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Ratline

Definition: Ratline

Ratline

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.
 

Synonym: Ratline

Synonym: ratlin (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Ratline

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

Danish

  

vævling. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

weeflijn. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

väylinki. (various references)

   

French

  

enfléchure. (various references)

   

German

  

Webeleine (ratlin). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βαθμιδόσχοινο πλοίου. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ratlinney. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atlineray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

enfrechate. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

линь (line, tench). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

flechaste, flechadura. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vevling. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ratline

Derivations

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


Misspellings

"Ratline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Athlyne, catline, frauline, Pratolino, racheliae, Rachlin, Raeleen, Ramtallie, Raplin, ratine, Ratiner, Ratingen, ratlike, Raulini, Rauluni, Rawlinna, Reutlingen, Roadline. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Ratline

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: latrine, reliant, retinal, trenail.

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

-1 letter: aliner, antler, entail, larine, learnt, linear, linter, nailer, ratine, ratlin, renail, rental, retail, retain, retial, retina, tailer, tenail, tineal, trinal.

-2 letters: alert, alien, aline, alter, anile, antre, ariel, artel, elain, elint, entia, inert, inlet, inter, irate, laten, later, leant, learn, liane, liner, liter, litre, niter, nitre, ratel, relit, renal, retia, riant, taler, telia, tenia, terai, tiler, tinea, trail, train, trial, trine.

-3 letters: airn, airt, alit, anil, ante, anti, aril, earl, earn, elan, etna, ilea, lain, lair, lane, lari, late, lati, lean, lear, lent, liar, lien, lier, line, lint, lira, lire, lite, nail, near, neat, nite, rail, rain, rale, rani, rant, rate, real, rein, rent, rial, riel, rile, rite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tare, tarn, teal, tear, tela, tern, tier, tile, tine, tire, tirl.

-4 letters: ail, ain, air, ait, ale, alt, ane, ani, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, ire, lar, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, nae, net, nil, nit, ran, rat, rei, ret, ria, rin, tae, tan, tar, tea, tel, ten, tie, til, tin.

-5 letters: ae, ai, al, an, ar, at, el, en, er, et, in, it, la, li, na, ne, re, ta, ti.

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

+1 letter: alerting, altering, auntlier, clarinet, elaterin, entailer, entrails, inertial, inflater, integral, interlap, interlay, internal, interval, latrines, oriental, ratlines, relating, relation, retinals, retinula, tanglier, tenurial, terminal, tramline, trapline, treenail, trenails, triangle, triplane.

 

+2 letters: alienator, allethrin, antiglare, antiulcer, avirulent, certainly, cisternal, clarinets, earthling, elaterins, entailers, faltering, flatliner, flauntier, gnarliest, granulite, haltering, implanter, inflaters, installer, integrals, interclan, interlace, interlaid, interlaps, interlard, interlays, intermale, internals, interplay, intervale, intervals, larcenist, lathering, linearity, mislearnt, natrolite, nearliest, orientals, painterly, paltering, perinatal, printable, rationale, reflating, reflation, reimplant, reinflate, reinstall, relations, reliantly, replating, reptilian, reslating, retailing, retinulae, retinular, retinulas, saintlier, serotinal, snarliest, sterilant, tailender, tellurian, terminals, tillerman, trainable, trameling, tramlines, traplines, traveling, treadling, treenails, triangles, triennial, trilinear, triplanes, trivalent, ultrafine, unreality, waterline.

 

+3 letters: adulterine, alienators, alimentary, allethrins, alteration, anteriorly, antilitter, bairnliest, biparental, blathering, blattering, cantilever, carnallite, centralise, centralism, centralist, centrality, centralize, chlorinate, citronella, clattering, corelating, credential, delineator, derailment, disenthral, earthlings, eliminator, epicentral, eternalize, flatliners, flattering, fluorinate, generalist, generality, granulites, hinterland, implanters, inertially, infiltrate, installers, integrable, integrally, interclass, interlaced, interlaces, interlards, interlayer, interleave, interlocal, interlunar, intermodal, intermural, internally, internodal, interplant, interplays, interplead, interrenal, intertidal, intertrial, intervales, interzonal, inthralled, intolerant, intraplate, irrelevant, lacerating, laceration, lacustrine, larcenists, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, laureation, leathering, lectionary, lenticular, liberating, liberation, linecaster, literation, martingale, mercantile, monetarily, multirange, natrolites, naturalise, naturalize, neorealist, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, neutrality, neutralize, nonliteral, orientally, paltriness, parliament, penetralia, peritoneal, planetaria, planimeter, plastering, pratincole, pregenital, prenuptial, prudential, rationales, realtering, reflations, refloating, regelating, regimental, regulating, regulation, reimplants, reinflated, reinflates, reinstalls, relational, relaxation, relegating, relegation, relocating, relocation, replanting, reptilians, resaluting, retackling, retailings, retinacula, revelation, rudimental, senatorial, slathering, starveling, sterilants, strandline, streamline, tailenders, tantalizer, tenurially, terminable, terminably, terminally, timberland, tolerating, toleration, torrential, tourmaline, trailering, tramelling, trammeling, trampoline, trancelike, tranquiler, travelling, triennials, trigeminal, ulcerating, ulceration, unilateral, unliterary, urogenital, ventilator, waterlines.

 

+4 letters: alabastrine, alexandrite, alterations, altercating, altercation, alternating, alternation, alternative, antheridial, anticruelty, antileprosy, antiliberal, antinuclear, antirealism, antirealist, antislavery, antiwelfare, antiwrinkle, arrestingly, banteringly, cantilevers, cardinalate, carnalities, carnallites, cartelising, cartelizing, cartoonlike, celebrating, celebration, centralised, centralises, centralisms, centralists, centralized, centralizer, centralizes, centrically, centrifugal, centripetal, chanticleer, chlorinated, chlorinates, circinately, citronellal, citronellas, clarinetist, colinearity, contractile, correlating, correlation, countervail, credentials, crenelation, crenulation, crystalline, curtailment, curtainless, declaration, deferential, defloration, delineators, derailments, desalinator, detrimental, directional, disenthrall, disenthrals, disrelation, earthliness, egalitarian, elaborating, elaboration, electrician, eliminators, elutriating, elutriation, endometrial, enteroviral, enthralling, equilibrant, eternalized, eternalizes, everlasting, exploration, externalise, externalism, externality, externalize, falteringly, farthingale, faultfinder, filamentary, firmamental, fluorinated, fluorinates, franklinite, gallantries, generalists, glycerinate, granitelike, hinterlands, inalterable, inalterably, incremental, inferential, infiltrated, infiltrates, inheritable, inscrutable, insertional, integrality, interallied, interannual, intercalary, intercalate, intercensal, intercostal, interdealer, interdental, interfacial, interfamily, interisland, interlacing, interlapped, interlarded, interlayers, interlaying, interleaved, interleaves, interlinear, interlunary, internalise, internality, internalize, interplants, interplayed, interpleads, interpolate, interracial, interrelate, intersexual, intertribal, intervalley, intervallic, intolerable, intolerably, intolerance, intractable, intradermal, intrathecal, intricately, inventorial, involucrate, itinerantly, lacerations, lateralling, laureations, liberations, libertarian, libertinage, linearities, linecasters, lionhearted, literalness, literations, maltreating, martingales, maternalism, matrilineal, meliorating, melioration, ministerial, misaltering, misrelating, momentarily, narcoleptic, narratively, naturalised, naturalises, naturalized, naturalizes, neocortical, neorealists, neurulation, neutralised, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, neutralized, neutralizer, neutralizes, nightwalker, nonintegral, nonliterary, nonliterate, nonmaterial, nonmetrical, nonrelative, nonterminal, normalities, normatively, operational, orientalism, orientalist, orientalize, outlearning, overinflate, oversalting, overtalking, parliaments, paternalism, paternalist, patrilineal, percolating, percolation, perinatally, periodontal, personalist, personality, plaistering, planarities, planetarium, planimeters, planimetric, plantigrade, plasterings, platyrrhine, pleinairist, praelecting, pratincoles, prelibation, preplanting, preterminal, proletarian, radiolucent, rationalise, rationalize, rattlebrain, realignment, realization, reallotting, reclamation, rectilinear, redactional, reductional, referential, regimentals, regionalist, regulations, reimplanted, reinflating, reinflation, reinoculate, reinstalled, relaxations, relegations, relocations, reluctating, reluctation, rentability, replicating, replication, residential, retailoring, retaliating, retaliation, retinaculum, retrainable, revaluating, revaluation, revelations, reverential, salinometer, seminatural, sempiternal, shinplaster, splattering, starvelings, strandlines, streamlined, streamliner, streamlines, subinterval, subterminal, surveillant, talebearing, tantalizers, tarnishable, timberlands, tolerations, tourmalines, trailerings, trammelling, trampoliner, trampolines, tranquilest, tranquilize, tranquiller, transalpine, transiently, translative, triangulate, triennially, trigeminals, ulcerations, ultramarine, uncertainly, unclarities, unfaltering, unhealthier, uniparental, unliberated, unprintable, unrealistic, unrealities, ventilators, ventilatory, ventricular, voluntaries, windlestraw.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ratline


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

52 61 74 6C 69 6E 65

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 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#116 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0074 006C 0069 006E 0065

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

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

52678678758071

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INDEX

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


  

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