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Definitions: Dandruff |
DandruffNoun1. A condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp. 2. Loose scales shed from the scalp; "I could see the dandruff on her shoulders". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dandruff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are some dandruff shampoos available, like from Head & Shoulders. Severe forms of dandruff should be treated by a doctor.
There's speculation that dandruff is linked with Hair_loss.
Treatment
Causes
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dandruff."
Crosswords: Dandruff |
| English words defined with "dandruff": Dandriff ♦ Furfur ♦ resorcinol. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dandruff": CALEA GLOMERATA, CALEA PENNELLII, CALEA PRUNIFOLIA, CALEA TERNIFOLIA, CALEA YURUPARINA ♦ hair-and-scalp specialist ♦ scalp specialist, SCALP-TREATMENT OPERATOR ♦ trichologist. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ebola is a cause of dandruff compared to me! (Osmosis Jones; writing credit: Marc Hyman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Peter De Vries | Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy. |
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Health | The two most common causes of anterior blepharitis are bacteria (Staphylococcus) and scalp dandruff. (references) | |
In Parkinson's disease, it is common for the skin on the face to become very oily, particularly on the forehead and at the sides of the nose. The scalp may become oily too, resulting in dandruff. (references) | ||
When scalp dandruff is present, a dandruff shampoo for the hair is recommended as well. In addition to the warm compresses, patients with posterior blepharitis will need to massage their eyelids to clean the oil accumulated in the glands. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dandruff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Dandruff" is used about 48 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 (singular) | 91.67% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dandruff": dandruff-afflicted, dandruff-laden, dandruff-like. | |
Ending with "dandruff": anti-dandruff. | |
| 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 |
dandruff | 458 |
dandruff shampoo | 48 |
cat dandruff | 41 |
dandruff treatment | 31 |
dandruff cure | 30 |
dandruff home remedy | 28 |
dandruff remedy | 24 |
dandruff cause | 22 |
dog dandruff | 20 |
get rid of dandruff | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dandruff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbokth (scurf). (various references) | |
Arabic | الهبرية قشرة الرأس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пърхот (furfur, scurf). (various references) | |
Chinese | 头屑. (various references) | |
Czech | lupy (furfur, scurf). (various references) | |
Danish | skael (furfur, scale, squama), skæl (mesh pin, mesh stick, scale, spool, squama). (various references) | |
Dutch | roos (rose, rose bush, rose cut). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaphaŭteroj. (various references) | |
Farsi | شوره سر (Dander, Scruff, Shale). (various references) | |
Finnish | hilse (scale). (various references) | |
French | pellicules. (various references) | |
German | schuppen (dive, flake, flakes, hangar, hole, hovel, joint, outhouse, penthouse, scale, scales, scurf, scurfs, shack, shanty, shed, shelter, shelters). (various references) | |
Greek | πιτυρίδα (scurf). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קשקשים (scurf). (various references) | |
Hungarian | korpa (fejbőrön). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketombe. (various references) | |
Italian | forfora (furfur, scurf). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雲脂 , 垢 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふけ (aging). (various references) | |
Korean | 비" (scurf). (various references) | |
Manx | far-scryss (furfur, scurf), cuddym. (various references) | |
Norwegian | flass. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andruffday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caspa (scurf). (various references) | |
Romanian | mãtreaţã (dandriff, scurf). (various references) | |
Russian | перхоть (furfur, furfures, scurf). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | perut (scurf). (various references) | |
Spanish | caspa (Dander, furfur, scurf). (various references) | |
Swedish | mjäll (furfur, scurf). (various references) | |
Turkish | konak (court, dandriff, hall, halting place, inn, mansion, residence, residency, road house, scurf, Villa), kepek (bran, dandriff, scall, scurf, whole meal). (various references) | |
Turkmen | goсak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | лупа (furfur, scurf). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dandruff": dandruffs, dandruffy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dandruff": antidandruff. (additional references) | |
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"Dandruff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anduff, carnduff. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dandruff" (pronounced da"ndruf) |
| 4 | -d r u f | Woodruff. |
| 3 | -r u f | sheriff, tariff. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-f-f-n-r-u" | |
-3 letters: draff, fraud, furan. | |
-4 letters: daff, darn, duad, duff, dura, durn, fard, faun, fund, nard, nurd, raff, rand, rudd, ruff. | |
-5 letters: add, aff, and, arf, dad, dud, dun, fad, fan, far, fud, fun, fur, rad, ran, run, urd, urn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-f-f-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: dandruffs, dandruffy. | |
+4 letters: antidandruff, understaffed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6E 64 72 75 66 66 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -. -.. .-. ..- ..-. ..-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110010 01110101 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a n d r u f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006E 0064 0072 0075 0066 0066 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3867807084877272 |
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