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Definition: DORIES |
DORIESPlural1. Of Dory |
Crosswords: DORIES |
| English words defined with "DORIES": order Zeomorphi ♦ Zeomorphi. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DORIES": Dory. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DORIES" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Dorian, Doric). |
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![]() | Halibut schooner under jib, foresail, and double-reefed mainsail Nest of dories on deck and amidships Rigged for fall and winter fishing Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Dories and crew on the way to haul the trawls The schooner at anchor under riding sail Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Fishermen's dories on the rocks at Folly Cove, Cape Ann, Massachusetts Drawing by H. W. Elliott. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Herring pinkey bound for the fishing grounds Nets hanging over bowsprit and stern; net dories on deck From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture 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 |
dories | 18 |
canyon dories grand | 4 |
dories ray river | 3 |
dories sale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DORIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sanktpetersfisk-familien (John Dories, zeidae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zonnevissen (John Dories, zeidae), Sint-Pietervissen (John Dories, zeidae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pietarinkalat-heimo (John Dories), pietarinkalat (John Dories). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zéidés (John Dories), Saint-Pierres (John Dories), Saint-Pierre (Atlantic John Dory, dory, John Dories, john dory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Petersfische (John Dories, zeidae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χριστόψαρα (John Dories). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zeidi (John Dories, zeidae), pesci San Pietro (John Dories, zeidae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oriesday peixes-galo (John Dories, zeidae), galos (John Dories, zeidae). (various references) peces de San Pedro (John Dories, zeidae). (various references) sanktpersfiskar (John Dories). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Zeidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DORIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darcies, darics, Daries, Dariuss, Darrius, deris, Dobres, dobros, dogies, doies, doire, Doise, D'oise, dorads, Doras, Dorceus, D'orcia, doree, Dores, doress, D'orfeo, dori, dorie, doriec, Doriot, Dorji, dorkins, dormez, Dorrie, Dorrien, Dorries, dorris, dorrits, dorus, dorys, Douris, Droese, droites, Duris, odies, Odria, ories, orise, rorys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: doers, doser, dries, eidos, osier, redos, resid, resod, rides, rosed, sired. | |
-2 letters: dies, dire, doer, does, dore, dors, dose, eros, ides, ired, ires, odes, ores, redo, reds, reis, ride, rids, rise, rode, rods, roes, rose, side, sire, sord, sore, sori. | |
-3 letters: die, dis, doe, dor, dos, eds, ers, ids, ire, ode, ods, oes. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: borides, devisor, devoirs, dineros, disrobe, dossier, dowries, editors, indorse, misdoer, ordines, oreides, oroides, periods, roadies, rosined, rowdies, soldier, solider, sordine, sortied, steroid, storied, triodes, visored, voiders, weirdos. | |
+2 letters: aneroids, asteroid, avodires, avoiders, broiders, bromides, codrives, consider, cordites, corodies, crowdies, darioles, deorbits, derision, derisory, dermoids, desirous, devisors, diaspore, digestor, dimerous, diopters, dioptres, diorites, discover, disgorge, disorder, disposer, disprove, disrobed, disrober, disrobes, divorces, dorkiest, dossiers, dourines, doweries, dropsied, dropsies, droskies, drossier, drowsier, emeroids, firedogs, foresaid, foreside, grodiest, heirdoms, hidroses, hordeins, idocrase, idoliser, indorsed, indorsee, indorser, indorses, iodizers, ironside, joinders, joyrides, leporids, misdoers, misdrove, misorder, moidores, mortised, negroids, odorizes, outrides, outsider, overbids, overside, oxidiser, parodies, percoids, peridots, peroxids, presidio, prisoned, promised, proteids, provides, rebodies, resinoid, riposted, roadside, rowdiest, scleroid, shoddier, soldiers, soldiery, sordines, sourdine, spheroid, steroids, stodgier, stolider, topsider, weirdoes, widowers, woodsier, wordiest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 52 49 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .-. .. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O R I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 0052 0049 0045 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)384952433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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