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Definition: Paraph |
ParaphNoun1. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Signature, mark, autograph, autography; attestation; hand, hand writing, sign manual; cipher; seal, sigil, signet, hand and seal; paraph, brand; superscription; indorsement, endorsement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Paraph |
| English words defined with "paraph": Paraphed, Paraphing. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paraph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nënshkruaj me iniciale, iniciale në nënshkrim. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | завъртулка след послепис, парафирам (endorse, initial), параф (initial). (various references) | |
French | paraphe. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kézjegy (hand, mark), kézjeggyel ellát. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | araphpay.(various references) | |
Romanian | parafã (flourish, initial, scroll). (various references) | |
Russian | ставить инициалы, росчерк в подписи, подписывать (sign, undersign, underwrite), парафировать, параф. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | parafirati (initial), paraf (initials). (various references) | |
Spanish | rubricar (rubricate), rúbrica (rubric, scroll). (various references) | |
Turkish | paraf. (various references) | |
Ukranian | візувати (vise), парафувати, параф. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nét ngoáy sau. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "paraph": paraphernalia, paraphrasable, paraphrase, paraphrased, paraphraser, paraphrasers, paraphrases, paraphrasing, paraphrastic, paraphrastically, paraphs, paraphyses, paraphysis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-p-p-r" | |
-2 letters: haar, harp, papa, para. | |
-3 letters: aah, aha, hap, pah, pap, par, rah, rap. | |
-4 letters: aa, ah, ar, ha, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-p-p-r" | |
+1 letter: paraphs. | |
+2 letters: approach. | |
+3 letters: apocrypha, paragraph, paranymph, phalarope, scrapheap. | |
+4 letters: apocryphal, approached, approaches, naprapathy, pantograph, paragraphs, paranymphs, paraphrase, paraphyses, paraphysis, phalaropes, scrapheaps. | |
+5 letters: apparatchik, approaching, handicapper, hypercapnia, hyperphagia, hyperplasia, paleography, pantographs, paperhanger, paragraphed, paragrapher, paragraphic, paraphrased, paraphraser, paraphrases, paratyphoid, planography, slaphappier. | |
| 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)50 61 72 61 70 68 |
| 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)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r a p h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0061 0070 0068 |
| 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)506784678274 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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