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Computing | Twilight zone n. // [IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC operators live. An op is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone". Source: Jargon File. |
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Screenplays | Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where the guy signed a contract and they cut out his tongue and put it in a jar and it wouldn't die, it just grew and pulsated and gave birth to baby tongues? (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner. Based on the sketch from Saturday Night Live.) I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone! And all the people are pigs! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Lyrics | Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone (Twilight Zone; performing artist: Golden Earring) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Twilight Zone (1959) | |
Song Titles | Twilight Zone (performing artist: Golden Earring) | |
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![]() | "Twilight Zone" (movie) by More ... | ![]() | The twilight zone. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Language | Translations for "TWILIGHT ZONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | междинна зона, западаща част на град. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | usundt kvarter (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), usund bydel (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), slumområde (blighted area, insalubrious zone, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, insanitary zone, slum, slum area, slum quarter), slumkvarter (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum, slum area, slum quarter), saneringsmodent kvarter (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), saneringsmoden bydel (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | krottenwijk (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, jerry-built town, shanty town, shantytown, slum, slum area, slum quarter), krottenbuurt (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum, slum area, slum quarter), aan sanering toezijnde stadsbuurt (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | slummikortteli (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), slummialue (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), saneerausalue (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | zone floue, quartier insalubre, quartier délabré. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | verwahrlostes Wohnviertel (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), sanierungsreifer Stadtteil (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), Sanierungsgebiet (redevelopment area), sanierungsbedürftiges Wohnviertel (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), Elendsviertel (slum, slums). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποβαθμισμένη περιοχή (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), ανθυγιεινή περιοχή (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | quartiere malsano (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), quartiere delle baracche (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), quartiere dei diseredati (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), quartiere da risanare (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter), bassofondi (blighted area, insanitary district, insanitary quarter, slum area, slum quarter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilighttway onezay slum (slum). (various references) belli olmayan durum (twilight world), belirsizlik (ambiguity, dark, doubtfulness, dreaminess, dreariness, drift, dubiousness, equivocalness, fogginess, fuzziness, generality, gloom, haze, haziness, if, incalculability, indefiniteness, indistinctness, laxity, laxness, limbo, suspense, troubled waters, twilight world, uncertainty, vagueness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"TWILIGHT ZONE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: twlilight zone, twlilight zonr. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-l-n-o-t-t-w-z" | |
-3 letters: lintwhite, toileting, whittling. | |
-4 letters: lithoing, oiltight, toweling, twilight, twinight, whetting. | |
-5 letters: gothite, heiling, hilting, hitting, hotline, hotting, howling, intitle, lentigo, letting, lighten, lignite, lionize, lotting, neolith, nightie, tholing, tighten, tilting, tithing, titling, toiling, toiting, tonight, towline, townlet, welting, wetting, whiling, whiting, whittle, wilting, winglet, withing, witling, witting, wotting. | |
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