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Definition: Staff Of Life |
Staff Of LifeNoun1. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The emergency medical care given to restore or sustain vital functions (airway, respiration, circulation) without specialized medical equipment and to limit further damage in the period preceding the arrival of specialized, advanced emergency medical care. (references) |
Literature | Staff of Life (The). Bread, which is the support of life. Shakespeare says, "The boy was the very staff of my age." The allusion is to a staff which supports the feeble in walking. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Staff Of LifeSynonyms: bread (n), breadstuff (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese. |
Life | Nourishment, staff of life. (food). |
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Crosswords: Staff Of Life |
| English words defined with "staff of life": The staff of life. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "staff of life": Trite Expressions. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Staff of Life (1957) | |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But I did not always use this staff of life. |
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Expression using "staff of life": The staff of life. Additional references. | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-f-f-i-l-o-s-t" | |
-3 letters: foliates, liftoffs. | |
-4 letters: fetials, folates, foliate, isolate, liftoff, taffies, toffies. | |
-5 letters: falsie, feoffs, festal, fetial, fiesta, filets, filose, fliest, flites, floats, flotas, foetal, folate, itself, offals, offset, osteal, saltie, setoff, soffit, softie, solate, stelai, stifle, toiles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 61 66 66      4F 66      4C 69 66 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110100 01100001 01100110 01100110 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t a f f   O f   L i f e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0061 0066 0066      004F 0066      004C 0069 0066 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538667727224972246757271 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Expressions 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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