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Definition: DARBY |
DARBYNoun1. A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc. |
"DARBY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a deer town". |
Date "DARBY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | DARBY. Ready money. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Darby is a borough located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 10,299.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Darby, Montana."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Marriage | Feme, feme coverte; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife. |
Seclusion Exclusion | Inhospitality, inhospitableness; Adjective: dissociability; domesticity, Darby and Joan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DARBY |
| English words defined with "DARBY": Darbyite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DARBY": 19082 ♦ 59829 ♦ Darby and Joan, Darby process, Darbyites. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Darby and Hito died forever the day they came to life; I won't try to explain that. (Ghost of the China Sea; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) Like Darby and Joan (1913) Darby and Joan (1912) | |
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Economic History | Hong Kong | Asia: San Miguel Brewery (Philippines), News Corp., Pioneer (Australia), Sime Darby, Shangri-la/Kerry Trading (Malaysia), Park View Properties (Taiwan), Lippo Group (Indonesia), C.P. Pokphand (Thailand), LG Semicon (South Korea), First Pacific Group (Indonesia). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DARBY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.53% of the time. "DARBY" is used about 76 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) | 85.53% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.84% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 2.63% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DARBY" 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 |
| Darby | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,883 |
| Darby | Last name | 7,000 | 1,730 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "DARBY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a deer town". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "DARBY." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Darby | Male, Female | English | N/A |
| Derby | Male | English | Darby |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Sime Darby Hong Kong Limited | Malaysia | Sime Darby Berhad |
| Philippines | Sime Darby Pilipinas, Inc. | United Kingdom | Darby Group PLC |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Darby, MT (town, FIPS 19300) 2. Darby, PA (borough, FIPS 18152) |
Expressions using "DARBY": darby and joan ♦ darby and joan club ♦ Darby Township ♦ Lake Darby ♦ Upper Darby. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
terence trent darby | 168 |
camp darby | 121 |
darby | 110 |
kim darby | 70 |
darby montana | 64 |
darby pennsylvania | 54 |
darby leah | 41 |
sime darby | 35 |
crash darby | 32 |
darby terrence trent | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DARBY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mistri (trowel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vakolatsimító kanál. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arbyday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | regra de estucamento. (various references) | |
Russian | правило штукатура. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta građevinskog alata. (various references) | |
Spanish | matrimonio ideal (darby and joan). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaşlılar derneği (darby and joan club), uyumlu yaşlı çift (darby and joan), birbirine bağlı yaşlı çift (darby and joan). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DARBY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arby, Darbo, darbys, Derbi, Dervy, Diby, Dubrey, Larby, Sarsby, Warbey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "DARBY" (pronounced 'Dar"by'): Blebby, Bobby, Booby, Busby, Chubby, Cobby, Crabby, Derby, Dobby, flabby, Gaby, Gawby, hubby, knobby, Looby, Mabby, Nobby, Oby, Rudesby, scabby, Scobby, scrubby, shabby, shrubby, Slabby, Sneaksby, snobby, squabby, stubby, Suresby, toby, tubby, Webby. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-r-y" | |
-1 letter: bard, brad, bray, darb, drab, dray, yard. | |
-2 letters: aby, arb, bad, bar, bay, bra, dab, day, dry, rad, ray, rya, yar. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, ar, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-r-y" | |
+1 letter: bawdry, bayard, boyard, brandy, brayed, bready, byroad, daubry, drably, redbay. | |
+2 letters: bayards, beeyard, boyards, broadly, byroads, daubery, dryable, durably, jaybird, rabidly, redbays. | |
+3 letters: absurdly, adorably, backyard, badgerly, balladry, banditry, barnyard, bastardy, bayadeer, bayadere, beeyards, betrayed, bewrayed, birthday, bladdery, boatyard, boneyard, boundary, bridally, carboyed, daybreak, diablery, jaybirds, keyboard, ladybird, obduracy, rabidity, readably, ribaldly, ribaldry, yabbered, yardbird. | |
+4 letters: absurdity, admirably, backyards, barnyards, bastardly, bayadeers, bayaderes, bipyramid, birthdays, blarneyed, blizzardy, boatyards, bodyguard, boneyards, brandying, brickyard, budgetary, bystander, daybreaks, desirably, dithyramb, endurably, grandbaby, graybeard, husbandry, hybridoma, keyboards, ladybirds, shadberry, yardbirds. | |
+5 letters: affordably, backwardly, bardolatry, bipyramids, blizzardly, bodyguards, botryoidal, bradykinin, brickyards, bystanders, creditably, cybernated, debauchery, debonairly, defrayable, deplorably, dithyrambs, durability, formidably, graybeards, hybridomas, keyboarded, keyboarder, lumberyard, obdurately, pardonably, perdurably, prebendary, rekeyboard, storyboard, subsidiary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 52 42 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- .-. -... -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01010010 01000010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A R B Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0052 0042 0059 |
| 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)3835523659 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Derived from 10. Names: Company Usage 11. Cities 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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