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Upstager

Definition: Upstager

Upstager

Noun

1. A selfish actor who upstages the other actors.

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


Anagrams: Upstager

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-p-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: pargets, pasture, uprates, upstage, upstare, uptears.

-2 letters: argues, augers, erupts, gapers, gasper, gaster, getups, grapes, grates, greats, pagers, pareus, parges, parget, paster, paters, pauser, prates, purest, purges, repast, retags, rugate, sauger, sparge, spurge, stager, tapers, targes, taupes, teguas, tragus, trapes, uprate, uptear, urates.

-3 letters: agers, agues, apers, apres, apter, argue, argus, asper, aster.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-p-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: pasturage, upgathers.

 

+2 letters: expurgates, pasturages, purgatives, superagent, supergiant.

 

+3 letters: expurgators, grapefruits, promulgates, purgatories, superagents, supergiants.

 

+4 letters: autographies, expurgations, outspreading, pasteurising, pasteurizing, postgraduate, preslaughter, stepdaughter, supergravity, superheating.

 

+5 letters: mousetrapping, photogravures, postgraduates, stepdaughters.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Upstager


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

55 70 73 74 61 67 65 72

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01110000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 0073 0074 0061 0067 0065 0072

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

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

5582858667737184

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