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DEE

Date "DEE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

"DEE" is a common misspelling or typo for: deed, deem, deep, deer, dew, die, doe, due, dye.


Specialty Definition: DEE

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A D-shaped connecting link in rigging, used for high-lead cable logging. Source: European Union. (references)
 A notch cut into the side of a log near the butt to give the drag chain a better grip. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Dee - i.e. D for a detective. Look sharp! the dees are about.
Dee (Dr. John). A man of vast knowledge, whose library, museum, and mathematical instruments were valued at pound £2,000. On one occasion the populace broke into his house and destroyed the greater part of his valuable collection, under the notion that Dee held intercourse with the devil. He ultimately died a pauper, at the advanced age of eighty-one, and was buried at Mortlake. He professed to be able to raise the dead, and had a magic mirror, afterwards in Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill (1527-1608).
Dee's speculum or mirror, in which persons were told they could see their friends in distant lands and how they were occupied. It is a piece of solid pink-tinted glass about the size of an orange. It is now in the British Museum. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Each of two hollow electrodes of a cyclotron between the straight edges of which is the accelerating electric field. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: DEE

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DEE

EnglishDirect entry equipmentN/A

DEE

GermanAnschlußblockComputing, Meteorology & Standards

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

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Synonyms: DEE

Synonyms by domain: Diethyl Ether (chemistry), Direct entry equipment (computing).

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Synonyms within Context: DEE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Equality

Equivalence; equipollence, equipoise, equilibrium, equiponderance; par, quits, a wash; not a pin to choose; distinction without a difference, six of one and half a dozen of the other; tweedle dee and tweedle dum; identity; similarity.

Identity

Coincide, coalescent, coalescing; indistinguishable; one; equivalent; (equal); tweedle dee and tweedle dum; much the same, of a muchness; unaltered.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DEE

Specialty definitions using "DEE": Angelical StoneBorrowed days of MarchDee Mills, Deva's ValePee Dee BelemnitScience Persecuted. (references)
Non-English Usage: "DEE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (goddesses), Luxembourgish (that), Manx (ate, plaything).

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Modern Usage: DEE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Oh, wait, there's Dee Dee. (American Graffiti; writing credit: George Lucas ; Gloria Katz)

Woop dee doo, Ed. (Ed, Edd n' Eddy; writing credit: Jan Dirchsen; Mikkel Dyrting)

Hum dum dee dum, hum dum dee dum, I'm so rumbly in my tumbly. (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh; writing credit: Ken Anderson; Xavier Atencio)

Dee Dee! (Dexter's Laboratory; writing credit: Michael Merton)

Dee Dee and I drew each other, Lisa and Mr. Nash drew each other, so (Life's Work; writing credit: Warren Bell; Alana Burgi)

Lyrics

Dee dah la dee dah la dee dah la (Brown Eyed Girl; performing artist: VAN MORRISON)

La dee dah. (Brown Eyed Girl; performing artist: VAN MORRISON)

Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah (Brown Eyed Girl; performing artist: VAN MORRISON)

Movie/TV Titles

Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974)

The Simon Dee Show (1970)

Judge Dee (1969)

Dee Time (1967)

Kelly and the Spirits Dr. Dee (1967)

Song Titles

Burn (performing artist: Jo Dee Messina)

Downtime (performing artist: Jo Dee Messina)

Because You Love Me (performing artist: Jo Dee Messina)

That's The Way (performing artist: Jo Dee Messina)

Peppermint Twist (performing artist: Joey Dee and The Starliters)

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

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Commercial Usage: DEE

DomainTitle

References

  • Dee Valley Water Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Great Pee Dee Bancorp, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Six Stewartry bridges of the Dee, Ken, Tarff & Urr (reference)

  • The Boy Who Could Make His Mother Stop Yelling: By Ilse Sondheimer ; Illustrated by Dee Derosa (reference)

  • The Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language As Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley (reference)

  • Bing Bong Bang and Fiddle Dee Dee (reference)

  • Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee = Dee Goong an: An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Chinese Detective Novel (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: DEE

Photos:
DEE

More pictures...

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Photo Album: DEE

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Dee O. Credit: NASA.

Pulling an oyster-dredge full of oysters aboard the skipjack "DEE" of St. Mary's. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Pioneer Festival with Dee and Tajah at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff.

Dr. John Dee. / Engraved by W. P. Sherlock. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Film still from The Jackie Robinson Story showing (from left to right) Richard Lane (as Clay Hopper), Ruby Dee (as Rachel Robinson), Jackie Robinson (as himself), and Billy Wayne (as Clyde Sukeforth) arm-in-arm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Street scene in Mullins, South Carolina, with Pee Dee Hardware & Furniture Company in left foreground. Credit: Library of Congress.

The magic washer, manufactured by Geo. Dee, Dixon, Illinois. The Chinese must go. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Ruby Dee. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Sounds Captioned with "DEE".

PlayCaption
Hip hop; dee jay; deejay; dj.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DEE

"DEE" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "DEE" is used about 643 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
Unclassified Items93.94%60410,619
Noun (proper)3.26%2176,261
Noun (singular)2.8%1882,615
                    Total100.00%643N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: DEE

The following table summarizes the usage of "DEE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DeeFirst name Female16,000698
DeeFirst name Male5,000978
DeeLast name2,0006,768
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: DEE

CountryNameCountryName
United Kingdom

Dee Valley Water Plc

USA

Great Pee Dee Bancorp, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: DEE

Expressions using "DEE": pee dee Pee Dee Belemnit pee Dee River tweedle dee and tweedle dum. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "DEE": dee-dah, Dee-dah-dah, dee-dah-dee-dah-dum, Dee-dee, dee-groovy, dee-hee, dee-liteful.

Ending with "DEE": Bangor-on-dee, Dee-dee.

Containing "DEE": da-dee-da, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DEE

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

francine dee

3,220

dee lite

59

dee

471

dee dee

55

jo dee messina

420

kiki dee

50

dee desi

403

billy dee williams

45

dee lumi

201

kool moe dee

42

sandra dee

180

dee hospital mckay

42

muscle of dee kay

157

dee brown

41

dee zee

150

dee dee reeve

40

porn star dee

134

dee dee ramone

40

dee tran

124

dee dee bridgewater

38

francine dee nude

119

dee russ

33

dee henderson

106

ruby dee

30

francine dee gallery

99

dee snyder

29

jo dee messina lyrics

91

blue da ba dee

27

francine dee pic

90

francine dee video

27

ann dee donovan

86

angel by dee jo messina touched

26

dee snider

84

francine dee nude pic

26

dee kay

80

dee rick

26

picture of francine dee

70

dee simply

26

dee jay

65

dee lumi lyrics

25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DEE

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

French

  

Pee Dee Belemnit (Pee Dee Belemnit), PDB (Pee Dee Belemnit). (various references)

   

German

  

Pee Dee Belemnit (Pee Dee Belemnit), PDB (Pee Dee Belemnit). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Pee Dee Belemnit (Pee Dee Belemnit), PDB (Pee Dee Belemnit). (various references)

   

Manx

  

Yn Awin Dee (The Dee). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eeday

   

Portuguese

  

Pee Dee Belemnite (Pee Dee Belemnit), PDB (Pee Dee Belemnit). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

Drochaid Dhé (Bridge of Dee). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Pee Dee Belemnite (Pee Dee Belemnit), PDB (Pee Dee Belemnit). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

Dyfrdwy. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DEE

Derivations

Words beginning with "DEE": deed, deeded, deedier, deediest, deeding, deedless, deeds, deedy, deejay, deejays, deem, deemed, deeming, deemphasize, deemphasized, deemphasizes, deemphasizing, deems, deemster, deemsters, deep, deepen, deepened, deepener, deepeners, deepening, deepens, deeper, deepest, deeply, deepness, deepnesses, deeps, deepwater, deer, deerberries, deerberry, deerflies, deerfly, deerhound, deerhounds, deerlike, deers, deerskin, deerskins, deerstalker, deerstalkers, deerweed, deerweeds, deeryard, deeryards. (additional references)

Words ending with "DEE": attendee, awardee, bendee, chickadee, grandee, killdee, pardee, spondee, standee, undee, vendee. (additional references)

Words containing "DEE": adeem, adeemed, adeeming, adeems, attendees, awardees, balladeer, balladeers, bayadeer, bayadeers, bendees, chickadees, commandeer, commandeered, commandeering, commandeers, coredeem, coredeemed, coredeeming, coredeems, dudeen, dudeens, grandees, indeed, irredeemable, irredeemably, killdeer, killdeers, killdees, misdeed, misdeeds, misdeem, misdeemed, misdeeming, misdeems, mujahedeen, mujahideen, redeem, redeemable, redeemed, redeemer, redeemers, redeeming, redeems, reindeer, reindeers, spondees, standees, unredeemable, unredeemed, vendees. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DEE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deee, Deeg, deej, Dereh, Deu, D'eve, Dfe, Dge, Dhe, Dheen, Dreze, Dyf, Dyw, Dyz, Edme, Edv, Gdy, Kdei, Odete. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "DEE"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "DEE" (pronounced dē")
2d ē"cod, De, Ged, id, Vendee.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DEE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e"

-1 letter: de, ed.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e"
 

+1 letter: cede, deed, deem, deep, deer, dees, deet, deke, dele, deme, dene, dere, dree, edge, eide, eked, eyed, feed, geed, heed, jeed, meed, need, peed, rede, reed, seed, teed, weed.

 

+2 letters: adeem, aedes, bedel, bedew, bleed, brede, breed, ceded, ceder, cedes, cered, creed, deave, debye, deeds, deedy, deems, deeps, deers, deets, defer, deice, deked, dekes, deled, deles, delve, demes, denes, dense, desex, deter, deuce, devel, dewed, dexes, dexie, diene, donee, dreed, drees, dweeb, eared, eased, eaved, ebbed, eched, edema, edged, edger, edges, edile, educe, egged, eider, elder, elide, elude, embed, emend, emyde, ended, ender, endue, epode, erode, erred, etude, evade, exude, feeds, feted, feued, freed, geode, glede, gleed, greed, heder, hedge, heeds, hewed, hexed, jewed, kedge, keyed, kneed, ledge, meeds, merde, meted, mewed, needs, needy, pedes, preed, reded, redes, redye, reeds, reedy, refed, rewed, seder, sedge, seeds, seedy, sered, sewed, sexed, skeed, speed, steed, suede, swede, tewed, treed, tweed, undee, vexed, wedel, wedge, weeds, weedy.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Abbreviations
16. Acronyms
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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