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1Words 1-10by Butler610 termsSeptember 23, 2008
2SAT words from 'allegory' to 'anachronism'by SAT_ghost50 termsFebruary 7, 2006
3Anglès-català. Paraules desde "allegory" fins a "anachronism"by pererocallaura35 termsJune 25, 2007
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anachronism definitions
# Definition Sets
1something out of place in time88 sets
2something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred72 sets
3an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; adj. anachronistic50 sets
4something existing outside of its proper time40 sets
5anything out of its proper historical time38 sets
6something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context33 sets
7something out of place in time or history; an incongruity26 sets
8something out of place or time19 sets
9one that is chronologically out of place18 sets
10n. anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.18 sets
11something or someone misplaced in time17 sets
12something not belonging to a certain time period14 sets
13n. something not belonging to a certain time period14 sets
14anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.13 sets
15a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other13 sets
16something out of its proper time13 sets
17anything occurring or existing out of its proper time13 sets
18misplaced in time13 sets
19out of place in time12 sets
20something or someone existing outside of its proper time12 sets
21something chronologically inappropriate12 sets
22something out of its proper historical time; error of putting something in the wrong historical time11 sets
23something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time11 sets
24error in chronology or time order11 sets
25something occuring in the wrong time11 sets
26the misplacing of an object or event in a period to which it cannot possibly belong; anything out of its proper time frame11 sets
27a person or thing, especially from the past, that is out of place in the present11 sets
28anything that is out of place in time10 sets
29something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time9 sets
30n. something existing outside of its proper time9 sets
31chronological error9 sets
32something misplaced in time9 sets
33something out of place and time8 sets
34an error in chronology8 sets
35an error in the order of time7 sets
36a person who seems to be displaced in time7 sets
37"misplaced in time." an aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting.7 sets
38something out of place in time or sequence7 sets
39something out of place for its time7 sets
40out of chronological order or place6 sets