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"DADS" is a plural of: dad. |
Date "DADS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DADS Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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| 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 |
DADS | English | Director Army Dental Service | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DADS |
| Specialty definitions using "DADS": American FactFinder ♦ Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm your dads brother all right. (Uncle Buck; writing credit: John Hughes.) I mean, you know, our dads are okay, you know? (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) He is so much cooler than our dads. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Makes me laugh cause you got your dads ears an all (Just the Two of Us; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | When Their Dads Fell Out (1915) Fixing Their Dads (1914) Bad Dads (1996) My Two Dads (1987) 2 1/2 Dads (1986) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Some Moms And Dads Drink Too Much...And It Hurts. : If You Want To Learn More...Ask Someone You Trust. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "DADS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.41% of the time. "DADS" is used about 109 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 (plural) | 95.41% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.59% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DADS": dads-to-be. | |
| 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 |
dads.com deadbeat | 3 |
dead beat dads.com | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DADS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 爸爸 (Dad, Daddy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | papà -babbi (daddies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | ì•„ë¹ (Dad, Daddy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adsday pais (parent, parents). (various references) papas (chip), padres (daddies, daddy, parents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DADS": alidads, aoudads, audads, crawdads, doodads, grandads, granddads, hispanidads, hodads. (additional references) | |
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"DADS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daad, dacs, dadas, dadds, daddt, dadi, da-dt, dags, dahs, daks, dald, Daldis, dars, dasd, D'asq, dass, D'assi, Dassu, dats, dawd, daws, Dazs, dda, Ddsi, Dedes, Deds, dexs, dfds, diads, didso, Djassi, dods, Drasdo, duads, dudsy, vads. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DADS" (pronounced da"dz) |
| 3 | -a" d z | adds, ads, adz, fads, gads, grads, lads, pads, scads. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: adds. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-s" | |
-1 letter: add, ads, dad, sad. | |
-2 letters: ad, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-s" | |
+1 letter: dadas, dados, deads, duads, dyads. | |
+2 letters: adders, addles, audads, caddis, dadoes, dashed, dedans, desand, dorsad, dreads, dryads, gaddis, gadids, hodads, misadd, readds, sadden, sadder, saddhu, saddle, sanded, shaded, spaded. | |
+3 letters: addaxes, addends, addicts, address, addrest, adduces, adducts, advised, alidads, aoudads, baddest, baddies, caddies, caddish, candids, dadaism, dadaist, daddies, daddles, daisied, daledhs, danders, dandies, dandles, dastard, dawdles, daybeds, dayside, deadens, deadest, deashed, debased, decades, deleads, demands, deodars, desands, diacids, diadems, diapsid, didacts, disband, discard, disdain, doodads, dorados, dotards, dryades, dyadics, faddish, faddism, faddist, gadders, gadoids, goddams, haddest, kaddish, keddahs, ladders, laddies, maddens, madders, maddest, maddish, middays, misadds, ogdoads, outadds, padders, paddies, paddles, raddles, saddens, saddest, saddhus, saddled, saddler, saddles, sanddab, scalded, sedated, sraddha, staddle, steaded, swaddle, swarded, wadders, waddies, waddles. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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