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Definition: Under-the-table |
Under-the-tableAdjective1. Designed and carried out secretly or confidentially; "a sub-rosa report"; "has their under-the-table backing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Under-the-tableSynonym: sub-rosa (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: undertable tube (medicine), under-table X-ray tube. |
Crosswords: Under-the-table |
| English words defined with "under-the-table": sub-rosa. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Syria | Under-the-table payments are often required, as corruption is endemic at nearly all levels of government. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Under-the-table" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Under-the-table" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "under-the-table"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 在之下这桌. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 의 밑에 테이". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | er-the-tableunday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-h-l-n-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: launderette. | |
-3 letters: laundrette, letterhead, threatened, turtlehead, unlettered, untethered. | |
-4 letters: blathered, blattered, blethered, burthened, debenture, debutante, deuterate, endurable, enterable, entreated, heartened, hebetated, leathered, tenurable, turntable, unaltered, unearthed, unrelated, untreated, utterable. | |
-5 letters: adherent, antlered, attendee, attender, bantered, battened, battener, battered, betelnut, bettered, bluehead, brattled, breadnut, breathed, brunette, buttered, debutant, denature, dentural, earthnut, edentate, ethereal, haltered, hebetate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 65 72 2D 74 68 65 2D 74 61 62 6C 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 00101101 01110100 01101000 01100101 00101101 01110100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r - t h e - t a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 002D 0074 0068 0065 002D 0074 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558070718415867471158667687871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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