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Definition: Dobson |
DobsonNoun1. Large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait. 2. Large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dobson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
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Environment | One Dobson unit represents a single molecule of ozone to every billion molecules of air;100 Dobson units represent a layer of ozone 1 mm thick all around the world. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: DobsonSynonyms: dobson fly (n), dobsonfly (n), hellgrammiate (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dobson |
| English words defined with "dobson": Hellgramite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dobson": Dab, Din, Dobson Unit ♦ Vandyck. (references) |
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 | Lieutenant Mark Boland making Ozone measurements with a Dobson spectrophotometer . Hair is a little out of regulation but no barbers at the South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The Mauna Loa Observatory with view of the dome housing Dobson ozone spectrophot ometer and air intake tower for atmospheric constituent measurements. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Using the Dobson ozone spetrophotometer to measure the ozone content of the atmosphere by observing 2 ultraviolet wavelengths. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Recording Dobson ozone data. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Figure 64. N.I.O. bottle designed by Francis E. Pierce, Dennis I. Gaunt, and Richard Dobson at the National Institute of Oceanography at Grand-Bretagne. This utilized a valve for closing but also inverted. The mounting for the therm ometer toppled over by the action of a spring. This bottle was used by the DISC OVERY II in the Gulf of Gascogne at 4700 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Mid-Nineteenth Century engraving "by R.W. Dobson from a drawing by J.B. Longacre, after a Portait by J.Wood in Peale's Museum, New York". It was published in James Herring's and James Barton Longacre's "National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans", volume 3. Dale commanded the U.S. squadron in the Mediterranean Sea during 1801-1802. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Dobson" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.58% of the time. "Dobson" is used about 236 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) | 99.58% | 235 | 19,568 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.42% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 236 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dobson" 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 |
| Dobson | Last name | 9,000 | 1,305 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Dobson Communications Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Dobson, NC (town, FIPS 17340) |
Expressions using "dobson": dobson fly ♦ Dobson unit. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "dobson"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Dobson ozonspektrofotometer (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer), Dobson enhed (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Dobson-spectrofotometer (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer), Dobson-eenheid (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Dobson-yksikkö (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone), Dobson-spektrofotometri (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Dobson (Dobson unit), unité d'ozone (Dobson unit), unité Dobson (Dobson unit), spectrophotomètre-Dobson (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer), spectrophotomètre d'ozone de Dobson (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer), spectrophotomètre de Dobson (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Dobson-Spektrometer (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer), Dobson-Einheit (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | Dobson (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone), μονάδα όζοντος (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone), μονάδα Dobson (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone), φασματοφωτόμετρο Dobson (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obsonday unidad Dobson (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone), espectrofotómetro de Dobson (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer). (various references) dobsonspektrofotometer (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer), dobson-mätare (Dobson instrument, Dobson meter, Dobson ozone spectrophotometer, Dobson spectrophotometer, Dobson total ozone spectrophotometer), Dobsonenhet (Dobson unit, ozone unit, total ozone unit, unit of ozone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "dobson": dobsonflies, dobsonfly, dobsons. (additional references) | |
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"Dobson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Derson, dobeson, Doboj, Dobsons, Dopson, Dorson, Dubon. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dobson" (pronounced dÄ"bsun) |
| 4 | -b s u n | Gibson. |
| 3 | -s u n | aflatoxin, angiotensin, antitoxin, arson, assassin, basin, bison, bolson, businessperson, capsaicin, chairperson, chasten, christen, claxon, comparison, congressperson, damson, delicatessen, diocesan, dioxin, ensign, fasten, garrison, glisten, hasten, Hyson, jettison, keelson, kelson, layperson, lessen, lesson, listen, loosen, Mason, medicine, moisten, myosin, Nelson, newsperson, oxen, oxytocin, parson, person, rechristen, rhodopsin, salesperson, spokesperson, toxin, unison, venison, washbasin, weatherperson, worsen. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-n-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: bonds, boons, boson, snood. | |
-2 letters: bods, bond, boon, boos, dons, nobs, nods, snob, soon. | |
-3 letters: bod, boo, bos, don, dos, nob, nod, noo, nos, ods, ons, sob, sod, son. | |
-4 letters: bo, do, no, od, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-n-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: doblons, dobsons. | |
+2 letters: bookends, bourdons, bradoons, bridoons, doblones, nobodies, soundbox, woodbins. | |
+3 letters: bentwoods, bloodfins, bloodings, blowdowns, bondstone, boondocks, burnoosed, diobolons, dobsonfly, doorknobs, doubloons, handbooks, nonbodies, snowboard, snowbound, softbound, unbosomed, woodbinds, woodbines. | |
+4 letters: bandicoots, bloodiness, bloodlines, bloodstain, bloodstone, bombardons, bondstones, broodiness, brownnosed, carbonados, doubletons, housebound, snowboards, soundboard, soundboxes, southbound, stormbound. | |
+5 letters: bloodhounds, bloodstains, bloodstones, bondholders, bookbinders, boondoggles, bottomlands, buttonwoods, carbonadoes, disbosoming, dobsonflies, donnybrooks, forebodings, isoantibody, monohybrids, odontoblast, outrebounds, roundabouts, snowboarder, soundboards. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 62 73 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- -... ... --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100010 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o b s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0062 0073 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388168858180 |
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