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Definition: DESS |
DESSNoun1. Dais. |
Date "DESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DESS | English | Dual Environment Safety Switch | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Layer | Noun: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DESS |
| Non-English Usage: "DESS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (its, their). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DESS" 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 |
| Dess | Last name | 300 | 29,099 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DESS": Dess-beech. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dess | 42 | commerce dess en international | 3 |
sophie dess | 14 | dess lettre motivation | 2 |
dess environnement | 7 | dess lettre motivation pour | 2 |
banque dess | 6 | dess finance | 2 |
jennae dess | 6 | dess lumpkin | 2 |
de dess psychologie | 5 | banque banque dess dess et finance | 2 |
de dess lettre motivation | 5 | dess doo sea | 2 |
dess game up | 4 | dess informatique | 2 |
caae continue dess formation | 4 | caae dess | 2 |
dess management | 3 | dess liste | 2 |
dess humaines ressources | 3 | dess wedding | 2 |
dess hospitalier physician | 3 | dess sorbonne | 2 |
dess marketing | 3 | continue dess formation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DESS": dessert, desserts, dessertspoon, dessertspoonful, dessertspoonfuls, dessertspoons, dessertspoonsful. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DESS": demigoddess, druidess, goddess, leopardess, shepherdess, stewardess. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DESS": demigoddesses, druidesses, goddesses, leopardesses, shepherdesses, stewardesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-s-s" | |
-1 letter: eds, ess. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-s-s" | |
+1 letter: assed, desks, doses, dress, sades, seeds, sends, sheds, sides, sleds, sneds. | |
+2 letters: asides, bossed, bussed, cessed, cussed, daises, dashes, dassie, deisms, deists, desist, dieses, diesis, dishes, dismes, dissed, disses, disuse, dosers, dossed, dossel, dosser, dosses, douses, dowses, dressy, druses, dulses, duress, fessed, fussed, gassed, hissed, issued, jessed, kissed, massed, messed, missed, mossed, mussed, passed, pissed, pseuds, resids, resods, sadhes, sashed, sassed, scends, sedans, seders, sedges, sedums, seised, sensed, shades, shends, sherds, shreds, sidles, slides, sondes, soused, spades, speeds, spends, spodes, stades, steads, steeds, sudsed, sudser, sudses, suedes, sussed, swedes, tossed, tsades, wissed, yessed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 53 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in 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 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0053 0053 |
| 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)38395353 |
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