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Definition: Erectly |
ErectlyAdverb1. In a straight-backed manner; "the old man still walks erectly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "erectly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Synonym: ErectlySynonym: straight-backed (adv). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "erectly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | "直地. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | aufgerichtet. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | rizzato. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 직립 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | erectlyay อย่างตั้งตรง. (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Erectly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exectly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "erectly" (pronounced 'E*rect"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: celery, tercel. | |
-2 letters: creel, elect, erect, leery, lycee, relet, terce. | |
-3 letters: celt, cere, cete, eely, eery, eyer, eyre, leer, leet, lyre, reel, rely, rete, teel, tele, tree, trey, tyee, tyer, tyre. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, cry, eel, ere, eye, lee, let, ley, lye, rec, ree, ret, rye, tee, tel, try, tye, yet. | |
-5 letters: el, er, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: celerity, recently, secretly. | |
+2 letters: celebrity, electrify, electuary, perfectly, teacherly. | |
+3 letters: clerestory, coherently, concretely, creatively, creaturely, cyclometer, decrepitly, discreetly, discretely, erectility, reactively, reticently, wretchedly. | |
+4 letters: celebratory, concertedly, cyclometers, electorally, electricity, electrology, electrolyte, electrolyze, electrotype, glycerinate, heretically, heterocycle, heterolytic, imperfectly, myoelectric, perceptibly, presciently, receptively, reconditely, recurrently, reductively, rejectingly, respectably, secretively. | |
+5 letters: cephalometry, correctively, counterstyle, cybernetical, decoratively, detractively, electrically, electrifying, electrolyses, electrolysis, electrolytes, electrolytic, electrolyzed, electrolyzes, electrotyped, electrotyper, electrotypes, esoterically, excrescently, exoterically, extractively, frenetically, glycerinated, glycerinates, hermetically, heterocycles, heterocyclic, incoherently, indiscreetly, iridescently, meteorically, methacrylate, noncelebrity, perceptively, perceptually, percipiently, perfectively, phylacteries, predictively, projectively, protectively, pyroelectric, reflectively, reflectivity, refractively, respectfully, respectively, restrictedly, reticulately, reticulocyte, tetracycline, triglyceride. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 72 65 63 74 6C 79 |
| 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)01000101 01110010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E r e c t l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0072 0065 0063 0074 006C 0079 |
| 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)39847169867891 |
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