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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Adger /aj'r/ vt. [UCLA mutant of nadger, poss. also from the middle name of an infamous tenured graduate student] To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort. E.g., "He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project". Compare dumbass attack. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ADGER |
| Specialty definitions using "ADGER": dumbass attack. (references) |
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 | Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume. It depicts thirteen merchant steamships acquired by the U.S. Navy between April and August 1861 and subsequently converted into warships, plus the steamer Nashville (far left), which became a Confederate cruiser. U.S. Navy ships, as identified below the image bottom, are (from left to right: Alabama, Quaker City, Santiago de Cuba (listed as "St. Jago de Cuba", Mount Vernon, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Florida, De Soto, Augusta, James Adger, Monticello, Bienville and R.R. Cuyler. Credit: NAVY. |  | Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1948, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I. Built at New York City in 1852, this steamer was commercially employed as SS James Adger in 1851-1861 and in 1866-1878. Between 1861 and 1866, she served as USS James Adger. Credit: NAVY. |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "ADGER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Adger | Last name | 1,000 | 17,071 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Adger, AL |
| 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 |
adger al | 16 |
adger lake | 12 |
adger | 4 |
adger m.com | 3 |
adger lake nc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ADGER": badger, cadger. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ADGER": badgered, badgering, badgerly, badgers, cadgers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: grade, raged. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-r" | |
-1 letter: aged, ager, dare, dear, drag, dreg, egad, gaed, gear, grad, rage, read. | |
-2 letters: age, are, dag, ear, era, erg, gad, gae, gar, ged, rad, rag, red, reg. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ag, ar, de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-r" | |
+1 letter: agreed, argled, argued, badger, barged, cadger, dagger, danger, dogear, dragee, gadder, gander, garbed, garden, garred, geared, glared, graced, graded, grader, grades, grated, graved, grayed, grazed, parged, ragged, ranged, regard. | |
+2 letters: abridge, aggrade, angered, augured, badgers, bragged, brigade, cadgers, charged, cordage, cragged, daggers, damager, dangers, dangler, degrade, deraign, derange, desugar, dogears, dowager, dragees, dragged, dragger, draggle, dragnet, drayage, enraged, foraged, fragged, gadders, ganders, garaged, garbled, gardens, gargled, garoted, gaudery, gaudier, gladder, gladier, glaired, gnarled, gnarred, grabbed, gradate, graders, gradine, grafted, grained, grandee, grander, granted, graphed, grasped, grassed, greased, greaved, grenade, groaned, guarded, guarder, gyrated, hagride, hagrode, lagered, pranged, preaged, raggedy, ragweed, ravaged, reading, regaled, regards, regrade, sparged, sugared, tragedy, triaged, upgrade, wagered, wordage, yardage. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 44 47 45 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)01000001 01000100 01000111 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A D G E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0044 0047 0045 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)3538413952 |
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