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Opalesce

Definitions: Opalesce

Opalesce

Verb

1. Reflect light or colors like an opal; "Distant clouds opalesce like pale brocade"; "raindrops caught in a sunbeam seem to opalesce".

2. Exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal; "This nitrate opalesces under certain conditions".

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

Note: Opalesce \O`pal*esce"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Opalesced; present participle verb or noun Opalescing.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Opalesce

English words defined with "opalesce": Opalesced, Opalescing. (references)

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Modern Translations: Opalesce

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

Greek 

  

ιριδίζω, μαρμαίρω (glitter). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opalesceay

   

Thai

  

เป็นสีน้ำนม. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ışığı renk renk yansıtmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

мати молочний відтінок (opalize), переливатися (opalize). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Opalesce

Derivations

Words beginning with "opalesce": opalesced, opalescence, opalescences, opalescent, opalescently, opalesces. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Opalesce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-o-p-s"

-1 letter: escalop.

-2 letters: asleep, aslope, clepes, copals, elapse, elopes, escape, peaces, places, please, solace.

-3 letters: alecs, aloes, calos, capes, capos, cease, cepes, claps, clasp, clepe, clops, close, coals, colas, coles, copal, copes, copse, easel, elope, laces, lapse, leaps, lease, lopes, opals, paces, pales, paseo, peace, peals, pease, peels, peles, place, pleas, poles, psoae, salep.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: escaloped, opalesced, opalesces, placeboes, someplace.

 

+2 letters: escalloped, opalescent, percolates.

 

+3 letters: cellophanes, compensable, mesopelagic, opalescence, polychaetes, processable.

 

+4 letters: candlepowers, coleopterans, complacences, conceptacles, contemplates, copperplates, counterpleas, craftspeople, decomposable, escapologies, eucalyptoles, kaleidoscope, narcolepsies, opalescences, opalescently, peccadilloes, perchlorates, placeholders, plecopterans, poeticalness, polyvalences, porcelaneous, precessional, prosecutable.

 

+5 letters: archipelagoes, autocephalies, cerebrospinal, colleagueship, complacencies, conceptualise, corporealness, diencephalons, electroplates, encyclopedias, inoperculates, kaleidoscopes, leptocephalus, mesencephalon, outplacements, overspeculate, porcelainizes, porcellaneous, preadolescent, preceptorials, prosencephala, semiporcelain, speleological, stereotypical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Opalesce


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

4F 70 61 6C 65 73 63 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    .--.    .-    .-..    .    ...    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001111 01110000 01100001 01101100 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#112 &#97 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0070 0061 006C 0065 0073 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4982677871856971

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INDEX

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


  

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