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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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DEE | English | Direct entry equipment | N/A |
DEE | German | Anschlußblock | Computing, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: DEE |
| Specialty definitions using "DEE": Angelical Stone ♦ Borrowed days of March ♦ Dee Mills, Deva's Vale ♦ Pee Dee Belemnit ♦ Science 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| Play | Caption |
| Hip hop; dee jay; deejay; dj. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 93.94% | 604 | 10,619 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.26% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.8% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 643 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dee | First name Female | 16,000 | 698 |
| Dee | First name Male | 5,000 | 978 |
| Dee | Last name | 2,000 | 6,768 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Dee Valley Water Plc | USA | Great Pee Dee Bancorp, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 Pee Dee Belemnite (Pee Dee Belemnit), PDB (Pee Dee Belemnit). (various references) Drochaid Dhé (Bridge of Dee). (various references) Pee Dee Belemnite (Pee Dee Belemnit), PDB (Pee Dee Belemnit). (various references) Dyfrdwy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEE" (pronounced dē") |
| 2 | d ē" | cod, De, Ged, id, Vendee. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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