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Provisionary

Definition: Provisionary

Provisionary

Adjective

1. Under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule".

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

Date "provisionary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)


Synonyms: Provisionary

Synonyms: probationary (adj), provisional (adj), tentative (adj). (additional references)

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Misspellings: Provisionary

Misspellings

"Provisionary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: provisioner, revisionary. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Provisionary"

Words rhyming with "provisionary" (pronounced 'Pro*vi"sion*a*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Provisionary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-v-y"

-3 letters: provision, provisory, visionary.

-5 letters: arroyos, aspirin, paviors, proviso, raisiny, rapinis, sinopia, soprani, soprano, sporran, synovia, virions.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Provisionary


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

50 72 6F 76 69 73 69 6F 6E 61 72 79

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)

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

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

01010000 01110010 01101111 01110110 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#111 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 006F 0076 0069 0073 0069 006F 006E 0061 0072 0079

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

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

508481887585758180678491

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INDEX

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


  

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