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Definition: Dimple |
DimpleNoun1. A chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached. 2. Any slight depression in a surface; "there are approximately 336 dimples on a golf ball". 3. A small natural hollow in the cheek or chin; "His dimple appeared whenever he smiled". Verb1. Mark with, or as if with, dimples; "drops dimpled the smooth stream". 2. Produce dimples while smiling; "The child dimpled up to the adults". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dimple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A ripple in the gentle whirlpool of a pretty woman's smile. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Metallurgy | Unintentional distortion caused by the impact of another component or object. Source: European Union. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | Trous dans la balle de golf. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
DIMPLE | English | Deuterium Moderated Pile Low Energy | Nuclear Energy & Physics, Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DimpleSynonyms: dimpled chad (n), pregnant chad (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb. |
Notch | Noun: notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dimple |
| English words defined with "dimple": Dimpling ♦ Fossette. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dimple": RIVETING-MACHINE OPERATOR I. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dimple": Dimble. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Goodbye, Dimple Dumpling (Our Wife; writing credit: H.M. Walker) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Dimple" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Dimple" is used about 30 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 (singular) | 93.33% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dimple" 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 |
| Dimple | First name Female | 2,000 | 3,040 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "dimple": dimple for a shot pin ♦ dimple in the cheek ♦ Fuchs dimple. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
dimple kapadia | 124 | dimple kapadia naked | 4 |
dimple | 85 | dimple neck tie | 3 |
dimple record | 32 | dimple gang street | 3 |
dimple sacral | 28 | dell dimple recreation | 2 |
dimple nude | 9 | dimple pinch | 2 |
die dimple | 9 | dermajet destroyer dimple | 2 |
dimple kapadia nude | 8 | back dimple | 2 |
pilonidal dimple | 8 | dimple jacket | 2 |
center dell dimple recreation | 6 | dimple kapadia picture | 2 |
dell dimple | 4 | dimple picture sacral | 2 |
dimple dolly | 4 | dimple gallery kapadia | 2 |
chin dimple | 4 | dimple tour | 2 |
dimple image pilonidal | 4 | design dimple | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dimple"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gropëz (pit, pockmark), gropësirë. (various references) | |
Arabic | نقرة صغيرة في الماء, الهزمة كل نقرة صغيرة, النونة نقرة في الذقن, الغمازة نقرة في الخد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трапчинка (hole, indent, indentation, socket), къдря (crisp, curl, frizz up, frounce, wave), вълничка (ripple, ruffle, wavelet), образувам трапчинки, падина (delve, depression, dip, dish, fold, hollow, hope, pocket, trough). (various references) | |
Chinese | '窩 , 靨 , 笑涡. (various references) | |
Czech | dùlek (Dent, depression, dint, hole). (various references) | |
Danish | krater (crater), fordybning (dell, depression, depression centre, depression head, dig, excavation, pit, pluck, sunk face), bule (boil, bruise, bulge, bump, deformation, dent, swelling). (various references) | |
Dutch | deuk (belly, bladder, bruise, bulge, deformation, dent, depression, pit, pot-hole, sand hole), kuiltje in de glazuur. (various references) | |
Farsi | چاه زنخدان . (various references) | |
Finnish | lommo (dent), leukakuoppa, kuoppa (hole, hollow, pit), hymykuoppa. (various references) | |
French | dépression de l'émail, trace de coup, ride, friser, fossette, empreinte du pointeau de fixation, coup trace de choc, alvéole. (various references) | |
German | kräuseln (Crimp, frill, frizz, gather, gather in folds, knit, make frizzy, pucker, ruffle, screw up, stir, to dimple, to frill, wrinkle), Kaule, grübchen (dig, pit, pluck), Beule (boil, buckle, bulge, bump, Dent, dint, indent, indentation, lump). (various references) | |
Greek | κοίλωμα του υαλώματος, γελασινόσ, βαθούλωμα (dent), εξόγκωμα (protuberance, protuberancy), λακκάκι μάγουλου, λακκάκι τησ παρειάσ, λακκάκι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'ומת חן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kis mélyedés, kis horpadás, gyűrűcske (ringlet), grüberli, gödröcske, fodor (crinkling, frill, ruffle, tier). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lesung pipit. (various references) | |
Italian | fossetta (dig, hill-drop, pit, pluck, pocket), buco (aperture, bore, cavity, hole, opening, prick), avvallamento d'uno smalto, arricciare (become curly, Crimp, Crinkle, curl, frill, frizz, frizzle, pucker). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ディンプル . (various references) | |
Korean | 보조개. (various references) | |
Manx | lhaggan (depression). (various references) | |
Norwegian | smilehull. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impleday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | depressão no vidrado, sulco mentoniano, pico de vidrado, ondular (coif, corrugate, crimp, crinkle, curl, flaunt, frizz, poise, popple, ripple, splatter, undulate, wave), ondulação (curl, fold, friz, frizz, popple, undulation, wrinkle), fazer covinhas, covinha, agitar (abet, agitate, alarm, beat, brandish, bustle, churn, cob, commove, convulse, discompose, excite, faze, ferment, flap, flick, fling, flounce, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, incite, jar, jingle, jounce, moot, perturb, pulsate, quiver, ripple, shake, stir up, sway, swing, switch, toss, ventilate, waggle, wave, whip up, whisk). (various references) | |
Romanian | se încreţi (corrugate, crease, crisp, crumple, ripple, ruck, wrinkle), scobiturã (excavation, flute, groove, hole, hollow, hollowness, lug, trough), ondulaţie (curl, Popple, undulation, wave), gropiţã, face gropiţe în obraji, cavitate (cave, cavity, delve, hole, hollow, hollowness, recess, socket), avea gropiţe în obraji, încreţiturã (cockle, crease, flow, ridge, rugosity, wrinkle), încreţi (corrugate, crisp, curl, fold, frizz, frizzle, knit, pleat, purse, ridge, ripple, ruffle, shrivel, wave, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Russian | углубление (depression, excavation, fossa, hole, hollow, impression, notch, oriel, recess, recession), ямка (pit), ямочка на лице, ямочка, рябь на воде, впадина (cave, cavity, concave, delve, depression, dint, excavation, falling, fossa, hollow, indentation, notch, recess, trough, vug). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rupica (buttonhole, eyelet). (various references) | |
Spanish | rizar (Crimp, frill, frizz, frizzle, keck, ripple), hoyuelo. (various references) | |
Swedish | skrattgrop. (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นแอ่ง, ทำให้เกิ"รอยบุ๋มที่แก้ม, ทำให้เป็นแอ่ง, ลักยิ้ม. (various references) | |
Turkish | gamzesini göstermek, gamzesi çıkmak, gamze, çukurlaşmak (become hollow, pit), çukur oluşturmak, çukur (cavity, concave, deep set, dip, excavation, gully, gully drain, gutter, hole, hollow, indent, pit, scoop, sink, sunk, trench), çene çukuru. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ямочка, вкривати (cover, overspread, wreathe), виникати (accrue, arise, come of, come up, ensue, pullulate, rise), заглиблення (absorption, dip, hollow, recess, recession, socket, wallow), жмури. (various references) | |
Welsh | pannwl (hollow). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dimple": dimpled, dimples. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dimple": bedimple. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dimple": bedimpled, bedimples. (additional references) | |
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"Dimple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cimple, damole, Dembele, demelo, demile, deple, dimpal, Dimplex, Dinlle, dipel, dipie, diplo, Dippel, dipple, dumpl, nimple, timple. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dimple" (pronounced di"mpul) |
| 5 | -i" m p u l | pimple, simple. |
| 4 | -m p u l | ample, crumple, example, temple, rumple, sample, Semple, trample. |
| 3 | -p u l | Appel, apple, archetypal, businesspeople, carpal, chapel, congresspeople, couple, craftspeople, cripple, decouple, disciple, episcopal, fipple, gospel, grapple, hopple, spokespeople, staple, steeple, subprincipal, supple, laypeople, maple, metacarpal, multiple, municipal, newspeople, nipple, oedipal, opal, papal, people, pineapple, Popple, principal, principle, pupil, purple, quadruple, quintuple, ripple, salespeople, scalpel, scruple, tipple, topple, townspeople, triple, uncouple. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: limped. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-m-p" | |
-1 letter: imped, impel, limed, piled, plied. | |
-2 letters: deil, deli, diel, dime, idem, idle, lied, lime, limp, lipe, meld, mild, mile, pied, pile, pled, plie. | |
-3 letters: del, die, dim, dip, eld, elm, imp, led, lei, lid, lie, lip, med, mel, mid, mil, ped, pie. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, em, id, li, me, mi, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-m-p" | |
+1 letter: dimpled, dimples, impaled, implead, implied, implode, mispled, pimpled, rimpled, wimpled. | |
+2 letters: bedimple, compiled, complied, crimpled, dimplier, displume, glimpsed, impelled, impleads, impledge, imploded, implodes, implored, impulsed, milleped, milliped, misplead, multiped, plumiped. | |
+3 letters: amplidyne, amplified, amplitude, bedimpled, bedimples, bepimpled, depluming, dimpliest, diplomaed, diplomate, displumed, displumes, epidermal, impaneled, impearled, imperiled, implanted, impleaded, impledged, impledges, millepeds, millipede, millipeds, misplaced, misplayed, mispleads, multipeds, plumipeds, polemized, polyamide, upclimbed. | |
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