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Temporiser

Definition: Temporiser

Temporiser

Noun

1. Someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time.

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

"Temporiser" is a common misspelling or typo for: temporizer.

Synonym: Temporiser

Synonym: temporizer (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Temporiser

Non-English Usage: "Temporiser" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (await, procrastinate, temporize, use delaying tactic, wait for).

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Modern Translations: Temporiser

Language Translations for "temporiser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sekvenstimer (temporizer, weld-sequence timer). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vertrager (antifoggant, anti-fogging agent, fog-inhibiting agent, moderator, restrainer, temporizer, weld-sequence timer). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hitsausajan säädin (temporizer, weld-sequence timer). (various references)

   

French

  

temporisateur (temporizer). (various references)

   

German

  

Schweißzeitsteuergerät (temporizer, weld-sequence timer), Schweißzeitrelais (temporizer, weld-sequence timer). (various references)

   

Italian

  

temporizzatore (clock, clock register, temporizer, time register, timer, weld-sequence timer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emporisertay

   

Spanish

  

temporizador (clock, clock register, temporizer, time register, timer, weld-sequence timer). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tidur för svetssekvenser (temporizer, weld-sequence timer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Temporiser

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: spirometer.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: importers, misreport, peristome, portieres, reimports, temporise.

-2 letters: emperors, emptiers, epistome, epitomes, importer, imposter, merriest, miterers, moperies, mortiser, pierrots, poetiser, poetries, portiere, premiers, premorse, pretrims, primeros, primrose, promisee, promiser, reimport, reimpose, rimester, roperies, simperer, sportier, stormier, tiresome, triremes.

-3 letters: emoters, emperor, empires, emprise, emptier, empties, epimers, episome, epitome, erotism, imports, imposer, imprese, imprest, meteors, metiers, metopes, miterer, moister, mopiest, mortise, optimes, permits, perries, pestier, pierrot, poetise, porters, premier, premies, premise, preriot, presort, prester, preterm, pretors, pretrim, primero, primers, prisere, promise, prosier, prostie, reemits, remorse, remoter, remotes, reports, reposer, reposit, reprise, respire, respite, restore, retimes, retires, retries, retrims, rioters, riposte, roister, rompers, ropiest, semipro, septime, spireme, sporter, stomper, striper, tempers, termers, termors, terries, tremors, trimers, trireme, triseme, trisome, trompes, tropism.

-4 letters: emoter, emotes, empire, epimer, esprit, import, impose, impost, isomer, merest, merits, meteor, meters, metier, metope, metres, metros, mister, miters, mitres, moires, mopers, mopier, morris, optime, ormers, permit, perter, pester, peters, poiser, porism, porter, poster, potsie, premie, preset, presto, pretor, priers, priest, primer, primes, primos, priors, proems, proser, prosit, protei, reemit, remise, remits, remote, report, repose, repots, repros, rerise, rerose, resite, resort, respot, rester, retems, reties, retime, retire, retore, retrim, retros, rimers, rimose, rioter, ripest, ripost, romper, ropers, ropier, rosier, roster, sempre, simper, sirree, smiter, soiree, somite, sopite, sorter, sortie, spirem, sprier, sprite, stereo, stoper, stripe, temper, tempos, termer, termor, terser, timers, topees, topers, tories, tremor, triers, trimer, triose, tripes, tripos, trompe, tromps, tropes.

-5 letters: emirs, emits, emote, erose, ester, estop, items, meets, merer, meres, merit, meter, metes, metis, metre, metro, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, moire, moist, moper, mopes, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, omers, omits, ormer, orris, osier, peers, peise, peris, perms, perse, pesto, peter, piers, piste, poems, poets, poise, pomes, pores, ports, poser, posit, prees, prese, prest, prier, pries, prime, primo, prims, prior, prise, prism, proem, proms, prose, prost, reest, remet, remit, repos, repot, repro, reset, retem, retie, retro, rimer, rimes, riots, riper, ripes, riser, rites, romps, roper, ropes, roset, rotes, rotis, serer, siree, smite, smote, sorer, speer, speir, sperm, spier, spire, spirt, spite, spore, sport, spree, sprit, steep, steer, stere, stime, stipe, stirp, stomp, stope, store, storm, strep, strip, strop, teems, tempi, tempo, temps, terms, terse, tiers, timer, times, tires, tiros, tomes, topee, toper, topes, topis, tores, torse, torsi, trees, trier, tries, trims, trios, tripe, trips, trois, tromp, trope.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: misreported, pyrometries, spirometers, temporaries, temporizers.

 

+2 letters: madreporites, polarimeters, pteridosperm, respirometer, respirometry, spirometries.

 

+3 letters: extemporizers, improprieties, intercompares, morphometries, performatives, polarimetries, premeditators, pretermission, pteridosperms, redemptioners, respirometers, respirometric, spectrometric, temporariness, thermospheric.

 

+4 letters: aromatherapies, contemporaries, hermaphrodites, heteromorphism, hypermetropias, hypermodernist, peremptoriness, petrochemistry, postretirement, preordainments, pretermissions, primogenitures, psychrometries, pyrheliometers, respirometries, spectrometries, sportfishermen, thermographies.

 

+5 letters: anthropometries, heteromorphisms, hypermodernists, mercaptopurines, preterminations, supermajorities, temporarinesses, thermoperiodism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Temporiser


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

54 65 6D 70 6F 72 69 73 65 72

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)

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

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

01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#109 &#112 &#111 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006D 0070 006F 0072 0069 0073 0065 0072

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

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

54717982818475857184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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