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Definition: CIRCUMBENDIBUS |
CIRCUMBENDIBUSNoun1. A roundabout or indirect way. |
Date "CIRCUMBENDIBUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Circumbendibus (A). He took a circumbendibus, i.e. he went round about and round about before coming to the point. "Partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus."- Sir W. Scott: Waverley, chap. xxiv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CIRCUMBENDIBUS. A roundabout way, or story. He took such a circumbendibus; he took such a circuit. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circuit | Noun: circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding; (circuition); zigzag; (deviation). |
Convolution | Winding; Verb: convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation; reticulation; (crossing); rivulation; roughness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "CIRCUMBENDIBUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrugë e tërthortë (detour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | увъртания (circumlocution), заобикалки (circumlocution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opis (copy, duplicate, paraphrase, periphrasis, transcript). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | köntörfalazás (prevarication, quibble, quibbling, roundabout, roundabout phrase, tergiversation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ircumbendibuscay circunlóquio (circumlocution, periphrastic). (various references) окольный путь (back way, detour, sideway), многоречивость (circumlocution). (various references) camino ocultado. (various references) omsvep (circumlocution), omskrivning (circumlocution, circumscription, paraphrase). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "CIRCUMBENDIBUS" (pronounced 'Cir`cum*bend"i*bus'): Aerobus, Arcubus, bus, Carabus, Choriambus, iambus, INCUBUS, Jacobus, Minibus, Omnibus, Phoebus, rhombus, Rubus, Strombus, succubus, thrombus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-c-d-e-i-i-m-n-r-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: cumberbunds. | |
-4 letters: cumberbund. | |
-5 letters: cucumbers, incumbers, inscribed, rubidiums, succumbed, unbruised, uredinium. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 49 52 43 55 4D 42 45 4E 44 49 42 55 53 |
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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)01000011 01001001 01010010 01000011 01010101 01001101 01000010 01000101 01001110 01000100 01001001 01000010 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C I R C U M B E N D I B U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0049 0052 0043 0055 004D 0042 0045 004E 0044 0049 0042 0055 0053 |
| 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)3743523755473639483843365553 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albán, albanês, албанский, albanés, alban |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro, bulgar |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, чешский, checo, tjeck |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, ungrare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugál, português, португальский, portugués, portugis |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruso, ryss |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, spanyol, espanhol, испанский, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, svéd, шведский, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, angol, inglês, английский, inglés, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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