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Vellicate

Definition: Vellicate

Vellicate

Verb

1. Squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle".

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

Synonyms: Vellicate

Synonyms: nip (v), pinch (v), squeeze (v), tweet (v), twinge (v), twitch (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Vellicate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Agitation

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Vellicate

English words defined with "vellicate": Vellicated, Vellicating. (references)

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Anagrams: Vellicate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-l-t-v"

-2 letters: elative.

-3 letters: active, atelic, callet, cellae, cleave, taille, telial, velate, villae.

-4 letters: alive, allee, calve, cavie, cavil, cella, celli, civet, clave, clavi, cleat, eclat, elate, elect, elite, evict, evite, ileac, ileal, leave, level, lieve, lilac, telae, telia, telic, tical, valet, vatic, villa, vitae, vital.

-5 letters: alec, alee, alit, call, cate, cave, ceil, cell, celt, cete, cite, clit, eave, etic, evil, ilea, lace, laic, late, lati, lave, leal, leet, leva, lice, lilt, lite, live, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, tall, teal, teel, tela, tele, tell, tile, till, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, vial, vice, vile, vill, vita.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-l-t-v"
 

+2 letters: vorticellae.

 

+3 letters: multivalence, revictualled, verticillate.

 

+4 letters: correlatively, declaratively, explicatively, multivalences, speculatively, ultraviolence.

 

+5 letters: ultraexclusive, ultraviolences.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vellicate


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

56 65 6C 6C 69 63 61 74 65

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)

01010110 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 006C 006C 0069 0063 0061 0074 0065

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

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

567178787569678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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