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Definitions: Amain |
AmainAdverb1. At full speed; with great haste; "the children ran down the hill amain". 2. With all your strength; "he pulled the ropes amain". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
"Amain" is a common misspelling or typo for: adman, again, amanita, amazing, amen, amine, amino, maim, main. |
Synonym: AmainSynonym: with full force (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Haste | Adverb: with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste; Adjective: apace; (swiftly); amain; all at once; (instantaneously); at short notice; immediately; (early); posthaste; by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches. |
Violence | Adverb: violently; Adjective: amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Amain |
| Specialty definitions using "amain": Strike Amain. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "amain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me pasion (vehemently), me gjithë forcat (with all one's strength). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | яростно, светкавично, с все сила (hammer and tongs, hard, smash, with might and main), много (almighty, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), бясно, извънредно (exceedingly, extremely, immensely, mightily, mortally, most, notably, only too, over, overly, overtime, passing, remarkably, sorely, supremely, terrifically, ultra-, unco, unusually, utterly, vastly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | largue en bande (let go amain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφοδρώσ (violent), βιαίωσ (vehemently, violent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teljes erõvel (all out), sebesen (at a good pace, at a great pace, at a quick pace, rapidly, scone-hot, speedily, swift, swiftly, to ride hard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | con forza (forcibly, hard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 広小路 (amain street). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひろ"うじ (amain street). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lesh niart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amainay a toda velocidade, violentamente (slap bang, sorely, violently), rapidamente (apace, chop-chop, double-barrelled, fast, holus-bolus, hotfoot, promulgate, pronunciation, quick, quickly, readily, soon, speedily, swiftly, tantivy). (various references) din rãsputeri (all out, lustily, with all his might), cu toatã puterea (by main force), în mare grabã (in deadly haste). (various references) с разгона, быстро (apace, fast, hotfoot, in short order, overnight, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, smartly, speedily, swiftly, trippingly). (various references) punom snagom (blast: at full blast), punom brzinom (flat out, speed: at full speed). (various references) a todo correr. (various references) var gücüyle (up against the wall, with might and main, with one's back to the wall), tüm gücüyle (with might and main), şiddetle (drastically, faithfully, forcibly, heavily, heavy, hot, keenly, lustily, roundly, severely, sharp, sore, sorely, strenuously, strong, strongly, violently). (various references) усіма силами, сильно (aloud, bitterly, deep, deeply, hard, high, loud, nervously, powerfully, severely, sound, strongly, sturdily, violently, widely), щосили (at full tilt, like anything), вкрай (badly, dead, densely, enormously, horribly, in the extreme, real, really, sorely, thumping), негайно (anon, at once, at short notice, belive, by and by, chop-chop, forthwith, immediately, in an instant, in one's track, instantly, like a shot, on the spot, outright, promptly, right away, right off), надзвичайно (almighty, anxiously, as anything, awfully, deadly, densely, dreadfully, eminently, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, grossly, highly, hugely, in great measure, in the extreme, jolly, mighty, most, passing, regular, remarkably, ripping, sevenfold, severely, to the utmost, very much, woundily), бурхливо (roughly), дуже швидко (posthaste). (various references) mãnh liệt hết sức khẩn trương, hết sức tốc độ, hết sức nhiệt tình. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: amnia, anima, mania. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: amia, amin, main, mana, mina. | |
-2 letters: aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, ani, man, nam, nim. | |
-3 letters: aa, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: aidman, airman, anemia, animal, animas, caiman, lamina, magian, maniac, manias, manila, marina. | |
+2 letters: alumina, amanita, amazing, amboina, amentia, ammonia, amnesia, anaemia, anaemic, anemias, angioma, animals, animate, animato, anosmia, antijam, antiman, caimans, hazanim, laminae, laminal, laminar, laminas, magians, mahonia, mailman, manakin, maniacs, manilas, manilla, manioca, marinas, martian, matinal, siamang, stamina, tamarin, taximan, timpana. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 61 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- .- .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01100001 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m a i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0061 0069 006E |
| 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)3579677580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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