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Prehend

Definition: Prehend

Prehend

Verb

1. Take hold of; grab; "The salesclerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals".

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

Etymology: Prehend \Pre*hend"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression prehendere. See Prehensile.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Prehend

Synonyms: clutch (v), seize (v). (additional references)

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Derivations: Prehend

Derivations

Words ending with "prehend": apprehend, comprehend, misapprehend, reprehend. (additional references)

Words containing "prehend": apprehended, apprehending, apprehends, comprehended, comprehendible, comprehending, comprehends, misapprehended, misapprehending, misapprehends, reprehended, reprehending, reprehends, uncomprehended, uncomprehending, uncomprehendingly. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Prehend

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-n-p-r"

-2 letters: ender, heder, preed, preen.

-3 letters: deep, deer, dene, dere, dree, erne, heed, herd, here, hern, need, neep, nerd, peed, peen, peer, pend, pree, rede, reed, rend.

-4 letters: dee, den, edh, end, ere, ern, hen, hep, her, nee, ped, pee, peh, pen, per, red, ree, rep.

-5 letters: de, ed, eh, en, er, he, ne, pe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-n-p-r"
 

+1 letter: ephedrin.

 

+2 letters: apprehend, ensphered, ephedrine, ephedrins, insphered, penholder, phrensied, reprehend, sharpened, trephined, unsphered.

 

+3 letters: apprehends, chaperoned, comprehend, enciphered, ephedrines, hesperidin, penholders, pentahedra, prepunched, reprehends, unhampered.

 

+4 letters: apprehended, comprehends, deciphering, grandnephew, handpresses, heparinized, hesperidins, hyperextend, hyperlinked, hypermodern, nephritides, openhearted, pentahedral, pentahedron, philandered, philanderer, premonished, replenished, reprehended, shepherding, superharden.

 

+5 letters: apprehending, comprehended, decipherment, endomorphies, grandnephews, hyperendemic, hyperextends, misapprehend, pentahedrons, philanderers, rehypnotized, reprehending, sheepherding, spearheading, stepchildren, superhardens, unchaperoned, undeciphered.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Prehend


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

50 72 65 68 65 6E 64

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)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01101000 01100101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#104 &#101 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0068 0065 006E 0064

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

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

50847174718070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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