Crossword-Solution: REIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Reis | pl. | of Rei |
| Reis | n. | The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents. |
| Reis | n. | A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REIS | anagram | ERIS, IERS, IRES, ISER, RIES, RISE, SEIR, SERI, SIER, SIRE |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEACZE
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eruption
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Sentences with REIS (5)
But he knew when to be angry; he could pulverize by fiery outbreaks the Reis Effendi and his master, Abdu-l-Mejid; but as Plenipotentiary to the United States he could “quench the terror of his beak, the lightning of his eye,” disarming by his formal courtesy and winning by his obvious sincerity the suspicious and irritable John Quincy Adams.
Thus there appeared upon the scene the so-called "Reis telephone," which was not a telephone at all, in any practical sense, but which served well enough for nine years or more as a weapon to use against the Bell patents.
Poor Philip Reis himself, the son of a baker in Frankfort, Germany, had hoped to make a telephone, but he had failed.
Reis, in his later years, realized that his machine could never be used for the transmission of conversation; and in a letter to a friend he tells of a code of signals that he has invented.
Bell had once, during his three years of experimenting, made a Reis machine, although at that time he had not seen one.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 39 times in crossword archives (1942–2009).