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Staff Of Life

Definition: Staff Of Life

Staff Of Life

Noun

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: Staff Of Life

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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 Life

Synonyms: bread (n), breadstuff (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Staff Of Life

ContextSynonyms 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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Modern Usage: Staff Of Life

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Movie/TV Titles

Staff of Life (1957)

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Commercial Usage: Staff Of Life

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Books

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Use in Literature: Staff Of Life

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Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

But I did not always use this staff of life.

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Expression: Staff Of Life

Expression using "staff of life": The staff of life. Additional references.

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Anagrams: Staff Of Life

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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Alternative Orthography: Staff Of Life


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 74 61 66 66      4F 66      4C 69 66 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01110100 01100001 01100110 01100110 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#116 &#97 &#102 &#102 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#102 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0074 0061 0066 0066      004F 0066      004C 0069 0066 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

538667727224972246757271

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INDEX

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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