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Definitions: Temporal |
TemporalAdjective1. Not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt. 2. Of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art". 3. Of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone". 4. Of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church". 5. Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual". 6. Of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "temporal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Health | One of the two irregular bones forming part of the lateral surfaces and base of the skull, and containing the organs of hearing. (references) |
Science | A characteristic that refers to the time at which a given data set was acquired. (references) |
Solar | Pertaining to time, such as temporal variation (variation over time). (references) |
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Synonym: TemporalSynonym: worldly (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Laity | Adjective: secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane. |
Nobility | Peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate. |
Transientness | Temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Now, to unleash screaming temporal doom! (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) The Temporal Prime Directive. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) Temporal folds are not to indulge the whims of lower beings. (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles) My wives exist in different temporal aspects of a four-dimensional space-time continuum. (Goodnight Sweetheart; writing credit: Paul Alexander; Simon Braithwaite) We still think the temporal lobe. (The Exorcist; writing credit: William Peter Blatty) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Temporal (2002) | |
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PET scans at the level of the basal ganglia of a normal control (1) case 1 at the start (2) and after treatment with AZT (3). In (1) there is a homogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism in the frontal, temporal and occipital cortex and in the subcortical grey matter. At the onset of treatment with AZT (2) there is a heterogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism with a relative reduction in the posterior temporal and occipital regions and the thalamus. Thirteen weeks after treatment with AZT, the abnormal pattern has partly resolved (3). All images are scaled from zero to 100% of the maximum activity within the slice (scale shown on right of figure).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | This is a composite HST image taken in visible light showing the temporal evolution of the ...Credit: NASA. | ||
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Siddha Nagarjuna | This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions. |
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Health | Otherwise, it resembles temporal or frontal lobe epilepsy. (references) | |
The disorder may occur alone or with other disorders such as temporal arteritis. (references) | ||
Several components of the NIH support research on vasculitis and temporal arteritis. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cuba | In 1998 following Pope John Paul II's visit, the country's Roman Catholic bishops called on the Government to recognize the Catholic Church's role in civil society and the family, as well as in the temporal areas of work, the economy, the arts, and the scientific and technical worlds. (references) |
Economic History | Turkey | The temporal and religious ruling institutions of the old empire (the sultanate and caliphate) were abolished. (references) |
The Holy See | The Holy See's diplomatic history began in the fourth century, but the boundaries of the papacy's temporal power have shifted over the centuries. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. |
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| "Temporal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.59% of the time. "Temporal" is used about 333 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.59% | 315 | 16,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.2% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 333 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "temporal": anterior temporal artery ♦ deep temporal vein ♦ intermediate temporal artery ♦ language Of Temporal Ordering Specification ♦ lords temporal ♦ middle temporal vein ♦ posterior temporal artery ♦ superficial temporal vein ♦ temporal adverb ♦ temporal aliasing ♦ temporal arrangement ♦ Temporal Arteries ♦ Temporal Arteritis ♦ temporal artery ♦ Temporal augment ♦ temporal bone ♦ temporal canthus ♦ temporal clause ♦ temporal coherence ♦ temporal database ♦ temporal databases:representation and querying ♦ Temporal Lobe ♦ temporal lobe epilepsy ♦ temporal logic ♦ Temporal Muscle ♦ temporal order ♦ temporal property ♦ temporal reasoning ♦ temporal relation ♦ temporal vein ♦ temporal weighting. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "temporal": temporal-directed. | |
Ending with "temporal": naso-temporal, spatio-temporal. | |
Containing "temporal": spatio-temporal-causal, spatio-temporal-things. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "temporal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tëmthor, laik (laic, lay, layman, profane, secular), kalimtar (ephemeral, evanescent, goer, momentary, passerby, passing, pedestrian, temporary, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding), i tëmthave, i përkohshëm (acting, impermanent, interim, interjacent, pro tem, temporary, transient, transitional, transitory), i kësaj bote (earthly, mundane, terrestrial, worldly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مؤقت (interim, jury, provisional, provisory, temporary, tentative, transition, transitory), زمني, زائل (evanescent, impermanent, transient, transitory), علماني (laic, laity, lay, layman, secular, worldly), صدغي, دنيوي (earthly, laity, material, materialistic, mundane, secular, terrestrial, worldly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съществуващ във времето, свързан с времето, светски (earthbound, earthly, fashionable, fleshly, laic, lay, material, mundane, profane, secular, smart, social, society, terrene, terrestrial, unclerical, world, worldly), слепоочна кост, слепоочен (petrous), ограничен от времето, мирски (profane, secular, unclerical), за време, преходен (caducous, deciduous, fleeting, fugitive, in between, intermediate, passing, temporary, transient, transit, transition, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 世俗 (mundane, secular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | temporální, svìtský (mundane, profane, secular), spánkový, doèasný (provisional, temporary, transitory), èasový (chronological). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | temporallap (temporal lobe), tindingephlegmone (temporal phlegmon), temporal logik (temporal logic), temporale del af musculus epicranii temporoparietalis (temporal part of the temporoparietal epicranius muscle), temporallapsepilepsi (psychomotor epilepsy, temporal-lobe epilepsy), temporallapshernie (temporal hernia), temporallaps-Pick (Pick disease with temporal lobe atrophy), tidsafhængig ræsonnering (temporal reasoning, time-dependent reasoning), tidsmæssig koherens (temporal coherence), tidsmaessig virkning (temporal scope), tindingeben (temporal bone), tindingelap (temporal lobe), temporale databaser:repræsentation og forespørgsler (temporal databases:representation and querying), store kilebensvinge (temporal wing), kortvarig impuls (temporal pulse), arteria temporalis anterior syndrom (syndrome of the anterior temporal artery), arteria temporalis media (middle temporal artery), arteriae temporales profundae (deep temporal arteries), arteritis temporalis (Arteritis temporalis, temporal arteritis), fasekoherens (temporal coherence), fossa temporalis (temporal fossa), operculum temporale (temporal operculum), os temporale (temporal bone), os temporalis-bank (temporal bone bank), pars petrosa ossis temporalis (petrosal part of the temporal bone, pyramid), pars temporalis coronae radiatae (temporal part of the corona radiata), arteria temporalis anterior (anterior temporal artery), pyramis (petrosal part of the temporal bone, pyramid), psykomotorisk anfald (psychomotor attack, temporal pseudo-absentia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tijdpuls (temporal pulse), tijdafhankelijk redeneren (temporal reasoning, time-dependent reasoning), temporele werkingssfeer (temporal scope), temporele logica (temporal logic), temporele gegevensbanken:representatie en raadpleging (temporal databases:representation and querying), slaapgroeve (temporal fossa), arteria temporalis profunda anterior et posterior (deep temporal arteries), arteritis temporalis (Arteritis temporalis, temporal arteritis), fossa temporalis (temporal fossa), lobus temporalis (temporal lobe), middelste slaapslagader (middle temporal artery), operculum temporale (temporal operculum), arteria temporalis media (middle temporal artery), slaapbeen (temporal bone), ziekte van Pick (constrictive pericarditis, Pick disease with temporal lobe atrophy), voorste en achterste diepgelegen slaapslagader (deep temporal arteries), pyramis (petrosal part of the temporal bone, pyramid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maallinen (earthly, mundane, secular), ajallinen (mundane), aineellinen (material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | temporel, temporal (temporal bone), temporaire (temporary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zeitlich (chronologic, chronological, chronologically, seasonal, temporale, temporally, time, transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κροταφικόσ, κοσμικόσ (cosmic, laic, lay, mundane, secular, secularistic, worldly), πρόσκαιροσ (impermanent), χρονικόσ (of time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | של "עולם "ז" (terrestrial), זמ י (interim, passing, pro tempore, provisional, temporary, tentative), חלו י (laic, lay, profane, secular, secularist, worldly), כל" (betrothed, bride, daughter in law, ephemeral, transitory), בן חלוף (mortal), בר חלוף, רקתי, צ"עי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | világi (carnal, laic, laical, lay, secular, wordly, worldly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | temporale (convective rain, electric storm, lightning storm, rainstorm, storm, thunderstorm, thundery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 過現未 (present and future, three temporal states of existence), 側 葉 (temporal lobe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そくとうよう (temporal lobe), か'"み (present and future, three temporal states of existence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 일시 (Casual, Episodic, transient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | seihllt (earthy, profane, secular, terrestrial, worldly), cherraghtagh (perishable), baaishagh (frontal, imprudent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emporaltay temporal (flaw, gale, gust, laic, storm, tempest, whole gale, worldly), secular (archaic, centenary, laic, laicize, lay, lay off, profane, secular, time worn, worldly), profano (abysmal, outsider, profane, unhallowed, unholy, worldly), mundano (carnal, earthly, mundane, terrestrial, worldly, worldly-minded), leigo (laic, laical, lay, layman, outsider, profane), civil (citizen, civic, civil, civilian, gownsman). (various references) temporal (epoch), vremelnic (ephemeral, fleeting, temporarily, temporary, transient, transitory), lumesc (bodily, earth-bound, earthly, earthy, fleshly, mundane, profane, secular, worldly). (various references) временный (dummy, impermanent, interim, make-do, makeshift, provisional, service, temporary, time division). (various references) temporalan, zemaljski (earthborn, earthly, mundane, tellurian, terrene, terrestrial, worldly), vremenski (time, weather), svetovni (lay, terrene), privremen (provisional, temporary, transitory). (various references) temporal (fresh gale, gale, reprieve, seasonal, storm, temporary, term, time). (various references) tinning-, timlig, tids-, temporal, värdslig (wordly). (various references) เกี่ยวกับขมับ, ชั่วคราว (temporary), ที่เกี่ยวกับทางโลก. (various references) zamana ait, zaman belirten, maddi (concrete, corporeal, earthbound, earthly, earthy, material, materialistic, matter of fact, pecuniary, physical, tangible, worldly), geçici (ad interim, Band aid, casual, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, fugacious, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory, volatile), dünyevi (carnal, earth-born, earthly, earthy, fleshly, mundane, secular, worldly), şakak kemiği ile ilgili, şakak kemiği, şakak (temple). (various references) скронева кістка, скронева артерія, скроневий, часовий, цивільний (civic, civil, civilian, private), тимчасовий (ambulatory, caducous, casual, extempore, improvised, interim, jury, makeshift, provisional, provisory, seasonal, stopgap, temporary). (various references) xương thái dương. (various references) tymhorol, amserol (timely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arteritis temporalis, temporalis, terrenus, terrenus-a-um. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 39 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O eurwn thn yuchn autou apolesei authn kai o apolesaV thn yuchn autou eneken emou eurhsei authn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui invenit animam suam perdet illam et qui perdiderit animam suam propter me inveniet eam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Se þe met hys sawle se for-spilð hyo.& se þe for-spylð his sawle for me he ge-methyo. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | He that fyndith his soule, that is, temporal lyf, shal leese it; and he that lesith his soule, `that is, lif, for me, shal fynde it. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | He that fyndeth hys lyfe shall lose it: and he that losith hys lyfe for my sake shall fynde it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 39 |
| Bulgarian | Който намери живота си, ще го изгуби; и който изгуби живота си, заради Мене, ще го намери. |
| Cebuano | Ang makakaplag sa iyang kinabuhi kawagtangan himoon niini; apan ang magawagtang sa iyang kinabuhi tungod kanako, makakaplag ra niini. |
| Chinese | 得 著 " 命 的 、 將 要 失 喪 " 命 . 為 我 失 喪 " 命 的 、 將 要 得 著 " 命 。 |
| Croatian | Tko naðe život svoj, izgubit æe ga, a tko izgubi svoj život poradi mene, naæi æe ga." |
| Danish | Den, som bjærger sit Liv, skal miste det; og den, som mister sit Liv for min Skyld, skal bjærge det. |
| Dutch | Die zijn ziel vindt, zal dezelve verliezen; en die zijn ziel zal verloren hebben om Mijnentwil, zal dezelve vinden. |
| Finnish | Joka löytää elämänsä, kadottaa sen; ja joka kadottaa elämänsä minun tähteni, hän löytää sen. |
| French | Celui qui conservera sa vie la perdra, et celui qui perdra sa vie cause de moi la retrouvera. |
| German | Wer sein Leben findet, der wird's verlieren; und wer sein Leben verliert um meinetwillen, der wird's finden. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun k'ap chache asire lavi l' va pèdi li. Men, moun ki va pèdi lavi l' poutèt mwen va jwenn li ankò. |
| Hungarian | A ki megtalálja az õ életét, elveszti azt; és a ki elveszti az õ életét én érettem, megtalálja azt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang mempertahankan hidupnya, akan kehilangan hidupnya, tetapi orang yang kehilangan hidupnya karena setia kepada-Ku, akan mendapat hidupnya." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Siapa yang memeliharakan nyawanya, ia akan kehilangan nyawa; dan siapa yang kehilangan nyawanya oleh sebab Aku, ialah akan mendapat nyawa. |
| Italian | Chi avr trovato la sua vita, la perder : e chi avr perduto la sua vita per causa mia, la trover . |
| Korean | 자 기 목 숨 을 얻 " 자 " 잃 을 것 이 " 나 를 위 하 여 자 기 목 숨 을 잃 " 자 " 얻 으 리 라 |
| Latvian | Kas savu dzîvîbu iegûst, pazaudç to; bet kas savu dzîvîbu pazaudçs manis dçï, atradîs to. |
| Manx Gaelic | Eshyn ta aggindagh e vioys y hauail, caillee eh eh: agh eshyn chaillys e vioys er my ghraih's, nee eh eh y hauail. |
| Maori | Ko te tangata i whiwhi ki te ora e mate ano ia: a, kite mate tetahi mona i whakaaro ki ahau, ka whiwhi ano ia ki te ora. |
| Modern Greek | Οστις ευρη την ζωην αυτου θελει απολεσει αυτην, και οστις απολεση την ζωην αυτου δι' εμε θελει ευρει αυτην. |
| Norwegian | Den som finner sitt liv, skal miste det, og den som mister sitt liv for min skyld, skal finne det. |
| Portuguese | Quem achar a sua vida perdê-la-á, e quem perder a sua vida por amor de mim achá-la-á. |
| Rumanian | Cine kwi va pqstra viaya, o va pierde; wi cine kwi va pierde viaya, pentru Mine, o va ckwtiga. |
| Russian | у'ЕТЕЗЫЙК "ХЫХ УЧПА ПФЕТСЕФ ЕЕ; Б ПФЕТСЧЫЙК "ХЫХ УЧПА ТБ"Й нЕОС У'ЕТЕЦЕФ ЕЕ. |
| Shuar | Aya Jú nunkanam pénker pujustaj tana nu ni iwiaakmarin emesrattawai. Tura Winia anentu asa ju nunkanam pénker pujustinian Páchiatsna nu tuke shiir pujustatui.' |
| Spanish | El que halla su vida la perderá, y el que pierde su vida por mi causa la hallará. |
| Swahili | Anayeyashikilia maisha yake, atayapoteza; lakini anayeyapoteza maisha yake kwa ajili yangu, atayapata. |
| Swedish | Den som finner sitt liv, han skall mista det, och den som mister sitt liv, för min skull, han skall finna det. -- |
| Thai | ผู้ที่จะเอาชีวิตของตนรอ"จะกลับเสียชีวิต แต่ผู้ที่สู้เสียชีวิตของตนเพราะเห็นแก่เราก็จะไ"้ชีวิตรอ" |
| Ukrainian | Хто душу свою зберіга", той погубить її, хто ж за Мене погубить душу свою, той знайде її. |
| Uma | Hema to mpobahaka konoa-na moto pai' mpotuku' -a nau' rapatehi-i mpai', hi'a-mi to mporata katuwua' to lompe'. Aga hema to mpentaei konoa-na moto, uma-i mpai' mporata katuwua' to lompe'. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "temporal": temporalities, temporality, temporalize, temporalized, temporalizes, temporalizing, temporally, temporals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "temporal": atemporal, extemporal, nontemporal, spatiotemporal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "temporal": extemporally, nontemporals, spatiotemporally. (additional references) | |
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"Temporal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atemporal, Bemporad, emporal, Tambora, tempor, tempora, temporals, temporaly, temporial, temporis, temporl, temporum, tempra, tempral, tempural, tumoural. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "temporal" (pronounced te"mperul) |
| 4 | -p er u l | Corporal. |
| 3 | -er u l | admiral, agricultural, architectural, behavioral, bilateral, collateral, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, doggerel, electoral, ephemeral, federal, femoral, funeral, Gen, general, guttural, horticultural, humoral, inaugural, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mayoral, mineral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, structural, supernatural, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural, visceral. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: marplot, premolt, prolate, rampole, templar, trample. | |
-2 letters: ampler, armlet, merlot, molter, morale, mortal, palmer, palter, parole, patrol, pelota, petrol, plater, portal, protea, replot, tamper, tramel, trompe. | |
-3 letters: alert, alter, amole, amort, ample, aport, apter, armet, artel, lamer, later, leapt, lepta, loper, maple, mater, metal, metro, molar, moper, morae, moral, morel, motel, oater, opera, orate, paler, palet, pareo, parle, parol, pater, pearl, peart, petal, plate, pleat, polar, poler, prate, proem, prole, ramet, ratel, realm, remap, repot, taler, tamer, taper, tempo, tepal, tolar, toper, tramp, tromp, trope. | |
-4 letters: aero, alme, aloe, alto, aper, atom, atop, earl, lame, lamp, late, leap, lear, lept, loam, lope, lore, lota, male, malt, mare, marl, mart, mate, meal, meat, melt, merl, meta, moat, mola, mole, molt, mope, mora, more, mort, mote, olea, omer, opal, oral, orle, pale, palm, pare, part, pate, peal, pear, peat, pelt, perm, pert, plat, plea, plot, poem, poet, pole, pome, pore, port, pram, prao, prat, proa, prom, rale, ramp, rape, rapt, rate, rato, real, ream, reap, repo, roam, role, romp, rope, rota, rote, rotl, tael, tale, tame, tamp, tape, tare, taro, tarp, teal, team, tear, tela, temp, tepa, term, toea, tola, tole, tome, tope, tora, tore, tram, trap, trop. | |
-5 letters: ale, alp, alt, amp, ape, apt, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, elm, era, eta, lam, lap, lar, lat, lea, let, lop, lot, mae, map, mar, mat, mel, met, moa, mol, mop, mor, mot, oar, oat, ole, ope, opt, ora, ore, ort, pal, pam, par, pat, pea, per, pet, pol, pom, pot, pro, ram, rap, rat, rem, rep, ret, roe, rom, rot, tae, tam, tao, tap, tar, tea, tel, toe, tom, top, tor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: atemporal, patrolmen, temporals. | |
+2 letters: extemporal, importable, petrolatum, promotable, promulgate, protonemal, temporally, trampoline, treponemal. | |
+3 letters: hypothermal, lepromatous, nontemporal, patelliform, peristomial, petrolatums, polarimeter, polarimetry, problematic, promulgated, promulgates, proximately, temporality, temporalize, temporarily, trampoliner, trampolines. | |
+4 letters: cephalometry, contemplator, ergastoplasm, extemporally, imperatorial, laparotomies, metaphorical, metropolitan, nontemporals, perambulator, polarimeters, polarimetric, postimperial, preformulate, problematics, protonematal, semitropical, somatopleure, spermatozoal, temporalized, temporalizes, trampoliners. | |
+5 letters: amphiprostyle, approximately, campylobacter, cephalometric, comparatively, compartmental, complementary, complimentary, contemplators, ergastoplasms, extemporarily, impersonality, importunately, interproximal, metallography, metropolitans, microparticle, perambulation, perambulators, perambulatory, permutational, petrochemical, plethysmogram, polarimetries, postembryonal, predominantly, predominately, preformulated, preformulates, primatologies, problematical, recompilation, somatopleures, sportsmanlike, superdiplomat, temporalities, temporalizing, thermoplastic, unproblematic, wafflestomper, xerophthalmia, xerophthalmic. | |
| 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)54 65 6D 70 6F 72 61 6C |
| 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)01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m p o r a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0070 006F 0072 0061 006C |
| 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)5471798281846778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Bible Trace 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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