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Synonyms: Piece De ResistanceSynonyms: collector's item (n), showpiece (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Piece De Resistance |
| Specialty definitions using "piece de resistance": Negro. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NEGRO, n. The piece de resistance in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
piece de resistance | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "piece de resistance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وجبة رئيسية, أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | repas principal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מנה עקרית, דבר עקרי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | cavallo di battaglia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iecepay eday esistanceray plato principal, atracción principal. (various references) en önemli şey (everything, the be-all and end-all, the most important thing), ana yemek (main course), ana şey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-e-e-i-i-n-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-4 letters: discrepancies. | |
-5 letters: centerpieces, interspecies, intraspecies, iridescences, precedencies, presidencies. | |
| 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)50 69 65 63 65 44 65 52 65 73 69 73 74 61 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101001 01100101 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000100 01100101 00100000 01010010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P i e c e   D e   R e s i s t a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0069 0065 0063 0065 0044 0065 0052 0065 0073 0069 0073 0074 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507571697123871252718575858667806971 |
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