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Definition: Safe-conduct |
Safe-conductNoun1. A document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "safe-conduct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: Safe-conductSynonym: safeguard (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrumentality | Opener; key; master key, passkey, latchkey; " open sesame "; passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password. |
Safety | Safe-conduct, escort, convoy; guard, shield; (defense); guardian angel; tutelary god, tutelary deity, tutelary saint; genius loci. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Safe-conduct |
| English words defined with "safe-conduct": Passe partout, Pedage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "safe-conduct": Jarkman. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Civil Liberties | Colombia | In areas where counterinsurgency operations were underway, police or military officials occasionally required civilians to obtain safe-conduct passes; paramilitary forces and guerrillas often used similar means to restrict travel in areas under their control. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "safe-conduct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 安全举办. (various references) | |
Korean | 안 하 지휘하십시". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | afe-conductsay.(various references) | |
Russian | особая охрана. (various references) | |
Swedish | fri lejd (safe conduct). (various references) | |
Thai | เอกสารอนุญาตให้ผ่านไ"้โ"ยเฉพาะช่วงสงคราม. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-f-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: accounted, outdances. | |
-3 letters: accosted, accounts, coenacts, conduces, conducts, confects, confused, confuted, confutes, contused, cosecant, endocast, fadeouts, outdance, outfaced, outfaces, stuccoed, tacnodes, uncoated. | |
-4 letters: accents, account, accused, acetous, acnodes, astound, coacted, coasted, coenact, conatus, conduce, conduct, confect, confuse, confute, contuse, coteaus, counted, deacons, decants, decocts, defocus, defunct, descant, docents, donates, fadeout, fantods, faucets, focused, fondest, fondues, nutcase, octanes, outface, scanted, sconced, scouted, snafued, snouted, soutane, tacnode, toucans, unacted, uncased, unsated. | |
-5 letters: accent, accost, accuse, acnode, acutes, anodes, ascend, ascent, atoned, atones, autoed, cactus, cadent, cadets, canoed, canoes, canted, cantos, cantus, caused, centas, centos, coacts, coated, codecs, codens, contes, costae, costed, cotans, coteau, counts, cuesta, dances, daunts, deacon, decafs, decant, decoct, defats, docent, donate, donuts, ducats, dunces, educts, enacts, escudo, facets, fantod, fasted, fasten, fauces, faucet, fecund, foetus, fondue, fondus, founds, founts, fucose, funest, futons, nudest, oceans, octads, octane, octans, ounces, ousted, sauced, sauted, sconce, secant, second, secund, soften, soudan, stance, staned, stoned, stound, stucco, sundae, toucan, toused, uncase, undoes, unsafe, unseat, usance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 66 65 2D 63 6F 6E 64 75 63 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01100110 01100101 00101101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100100 01110101 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a f e - c o n d u c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0066 0065 002D 0063 006F 006E 0064 0075 0063 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536772711569818070876986 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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