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Definitions: On The Nose |
On The NoseAdjective1. Being precisely to a prescribed or specified criterion; "his guess was on the nose"; "the prediction for snow was right on the button". Adverb1. Just as it should be; "`Precisely, my lord,' he said". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: On The NoseSynonyms: exactly (adv), on the button (adv), on the dot (adv), precisely (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: On The Nose |
| English words defined with "on the nose": bridge ♦ Grog blossom ♦ horseshoe bat ♦ Leaf-nosed ♦ Nasicornous, nose, Nose leaf, nose ring, nosepiece ♦ Premaxilla ♦ River jack ♦ Sun bear ♦ To turn up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "on the nose": Bernoulli's principle ♦ Deputy, Dunstan ♦ face chuck, Fire-drake ♦ Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus, homing head, hyperkeratosis ♦ Lord ♦ miner's self-rescuer ♦ Nose Literature, Nose Tax ♦ Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures ♦ Pull Bacon ♦ quadruple bucky ♦ RUM SNITCH ♦ SCIMETAR, Siebe-Gorman self-rescuer, story ♦ tariff, Toe Popper ♦ Wroth Money. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's like being punched on the nose by the invisible man. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) A wart on the nose of humanity and I'm going to blast it off. (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins) Wow! Right on the nose! (Taxi; writing credit: Grahame Bond; Jim Burnett) But what if I'm trying to put on the nose, the snowman comes alive and tries to kill me? (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) | |
Lyrics | Now every second on the nose, the humdrum of the city grows. (Tuesday's Dead; performing artist: Cat Stevens) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love on the Nose (1974) On the Nose (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He carried it out and spread it on the nose of the truck, and he came back into the car and sat down on his mattress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "on the nose": hit smb. square on the nose ♦ i caught him on the nose. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "on the nose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تدخل بشكل متطفل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | sans retard. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ב"יק ות (on time, precisely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pontosan (accurately, dead on, definitely, due, duly, even as, exactly, fine, in due course, just, minutely, nicely, on the beam, on the dot, on the minute, on time, precisely, prompt, regularly, right, scrupulously, smack in the middle, strictly, that's just it, to spell out, to take key ranges, to the turn of a hair, true). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onay ethay osenay lovi pe cineva drept în faţã (hit smb. square on the nose), i-am dat una în nas (I caught him on the nose). (various references) без опоздания. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-n-n-o-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: toeshoe. | |
-3 letters: ethnos, honest, nonets, sennet, sonnet, soothe, tenons, tonnes. | |
-4 letters: ethos, hents, hones, hoots, hosen, nenes, neons, nones, nonet, noons, noose, notes, onset, sente, seton, sheen, sheet, shent, shone, shoon, shoot, shote, snoot, sooth, steno, stone, teens, tenon, tense, thens, these, those, tones, tonne, toons. | |
-5 letters: eons, eths, hens, hent, hest, hets, hoes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-n-n-o-o-s-t" | |
+3 letters: hootenannies. | |
+4 letters: ethnobotanies, hymenopterons. | |
+5 letters: butyrophenones, foreshortening, norethindrones, noteworthiness, soothingnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 6E      54 68 65      4E 6F 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001110 01101111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O n   T h e   N o s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 006E      0054 0068 0065      004E 006F 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49802547471248818571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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