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Definitions: Resile |
ResileVerb1. Draw back from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease". 2. Spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide". 3. Reject; "He retracted his earlier statements about his beliefs". 4. Return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed, as of elastic bodies; "The rubber tubes resiles". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
"Resile" is a common misspelling or typo for: resale, reside, resize, resole, revile. |
Synonyms: ResileSynonyms: abjure (v), bounce (v), bound (v), forswear (v), rebound (v), recant (v), recoil (v), retract (v), ricochet (v), spring (v), take a hop (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Resile |
| English words defined with "resile": bounce, bound ♦ rebound, recoil, Resiled, Resiling, ricochet ♦ spring ♦ take a hop. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "resile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | гъвкав съм, отскачам (bounce, bound, carom, glance, jump, jump back, kick, nip, rebound, recoil, skip, spring, take off). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | esileray fi elastic. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "resile": resiled, resiles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: relies. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: leers, liers, reels, riels, riles, siree, slier. | |
-2 letters: eels, else, ires, isle, leer, lees, leis, lier, lies, lire, reel, rees, reis, riel, rile, rise, seel, seer, sere, sire. | |
-3 letters: eel, els, ere, ers, ire, lee, lei, lie, lis, ree, rei, res, see, sei, sel, ser, sir, sri. | |
-4 letters: el, er, es, is, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: beliers, ceilers, ferlies, ireless, leister, leisure, leviers, liernes, realise, refiles, reflies, reliefs, reliers, relines, relives, replies, resiled, resiles, retiles, reviles, servile, spieler, sterile, veilers. | |
+2 letters: alieners, ateliers, belfries, berlines, bluesier, celeries, chiseler, clergies, creolise, defilers, delivers, desilver, dreidels, earliest, eloiners, enlister, epistler, erosible, espalier, fielders, filarees, fireless, fleshier, fusileer, gaselier, heirless, helleris, hirseled, leariest, leeriest, leisters, leisured, leisures, libelers, licenser, listener, liveners, liveries, measlier, overlies, peltries, perlites, pilsener, prefiles, prelives, preslice, realised, realiser, realises, realizes, realties, reclines, redlines, reenlist, reinless, relieves, relievos, reliques, relished, relishes, relisted, repliers, reptiles, resailed, resilver, resplice, reticles, retitles, revilers, roselike, schliere, sclereid, sclerite, seemlier, serflike, shellier, shelvier, shielder, sidereal, silencer, silenter, silvered, silverer, sleazier, sleekier, sleepier, sleetier, sleigher, slivered, sliverer, smellier, sniveler, spielers, steelier, superlie, tiercels, tireless, triscele, triskele, veligers, verbiles, vermeils, versicle, voleries, wielders, wireless, wiselier, yearlies, yielders. | |
| 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)52 65 73 69 6C 65 |
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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)01010010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0069 006C 0065 |
| 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)527185757871 |
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