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AFFORCE

Definition: AFFORCE

AFFORCE

Transitive verb

1. To reenforce; to strengthen.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Afforce \Af*force"\, transitive verb. [Old French expression afforcier, Late Latin expression affortiare; ad fortiare, from the Latin expression fortis strong.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: AFFORCE

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

Ukranian 

  

зміцнювати (back, consolidate, establish, fasten, recruit, re-enforce, steady, stiffen), застосовувати силу (strong arm), підкріпляти (back, buttress, confirm, enforce, piece in, refect, reinforce). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AFFORCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-f-o-r"

-1 letter: coffer.

-2 letters: afore, facer, farce, force, ocrea, offer.

-3 letters: acre, aero, arco, cafe, caff, care, cero, coff, core, corf, face, fare, faro, fear, fora, fore, frae, froe, orca, race, raff.

-4 letters: ace, aff, arc, are, arf, car, cor, ear, eff, era, far, fer, foe, for, fro, oaf, oar, oca, off, ora, orc, ore, rec, ref, roc, roe.

-5 letters: ae, ar, ef, er, fa, oe, of, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-f-o-r"
 

+1 letter: foreface.

 

+2 letters: cofferdam, forefaces.

 

+3 letters: cofferdams.

 

+4 letters: coffeemaker, officiaries.

 

+5 letters: coffeemakers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AFFORCE


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

41 46 46 4F 52 43 45

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)

01000001 01000110 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#70 &#70 &#79 &#82 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0046 0046 004F 0052 0043 0045

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

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

35404049523739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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