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Definition: Davit |
DavitNoun1. A crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "davit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Etymology: Davit \Dav"it\, noun. [Compare to the French expression davier forceps, davit, cooper's instrument, German david davit; all probably from the proper name David.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Small derricks of various designs used for hoisting boats, anchors, and ladders, for handling stores, and so on. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
Davit | English | Danish verapamil infarction trial | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Davit |
| English words defined with "davit": fish davit, Fish fall ♦ Span shackle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "davit": back rope, balancing band, balancing clamp ♦ gravity band. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Davit" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (davit). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Davit Guramishvili (1946) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Georgia | During the year, the Government criticized these partisan groups and in 2000 had arrested some partisans, including Davit Shengalia, the leader of the partisan organization "forest brothers." On September 4, Shengelia was attacked in a Zugdidi apartment; he survived, but the attackers killed three of his relatives. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "davit": anchor davit ♦ fish davit. 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 |
davit | 49 |
davit master | 11 |
davit system | 11 |
boat davit | 9 |
davit crane | 9 |
davit manufacturer | 7 |
crab davit | 3 |
davit arm | 3 |
davit arms | 2 |
davit weaver | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "davit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الداوودي أحد عمودين حديدين. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | котвен кран, василка на спасителна лодка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 吊艇架. (various references) | |
Danish | david, ladebom, kranbjaelke (cathead), gribetang (cramp). (various references) | |
Dutch | davit, laadboom (cargo boom, cargo derrick, derrick), hoepeltang (cramp). (various references) | |
Finnish | taavetti. (various references) | |
French | bossoir. (various references) | |
German | davit. (various references) | |
Greek | καπόνι (capon, cuckoo gurnard, grey gurnard, gurnard, large-scaled gurnard, piper, piper gurnard, red gurnard, soldier). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csónakdaru (bow). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dewi-dewi, dewa dewi. (various references) | |
Italian | gru (crane, jib crane). (various references) | |
Manx | davee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | avitday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | turco (cathead, ottoman, ouch, terry towelling, Turk, turkish). (various references) | |
Russian | шлюпбалка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | soha za čamac. (various references) | |
Spanish | pescante (box, Fisher, fisherman, gallows, prow). (various references) | |
Swedish | dävert. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thả, kéo neo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "davit": davits. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "davit": affidavit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "davit": affidavits. (additional references) | |
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"Davit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adbit, advi, advid, advit, advt, avit, Aviti, Avito, Dabit, dacite, dafi, dait, Daitz, daiv, dalit, D'alva, damit, Darvi, dativ, dav, dava, D'aval, D'avant, Davao, davar, davast, daveit, davi, Davidtz, Daviot, davitt, d'avoir, davot, Davox, d'avril, davt, Davut, Dawit, dazix, deavit, dedit, devet, devia, devicto, devid, devir, devita, devix, dexit, dhalit, dicit, diqit, divit, dixit, dovit, Dvaita, Dvaitin, gavit, havit, tavi, wavit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "davit" (pronounced 'Dav"it'): Accredit, Adhibit, Adit, Albeit, Bewit, Cohabit, Cohibit, Decrepit, Delimit, Dishabit, Disherit, Disinherit, Dispirit, Disspirit, Edit, Effrontit, Evomit, Howbeit, illicit, Immerit, implicit, inexplicit, inhibit, inspirit, Interposit, Intervisit, Introit, Juxtaposit, Kinit, licit, Overmerit, Petit, Pinxit, Pipit, Placit, Posit, Postposit, Prelimit, Premerit, Prohibit, Promerit, redeposit, Reexhibit, Reinhabit, Reinspirit, reposit, Retraxit, revisit, Seposit, solicit, Stickit, Subdeposit, tacit, Uncredit, Unprofit, Unspirit. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-t-v" | |
-1 letter: adit, avid, dita, diva, vita. | |
-2 letters: aid, ait, dit, tad, tav, vat, via. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, at, id, it, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-t-v" | |
+1 letter: dative, davits. | |
+2 letters: aviated, avidity, datival, datives, deviant, deviate, viaduct, vistaed. | |
+3 letters: adaptive, additive, adoptive, auditive, cavitied, datively, derivate, deviants, deviated, deviates, deviator, dilative, distaves, divagate, divalent, donative, dovetail, durative, ideative, obviated, sedative, validate, validity, vanitied, vapidity, variated, vaticide, viaducts, vibrated, viewdata, violated, vitiated. | |
+4 letters: activated, activized, addictive, additives, adductive, adjective, adjustive, advecting, advection, advective, adventive, adversity, adverting, advertise, advertize, affidavit, auditives, avidities, bloviated, cavitated, depravity, derivates, deviating, deviation, deviators, deviatory, divagated, divagates, donatives, dovetails, duratives, educative, eluviated, estivated, exudative, exuviated, gravidity, innovated, invocated, laudative, levigated, levitated, mediative, motivated, navigated, negatived, oviductal, oxidative, radiative, salivated, sedatives, titivated, travailed, validated, validates, vastitude, vaticides, vesicated, victualed, videotape, viewdatas, vindicate, vitalised, vitalized. | |
+5 letters: adaptively, adaptivity, additively, additivity, adjectival, adjectives, adjunctive, adoptively, adsorptive, advections, adventitia, adventives, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertized, advertizes, advisement, advocating, advocation, advocative, aestivated, affidavits, alleviated, animadvert, captivated, cultivated, deactivate, decorative, denotative, derivation, derivative, derivatize, derogative, detonative, detractive, deviations, devitalize, devotional, divagating, divagation, divaricate, divination, divinatory, dominative, dovetailed, driveshaft, drivetrain, duumvirate, evidential, federative, galivanted, gravitated, illuviated, incurvated, indicative, indurative, innervated, invalidate, invalidity, lixiviated, meditative, nondeviant, outcaviled, outrivaled, ovaritides, passivated, privatised, privatized, revalidate, stravaiged, tittivated, travestied, vacationed, vaccinated, vacillated, validating, validation, validities, vapidities, variegated, vastitudes, ventilated, victualled, videotaped, videotapes, vindicated, vindicates, vindicator. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 76 69 74 |
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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 01100001 01110110 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a v i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0076 0069 0074 |
| 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)3867887586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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