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Ratlin

Definition: Ratlin

Ratlin

Noun

1. A small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft.

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

Date "ratlin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Synonym: Ratlin

Synonym: ratline (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Ratlin

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

German

  

webeleine (ratline). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atlinray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Ratlin

Derivations

Words beginning with "ratlin": ratline, ratlines, ratlins. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Ratlin

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trinal.

Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-r-t"

-1 letter: riant, trail, train, trial.

-2 letters: airn, airt, alit, anil, anti, aril, lain, lair, lari, lati, liar, lint, lira, nail, rail, rain, rani, rant, rial, tail, tain, tali, tarn, tirl.

-3 letters: ail, ain, air, ait, alt, ani, ant, art, lar, lat, lin, lit, nil, nit, ran, rat, ria, rin, tan, tar, til, tin.

-4 letters: ai, al, an, ar, at, in, it, la, li, na, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: inthral, latrine, ratline, ratlins, reliant, retinal, riantly, trenail.

 

+2 letters: alerting, altering, antiroll, auntlier, brantail, cilantro, clarinet, contrail, dartling, elaterin, entailer, entrails, flatiron, horntail, inertial, inflater, inflator, integral, interlap, interlay, internal, interval, inthrall, inthrals, latrines, notarial, oriental, rational, ratlines, rattling, relating, relation, retinals, retinula, ringtail, rutilant, starling, tanglier, tenurial, terminal, tonsilar, trailing, trainful, tramline, tranquil, trapline, trawling, treenail, trenails, triangle, tribunal, trigonal, trinodal, triplane, turbinal.

 

+3 letters: alienator, allethrin, antiglare, antilabor, antisolar, antiulcer, antiviral, articling, artisanal, avirulent, baritonal, brantails, brattling, brilliant, cantorial, carnality, certainly, cilantros, cisternal, clarinets, contrails, doctrinal, earthling, elaterins, entailers, faltering, flatirons, flatliner, flauntier, gnarliest, granulite, gratingly, haltering, horntails, implanter, inflaters, inflators, inhalator, installer, insulator, integrals, interclan, interlace, interlaid, interlaps, interlard, interlays, intermale, internals, interplay, intervale, intervals, inthralls, labyrinth, laminator, larcenist, lariating, lathering, librating, libration, linearity, lubricant, luxuriant, mislearnt, natrolite, nearliest, normality, orientals, painterly, paltering, perinatal, planarity, pratingly, prattling, printable, prolactin, radiantly, rantingly, rationale, rationals, rattlings, reflating, reflation, reimplant, reinflate, reinstall, relations, reliantly, replating, reptilian, reslating, retailing, retinulae, retinular, retinulas, ringtails, saintlier, serotinal, sinistral, snarliest, starlings, startling, sterilant, tailender, tailoring, tarpaulin, tellurian, terminals, thralling, tillerman, tonsillar, tonsorial, torsional, trachling, trainable, trainfuls, trainload, trameling, tramlines, trampling, traplines, traveling, treadling, treenails, triangles, triathlon, tribunals, trichinal, triclinia, triennial, trilinear, trinomial, triplanes, trivalent, turbinals, ultrafine, ultrathin, unclarity, unitarily, unreality, vibrantly, warstling, waterline, wrastling.

 

+4 letters: adulterine, airlifting, alienators, alimentary, allethrins, alteration, angularity, anteriorly, antilitter, bairnliest, biparental, blathering, blattering, brilliants, cantilever, carnallite, centralise, centralism, centralist, centrality, centralize, chlorinate, citronella, clattering, coloration, contrarily, corelating, credential, curtailing, delineator, derailment, disenthral, earthlings, eliminator, epicentral, eternalize, filtrating, filtration, flatliners, flattering, flirtation, floriation, fluorinate, fractional, frictional, frontality, generalist, generality, granulites, granulitic, gyrational, hinterland, horizontal, iconolatry, ignorantly, implanters, inculcator, industrial, inertially, infiltrate, inhalators, inoculator, installers, insularity, insulators, integrable, integrally, interclass, interlaced, interlaces, interlards, interlayer, interleave, interlocal, interlunar, intermodal, intermural, internally, internodal, interplant, interplays, interplead, interrenal, intertidal, intertrial, intervales, interzonal, inthralled, intolerant, intramural, intranasal, intraplate, intravital, intrazonal, irrational, irrelevant, janitorial, journalist, labyrinths, lacerating, laceration, lacustrine, laminators, larcenists, laryngitic, laryngitis, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, laureation, leathering, lectionary, lenticular, liberating, liberation, librations, ligaturing, linecaster, literation, lubricants, lustrating, lustration, martingale, mercantile, microtonal, monetarily, monitorial, morulation, multigrain, multirange, natatorial, natrolites, naturalise, naturalism, naturalist, naturalize, neorealist, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, neutrality, neutralize, nonliteral, nonmarital, nontrivial, notarially, orientally, outglaring, paltriness, parliament, partisanly, patrolling, penetralia, peritoneal, planetaria, planimeter, plastering, pollinator, pratincole, pregenital, prenuptial, prolactins, prudential, rationales, rationally, rattlingly, realtering, reflations, refloating, regelating, regimental, regulating, regulation, reimplants, reinflated, reinflates, reinstalls, relational, relaxation, relegating, relegation, relocating, relocation, replanting, reptilians, resaluting, retackling, retailings, retinacula, revelation, rotational, rudimental, ruminantly, sanitarily, saturnalia, scarlatina, senatorial, sinoatrial, slathering, sprattling, springtail, starveling, sterilants, straddling, straggling, strandline, strangling, streamline, stringhalt, tailenders, tailorings, tantalizer, tarpaulins, tenurially, terminable, terminably, terminally, timberland, tinctorial, tolerating, toleration, torrential, tourmaline, tractional, trailering, trainloads, tramelling, trammeling, trampoline, trancelike, tranquiler, tranquilly, trauchling, travailing, travelling, triangular, triathlons, triennials, trigeminal, trigonally, trilingual, trinocular, trinomials, tyrannical, ulcerating, ulceration, ultrasonic, uncritical, unilateral, unliterary, unmilitary, unmorality, urogenital, ventilator, waterlines.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ratlin


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

52 61 74 6C 69 6E

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)

01010010 01100001 01110100 01101100 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#116 &#108 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0074 006C 0069 006E

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

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

526786787580

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INDEX

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


  

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