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Definition: Slabber |
SlabberVerb1. Let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slabber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Feeds soap slabs into machine that cuts slabs into bars: Places slab of soap on cradle of machine. Starts motor or depresses clutch to activate mechanism that forces slab through cutting frame, divides it into bars, and deposits bars in racks at opposite end of cradle. Inspects bars for specified size. Removes scrap soap from cutter and dumps it into hopper for reprocessing. Pushes rack dolly into dryer. May draw cutting wires through soap slab, using hand-powered winch. May be designated according to size or weight of slab cut as Slabber, Light (soap & rel.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SlabberSynonyms: dribble (v), drivel (v), drool (v), slaver (v), slobber (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool. |
Uncleanness | Wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Slabber |
| English words defined with "slabber": Slabbered, Slabbering, Slabbery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "slabber": cutter, first, cutting-table operator, first ♦ slabbing-machine operator, soap slabber. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "slabber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | плюнча (slaver, wet with saliva). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σιαλίζω (salivate, slaver), σάλι (poncho, shawl, slobber, tippet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | abberslay bale (slaver, slime, slobber). (various references) ปล่อยน้ำลายไหล (drivel, drool). (various references) nước dãi chuyện uỷ mị sướt mướt tình cảm uỷ mị (slobber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slabber": slabbered, slabbering, slabbers, slabbery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: barbels, rabbles. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: babels, balers, barbel, barbes, blares, blears, rabble. | |
-2 letters: abbes, abler, ables, arles, babel, babes, baler, bales, barbe, barbs, bares, baser, bears, blabs, blare, blase, blear, blebs, braes, earls, lares, laser, lears, rales, reals, saber, sable, sabre, seral. | |
-3 letters: abbe, able, albs, ales, arbs, ares, arse, babe, bale, bals, barb, bare, bars, base, bear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: babblers, barbells, barbless, barbules, belabors, blabbers, brabbles, brambles, clabbers, dabblers, drabbles, gabblers, grabbles, rabblers, scrabble, slabbers, slabbery, sorbable, wabblers. | |
+2 letters: barbicels, belabours, brabblers, burnables, grabblers, probables, scrabbled, scrabbler, scrabbles, slabbered, squabbler. | |
+3 letters: absorbable, adsorbable, ascribable, bluebeards, brambliest, breakables, observable, observably, scrabblers, scrabblier, scrubbable, slabbering, squabblers. | |
+4 letters: blaeberries, butterballs, describable, flabbergast, landlubbers, observables, rabblements, scrabbliest, subumbrella. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 61 62 62 65 72 |
| 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 01101100 01100001 01100010 01100010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l a b b e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0061 0062 0062 0065 0072 |
| 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)53786768687184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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