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Upbound

Definition: Upbound

Upbound

Adjective

1. Heading in any direction that is conventionally up; "upbound shipping lanes".

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

Date "upbound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Anagrams: Upbound

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-n-o-p-u-u"
	-2 letters: bound, pound.
	-3 letters: bond, bund, pond, undo, updo, upon.
	-4 letters: bod, bop, bud, bun, don, dub, dun, duo, dup, nob, nod, nub, oud, pod, pub, pud, pun, udo, upo.
	-5 letters: bo, do, no, nu, od, on, op, un, up.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-n-o-p-u-u"
	+4 letters: superabound.
	+5 letters: superabounds.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Upbound

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

55 70 62 6F 75 6E 64

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)

01010101 01110000 01100010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#112 &#98 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 0062 006F 0075 006E 0064

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

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

55826881878070

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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