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| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | DOWIE, alias Elijah II, a celebrated Chicago divine who showed the world how easily some people were deprived of their money and religion. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Date "DOWIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
"DOWIE" is a common misspelling or typo for: bowie, dewy, dowdies, dowel, dower, dowries, dowse. |
Crosswords: DOWIE |
| Specialty definitions using "DOWIE": HEROISM. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | John Alexander Dowie, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, with family in parlor. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Welcome home of the general overseer, Rev. John Alex Dowie [i.e. Dowey], July, 1904, Zion City, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "DOWIE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOWIE" is used about 34 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) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words containing "DOWIE": shadowier, shadowiest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-w" | |
-1 letter: owed, wide. | |
-2 letters: dew, die, doe, dow, ode, owe, wed, woe. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, id, od, oe, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-w" | |
+1 letter: howdie, weirdo, woodie. | |
+2 letters: cowhide, crowdie, dowdier, dowdies, downier, dowries, howdied, howdies, indowed, miaowed, oldwife, rowdier, rowdies, weirdos, wendigo, wideout, widgeon, widowed, widower, wifedom, woodier, woodies, wordier, worried. | |
+3 letters: billowed, cowhided, cowhides, crowdies, disbowel, disendow, disowned, dowdiest, doweling, doweries, dowering, downiest, downpipe, downside, downsize, downtime, drowsier, endowing, firewood, goodwife, ironweed, lowrider, oldwives, outwiled, overwide, overwind, pillowed, pinewood, rowdiest, sideshow, weirdoes, wendigos, wideouts, widgeons, widowers, wifedoms, wifehood, willowed, windowed, winnowed, woodbine, woodiest, woodpile, woodsier, wordiest, worrited. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 57 49 45 |
| 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)01000100 01001111 01010111 01001001 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O W I E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 0057 0049 0045 |
| 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)3849574339 |
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