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Cold Spell

Definition: Cold Spell

Cold Spell

Noun

1. A period of unusually cold weather.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Cold Spell

Synonyms: cold snap (n), cold wave (n), cold weather (n). (additional references)

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Photo Album: Cold Spell

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Painful incident of the cold spell. Moral: be careful about starting a fire with kerosene. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Modern Translation: Cold Spell

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

German

  

Kälteperiode. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oldcay ellspay

   

Russian 

  

похолодание. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

köldknäpp. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cold Spell

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-l-l-o-p-s"

-3 letters: cellos, closed, lolled, polled, scoped, sloped.

-4 letters: cello, cells, clods, clops, close, codes, coeds, colds, coled, coles, coped, copes, copse, decos, dells, dolce, doles, dolls, dopes, lodes, lolls, loped, lopes, losel, plods, poled, poles, polls, posed, scold, scope, slope, socle, soled, spell, spode.

-5 letters: cell, cels, ceps, clod, clop, code, cods, coed, cold.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-l-l-o-p-s"
 

+3 letters: phylloclades.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cold Spell


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

43 6F 6C 64      53 70 65 6C 6C

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

    

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

01000011 01101111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01010011 01110000 01100101 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#108 &#100 &#32 &#83 &#112 &#101 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006C 0064      0053 0070 0065 006C 006C

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

3781787025382717878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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