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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dombey (Florence). A motherless child, hungering and thirsting to be loved, but regarded with frigid indifference by her father, who thinks that sons alone are worthy of his regard. (Dickens: Dombey and Son.) Mr. Dombey. A self-sufficient, purse-proud, frigid merchant, who feels satisfied there is but one Dombey in the world, and that is himself. (Dickens: Dombey and Son.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: DOMBEY |
| Specialty definitions using "DOMBEY": Blimber ♦ Chick-a-biddy, Chime in with. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Os Irmãos Dombey (1959) Dombey and Son (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dombey & son / F.O.C. Darley, fecit. ; S.A. Schoff, sc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DOMBEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOMBEY" is used about 20 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) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
dombey and son | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: embody. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-m-o-y" | |
-1 letter: demob. | |
-2 letters: bode, body, demo, demy, doby, dome, emyd, mode, obey. | |
-3 letters: bed, bey, bod, boy, bye, deb, dey, doe, dom, dye, med, mob, mod, obe, ode, yob, yod, yom. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, by, de, do, ed, em, me, mo, my, od, oe, om, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-m-o-y" | |
+2 letters: coembody, corymbed, embryoid, homebody, reembody, somebody, symboled. | |
+3 letters: disembody, embodying, embryoids, molybdate, symbolled. | |
+4 letters: embroidery, molybdates, molybdenum, symbolised, symbolized. | |
+5 letters: coembodying, commendably, currycombed, embryonated, honeycombed, molybdenite, molybdenums, reembodying, subemployed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 4D 42 45 59 |
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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 01001111 01001101 01000010 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O M B E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 004D 0042 0045 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)384947363959 |
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