Dribbler

  

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Dribbler

Definition: Dribbler

Dribbler

Noun

1. A basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it.

2. A person who dribbles; "that baby is a dribbler; he needs a bib".

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


Synonyms: Dribbler

Synonyms: driveller (n), drooler (n), slobberer (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dribbler

English words defined with "dribbler": driveller, droolerslobberer. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Dribbler" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (dribble).

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Usage Frequency: Dribbler

"Dribbler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dribbler" is used about 6 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%6143,867

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

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Modern Translation: Dribbler

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

Albanian

  

driblues. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

лигльо (driveller, wet), дрибльор. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

顶球者. (various references)

   

Czech

  

strach (alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fright, tremor). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyálas (sloppy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

dribblatore, palleggiatore. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

"리"하" 사람. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheeleyder (distiller, refiner, seedsman). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ibblerdray

   

Portuguese

  

driblador. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

игрок, ведущий мяч. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dribler. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

drible. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

гравець, що веде м'яч. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dribbler

Derivations

Words beginning with "dribbler": dribblers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dribbler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gribbler. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Dribbler

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-i-l-r-r"

-1 letter: bridler, dibbler, dribble.

-2 letters: birder, birled, birler, birred, bribed, briber, bridle, dibber, dibble, libber, ribbed, ribber.

-3 letters: bible, bider, bield, birle, bribe, bride, brier, direr, drier, idler, liber, rebid, rider, riled.

-4 letters: bide, bier, bile, bird, birl, birr, bleb, bled, bred, brie, deil, deli, diel, dire, dirl, drib, idle, ired, lied, lier, lire, ride.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-i-l-r-r"
 

+1 letter: dribblers.

 

+3 letters: blackbirder.

 

+4 letters: blackbirders.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dribbler


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 69 62 62 6C 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-.    ..    -...    -...    .-..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01101001 01100010 01100010 01101100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#105 &#98 &#98 &#108 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0069 0062 0062 006C 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3884756868787184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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