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Dyad

Definition: Dyad

Dyad

Noun

1. Two items of the same kind.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Dyad

Synonyms: brace (n), couple (n), couplet (n), distich (n), doubleton (n), duad (n), duet (n), duo (n), pair (n), span (n), twain (n), twosome (n), yoke (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dyad

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

Accompaniment

Noun: duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity; polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy, doublets, dyad, span.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dyad

English words defined with "dyad": dyadic. (references)
Etymologies containing "dyad": Duad. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dyad

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dyad (reference)

  • Dyad Learning Program: Pronouns and Determiners (reference)

  • Dyad Lrng Prgm Verb Choi (reference)

  • Melting the Darkness: The Dyad and Principles of Clinical Practice (reference)

  • Prepositions: Dyad Learning Program (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dyad

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

At the family or dyad level, interventions include counseling for couples (including HIV- serodiscordant couples) in both the United States and other countries. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dyad

"Dyad" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dyad" is used about 23 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 (singular)100%2372,767

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

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Expression: Dyad

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "dyad": dyad-related.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dyad

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

dyad

23

dyad moon

7

brook dyad

3

spyderco dyad

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dyad

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

Arabic 

  

‏زوج (consort, couple, espouse, give in marriage, husband, marry, pair, partner, stud, wed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

двувалентен елемент, двойка (couple, double, pair, twain, twosome). (various references)

   

Czech

  

bivalentní (bivalent). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

זו' (brace, couple, mate, pair, twosome). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kettõ (twain, two), egy pár (brace, couple, pair). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yadday

   

Portuguese

  

díade, díada. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

число два, бивалент, пара (couple, doublet, match, pair, pendant, twain, two, two bits, twosome). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dvovalentni element, par (couple, couple: a couple of, match, pair, twosome). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pareja (brace, couple, date, doublet, fellow, flubdub, mate, pair, partner, pendant, twosome), elemento bivalente. (various references)

   

Thai

  

คู่. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iki atomlu, iki (ambi-, amphi-, bi-, brace, couple, dual, duo-, twain, two, two-), çift (ambi-, amphi-, bi-, binary, brace, conjugate, couple, dipl-, diplo, double, dual, duet, duple, duplicate, even, geminate, pair, twin, yoke). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

двійка (two). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bộ đôi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dyad

Derivations

Words beginning with "dyad": dyadic, dyadically, dyadics, dyads. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dyad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: byad, Daaad, daad, Dady, daya, Deylaud, diad, diade, diado, diah, diaj, diax, disad, Diyab, Djax, doad, Doyard, dya, d'ya, dyade, dyal, Dyan, dyar, Dyba, dyd, dyid, Dyka, dyrad, Dzyan, qyad, syad, yad. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Dyad"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dyad" (pronounced dī"a'd)
3-ī" a' dtriad.

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Anagrams: Dyad

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-y"

-1 letter: add, dad, day.

-2 letters: ad, ay, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-y"
 

+1 letter: baddy, caddy, daddy, dandy, dryad, dyads, faddy, paddy, waddy.

 

+2 letters: daybed, deadly, drayed, dryads, dyadic, midday, waddly, yarded.

 

+3 letters: addedly, athodyd, dandify, dandily, datedly, daybeds, dayside, dazedly, deadeye, decayed, delayed, dramedy, dryades, dryadic, dryland, dyadics, fadedly, giddyap, hodaddy, hydatid, jadedly, katydid, middays.

 

+4 letters: additory, aldehyde, athodyds, bendayed, biddably, bladdery, caddying, candidly, cyanided, dandyish, dandyism, daydream, daysides, deadeyes, deeryard, defrayed, dialysed, dialyzed, didactyl, didynamy, dismayed, dockyard, domesday, doomsday, dooryard, dotardly, hydatids, hydracid, hydrated, katydids, ladybird, ladyhood, landlady, pandowdy, saddlery, vandyked, waddying, yardbird, yardland, yardwand.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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