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Definition: SALTATORY |
SALTATORYAdjective1. Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. |
Date "SALTATORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Saltatory \Sal"ta*to"ry\, adjective. [Latin expression saltatorius. See Saltant, and compare to Saltire.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Adjective: shaking; Verb: agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory; saltatoric; quasative; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter. |
Leap | Adjective: leaping; Verb: saltatory, frisky. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SALTATORY |
| English words defined with "SALTATORY": Saltatorial, Saltatorious, Saltatory evolution, Saltatory spasm. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SALTATORY": saltire. (references) |
Expressions using "SALTATORY": Saltatory evolution ♦ Saltatory spasm. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
conduction saltatory | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SALTATORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që ndryshohet befasisht, që hidhet. (various references) | |
Arabic | رقصي خاص بالرقص. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скокообразен (intermittent), скачащ (salient), пригоден за скачане, движещ се със скачане. (various references) | |
Czech | poskakovací. (various references) | |
Danish | saltatorisk. (various references) | |
Dutch | saltatorisch. (various references) | |
French | saltatoire. (various references) | |
German | saltatorius, saltatorisch. (various references) | |
Greek | πηδητικόσ (saltant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ugró (jumper, leaping, skipper, skipping, springer, vaulter, vaulting). (various references) | |
Italian | saltatorio. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | altatorysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saltatório, saltante, saltador (caperer, hopper, jumper, outlaw, skipper, springer). (various references) | |
Russian | скачущий (prancing), скачкообразный, скакательный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poskočni. (various references) | |
Spanish | saltador (diver, jumper, pogo stick, skipper, skipping rope, springer), intermitente a (intermittent). (various references) | |
Turkish | sıçrayan (bouncing, jumping, salient, splashy, vaulter), sıçrayabilen, aniden değişen. (various references) | |
Ukranian | стрибкоподібний, скакальний, танцювальний (orchestic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "SALTATORY" (pronounced 'Sal"ta*to"ry'): Almry, Avowry, Aweary, Balloonry, Barry, Bawdry, Blurry, Chantry, Charry, Cheerry, Chowry, Commandry, Comminatory, Consuetudinary, Consulary, Coquetry, Cowries, Cowry, Cymry, Dairy, Disglory, Dismarry, Dowry, Farry, Firry, Forwweary, foundry, Frory, furry, Gharry, hagberry, Henry, Hostry, intermarry, Intervary, Jerry, Jewry, Kimry, Knarry, Knurry, Lampoonry, Lardry, Larry, Lary, Lepry, lory, Lowry, Lurry, merry, miscarry, Murry, Outweary, Overcarry, Overwary, overweary, Peltry, Querry, Recarry, remarry, Rory, saury, Serry, sherry, Skerry, Skurry, sorry, Sory, Sparry, Spurry, starry, Terry, Unmarry, unwary, unweary, Urry, vagary, vainglory, Vintry, Whirry, Whurry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: alastor, astylar, stratal, trotyls. | |
-3 letters: altars, aortal, aortas, astral, astray, attars, lyttas, ottars, ratals, rattly, royals, salary, statal, stator, strata, stylar, talars, tarots, tarsal, tartly, tatars, toasty, tolars, totals, trotyl. | |
-4 letters: alary, altar, altos, aorta, artal, artsy, aryls, asyla, atlas, attar, lotas, lyart, lytta, orals, ottar, ratal, ratos, ratty, rayas, roast, rotas, rotls, royal, ryots, salty, satay, satyr, slaty, solar, start, stoat, story, stray, stroy, talar, talas, taros, tarot, tarts, tarty, tasty, tatar, toast, tolar, tolas, toras, torts, total, trays, trots, troys, tryst, tyros. | |
-5 letters: aals, alar, alas, also, alto, alts, arts, arty, aryl, lars, last, lats, lays, lory, lost, lota, lots, oars, oast, oats, oral, orts, osar, rato, rats, raya, rays, rosy, rota, rotl, rots, ryas, ryot, salt, slat, slay, slot, soar, sola, sora, sort, soya, star, stat, stay, stoa, tala, taos, taro, tars, tart, tats, tola, tora, tors, tort, tory, tost, tots, toys, tray, trot, troy, tsar, tyro. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: salutatory. | |
+2 letters: translatory. | |
+3 letters: antiroyalist, artiodactyls, auscultatory, keratoplasty. | |
+4 letters: antiroyalists, assortatively, ultraroyalist. | |
+5 letters: aeroelasticity, satisfactorily, stagflationary, transitionally, ultraroyalists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 4C 54 41 54 4F 52 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .-.. - .- - --- .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000001 01001100 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A L T A T O R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 004C 0054 0041 0054 004F 0052 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533546543554495259 |
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