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Reconnoiter

Definition: Reconnoiter

Reconnoiter

Verb

1. Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody.

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

Date "reconnoiter" was first used: 1707. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Reconnoiter

DomainDefinitions

Mining

To make a reconnaissance of; esp. to make a preliminary survey of an areafor military or geologic purposes. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Reconnoiter

Synonyms: reconnoitre (v), scout (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reconnoiter

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inquiry

Look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy, overhaul.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Reconnoiter

English words defined with "reconnoiter": Advice boat. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reconnoiter

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

reconnoiter

2
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Modern Translations: Reconnoiter

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

Albanian

  

zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), zbulim (detection, disclosure, discovery, divulge, exploration, exposure, eye opener, finding, guess, intelligence, invention, outcrop, prospection, reconnaissance, reconnoitre, reveal, strike, uncovering), njohje e terrenit (reconnaissance, reconnoitre), njoh terenin (reconnoitre). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏خرج للإستطلاع (reconnoitre), ‏إستكشف (explore, reconnoitre, scout, scout about, search), ‏إستطلع (explore, probe, recognize, reconnoitre, spy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разузнавам (inquire, reconnoitre, scout, sus out). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

侦察 (reconnaissance, Reconnoissance, reconnoitering, reconnoitre, reconnoitring, Scouted, scouting, Spied, spying). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

عملیات اکتشافی کردن , بازدیدکردن (Review, Survey). (various references)

   

French

  

partir en reconnaissance, faire une reconnaissance. (various references)

   

German

  

erkunden (ascertain, establish, explore, find out, glean, reconnoitre, scout, scouting). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατοπτεύω (scout, spy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kikémlel (reconnoitre, to gumshoe, to spy out), felderít (brighten, exhilarate, explore, reconnoitre, to brighten, to enliven, to exhilarate, to explore, to reconnoiter, to reconnoitre, to retrace, to scour, to scout). (various references)

   

Italian

  

perlustrare (comb, Hunt, reconnoitre, scour, search, sweep, to patrol), fare ricognizione (reconnoitre). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

찰하십시" (reconnoitre). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

econnoiterray

   

Portuguese

  

reconhecer (accredit, acknowledge, admit, ascertain, avouch, avow, cognize, concede, confess, establish, feel, halloween, honor, honour, identify, kennel, know, notice, own, place, place an embargo on, profess, recognize, reconnoitre, take note, to recognize), verificar (ascertain, check, confirm, control, establish, examine, find, hold up, inspect, muster, overhaul, reconnoitre, see, take note, test, to verify, verify), ir em reconhecimento (reconnoitre, scout), ir em exploração (reconnoitre), explorar (discover, examine, exploit, explore, flay, have to, investigate, milk, pioneer, probe, profiteer, prospect, reconnoitre, research, scan, utilize, vamp). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разведывать (explore, ferret, reconnoitre, scouted). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izviđati (patrol, reconnoitre). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reconocer el terreno (reconnoitre), explorar el terreno (reconnoitre). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

keşif yapmak (reconnoitre, scout), inceleme yapmak (reconnoitre), araştırma yapmak (dredge for, reconnoitre, research, rummage about, shop, shop around). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розвідувати (explore, feel out, inquire, prospect, prove, reconnoitre, scout), рекогносцирувати (reconnoitre). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Reconnoiter

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

explorandam, explorare, explorarent, explorate, exploratorum, exploraverunt, explorent. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

reconoistre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reconnoiter

Derivations

Words beginning with "reconnoiter": reconnoitered, reconnoitering, reconnoiters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Reconnoiter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reconnoider, reconnoitred, reconnoniter, reconoider, reconoiter, reconoyter. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Reconnoiter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reconnoitre.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-n-o-o-r-r-t"

-2 letters: nonerotic, nonrioter, rencontre.

-3 letters: cretonne, erection, incenter, neotenic, neoteric, reorient, rotenone, tricorne.

-4 letters: centner, cointer, connote, coontie, cornier, coroner, coronet, coterie, crooner, ecotone, enteric, enteron, enticer, erector, interne, intoner, noticer, onerier, reciter, reinter, rentier, rootier, tenoner, ternion, terrine, tricorn.

-5 letters: cenote, center, centre, cerite, citron, coiner, conine, conner, cooter, cootie, corner, cornet, corrie, cortin, cretin, croton, encore, enroot, entice, entire, erotic, intern, intone, intron, ionone, ironer, nocent, noetic, norite, notice, notion, octroi, orcein, orient, orrice, recent, recite, recoin, rector, rennet, renter, retine, retire, retore, retorn, rioter, ronion, rooter, tenner, tenrec, tierce, tinner, tonier, tonner, torero, triene.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-n-o-o-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: reconnoiters, reconnoitred, reconnoitres.

 

+2 letters: reconnoitered.

 

+3 letters: neurosecretion, nonintercourse, nonretroactive, nonsecretories, reconnoitering, reconsecration, serotoninergic.

 

+4 letters: counterordering, counterreaction, interconversion, neurosecretions, nonintercourses, nonreproductive, reconcentration, reconsecrations, reconsideration.

 

+5 letters: counterreactions, enterochromaffin, incontrovertible, interconversions, intercorrelation, microenvironment, reconcentrations, reconsiderations, roentgenographic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Reconnoiter


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

52 65 63 6F 6E 6E 6F 69 74 65 72

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)

01010010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01101111 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#110 &#111 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0063 006F 006E 006E 006F 0069 0074 0065 0072

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

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

5271698180808175867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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