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Definitions: Dahl |
DahlNoun1. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics. 2. Small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dahl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
Synonyms: DahlSynonyms: cajan pea (n), catjang pea (n), dhal (n), pigeon pea (n), pigeon-pea plant (n), red gram (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dahl |
| Specialty definitions using "dahl": Haakon Dahl measure ♦ Rats, Inbred Dahl ♦ SIMULA I. (references) |
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Song Titles | Do You Think I'm Disco? (performing artist: Steve Dahl) | |
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| "Dahl" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dahl" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 130 | 28,019 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dahl" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dahl | Last name | 8,000 | 1,570 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "dahl": Haakon Dahl measure. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dahl": Dahl-beck. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brandy dahl | 804 |
roald dahl | 557 |
sophie dahl | 231 |
stephanie dahl | 210 |
ian van dahl | 194 |
dahl | 171 |
dahl steve | 128 |
author dahl | 64 |
brandi dahl | 61 |
arlene dahl | 49 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dahl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Hoppus raatraeopmaalingssystem (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references) | |
Dutch | Hoppus-maat (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references) | |
French | cubage au quart sans déduction (Haakon Dahl measure). (various references) | |
German | Viertelkubierung (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references) | |
Greek | κυβισμός εις το τέταρτον χωρίς αφαίρεσιν (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references) | |
Italian | misura Hoppus (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure), cubatura al quarto senza deduzione (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | タ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "tsu", dark, dark matter, darling, Darwin, diagram, dial, dialogue, dial-up, diary, diatonic, diet, digest, Dijkstra, Diner's Club, diode, dozen, DynaBook, dynamic, dynamics, dynamism, dynamite, necktie, tie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ダール . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ahlday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | método de cubagem Hoppus (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references) | |
Spanish | cubicación Hoppus (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references) | |
Swedish | Hoppusmått (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dahl": dahlia, dahlias, dahls. (additional references) | |
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"Dahl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dabhk, Dael, Dagh, dahg, dahil, Dahlak, Dahls, daho, Dakhil, Dalj, Darl, Dhah, Dhar, Dhat, dhl, Dihli, Dikhil, Duhhh, Mahl, Rahul, Zahl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dahl" (pronounced dÄ"l) |
| 3 | d Ä" l | Dol, doll, Nidal. |
| 2 | -Ä" l | banal, cabal, caul, fall, loll, Moll, Pall, reinstall, Sol. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dhal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-l" | |
-1 letter: dah, dal, had, lad. | |
-2 letters: ad, ah, al, ha, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-l" | |
+1 letter: ahold, dahls, dhals, hadal, haled, halid. | |
+2 letters: aholds, dahlia, daledh, daleth, hailed, halide, halids, haloed, haloid, halted, halved, handle, hardly, hauled, healed, herald, holard, lamedh, lashed, lathed, shaled, whaled. | |
+3 letters: baldish, chalcid, chalked, chiliad, chordal, clashed, dahlias, daledhs, daleths, deathly, exhaled, flashed, hackled, haggled, halberd, halides, halidom, halloed, haloids, halyard, handful, handily, handled, handler, handles, handsel, haploid, hardily, hassled, headily, helipad, heralds, hidable, hidalgo, holards, holdall, holiday, hollaed, holland, holyday, hyaloid, hyoidal, inhaled, ladyish, lamedhs, latched, laughed, leached, leashed, loathed, plashed, ralphed, shadfly, shadily, shauled, shawled, shoaled, slashed. | |
+4 letters: aldehyde, alighted, ashlared, ashlered, asphodel, baldhead, billhead, blanched, blandish, bleached, blowhard, bluehead, bolthead, bulkhead, bullhead, bushland, cathodal, cephalad, chadless, chalcids, chaldron, chaliced, chandler, charlady, chelated, chiliads, chlordan, clochard, clubhand, coalshed, daylight, dealfish, deathful, dihedral, downhaul, enhaloed, fahlband, flathead, galoshed, gildhall, gilthead, habdalah, halberds, halidome, halidoms, halliard, halloaed, hallooed, hallowed, haltered, halyards, handball, handbell, handbill, handfuls, handheld, handhold, handlers, handless, handlike, handling, handlist, handloom, handrail, handsels, handsful, hanseled, haploids, haploidy, hardball, hardline, haulyard, havdalah, hayfield, headlamp, headland, headless, headline, headlock, headlong, headsail, heatedly, helipads, heralded, heraldic, heraldry, hidalgos, highland, hilloaed, holdable, holdalls, holdback, holdfast, holidays, hollands, holloaed, holydays, homeland, hulloaed, hyaloids, jadishly, kathodal, khedival, ladyfish, ladyhood, ladyship, lathered, launched, lavished, longhand, longhead, lunkhead, nailhead, pilchard, pleached, plowhead, railhead, rehandle, shackled, shadblow, shambled, shedable, shetland, shipload, slapdash, splashed, thalloid, thinclad, thraldom, thralled, toolhead, trachled, unhailed, unhalved, unhealed, unlashed, wellhead. | |
+5 letters: abolished, acidophil, adulthood, aldehydes, aldehydic, archducal, ashamedly, asphalted, asphodels, baldachin, baldheads, bechalked, benchland, billheads, blackhead, blathered, blockhead, bloodbath, blowhards, blueheads, boltheads, boxhauled, brushland, bulkheads, bullheads, bushlands, caddishly, cathedral, chaldrons, chandelle, chandlers, chandlery, channeled, chapleted, cheerlead, chlamydes, chlamydia, chlordane, chlordans, choroidal, chrysalid, cichlidae, claughted, clochards, clubhands, coalsheds, dashingly, daylights, deadlight, deathblow, deathless, deathlike, decathlon, diarrheal, dihedrals, djellabah, downhauls, enchilada, ethmoidal, ethylated, fahlbands, falsehood, flashcard, flatheads, foolhardy, galumphed, gasholder, gildhalls, giltheads, glochidia, guildhall, habdalahs, haggardly, halidomes, halliards, handballs, handbells, handbills, handblown, handclasp, handhelds, handholds, handlebar, handlings, handlists, handlooms, handrails, handseled, handwheel, hanselled, hardballs, hatcheled, haulyards, havdalahs, hayfields, headlamps, headlands, headlight, headlined, headliner, headlines, headlocks, headsails, headstall, heartland, heathland, heralding, hexaploid, highlands, hobnailed, holandric, holdbacks, holdfasts, holidayed, holidayer, homelands, homicidal, husbandly, hydraulic, hydrolase, hypnoidal, keelhaled, khedivial, ladyhoods, ladyships, launchpad, leasehold, leathered, longhands, longheads, lowlihead, lunkheads, manhandle, marshaled, marshland, mishandle, nailheads, northland, nymphalid, panhandle, philander, phyllodia, pilchards, planished, plowheads, polyhedra, railheads, rehandled, rehandles, rhizoidal, shadblows, shadeless, shadflies, shadowily, shallowed, sheldrake, shetlands, shiploads, slathered, southland, steelhead, sulphated, swellhead, tallyhoed, thinclads, thraldoms, thralldom, thylakoid, thyroidal, toolheads, trailhead, trauchled, trihedral, unhandily, unlatched, unleashed, wellheads. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 68 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- .... .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01101000 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a h l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0068 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38677478 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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