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Definition: Dj |
DjNoun1. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music. Verb1. Comment on music to be played; "He has a job diskjockeying on the weekend". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Dj |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A disc jockey, (usually called by the initialism "DJ", or "deejay"), is an individual who selects and plays pre-recorded music for the enjoyment of others.
DJs can be heard on the radio or at any number of social gatherings, among them weddings, nightclubs, art openings, warehouse parties, or high school dances. As a result there are many different types of DJ, each fitting into a particular niche defined by performance setting (broadcast booth or nightclub) and intended audience (jazz or hip hop fans). A DJ's performance style and the techniques they employ reflect these considerations. Wedding DJs play music but are often expected to act as a masters of ceremonies who introduce the bride and groom, lead dances, or invite guests to play games. A DJ at a rave would not be expected to do any of these things, but would be expected to introduce a greater technical element to their performance by manipulating the songs they play in order to maintain a given tempo and energy level. It can be said that DJing is not a single action but instead a series of actions whose makeup is predicated upon a number of situational factors and expectations. The examples of talk radio "shock jocks" like Howard Stern and Don Imus show that one need not play music to be considered a DJ by some audiences, though the title "on-air personality" might be more appropriate for them.
Technique
mixing and blending, cueing, phrasing, cutting, beat juggling, scratching, body tricks
Equipment
Turntable, CD player, Mixer, Headphones, Slipmat, Sampler, Drum Machine, Effects Processor, Laptop computer
The DJ as Artist
A recent phenomenon in the musical community (but primarily within the sphere of popular music) is the assertion that some DJs are not simply "playing records" but are in fact creating new music out of the playback and mixing of the pre-recorded media. Fuelled mainly by the innovative mixing techniques that have come out of the hip hop and EDM scenes, and regarded as a musical extension of the literary cut-up technique, this growing attitude posits that such a DJ is not content simply to beatmatch two or three records and layer them over each other but that the end product should emerge as a new musical composition. To achieve this goal, such a DJ may employ such techniques as phrasing, sampling, scratching, the application of effects (e.g., delay, flange, etc.), and any other technique the DJ feels inclined to use. Examples of such DJs as "artists" adding musical or dramatic value include DJ Shadow, Coldcut and DJ Spooky. In effect they are developing an aural montage that may be spontaneous/improvised or carefully crafted. There are parallels in surrealism and the visual arts.
Disc vs Disk
The name "Disc jockey" developed in the era when the only sound recordings available were analogue disc records. For the reason it's disc jockey rather than disk jockey, see disk or disc. Disc is more often spelled "Disk" in the USA.
The People
- Christopher Stone became the first disc jockey in the United Kingdom, playing records on the BBC on 7 July 1927.
- Jimmy Saville, the first DJ to use twin turntables in 1946.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disc jockey."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Da-Dd - De - Df - Dg - Dh - Di - Dj-Dn - Do - Dp - Dq - Dr - Ds - Dt - Du - Dv - Dw - Dx - Dy - Dz
Dj
- Djindjic, Zoran, (1952-2003)
Dk
Dl
Dm
Dn
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of people by name: Dj-Dn."
| 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 |
DJ | Danish | Republikken Djibouti | Geography |
dj | Dutch | Discjockey | Fine Arts, Sports & Leisure |
DJ | English | Dow-Jones | Finance |
DJ | Finnish | Djiboutin tasavalta | Geography |
DJ | French | République de Djibouti | Geography, Law |
DJ | German | Dschibuti | Geography |
DJ | Greek | Τζιμπουτί | Geography |
DJ | Italian | Gibuti | Geography |
DJ | Portuguese | Jibuti | Geography |
DJ | Spanish | Yibuti | Geography |
DJ | Swedish | Republiken Djibouti | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DjSynonyms: disc jockey (n), disk jockey (n), diskjockey (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irregularity of recurrence | Dj. irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical, unmethodical, variable. |
News | United Press International, UPI; Associated Press, AP; The Dow Jones News Service, DJ; The New York Times News Service, NYT; Reuters; TASS; The Nikkei. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dj |
| Specialty definitions using "dj": DJGPP ♦ GMD Toolbox for Compiler Construction. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dj" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti), Spanish (dj). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I don't wanna rock DJ (Rock DJ; performing artist: Robbie Williams) Tell the DJ spin it on the mix show (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas) Gonna mail it to my local DJ (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) DJ Soul was on a roll (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite) DJ groovin' I feel way right (Go Deep; performing artist: Janet Jackson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hey Mr DJ (2003) DJ Games (2000) | |
Song Titles | Rock DJ (performing artist: Robbie Williams) | |
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| "DJ table - Spin Table - Toront" by George Shemtov Commentary: "DJ table - Spin Table - Toronto." | "DJ Suite 2" by Aytun Çelebi Commentary: "A look to local DJ from a drunk eye." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Hip hop; dee jay; deejay; dj. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Schantz PM, Chai J, Craig PS, Eckert J, Jenkins DJ, Macpherson CNL, Thakur A. Epidemiology and Control. (references) | |
Angulo FJ, Tippen S, Sharp DJ, et al. A community waterborne outbreak of salmonellosis and the effectiveness of a boil water order. (references) | ||
Economic History | The Netherlands | The U.S. Embassy is located at Lange Voorhout 102, 2514 EJ The Hague; tel: 31-70-310-9209; fax: 31-70-361-4688. The Consulate General is at Museumplein 13, 1071 DJ Amsterdam; tel: 31-20-5755-309; fax: 31-20-5755-310. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dj" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.99% of the time. "Dj" is used about 274 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) | 95.99% | 263 | 18,193 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.65% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 274 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dj": dj-ed, dj-ing. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dj | 7,269 | dj gear | 303 |
dj equipment | 2,209 | dj fu | 295 |
dj sammy | 1,455 | dj record | 264 |
house dj | 807 | dj quick | 215 |
dj mixer | 803 | dj whoo kid | 212 |
wedding dj | 787 | dj ez | 204 |
dj green lantern | 735 | dj turntables | 179 |
dj software | 593 | mp3 dj | 174 |
dj screw | 496 | dj irene | 172 |
dj lighting | 457 | dj program | 151 |
dj tiesto | 424 | dj encore | 139 |
dj kay slay | 419 | dj software free | 132 |
dj music | 411 | dj rap | 129 |
dj clue | 407 | traktor dj | 127 |
dj quik | 387 | dj sammy heaven | 124 |
dj bobo | 361 | pc dj | 119 |
dj mix | 334 | dj lyrics sammy | 114 |
american dj | 331 | virtual dj | 110 |
dj shadow | 322 | dj system | 108 |
dj speaker | 309 | dj heaven lyrics sammy | 107 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dj"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | smoking (dinner jacket, dinner-jacket, tux, tuxedo, tuxedoUS). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | djay.(various references) | |
Russian | диск-жокей (disc jockey). (various references) | |
Spanish | dj (Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti). (various references) | |
Turkish | diskjokey (disc jockey, disk jockey). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | диск-жокей (disk jockey). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dj": djebel, djebels, djellaba, djellabah, djellabahs, djellabas, djin, djinn, djinni, djinns, djinny, djins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dj": hadj. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dj": adjacencies, adjacency, adjacent, adjacently, adjectival, adjectivally, adjective, adjectively, adjectives, adjoin, adjoined, adjoining, adjoins, adjoint, adjoints, adjourn, adjourned, adjourning, adjournment, adjournments, adjourns, adjudge, adjudged, adjudges, adjudging, adjudicate, adjudicated, adjudicates, adjudicating, adjudication, adjudications, adjudicative, adjudicator, adjudicators, adjudicatory, adjunct, adjunction, adjunctions, adjunctive, adjunctly, adjuncts, adjuration, adjurations, adjuratory, adjure, adjured, adjurer, adjurers, adjures, adjuring, adjuror. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-j" | |
+2 letters: djin, dojo, hadj, jade, jeed, judo. | |
+3 letters: djinn, djins, dojos, fjeld, fjord, hadji, jaded, jades, japed, jawed, jehad, jerid, jewed, jibed, jihad, jived, joked, jowed, joyed, judas, judge, judos, juked, slojd. | |
+4 letters: adjoin, adjure, adjust, deejay, deject, djebel, djinni, djinns, djinny, donjon, fjelds, fjords, hadjee, hadjes, hadjis, jabbed, jacked, jading, jadish, jagged, jailed, jambed, jammed, jarred, jassid, jauked, jauped, jazzed, jeeped, jeered, jehads, jelled, jereed, jerids, jerked, jerrid, jessed, jested, jetted, jibbed, jigged, jihads, jilted, jinked, jinxed, jobbed, jocund, jogged, joined, jolted, jordan, joshed, jotted, jouked, jowled, judder, judged, judger, judges, judoka, jugged, juiced, jumped, junked, juried, justed, jutted, masjid, musjid, slojds. | |
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