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Tire Chains

Definition: Tire Chains

Tire Chains

Noun

1. Chains attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow.

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


Synonym: Tire Chains

Synonym: snow chains (n). (additional references)

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Photo Album: Tire Chains

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Four men riding in "Premier" auto, with the top down, through the snow with tire chains, in a wooded area. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Modern Translations: Tire Chains

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

辷り止め (creepers, taking the entrance examination to a university as a safety measure in case one fails at other universities). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すべりどめ (anti-skid device, backup measure, creepers, taking entrance examination to a university in case one fails at other universities, taking the entrance examination to a university as a safety measure in case one fails at other universities, tyre chains). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iretay ainschay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tire Chains

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-i-n-r-s-t"

-1 letter: chantries, charities, ethicians, snatchier, trichinae, trichinas.

-2 letters: archines, asthenic, canister, canities, ceratins, chanters, chanties, chariest, christen, christie, cisterna, citherns, cithrens, citrines, creatins, crinites, ethician, hairiest, hairnets, hieratic, ichnites, inarches, inciters, inearths, inertias, inherits, nitchies, rachitis, rainiest, scantier, snatcher, snitcher, stancher, tacrines, theriacs, tranches, trichina.

-3 letters: acetins, achiest, airiest, aitches, anestri, anthers, antsier, archine.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-i-n-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: interchains.

 

+2 letters: antihysteric, inheritances, rhetoricians.

 

+3 letters: antihysterics, containership, histaminergic, theoreticians.

 

+4 letters: actinomorphies, anticensorship, antirheumatics, apprenticeship, archimandrites, architectonics, arithmeticians, bronchiectasis, churchianities, containerships, disinheritance, historicalness, saccharinities, scintigraphies, spinthariscope, trichomoniases.

 

+5 letters: apprenticeships, dechlorinations, disinheritances, ethnohistorical, eutrophications, interscholastic, psychometrician, spinthariscopes, trichomonacides.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tire Chains


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

54 69 72 65      43 68 61 69 6E 73

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

    

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

01010100 01101001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#32 &#67 &#104 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0069 0072 0065      0043 0068 0061 0069 006E 0073

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

547584712377467758085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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