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BESORT

Definitions: BESORT

BESORT

Noun

1. Befitting associates or attendants.

Transitive verb

1. To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BESORT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references)

 

Anagrams: BESORT

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sorbet, strobe.

Words within the letters "b-e-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: besot, bores, borts, brose, robes, roset, rotes, sober, store, tores, torse.

-2 letters: best, bets, bore, bort, bots, bros, eros, erst, obes, orbs, ores, orts, rebs, rest, rets, robe, robs, roes, rose, rote, rots, sorb, sore, sort, stob, toes, tore, tors.

-3 letters: bet, bos, bot, bro, ers, obe, oes, orb, ore, ors, ort, ose.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bestrow, bettors, boaster, boaters, bolster, bolters, booster, borates, bortzes, bothers, debtors, lobster, mobster, obtuser, obverts, orbiest, rebatos, reboots, sorbate, sorbent, sorbets, strobes.

 

+2 letters: abettors, aborters, baronets, bestrode, bestrown, bestrows, bethorns, betroths, bisector, bloaters, blotters, boasters, bolsters, bookrest, boosters, bornites, botchers, botryose, bottlers, broadest, brockets, bromates, brothels, brothers, brownest, burstone, cabestro, cabresto, deorbits, doubters, lobsters, mobsters, obtrudes, orbiters, overbets, potherbs, probates, redoubts, reitboks, robuster, saboteur, soberest, sobriety, sorbates, sorbents, sortable, storable, strobile, taborers, taborets, temblors, theorbos, troubles, tuberose, tuberous.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BESORT


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

42 45 53 4F 52 54

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)

-...    .    ...    ---    .-.    -

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

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

01000010 01000101 01010011 01001111 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#83 &#79 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0053 004F 0052 0054

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

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

363953495254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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