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Synonyms: Of The EssenceSynonyms: all important(p) (adj), all-important(a) (adj), crucial (adj), essential (adj), of the essence(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Time | Phrase: time flies, tempus fugit; time runs out, time runs against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, "time and tide wait for no man". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Of The Essence |
| English words defined with "of the essence": alter ♦ boiled-down ♦ capture, change, Coessential, Coessentiality, consubstantial, Coumarin ♦ decoct, disincarnate ♦ Ens, essential, Essentiate ♦ Gravamen ♦ haecceity, Homoiousian, Homoousian ♦ in essence, intrinsic, intrinsical ♦ make ♦ Privative ♦ Quiddative, quiddity, quintessence ♦ Shintiism, singable, Spinozism, substantial, substantive ♦ Tautoousious ♦ Union joint ♦ vary, very. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "of the essence": Anomoeans ♦ Causes, cinnamon waste, coal liquefaction ♦ featherings ♦ Macedonians, metastable atom ♦ Plasma Focus ♦ Requirements Acquisition and Controlled Evolution ♦ soul ♦ Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Time was of the essence (Mental Picture; performing artist: Jon Secada) Efferfesent time time of the essence (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris) | |
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Health | Patient participation, as an integral part of the renal team, is of the essence if success in improving quality of life is to be achieved. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "of the essence": be of the essence ♦ time is of the essence. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "of the essence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | mít rozhodující význam (be of the essence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofay ethay essenceay существенно (greatly, substantively). (various references) çok gerekli (badly needed), çok önemli (all important, crucial, of great importance, very important). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-f-h-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-4 letters: centeses, ethnoses, stenches. | |
-5 letters: cenotes, cheeses, confess, essence, ethenes, ethoses, fetches, hotness, notches, seethes, softens, tenches. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 66      54 68 65      45 73 73 65 6E 63 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01100110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O f   T h e   E s s e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0066      0054 0068 0065      0045 0073 0073 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49722547471239858571806971 |
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