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Definition: Bowie |
BowieNoun1. American pioneer and hero of the Texas Revolution (1796-1836). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Bowie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
Synonym: BowieSynonym: James Bowie (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bowie."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. |
Sharpness | Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bowie |
| English words defined with "Bowie": Bowie knife ♦ James Bowie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Bowie": DBC. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I suggest that you use your big Bowie knife. (Dracula; writing credit: James V. Hart) Oh Michael, you're prettier than Bowie! (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fort Bowie (1958) The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rubber boat used for crossing stream Working on control surveys for the Alcan Highway Triangulation party of John Bowie. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | William Bowie Chief of geodesy from 1909 till 1936 retirement Bowie Medal of American Geophysical Union established in his honor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Carcross Base Alcan Highway geodetic control work Triangulation party of John Bowie. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Bear at the garbage dump Triangulation work for military on Alcan Highway in Yukon Territory, Canada Triangulation party of John Bowie. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Meat supply hung up for protection against blowflies, bears, dogs, etc. Triangulation work for military on Alcan Highway in Yukon Territory, Canada Triangulation party of John Bowie. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A base camp along the Alaska Highway Between Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, and Tanacross, Alaska Triangulation work for military on Alcan Highway Bowie camp on left, Quinn in center, and Risvold on right. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Deploying bottom mounted gravity meter off of BOWIE Establishing gravity range for calibration of underway gravity meters. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cary V. Hodgson Assistant Chief of Geodesy Division under William Bowie. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BOWIE dressed for the 4th of July. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Fort Bowie National Historic Site. Credit: NPS. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
David Bowie | I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Bowie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.21% of the time. "Bowie" is used about 179 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 (proper) | 97.21% | 174 | 23,577 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.79% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 179 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Bowie" 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 |
| Bowie | Last name | 5,000 | 2,321 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Bowie, MD (city, FIPS 8775) 2. Bowie, TX (city, FIPS 9640) |
Expressions using "Bowie": Bowie County ♦ bowie knife ♦ James Bowie. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Bowie": bowie-fandom, bowie-knives, bowie-like. | |
Ending with "Bowie": Murison-bowie. | |
| 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 |
david bowie | 2,111 | baysocks bowie | 33 |
bowie maryland | 706 | bowie university | 33 |
bowie state university | 378 | david bowie photo | 32 |
bowie | 372 | bowie toyota | 31 |
bowie knife | 360 | bowie county texas | 30 |
baysox bowie | 299 | bowie and iman | 28 |
david bowie lyrics | 225 | james bowie | 27 |
bowie texas | 126 | david bowie pic | 25 |
bowie town center | 109 | david bowie tour | 25 |
bowie state | 86 | bowie david wallpaper | 24 |
david bowie picture | 84 | bay bowie sox | 23 |
david bowie discography | 65 | sam bowie | 22 |
bowie high school | 60 | david bowie guitar tab | 21 |
jim bowie | 45 | david bowie ticket | 20 |
david bowie tab | 42 | bowie college state | 20 |
bowie honda | 38 | city of bowie | 19 |
bowie lyrics | 37 | blade bowie news | 17 |
bowie lam | 36 | david bowie movie | 17 |
bowie blade | 35 | david bowie mp3 | 17 |
labyrinth david bowie | 34 | bowie cover | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Bowie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυνηγετική μαχαίρα (bowie knife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skynn helg (bowie knife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owiebay cuţit de vânãtoare (bowie knife). (various references) боуи. (various references) machete (bowie knife, cutlass, machete), cuchillo de monte (bowie knife, sheath knife). (various references) eğri av bıçağı (bowie knife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Bowie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bewein, Bimie, Bocij, Bohi, boia, boie, boii, bokie, Bokwete, bonie, booie, boojie, boolie, borie, Botia, bouie, bowe, Bowgie, bowic, Bowier, bowle, Bowlie, bowwab, boxie, bozie, Browdie, browy, Buie, Bwciod, bwye, dowie, Howiek, Lowie, lowii, mowie, owie, owy, towie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-o-w" | |
-2 letters: bio, bow, obe, obi, owe, web, woe. | |
-3 letters: be, bi, bo, oe, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-o-w" | |
+2 letters: blowier, bowlike, bowline, brownie, howbeit, imbower, wombier. | |
+3 letters: billowed, blowiest, blowpipe, blowsier, blowzier, bobwhite, boweling, boweries, bowering, bowlines, bowllike, brownier, brownies, disbowel, elbowing, embowing, imbowers, wishbone, wobblier, wobblies, wombiest, womblike, woodbine. | |
+4 letters: behowling, bellowing, besnowing, bestowing, beworming, beworried, beworries, billowier, blowflies, blowpipes, blowsiest, blowziest, bobwhites, bowelling, bowerbird, browniest, browridge, disbowels, enwombing, imbowered, imbrowned, microbrew, wishbones, wobbliest, woodbines. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6F 77 69 65 |
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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)01000010 01101111 01110111 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B o w i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006F 0077 0069 0065 |
| 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)3681897571 |
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