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TO LAY STRESS UPON

Definition: TO LAY STRESS UPON

TO LAY STRESS UPON

1. To attach great importance to; to emphasize. ``Consider how great a stress is laid upon this duty.'' --Atterbury.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TO LAY STRESS UPON

Language Translations for "TO LAY STRESS UPON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

súlyt helyez vmire (to accentuate, to insist that, to insist upon sg, to lay stress upon sg, to place emphasis on sg, to set store by sg), hangsúlyoz vmit (to bring sg into prominence, to give sg prominence, to lay stress upon sg, to throw sg into prominence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay aylay essstray onupay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO LAY STRESS UPON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-s-t-t-u-y"

-3 letters: portentously.

-4 letters: osteoplasty, polyestrous, postulators.

-5 letters: laypersons, personalty, porousness, portentous, postseason, postulants, postulates, postulator, protonates, resultants, soapstones, sostenutos, sporulates, sternposts, suspensory, tonoplasts, transposes, treasonous.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO LAY STRESS UPON


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

54 4F      4C 41 59      53 54 52 45 53 53      55 50 4F 4E

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

            

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001100 01000001 01011001 00100000 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100000 01010101 01010000 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#89 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#83 &#32 &#85 &#80 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      004C 0041 0059      0053 0054 0052 0045 0053 0053      0055 0050 004F 004E

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

544924635592535452395353255504948

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INDEX

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


  

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