Doberman

  

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Doberman

Definition: Doberman

Doberman

Noun

1. Medium large breed of dog of German origin with a glossy black and tan coat; used as a watchdog.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Doberman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)


Synonym: Doberman

Synonym: Doberman pinscher (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Doberman

English words defined with "Doberman": miniature pinscher. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Doberman" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (doberman).

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Modern Usage: Doberman

DomainUsage

Screenplays

A Doberman. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Movie/TV Titles

The Doberman Gang (1972)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Doberman

DomainTitle

Books

  • A New Owner's Guide to Doberman Pinschers (reference)

  • Book of the Doberman Pinscher (reference)

  • Doberman (USA) 2003 Dog Calendar (reference)

  • Doberman Pinschers: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Diseases, Breeding, Behavior, and Training (reference)

  • Guide to Owning a Doberman Pinscher (Re Dog Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Doberman

Photos:
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Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Usage Frequency: Doberman

"Doberman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doberman" is used about 17 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Doberman

Expression using "Doberman": doberman pinscher. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Doberman": Doberman-cross, Doberman-pinscher.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Doberman

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

doberman

1,931

doberman pinscher puppy

33

doberman pinscher

579

red doberman

32

doberman pincher

229

breeders doberman pincher

29

doberman rescue

220

doberman pic

24

doberman pinchers

216

doberman florida rescue

23

doberman puppy

192

doberman pinscher rescue

23

doberman pinschers

158

doberman for sale

22

doberman picture

150

doberman pup

21

miniature doberman

125

doberman picture pincher

21

doberman breeders

119

fawn doberman

20

doberman dog

98

cropping doberman ear

18

doberman puppy sale

71

doberman ear

17

doberman miniature pincher

51

breeder doberman

17

doberman mini

50

doberman gang

16

doberman pinscher breeders

46

doberman picture pinchers

16

doberman white

45

doberman pincer

16

blue doberman

43

albino doberman

16

miniature doberman pinscher

41

doberman kennel

16

doberman pinscher picture

41

doberman pincher puppy

15

doberman miniature pinchers

39

doberman pinschers for sale

15

doberman pincher dog

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Doberman

Language Translations for "Doberman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Dobermann. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ドーナツ現象 (Dobermann Pinscher, dole queue, dome, domesday, doomsday, dope check, dope test, doping, Doria, dormer window, dormie, dormie hole, dormitory, dormy, doughnut phenomenon, drug test). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ドーベルマン . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obermanday

   

Portuguese

  

doberman. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

caballero (cavalier, cavalryman, Chevalier, gent, gentleman, knight, lord, Mister, Mr., rider, Sir, sportsman). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

доберман. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Doberman

Misspellings

"Doberman" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debrecan, dobermann, Dobrnja, Dookeran, Dopeman, Hoberman, Hooberman, Logermann. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Doberman

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: boardmen.

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-m-n-o-r"

-1 letter: abdomen, bandore, broaden, madrone.

-2 letters: badmen, bander, barmen, bedamn, bemoan, bonder, borane, daemon, damner, enamor, moaned, moaner, modern, normed, radome, random, remand, roamed, roband, rodman, rodmen.

-3 letters: abode, admen, adobe, adore, adorn, amber, amend, anode, ardeb, armed, baned, barde, bared, baron, beano, beard, board, boned, boner, bored, borne, brand, bread, bream, broad, brome.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-m-n-o-r"
 

+2 letters: brominated.

 

+3 letters: barnstormed, bombardment, boomeranged, embryonated.

 

+4 letters: bombardments, brainstormed, demonstrable, demonstrably, dermabrasion, imponderable, imponderably, rhabdomancer.

 

+5 letters: dermabrasions, imponderables, recommendable, rhabdomancers, rhabdomancies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Doberman


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 62 65 72 6D 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    -...    .    .-.    --    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01100010 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#98 &#101 &#114 &#109 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0062 0065 0072 006D 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3881687184796780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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