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Standdown

Definition: Standdown

Standdown

Noun

1. (military) withdrawal of a military presence.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definition: Standdown

Domain	Definition
Mining	Gr. Brit. The sending of miners home because they cannot be usefully employed due to any reason outside the control of the management. In some cases, coal mining awards confine this right to certain occurrences, e.g.,breakdown of plant or machines. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Standdown

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
standdown	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Standdown

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-n-n-o-s-t-w"
	-2 letters: wantons.
	-3 letters: donnas, sonant, wanton.
	-4 letters: adown, dados, datos, dawns, dawts, doats, donas, donna, downs, nonas, nowts, santo, stand, toads, towns, wands, wants, woads, wonts.
	-5 letters: adds, ados, ands, anon, ants, awns, dado, dads, dato, dawn, daws, dawt, doat, dona, dons, dost, dots, down, dows, nans, naos, nods, nona, nota, nows, nowt, oast, oats.
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.

Alternative Orthography: Standdown

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

53 74 61 6E 64 64 6F 77 6E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

... - .- -. -.. -.. --- .--. -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100100 01101111 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#100 &#111 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0074 0061 006E 0064 0064 006F 0077 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

538667807070818980

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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