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Press-up

Definition: Press-up

Press-up

Noun

1. An arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms.

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


Synonym: Press-up

Synonym: pushup (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: press-ups (transportation).

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Modern Translation: Press-up

Language Translations for "press-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

按 (Buttoned, buttoned-up, Buttoning, Had, HAS, have, Having, Pressed, Pressing). (various references)

   

German

  

Liegestütz. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fekvőtámasz (pushup, push-up). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

누르십시ìš" 위로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ess-uppray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Press-up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: suppers.

Words within the letters "e-p-p-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: purses, sprues, supers, supper, uppers.

-2 letters: perps, preps, press, purse, puses, repps, ruses, sprue, spues, spurs, suers, super, supes, upper, users.

-3 letters: peps, perp, prep, pups, pure, purs, puss, repp, reps, rues, ruse, sers, spue, spur, suer, sues, supe, sups, sure, user, uses.

-4 letters: ers, ess, pep, per, pes, pup, pur, pus, rep, res.

 Words containing the letters "e-p-p-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: purposes, scuppers, superspy, supposer, suppress.

 

+2 letters: papyruses, priapuses, supercops, superpose, superpros, suppliers, supposers.

 

+3 letters: pauperisms, presuppose, prospectus, prosperous, resupplies, superhypes, superpimps, superports, superposed, superposes, supersharp, superspies, supporters, suppressed, suppresses, suppressor, suppurates, unstoppers, uppercases.

 

+4 letters: apparatuses, mudskippers, peripatuses, perspicuous, popularises, presupposed, presupposes, purposeless, supergroups, superimpose, superperson, superplanes, superposing, superpowers, superscript, suppertimes, supplanters, suppressant, suppressing, suppression, suppressive, suppressors, tropopauses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Press-up


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

50 72 65 73 73 2D 75 70

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

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

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 00101101 01110101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#45 &#117 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0073 0073 002D 0075 0070

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

5084718585158782

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INDEX

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


  

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