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DSW

"DSW" is a common misspelling or typo for: dawn, dew, dewy.


Specialty Definition: DSW

DomainDefinition

Computing

DSW n. [alt.(sysadmin|tech-support).recovery; abbrev. for `Dick Size War'] A contest between two or more people boasting about who has the faster machine, keys on (either physical or cryptographic) keyring, greyer hair, or almost anything. Salvos in a DSW are typicaly humorous and playful, often self-mocking. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DSW

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dsw shoes

1,417

dsw online shoes warehouse

4

dsw

1,250

dsw shoes warehouse.com

4

dsw shoes warehouse

656

dsw warehouse.com

3

dsw warehouse

132

dsw shoestore

3

dsw shoes store

110

dsw telnet

3

dsw shoes outlet

26

dsw location

3

dsw shoes.com

23

discount dsw shoes warehouse

3

dsw show warehouse

21

dsw wharehouse

3

dsw shoes wearhouse

10

dsw lending

3

designer dsw shoes warehouse

8

com dsw shoes

2

coupon dsw shoes

7

dsw online shoes

2

coupon dsw

7

dsw lamp

2

dsw footwear

6

dsw outlet

2

dsw store

6

dsw shoe.com

2

dsw shoes wherehouse

6

catalog dsw shoes

2

dsw shoes wharehouse

5

dsw location shoes store

2

dsw shoewarehouse

5

com dsw

2

dsw show

5

dsw factory shoes

2

dsw wearhouse

4

coupon dsw shoes warehouse

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: DSW

Derivations

Words containing "DSW": broadsword, broadswords, codswallop, codswallops, groundswell, groundswells, windswept. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DSW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "d-s-w"
 

+1 letter: daws, dews, dows, wads, weds.

 

+2 letters: bawds, dawks, dawns, dawts, dhows, downs, dowse, draws, gowds, sawed, sewed, sowed, sward, swede, sword, wades, wadis, wands, wards, weeds, welds, wends, whids, wides, wilds, winds, wised, woads, wolds, woods, words, wynds.

 

+3 letters: awards, bedews, bowsed, crowds, dewans, dewars, disown, diwans, dowels, dowers, dowsed, dowser, dowses, drawls, drowns, drowse, drowsy, dwarfs, dweebs, dwells, dwines, endows, indows, reweds, scowed, shadow, shawed, shewed, showed, shrewd, skewed, slewed, slowed, snawed, snowed, spewed, stewed, stowed, sundew, swaged, swards, swayed, swedes, swiped, swived, swords, swound, tawsed, tweeds, waders, wadies, wadset, washed, wasted, wealds, wedels, wedges, weirds, widens, widest, widish, widows, widths, wields, wisdom, wished, wisped, wissed, wisted, woalds, wodges, woodsy, worlds, wounds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DSW


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 53 57

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ...    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010011 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#83 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0053 0057

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

385357

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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