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DOGGER

Definition: DOGGER

DOGGER

Noun

1. A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.

2. A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DOGGER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)


Specialty Definition: DOGGER

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. A large, irregular nodule, usually of clay ironstone, sometimes containing fossils, found in a sedimentary rock, as in the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire, England b. An English term for any large, lumpy mass of sandstone longer than itis broad, with steep rounded sides. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: DOGGER

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

Ship

Catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue;

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DOGGER

English words defined with "DOGGER": Doggerman. (references)
Non-English Usage: "DOGGER" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Hungarian (Dogger).

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Commercial Usage: DOGGER

DomainTitle

Books

  • Caractâerisation et modâelisation du râeservoir gâeothermique du Dogger, bassin Parisien, France (reference)

  • Dogger (reference)

  • Environmental investigations : Gregory and Dogger Gorge dam sites Fortescue River, Western Australia (reference)

  • Evolution et systâematique des phylloceratidae et des lytoceratidae du Toarcien et du Dogger infâerieur de la râegion lyonnaise (reference)

  • Fauna und Fazies der kondensierten Sedimente des Dogger und Malm (Bajocium bis Oxfordium) im sèudlichen Frankenjura (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: DOGGER

"DOGGER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOGGER" is used about 6 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
Noun (proper)100%6143,867

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOGGER

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

diggity dogger hot

39

dogger

29

dogger hot

3

bank dogger

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOGGER

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

Albanian

  

Doger. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Средна Кора. (various references)

   

Danish

  

dogger. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dogger. (various references)

   

French

  

dogger (sous-système). (various references)

   

German

  

Dogger. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Dogger. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dogger (sottoperiodo). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oggerday

   

Portuguese

  

dogre. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Средняя Юра. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Çift Direkli Hollanda Balıkçı Gemisi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DOGGER

Derivations

Words beginning with "DOGGER": doggerel, doggerels, doggeries, doggers, doggery. (additional references)

Words ending with "DOGGER": bulldogger, hotdogger. (additional references)

Words containing "DOGGER": bulldoggers, hotdoggers. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DOGGER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gorged.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-o-r"

-1 letter: gored, gorge, grego.

-2 letters: doer, doge, dore, dreg, ergo, goer, gore, grog, ogre, redo, rode.

-3 letters: doe, dog, dor, egg, ego, erg, ged, god, gor, ode, ore, red, reg, rod, roe.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, er, go, od, oe, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-g-o-r"
 

+1 letter: doggers, doggery, doggier, doggrel, frogged, progged.

 

+2 letters: defogger, disgorge, doggerel, doggoner, doggrels, engorged, gorgedly, gorgeted, regorged.

 

+3 letters: defoggers, disgorged, disgorges, dogearing, doggerels, doggeries, gargoyled, hotdogger, mortgaged.

 

+4 letters: bulldogger, derogating, doggoneder, gorgonized, guerdoning, hotdoggers, loggerhead, outbragged, outdragged, undergoing.

 

+5 letters: boondoggler, bulldoggers, congregated, demagoguery, footdragger, forejudging, gangsterdom, goddaughter, leapfrogged, loggerheads, overgilding, overgirding, overgoading, remortgaged, waterlogged.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DOGGER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 47 47 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    --.    --.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01000111 01000111 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#71 &#71 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0047 0047 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384941413952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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