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Definition: Nonliteral |
NonliteralAdjective1. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Nonliteral" is a common misspelling or typo for: nonlinear. |
Synonym: NonliteralSynonym: figurative (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: literal (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nonliteral |
| English words defined with "nonliteral": figure, figure of speech ♦ image ♦ liberally ♦ trope. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: anointer, antiroll, internal, lanoline, oriental, reanoint, relation. | |
-3 letters: aileron, alienor, antlion, elation, enation, entrain, intoner, lanolin, lantern, latrine, literal, litoral, ralline, ratline, reallot, reliant, retinal, retinol, tallier, ternion, toenail, trenail. | |
-4 letters: aliner, anoint, antler, aroint, atoner, enroll, entail, entoil, eolian, eonian, etalon, inaner, innate, intern, intone, intron, lanner, larine, latino, learnt, lentil, lienal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: crenellation, intolerantly. | |
+3 letters: crenellations, intercolonial, inventorially, nonelectrical, nonfilterable. | |
+4 letters: concentrically, generationally, incontrollable, interpellation, nomenclatorial, noncrystalline, reinstallation. | |
+5 letters: counterrallying, environmentally, grandiloquently, internationally, interpellations, interpersonally, intolerableness, monocrystalline, necromantically, orientationally, postmillenarian, precancellation, reinstallations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 6E 6C 69 74 65 72 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- -. .-.. .. - . .-. .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01101110 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o n l i t e r a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 006E 006C 0069 0074 0065 0072 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48818078758671846778 |
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