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palindrome
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Word definitions for palindrome in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palindrome \Pal"in*drome\, n. [Gr. pali`ndromos running back again; pa`lin again + dramei^n to run: cf. F. palindrome.] A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"line that reads the same backward and forward," 1620s, from Greek palindromos "a recurrence," literally "a running back," from palin "again, back" (from PIE *kwle-i- , from root *kwel- (1) "move round," with notion of "revolving;" see cycle (n.)) + dromos ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Sometimes a palindrome is used together with other non-mirrored material and especially in this case the mirroring is not perceived by the listener.
Usage examples of palindrome.
When I tried to reverse that, she reminded me of a holiday palindrome that has sexual overtones in both our languages: Giving is taking is giving.
The computer obliged with a color-coded abstraction that showed the sequencing of base pairs on the offending palindrome as a series of little plugs and sockets.
Blumlein once provided a promotional quote for a novel in the form of a palindrome, about two dozen words long.
Coming May 1998 in hardcover from HarperCollinsPublisbers STUART WOODS is the author of seventeen novels, including Dirt, Choke, Palindrome, Chief.
This year is a palindrome, and moreover the product of two palindromic primes.
You are right about the undead predilection for noms de plume, alter egos, secret identities, anagrams, and palindromes and acrostics.
I have a superb vocabulary (monad, retractile, necropolis, palindrome, antidisestablishmentarianism) and a nonchalant command of all grammatical rules.
Palindrome, the dead cert. What had been done once would be tried again, and somewhere out on the rain-swept racecourse another strand of wire could be waiting.
The computer obliged with a color-coded abstraction that showed the sequencing of base pairs on the offending palindrome as a series of little plugs and sockets.
And palindromes, with their perfect, satisfying taste: Draw a level award!
And one of the most famous palindromes was supposedly said by Napoleon: `Able was I ere I saw Elba.
I like word games, anagrams, palindromes, verbal puzzles: why are they okay and straight puns abhorrent?
She had passed the time playing word games in her head (how many palindromes could she think of?
However, one of the pattern-matching programs noticed that a lot of the words were palindromes of other words.