Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

BESTICK

Definition: BESTICK

BESTICK

Transitive verb

1. To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Bestick \Be*stick"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Bestuck; present participle verb or noun Besticking.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: BESTICK

English words defined with "BESTICK": Besticking, Bestuck. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BESTICK" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Swedish (cutlery, dead reckoning, flatware, set of instruments, set of knife).

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: BESTICK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bestick

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: BESTICK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-k-s-t"

-1 letter: bisect.

-2 letters: becks, bices, bikes, bites, cesti, cites, kibes, kites, skite, stick, ticks, tikes.

-3 letters: beck, best, bets, bice, bike, bise, bisk, bite, bits, cist, cite, etic, ices, kibe, kist, kite, kits, sect, sice, sick, sike, site, skit, tick, tics, ties, tike.

-4 letters: bet, bis, bit, cis, ice, ick, its, kit, sec, sei, set.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-k-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bedticks, tiebacks.

 

+2 letters: backbites, blockiest, blueticks, brickiest.

 

+3 letters: backbiters, backlisted, breadstick.

 

+4 letters: blacklisted, blacklister, bootlickers, breadsticks, picketboats, stickleback.

 

+5 letters: backstitched, backstitches, bankruptcies, blacklisters, bluestocking, cabinetworks, sticklebacks, switchbacked.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: BESTICK


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

42 45 53 54 49 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0053 0054 0049 0043 004B

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

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

36395354433745

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.