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Under-the-table

Definition: Under-the-table

Under-the-table

Adjective

1. 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-table

Synonym: sub-rosa (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: undertable tube (medicine), under-table X-ray tube.

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Crosswords: Under-the-table

English words defined with "under-the-table": sub-rosa. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Under-the-table

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Under-the-table

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Under-the-table

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Under-the-table

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Under-the-table


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)

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)

&#85 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#45 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#45 &#116 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

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

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INDEX

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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