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Definitions: Veto |
VetoNoun1. A vote that blocks a decision. 2. The power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act esp the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature. Verb1. Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent. 2. Command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "veto" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
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Law | The act of the Governor disapproving a measure. The Governor's veto may be overridden by 2/3's vote. The Governor can also exercise an Item veto, whereby the amount of appropriation is reduced or eliminated, while the rest of the bill approved. An Item veto may be overriDDen by 2/3's vote in each house. (references) |
Literature | Veto (Monsieur and Madame). Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. So called by the Republicans, because the Constituent Assembly allowed the king to have the power of putting his veto upon any decree submitted to him (1791.) Monsieur Veto swore he'd bide To the constitution true, But he cast his oath aside, Teaching us the like to do, Madame Veto swore one day All the Paris rout to slay; But we snapped the tyrant's yoke, Turning all her threats to smoke. E. C. B. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | Equipment used for commissioning tests. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word veto comes from Latin and literally means I forbid. It is used to denote that a certain party has the right to unilaterally stop a certain piece of legislation. A veto thus gives unlimited power to stop changes, but not to adopt them.
The veto originated with the Roman tribunes who had the power to unilaterally refuse legislation passed by the Roman senate.
In Westminster Systems, the power to veto legislation by withholding the royal assent is a rarely-used reserve power of the monarch or the representative of the monarch. The Queen may veto a law that has been given royal assent by the Governor-General within one year of the legislation being assented to.
In the United States, the President is able to veto legislation passed by the Congress, but this right is not absolute. A 2/3 majority of both houses can adopt a law even against a presidential veto; however, if the proposed law has only a simple majority, the president's veto is decisive.
The veto power in the United States Constitution was derived from the British royal assent. On April 5, 1792 President George Washington vetoed a bill designed to apportion representatives among statess. This is the first time the presidential veto was used in the United States. The US Congress first overrode a presidential veto on March 3, 1845.
In the UN Security Council, the five permanent members (the United States, Russia, People's Republic of China, France and the United Kingdom) have veto power. If any of these countries votes against a proposal it is rejected, even if all 14 of the other member countries vote in favor.
Typically, a veto applies to an entire piece of legislation. Some states in the United States have granted their governors the additional power of a line item veto. This allows them to veto or "cross out" only certain parts of the legislation, while allowing the rest to pass. Although details vary, it is not uncommon for a piece of legislation that has undergone a line item veto to be returned to the legislative body for final approval; they can either accept the amended legislation or decide not to pass it at all in its new form. The line item veto power has been controversial. Perhaps its most famous abuse was when Governor of Wisconsin, Tommy Thompson, crossed out individual words in a bill so that the remaining words comprised entirely different sentences, effectively introducing a new provision into the bill. Some states permit line item vetoes only in "appropriation bills," or bills granting money for the various government departments. The United States Congress passed a law authorizing the President to strike out up to three items of appropriation in a single bill, but the Supreme Court ruled this procedure unconstitutional.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Veto."
Synonyms: VetoSynonyms: blackball (v), disallow (v), forbid (v), interdict (v), negative (v), prohibit (v), proscribe (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: vetoing (law, politics & international affairesnuclear energy & physics). |
| Antonym: permit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prohibition | Verb: prohibit, inhibit; forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop; bar; debar; (hinder), forefend. |
Noun: prohibition, inhibition; veto, disallowance; interdict, interdiction; injunction, estoppel; embargo, ban, taboo, proscription; index expurgatorius; restriction; (restraint); hindrance; forbidden fruit; Maine law. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Veto |
| English words defined with "veto": barring, blackball ♦ joint resolution ♦ line item ♦ pocket veto ♦ Qualified negative ♦ repudiative ♦ Vetoed, Vetoes, Vetoing, Vetoist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "veto": Blue Pencil ♦ Line Item Veto ♦ Most-favored-nation treatment. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Veto" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (veto), Czech (veto), Esperanto (bet, wager), Finnish (bet, draught, pull, stroke, traction), French (veto), German (veto), Indonesian (veto), Italian (veto), Portuguese (negative, veto), Romanian (veto), Serbo-Croatian (veto), Spanish (appeal, caveat, veto), Swedish (veto), Turkish (veto). |
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Screenplays | Veto. Rain. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Governor's Veto (1913) | |
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 | They may veto any war.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Wool Bill" ram leaping over "Presidential veto" banner, held by House Leader Oscar Wilder Underwood and Speaker James Beauchamp Clark dressed as clowns in "Democratic House of Representatives" arena] / Bart.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The law permits closed shop and exclusion clauses, allowing union leaders to vet and veto new hires and force dismissal of anyone the union expels. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | The Government effectively maintains veto power over Vatican appointments of bishops; however, in practice it has shown willingness to discuss appointments with the Vatican. (references) |
Czech Republic | On December 18, Parliament voted to override President Havel's veto and enacted the Law on the Freedom of Religious Belief and on the Status of Churches and Religious Societies. (references) | |
Vietnam | While the Government does not directly appoint the leadership of the official religious organizations, to varying degrees it plays an influential role in shaping the process of selection and in some cases maintains a veto power. (references) | |
Economic History | France | The committee must be consulted for all major corporate decisions, but has no veto. (references) |
Jordan | His veto power may be overridden by a two-thirds vote of both houses of the National Assembly. (references) | |
Andorra | The two co-princes serve coequally with limited powers that do not include veto over government acts. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hong Kong | Nomination procedures ensure that commission members nominated by the private bar have a virtual veto on the nominations. (references) |
Kazakhstan | The Council may overturn a presidential veto if at least two-thirds (five) of its members vote to do so. Therefore, at least one presidential appointee must vote to overturn the President's veto in order for the Council to overrule the President. (references) | |
Political Economy | Poland | The Polish President is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and may veto legislation passed by the Parliament. (references) |
Political Rights | Mongolia | Parliament overrode the veto and the amendments went into effect. (references) |
Mali | There is no provision for the National Assembly to override a presidential veto. (references) | |
Mali | He can veto and return legislation to the National Assembly for reconsideration. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | In Vietnam, it often means that all parties with a voice can wield a veto and must be brought on board. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guyana | Unions are dissatisfied with a provision that grants the Ministry of Finance veto power over wage contracts negotiated by other ministries. (references) |
Syria | The law provides for collective bargaining in the private sector, but any such agreement between labor and management must be ratified by the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, who has effective veto power. (references) | |
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Rush Limbaugh | Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says the president won't veto legislation setting up the department if it expands government. |
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James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | That the blessings of liberty which our Constitution secures may be enjoyed alike by minorities and majorities, the Executive has been wisely invested with a qualified veto upon the acts of the Legislature. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Further, I will not hesitate to veto any new spending programs adopted by the Congress. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Proposals like legislative veto and increased judicial review will add another layer to the regulatory process, making it more cumbersome and inefficient. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | You may have seen President Clinton draw his own veto pen on television just last week. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I also appeal to Congress to pass the line-item veto you promised the American people. |
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| "Veto" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.87% of the time. "Veto" is used about 554 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.87% | 410 | 13,752 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 25.59% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 554 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "veto" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Veto | Last name | 130 | 66,764 |
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Expressions using "veto": i put a veto on ♦ i put my veto on it ♦ pocket veto ♦ right of veto ♦ the veto power ♦ use one's power of veto ♦ veto message ♦ veto power. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "veto": veto-proof, veto-wielding. | |
Ending with "veto": government-by-veto. | |
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| 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. |
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veto | 47 |
line item veto | 30 |
pocket veto | 9 |
presidential veto | 8 |
rust veto | 5 |
power veto | 4 |
van veto | 4 |
power un veto | 3 |
council security veto | 3 |
maysville road veto | 2 |
pac pro veto | 2 |
line veto | 2 |
council nation security united veto | 2 |
the legislative veto | 2 |
concours veto | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "veto"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veto, vë veto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منع (averting, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, debar, deny, deprive, deter, estop, exclude, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forbidding, foreclose, hinder, hindering, hold back, immunize, inhibit, interdict, interdiction, keep from, obstruct, obstruction, obviation, preclude, prevent, preventing, prevention, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, restrain from, stop, taboo, ward off, withhold), نقض (break, countermand, dart, descend, disallow, hurl curses, negative, precipitate, rebuttal, recantation, repeal, rescind, storm, swoop), حق الفيتو, حق النقض, تحريم (ban, deprival, derequisition, interdict, outlawry, proscription, taboo), رفض مستخدما الفيتو. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вето (negative), отхвърляне (disallowance, disavowal, dismissal, proscription, refutation, rejection, renouncement, repudiation), налагам вето на (negative), забранявам (ban, black out, disallow, enjoin, estop, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, provide against, suppress), забрана (ban, defence, don't, inhibition, interdict, lid, prohibition, proscription), запрещение (injunction, interdict, prohibition, proscription, stop, taboo), право на вето. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 否決 , 否决 (blue-pencil, Overrule, Overruled, Overruling, Vetoes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vetovat, veto, zakázat (ban, forbid, prohibit, stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forreguleringsanordning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het Hof kan het veto van nul en gener waarde verklaren indien zij misbruik aanwezig acht (the Court may declare the veto void if it considers that the right of veto has been abused). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | منع (Deterrence, Interdict, Obstruction, Prohibition, Proscription, Rebuff, Restraint, Restriction, Snub, Stop, Stoppage), نشانه مخالفت , قدغن کردن (Ban), حق رد, رای مخالف دادن (Blackball, Nix), رای مخالف , ردکردن (Balk, Confute, Controvert, Decline, Deny, Disallow, Disapprove, Disavow, Disclaim, Disown, Disprove, Gainsay, Ignore, Impugn, Overrule, Rebuff, Rebut, Refuse, Refute, Rejcet, Repel, Repudiate), رد (Denial, Disavow, Disavowal, Disproof, Exception, Rebuff, Rebuttal, Refusal, Rejection, Repulse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | veto-oikeus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | veto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | veto einlegen, veto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρνησικυρία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשלול (bereave, contradict, deny, deprive, disapprove, negate, rebut, refuse), ל"טיל וטו. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vétójog, vétó (negative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | veto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | veto, proibizione (Forbiddance, interdict, prohibition, taboo), mettere il veto a, dispositivo di blocco (choke, interlock, interlocking device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '否 (denial, refusal, rejection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょひ (approval and disapproval, denial, great cost, refusal, rejection), ふしょうに" (disapproval, dissent), ふさいか (rejection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 거부권 (Vetoes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiettalagh (cloggy, counteracting, counteractive, deterrent, discouraging, filibuster, handicapper, hinderer, inhibiter, inhibiting, interceptor, obstructive, obstructor, preventive, restricting, restrictive, suspensory), lhiettal (clog, counteract, discourage, hinder, impede, inhibit, intercept, obstruct, prevent, prevention, restrain, restrict, stop down), cur crossey er, crossey (blacklist, cross, crucifixion, crucify, interdiction, reel, thwart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etovay veto (negative), rejeição (cast off, condemnation, disallowance, dismission, rebuttal, refusal, reject, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation), proibição (disallowance, forbidden, inhibition, interdict, proclitic, prohibition, proscription, suppression, taboo), interruptor (chopper switch, contact breaker, cutout, disconnexion, interrupter, knob, switch). (various references) vota contra, veto, opune un veto la, interzice (ban, bar, disallow, enjoin, forbid, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, proscribe, taboo). (various references) вето, запрещать (ban, cry down, disable, disallow, forbade, forbid, inhibit, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, proscribe, suppress, thumb down). (various references) veto, zabrana (ban, interdict, prohibition, proscription), staviti zabranu, staviti veto. (various references) veto (appeal, caveat), vetar, vedar (debar), interruptor (contact breaker, dimmer, isolating switch, key, on-off switch, switch, tumbler). (various references) veto. (various references) veto hakkı (veto power), veto etmek (pocket), veto, ret (defeat, denial, disallowance, disavowal, nay, negation, negative, no, rebuff, refusal, refutation, rejection, repudiation), reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, wave aside), red (defeat, denial, disallowance, disavowal, nay, negation, negative, no, refusal, refutation, rejection, repudiation). (various references) вето (negative), накладати вето (negative), забороняти (bar, disallow, embar, enjoin, forbid, inhibit, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, provide, suppress, taboo, tabu), право вето. (various references) gwaharddiad (prohibition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | intercedat, intercedite, intercessisset, vetare, vetat, vetati, vetatur, veteris, vetetur, vota, voto. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "veto": vetoed, vetoer, vetoers, vetoes, vetoing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "veto": covetous, covetously, covetousness, covetousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Veto" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avito, deto, eto, evt, geto, jeto, keto, neto, oveta, Tvrtko, uvet, vaot, varo, vasto, vata, vati, vato, vator, vatso, vatu, vayo, vdt, vedo, veet, veeta, veete, vego, vegt, vejo, velo, velta, veno, venta, vento, ventu, veo, veote, veow, vept, vero, verto, veso, veta, vetd, vete, veth, veti, vetl, vetoa, vetoe, veton, vetoo, vetor, vetos, vetow, vetro, vett, vette, vetti, vetus, vety, veut, vext, vijo, viot, viteo, vith, viti, vito, Viton, vitor, Vitou, vittu, vitu, viyo, voot, Vostok, voto, votv, vret, vt, vtol, vuet, vut, Xvith, yeto, zeto. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "veto" (pronounced vē"tō or vē"tō') |
| 3 | -ē" t ō | Bonito, burrito, incognito, mosquito. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vote. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: toe, vet, voe. | |
-2 letters: et, oe, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: covet, ovate, overt, stove, trove, volte, voted, voter, votes. | |
+2 letters: avocet, avoset, corvet, covert, covets, devote, devout, motive, obvert, octave, outvie, revolt, revote, soviet, stover, stoves, strove, throve, trover, troves, vector, vetoed, vetoer, vetoes, violet, voltes, volute, vortex, voters, votive. | |
+3 letters: avocets, avosets, bevomit, cavetto, centavo, cheviot, convect, convent, convert, corvets, costive, coverts, coveted, coveter, cutover, devoted, devotee, devotes, dovecot, eightvo, emotive, evertor, evictor, evolute, foveate, gavotte, levator, motived, motives, novelty, obovate, obverts, obviate, octaves, outgave, outgive, outlive, outlove, outmove, outrave, outvied, outvies, outvote, ovately, overact, overapt, overate, overbet, overcut, overeat, overfat, overhot, overlet, overlit, overset, overtax, overtip, overtly, overtop, overwet, ovulate, pivoted, poverty, revolts, revoted, revotes, solvate, solvent, soviets, stovers, trovers, vectors, veloute, vertigo, vetoers, vetoing, vicomte, violate, violent, violets, volante, voltage, voluted, volutes, volvate, vomited, vomiter, votable, votress, zemstvo. | |
+4 letters: abortive, adoptive, advocate, bevatron, bevomits, bloviate, caveator, cavettos, cavorted, cavorter, centavos, cheviots, coactive, coinvent, conative, contrive, convects, convents, converts, corvette, covalent, covenant, coverlet, covertly, coveters, coveting, covetous, cutovers, demivolt, denotive, deviator, devotees, devoting, devotion, devouter, devoutly, donative, dovecote, dovecots, dovetail, eightvos, elevator, estovers, evection, evertors, eviction, evictors, evocator, evolutes, favorite, foveated, foveolet, gavotted, gavottes, indevout, innovate, inventor, invertor, investor, invocate, involute, leftover, levators, locative, loveseat, megavolt, monitive, motivate, movement, nonevent, nonvoter, novelist, obverted, obviated, obviates, obvolute, optative, orective, outbrave, outcurve, outdrive, outdrove, outgiven, outgives, outlived, outliver, outlives, outloved, outloves, outmoved, outmoves, outraved, outraves, outserve, outvalue, outvoice, outvoted, outvotes, overacts, overbeat, overbets, overbite, overcast, overcoat, overcuts, overeats, overedit, overfast, overgilt, overgirt, overhate, overheat, overhunt, overjust, overlate, overlent, overlets, overmelt, overneat, overpast, overpert, overplot, overrate, oversalt, oversets, overshot, oversoft, overstay, overstep, overstir, overtake, overtalk, overtame, overtart, overtask, overthin, overtime, overtips, overtire, overtoil, overtone, overtook, overtops, overtrim, overture, overturn, overvote, overwets, ovulated, ovulates, pivotmen, positive, postdive, ravigote, renovate, restrove, revolted, revolter, revolute, revoting, rotative, servitor, solvated, solvates, solvents, sorptive, sportive, stopover, subovate, takeover, tolarjev, travelog, travoise, trouvere, trouveur, truelove, turnover, twelvemo, undevout, vectored, velocity, veloutes, venation, venosity, verboten, vermouth, vertigos, vexation, viatores, vicomtes, videotex, violated, violater, violates, virtuose, vitreous, vocative, volatile, volitive, voltages, vomiters, vomitive, vortexes, vortices, votaress, votaries, voteable, voteless, votively, yeshivot, zemstvos. | |
+5 letters: advection, advocated, advocates, alveolate, anchoveta, antinovel, autoclave, bevatrons, bevomited, bioactive, bloviated, bloviates, caveators, cavorters, coevality, cognitive, coinvents, combative, connivent, contrived, contriver, contrives, convected, convector, convented, converted, converter, convertor, convexity, convicted, convolute, cookstove, corvettes, costively, covellite, covenants, coverlets, coverture, covetable, davenport, demivolts, deviation, deviators, deviatory, devotedly, devotions, devoutest, donatives, dovecotes, dovetails, dustcover, elevation, elevators, emotively, emotivity, erosivity, evaluator, evaporate, evaporite, evections, evictions, evocation, evocative, evocators, evolution, excavator, extortive, extrovert, favorites, feverwort, forgetive, formative, foveolets, grooviest, hortative, innovated, innovates, insolvent, interwove, introvert, invention, inventors, inventory, invertors, investors, inviolate, invocated, invocates, involuted, involutes, leftovers, leitmotiv, levatores, liverwort, livestock, locatives, longevity, loveliest, loveseats, megavolts, motivated, motivates, movements, muscovite, nervation, nervosity, nonevents, nonnative, nonvector, nonvoters, normative, novelette, novelists, novelties, novitiate, objective, observant, obtrusive, obverting, olivenite, operative, optatives, ostensive, outbraved, outbraves, outcurves, outdriven, outdrives, outlivers, outserved, outserves, outvalued, outvalues, outvoiced, outvoices, ovalities, overacted, overalert, overbeats, overbites, overbuilt, overburnt, overcasts, overcoats, overcount, overdraft, overeaten, overeater, overedits, overemote, overexert, overhasty, overhated, overhates, overheats, overhunts, overleapt, overlight, overmatch, overmelts, overnight, overplant, overplots, overprint, overrated, overrates, overreact, oversalts, overshirt, overshoot, overshots, oversight, overskirt, overslept, overslipt, overspent, overstaff, overstate, overstays, oversteer, oversteps, overstirs, overstock, overstory, overstrew, overstuff, oversweet, overtaken, overtakes, overtalks, overtasks, overtaxed, overtaxes, overthink, overthrew, overthrow, overtimed, overtimes, overtired, overtires, overtness, overtoils, overtones, overtrade, overtrain, overtreat, overtrick, overtrims, overtrump, overtured, overtures, overturns, overvoted, overvotes, overwater, overwrite, overwrote, ovotestes, ovotestis, oxidative, pivotable, pollutive, portative, positiver, positives, postcavae, poverties, proactive, probative, promotive, provident, ravigotes, reconvert, reconvict, renovated, renovates, renovator, resolvent, revelator, revolters, revolting, riverboat, savoriest, servitors, shortwave, softcover, solvently, sovietism, sovietize, stevedore, stopovers, stovepipe, takeovers, travelogs, travoises, trouveres, trouveurs, trueloves, turnovers, twelvemos, uvarovite, vacuolate, vaporetti, vaporetto, vasectomy, vectorial, vectoring, venations, venerator, venturous, verbosity, vermouths, vernation, vertigoes, vexations, vexatious, victories, videotape, videotext, viewpoint, violaters, violative, violently, vitrioled, vocatives, volatiles, voltmeter, volumeter, volunteer, vomitives, vomituses, vorticose, votresses, woodstove, yeshivoth. | |
| 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 65 74 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . - --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e t o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0074 006F |
| 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)56718681 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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