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Syph

Definition: Syph

Syph

Noun

1. A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta).

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


Synonyms: Syph

Synonyms: pox (n), syphilis (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Syph

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

syph

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Syph

Derivations

Words beginning with "syph": sypher, syphered, syphering, syphers, syphilis, syphilises, syphilitic, syphilitics, syphon, syphoned, syphoning, syphons, syphs. (additional references)

Words containing "syph": antisyphilitic, antisyphilitics. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Syph

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hyps.

Words within the letters "h-p-s-y"

-1 letter: hyp, shy, spy.

-2 letters: sh.

 Words containing the letters "h-p-s-y"
 

+1 letter: hypes, hypos, psych, pushy, sophy, sylph, syphs.

 

+2 letters: glyphs, hyssop, lymphs, nymphs, physed, physes, physic, physis, plashy, plushy, poshly, psyche, psycho, psychs, scyphi, sharpy, sphery, sylphs, sylphy, sypher, syphon, typhus.

 

+3 letters: alphyls, apishly, asphyxy, bypaths, cyphers, hydrops, hyphens, hyssops, nymphos, phenyls, phoneys, phrensy, phyllos, physeds, physics, phytols, phytons, pixyish, plushly, psyched, psyches, psychic, psychos, pushily, pythons, scyphus, shapely, sharply, shipway, shlumpy, shopboy, shrimpy, skyphoi, skyphos, splashy, sylphic, sylphid, syphers, syphons, syrphid, toyshop, typhons, typhose, typhous, zephyrs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Syph


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

53 79 70 68

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 01111001 01110000 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#121 &#112 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0079 0070 0068

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

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

53918274

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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