EPISTYLE

  

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EPISTYLE

Definition: EPISTYLE

EPISTYLE

Noun

1. A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: EPISTYLE

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

Summit

Architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus, capital, epistyle, sconce, pediment, entablature; tympanum; ceiling; (covering).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: EPISTYLE

Language Translations for "EPISTYLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kryetra, arkitra (architrave, header, lintel). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

епистил, архитрав (architrave). (various references)

   

Manx

  

far-ghorrys (architrave, porch, vestibule). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epistyleay

   

Portuguese

  

epistolar, epístola (epistle, letter). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

эпистиль. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poslanica (epistle, message, missive), pismo (epistle, letter, missive, tails, writing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

arquitrabe (architrave). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sütun başlığına dayanan taban. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EPISTYLE

Derivations

Words beginning with "EPISTYLE": epistyles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EPISTYLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Epistolae. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EPISTYLE"

Words rhyming with "EPISTYLE" (pronounced 'Ep"i*style'): Amphiprostyle, Areostyle, Blastostyle, Cephalostyle, Cyclostyle, Cyrtostyle, Decastyle, Dodecastyle, Endostyle, Enstyle, Hexastyle, Hypostyle, Instyle, Octastyle, Octostyle, Pentastyle, Peristyle, Polystyle, Prostyle, Pygostyle, Substyle, Surstyle, Tetrastyle, Urostyle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EPISTYLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-p-s-t-y"

-1 letter: epistle, pelites, steeply.

-2 letters: elites, listee, pelite, pestle, sleepy, sleety, steely, stipel.

-3 letters: elite, islet, istle, leets, peels, peise, peles, pelts, pesty, piety, piles, piste, plies, seely, seepy, silty, sleep, sleet, slept, slipe, slipt, slype, speel, speil, spelt, spiel, spile, spilt, spite, split, steel, steep, stele, stile, stipe, style, styli, teels, teles, tiles.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-p-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: epistyles, peristyle.

 

+2 letters: peristyles, polytenies, pyelitises, sperrylite.

 

+3 letters: pestilently, presciently, proselytise, proselytize, sperrylites, sympetalies.

 

+4 letters: antiepilepsy, despitefully, despiteously, epistemology, hyperrealist, myelopathies, pennywhistle, persistently, phylacteries, polypeptides, postdelivery, prehensility, presbyterial, proselytised, proselytises, proselytized, proselytizer, proselytizes, protensively, respectively, septennially, serpentinely.

 

+5 letters: descriptively, encyclopedist, epistemically, expeditiously, glycopeptides, misemployment, pennywhistles, perspectively, pestiferously, picturesquely, prepositively, presbyterials, presumptively, pretentiously, proselytizers, prospectively, repetitiously, sempiternally, speculatively, splenetically, stereotypical, superlatively, theophyllines, typicalnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EPISTYLE


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

45 50 49 53 54 59 4C 45

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)

01000101 01010000 01001001 01010011 01010100 01011001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#80 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#89 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0050 0049 0053 0054 0059 004C 0045

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

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

3950435354594639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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