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Not By A Long Sight

Definition: Not By A Long Sight

Not By A Long Sight

Adverb

1. (informal) definitely not; "the prize is by no means certain"; "and that isn't all, not by a long sight".

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

Synonyms: Not By A Long Sight

Synonyms: by no means (adv), not by a blame sight (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: by all means (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Not By A Long Sight

Specialty definitions using "not by a long sight": MACROBIAN. (references)

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Modern Translations: Not By A Long Sight

Language Translations for "not by a long sight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

съвсем не (far from it, no, no way, nohow, none, not at all, nothing, noway, nowise), никак (little, no, nohow, none, nothing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otnay ybay aay onglay ightsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Not By A Long Sight

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-g-g-h-i-l-n-n-o-o-s-t-t-y"

-4 letters: anthologist, holystoning, tobogganist.

-5 letters: langostino, soothingly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Not By A Long Sight


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

4E 6F 74      42 79      41      4C 6F 6E 67      53 69 67 68 74

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

                

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

01001110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01000010 01111001 00100000 01000001 00100000 01001100 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010011 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#116 &#32 &#66 &#121 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#76 &#111 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#83 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 0074      0042 0079      0041      004C 006F 006E 0067      0053 0069 0067 0068 0074

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

4881862369123524681807325375737486

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INDEX

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


  

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