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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Verbage /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word `garbage'. Compare content-free. More pejorative than `verbiage'. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
verbage | 18 |
invitation verbage wedding | 10 |
invitation verbage | 6 |
notary verbage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-r-v" | |
-1 letter: barege, bargee, beaver, greave, regave. | |
-2 letters: agree, barge, brave, breve, eager, eagre, grave, grebe, ragee, reave, verge. | |
-3 letters: agee, ager, aver, bare, bear, beer, berg, brae, brag, bree, eave, eger, ever, garb, gave, gear, grab, gree, rage, rave, veer, vera, verb. | |
-4 letters: age, arb, are, ave, bag, bar, bee, beg, bra, ear, era, ere. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-g-r-v" | |
+1 letter: beverage, verbiage. | |
+2 letters: beavering, bereaving, beverages, verbiages. | |
+3 letters: governable, subaverage. | |
+4 letters: overbearing, overbeating. | |
+5 letters: ungovernable. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 45 52 42 41 47 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . .-. -... .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000101 01010010 01000010 01000001 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V E R B A G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0045 0052 0042 0041 0047 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56395236354139 |
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