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Definition: Reconnoiter |
ReconnoiterVerb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonyms: ReconnoiterSynonyms: reconnoitre (v), scout (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Reconnoiter |
| English words defined with "reconnoiter": Advice boat. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reconnoiter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) разведывать (explore, ferret, reconnoitre, scouted). (various references) izviđati (patrol, reconnoitre). (various references) reconocer el terreno (reconnoitre), explorar el terreno (reconnoitre). (various references) keşif yapmak (reconnoitre, scout), inceleme yapmak (reconnoitre), araştırma yapmak (dredge for, reconnoitre, research, rummage about, shop, shop around). (various references) розвідувати (explore, feel out, inquire, prospect, prove, reconnoitre, scout), рекогносцирувати (reconnoitre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | explorandam, explorare, explorarent, explorate, exploratorum, exploraverunt, explorent. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | reconoistre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reconnoiter": reconnoitered, reconnoitering, reconnoiters. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 6F 6E 6E 6F 69 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. --- -. -. --- .. - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01101111 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c o n n o i t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 006F 006E 006E 006F 0069 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271698180808175867184 |
| 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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