Crossword clues for palindrome
palindrome
- Race car, e.g
- Anna or Otto, e.g
- West of Italys capital, politico Sarah (Democrat) with mom or dad (10)
- Pop or tot, e.g
- Part of eight of this puzzle's long answers
- Any of three of this puzzle's answers
- "Was it a cat I saw?" for instance
- "Too hot to hoot," e.g
- "Race car" is one
- "No, I told Ed lotion!", e.g
- "Mr Owl ate my metal worm", for example
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
"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 "a running" (see dromedary). Related: Palindromic.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics. 2 A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction. 3 (context genetics English) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
WordNet
n. a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
Wikipedia
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. Allowances may be made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers. Examples in English include "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!", "Amor, Roma", "race car", "stack cats", "step on no pets", "taco cat", "put it up", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" and "No 'x' in Nixon".
Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing.
The word "palindrome" was coined by the English playwright Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots (; "again") and (; "way, direction").
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.