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Tombac

Definition: Tombac

Tombac

Noun

1. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.

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


Synonyms: Tombac

Synonyms: tambac (n), tombak (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tombac

English words defined with "tombac": White tombac. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Tombac" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (tombac), Romanian (tombac).

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Expression: Tombac

Expression using "tombac": white tombac. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Tombac

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

Arabic 

  

‏التمبك سبيكة نحاس. (various references)

   

French

  

tombac, laiton. (various references)

   

German

  

Tombak. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ombactay

   

Portuguese

  

tombaque, similiouro, liga de zinco e cobre. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tombac. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

томпак (pinchbeck, red brass). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tombak (bath metal, tombak). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tombac

Derivations

Words beginning with "tombac": tomback, tombacks, tombacs. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Tombac"

Words rhyming with "tombac" (pronounced 'Tom"bac'): bobac. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tombac

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: combat.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-m-o-t"

-2 letters: ambo, atom, boat, bota, coat, coma, comb, moat, taco, tomb.

-3 letters: abo, act, bam, bat, boa, bot, cab, cam, cat, cob, cot, mac, mat, moa, mob, moc, mot, oat, oca, tab, tam, tao, tom.

-4 letters: ab, am, at, ba, bo, ma, mo, om, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-m-o-t"
 

+1 letter: combats, tomback, tombacs.

 

+2 letters: backmost, catacomb, combated, combater, hecatomb, matchbox, mobocrat, tombacks.

 

+3 letters: amebocyte, bombastic, catacombs, combatant, combaters, combating, combative, combatted, hecatombs, matchbook, metabolic, mobocrats, noncombat, subatomic.

 

+4 letters: amebocytes, amoebocyte, barometric, bichromate, catabolism, colobomata, combatants, combatting, commutable, compatible, compatibly, computable, matchboard, matchbooks, matchboxes, mobocratic, subcompact.

 

+5 letters: amoebocytes, bichromated, bichromates, bioclimatic, biometrical, catabolisms, combatively, combination, combinative, combinatory, comfortable, comfortably, committable, compactible, compatibles, embrocation, imbrication, macrobiotic, matchboards, meroblastic, multicarbon, problematic, recombinant, saltimbocca, subcompacts, uncombative.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tombac


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

54 6F 6D 62 61 63

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)

01010100 01101111 01101101 01100010 01100001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#109 &#98 &#97 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 006D 0062 0061 0063

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

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

548179686769

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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