What word is the same backwards and upside down?
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Most of the possible answers have already been listed, or hinted at.  But to put it all together.\n\nThe sort of word you describe is called an "ambigram" -- the idea is to use calligraphy to make words look that same viewed from any direction.\n\nDan Brown used this idea in his book *Angels and Demons*, esp. with the word "Illuminati" (Background: An expert in this sort of calligraphy caught the attention of mathematician Dick Brown, who commissioned the man to make one of the name of his son Dan.)    BUT please note that in any ORDINARY type "Illuminati" is NOT an ambigram, and that all sorts of words can be turned into one by clever calligraphy.\n\nAlso note that, unless you cheat about capitalization rules, you have to use only upper or lower case.\n\nSo, for ordinary use --with 'normal' sorts of scripts-- we are left with the following building blocks.\n\n\nUsing only upper-case, which gives us the most possibilities.\n*Seven letters which can be used this way:  H I O N S X Z\n*In addition, M and W are mirror-opposites in many scripts, so can be used as pair.\n\nThis gives us:\n\n1) two one-letter words:  I,   O\n2) three two-letter words:  SIS, OHO and MOW  (XOX, OXO and SOS are generally treated as abbreviations)\n3) one four-letter word:  NOON\n4) one five-letter word: SWIMS   (again, as with "MOW" above, only in certain scripts)\n\nThere may be some longer ones, but it would take some doing to figure them out.\n\n(I'm also leaving out proper names -- like "ONO"-- since by digging in other languages you might find or create any number!)\n\n\nUsing lower-case:  \n*mirror-letters: o, l, s, x, z    (nearly the same as with upper case, except n doesn't work and l replaces I)\n*mirror-pairs:  d - p,  b - q (though the latter is not very useful!)\n( m and w may work, but not in as many scripts) \n\nResults, not very good if you use proper capitalization:\n1) from the list above "sis" and "mow" MIGHT work  (though it should be "Sis".  In any case, not "I" and "O", since in English, when they are used as distinct words they are always supposed to be capitalized)\n2) in addition:   "pod"\n\nThat's about it.   Of course, with minor cheating in some scripts you could make a couple of other letters into mirror letters.  For instance -- t, which would add at least: tot, toot, otto.\nOr you could smuggle in an "i" without the dot [more serious cheating!] to add "dip" and make "swims" work again.
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It is called a palindrome:\n\n"A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" was coined from Greek roots Greek πάλιν (palin) "back" and δρóμος (dromos) "way, direction" by English writer Ben Jonson in the 1600s. Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing."\n\nCheck the second site below for many examples. Also, third link shows longest palindromes around.
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upside down\nwhile driving
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Sine = opposite/hyp\nCosine = adjacent/hyp\nTangent = opposite/adjacent
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Going SIDEWAYS in the US? You mean BACKWARDS surely?
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i believe run dmc is 7734 upside down and backwards
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A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units (such as a strand of DNA) that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" comes from the Greek πάλιν (palin) "back" and δρóμος (dromos) "way, direction". Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing.
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Do you mean you want to find a word's opposites?\n(i.e. long, opposite is short)\n\nThis site will give you antonyms and synonyms if you so choose:\nhttp://www.synonym.com\n\nThese are also useful sites:\n\nsynonyms/dictionary:\nhttp://www.thesaurus.com/\n\ndictionary:\nhttp://www.dictionary.com/ or http://dictionary.cambridge.org\n\nslang:\nhttp://www.urbandictionary.com
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reflection simply means rotation by an angle of 180 deg. about a axis perpendicular to the plane of mirror.So, when you perform this rotation on the words you can easily see that they must be displayed in the mirror backwards.
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horizontal is left to right \nvertical is up and down
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I've always looked for the word backwards. I seem to find it better that way. For instance: If the word is tiger, I'll look for regit.
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They are palindromes. Examples would be: Madam and kayak. Sentances can also be palindromic. A good one is about Napoleon who was imprisoned on the island of Elba: 'Able was I, ere I saw elba '. There's a good website at:\nwww.palindromelist.com
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http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml\n\nhttp://www.wordtree.com/
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The term you are looking for is "palindrome".
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HOE on a calculator or a pager turned upside down. try this one 55378008
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If you're looking for a single-word palindrome, try:\nhttp://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words5.html\n\nTwo of those which stood out to me from that site were: detartrated and Malayalam (an Asian language).\n\nAnd here's an even better site:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindromic_words
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Forward slash - you can remember this because it leans forward. The opposite, a back slash (&#92;), leans backward.