull Over


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

4D 75 6C 6C      4F 76 65 72

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

    

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

01001101 01110101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#117 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#79 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0075 006C 006C      004F 0076 0065 0072

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

47877878249887184

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INDEX

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


  

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