Nainsook

  

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Nainsook

Definition: Nainsook

Nainsook

Noun

1. A soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies.

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

Note: Nainsook \Nain`sook"\, noun. [Nainsukh, valley in Kaghan.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Nainsook

DomainDefinitions

Industry

A soft, lightweight, plain weave cotton fabric with about the same size and number of yarns in warp and filling; higher qualities are made of combed yarn, lower grades of carded yarn. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Nainsook

English words defined with "nainsook": Seerhand. (references)

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Modern Translations: Nainsook

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

Bulgarian 

  

нансук. (various references)

   

Danish

  

nansok. (various references)

   

French

  

nanzouk, nansouk. (various references)

   

German

  

Nansok. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λεπτό ύφασμα (crepe, grenadine, tissue). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nansu. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainsooknay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

nanzuque. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nansuc. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нансук. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrsta pamučne tkanine (moleskin). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nanzú, nansú. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

nansuk. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vải nanxuc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Nainsook

Derivations

Words beginning with "nainsook": nainsooks. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Nainsook

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-k-n-n-o-o-s"

-2 letters: anions, nasion, onions.

-3 letters: anion, askoi, ikons, kains, kaons, kinas, kinos, koans, nonas, nooks, noons, oinks, onion, snook.

-4 letters: ains, akin, anis, anon, ikon, inks, inns, ions, kain, kaon, kina, kino, kins, koan, koas, kois, nans, naoi, naos, nona, nook, noon, oaks, oink, okas, sain, saki, sank, sink, skin, soak, sook, soon.

-5 letters: ain, ais, ani, ask, ink, inn, ins, ion, kas, kin, koa, koi, kos, nan, noo, nos, oak, oka, ons, sin, ska, ski, son.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-k-n-n-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: nainsooks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nainsook


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

4E 61 69 6E 73 6F 6F 6B

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011 01101111 01101111 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#115 &#111 &#111 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0061 0069 006E 0073 006F 006F 006B

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

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

4867758085818177

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INDEX

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


  

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