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Date "DORMIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
"DORMIR" is a common misspelling or typo for: dormer. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dullness | Prose, matter of fact; heavy book, conte a dormir debout; platitude. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DORMIR |
| Specialty definitions using "DORMIR": Sleep like a Top. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DORMIR": Dormouse. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DORMIR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (be asleep, sleep, slumber), Occitan (sleep), Portuguese (be asleep, doss, fall asleep, kip, lie, rest, sleep), Provencal (to sleep), Spanish (be asleep, bunk down, doss, doze, kip, live, roost, sleep, slumber). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dormir y ligar: todo es empezar (1974) Historias para no dormir (1968) Nana para dormir a un héroe (1967) El Sonámbulo que quería dormir (1956) J'peux pas dormir... (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DORMIR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DORMIR" is used about 2 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 (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DORMIR": conte a dormir debout. 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 |
dormir bien | 6 |
bien como dormir | 4 |
cultura da de dormir rede | 4 |
de dormir la manera mejor | 3 |
bata de dormir | 2 |
cocodrilos cuento de dormir hadas para | 2 |
bariloche dormir em onde | 2 |
dormir nao | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-m-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: dorm, dorr, modi. | |
-3 letters: dim, dom, dor, mid, mir, mod, mor, rid, rim, rod, rom. | |
-4 letters: do, id, mi, mo, od, om, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-m-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: mirador, remorid. | |
+2 letters: airdrome, miradors, mirrored, misorder. | |
+3 letters: airdromes, cordiform, dormitory, embroider, misorders, misrecord, primordia, radiogram. | |
+4 letters: bombardier, bridegroom, cardiogram, dendriform, embroiders, embroidery, hemorrhoid, madreporic, microfarad, microworld, misericord, misordered, misrecords, modernizer, nonadmirer, primordial, primordium, radiograms, radiometer, radiometry, ramrodding, randomizer, reimported, reinformed, warlordism. | |
+5 letters: bombardiers, bridegrooms, cardiograms, comraderies, corrigendum, demoralizer, dimercaprol, dormitories, dromedaries, embordering, embroidered, embroiderer, gormandizer, gradiometer, hemorrhoids, hydrometric, madreporian, madreporite, microfarads, microreader, microworlds, misericorde, misericords, misordering, misrecorded, misreported, modernizers, nonadmirers, overtrimmed, radiometers, radiometric, randomizers, reconfirmed, reembroider, thermoduric, warlordisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 52 4D 49 52 |
| 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 01001111 01010010 01001101 01001001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O R M I R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 0052 004D 0049 0052 |
| 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)384952474352 |
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