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DABBER

Definition: DABBER

DABBER

Noun

1. That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: DABBER

DomainDefinitions

Fine Arts

Print coloured copperplate engraving by dabbing colours on to plate and printing at single impression. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DABBER

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

dabber

12

bingo dabber

11

dabber drascombe

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

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Modern Translations: DABBER

Language Translations for "DABBER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tampon (canvas, compress, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab, tampon). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tampon (canvas, compress, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab, tampon, wick). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نم زدن (Baste, Dabble, Sauce), ضربه زدن (Butt, Layon), الت نم زدن , رنگ زدن (Complexion, Tincture). (various references)

   

French

  

tirer la poupée, poupée. (various references)

   

German

  

Tampon (canvas, compress, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab, tampon), Filzwalze (canvas). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ταμπόν (canvas, ink pad, packing, paint pad, tampon). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tampone (bott, buffer, canvas, compress, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, stopper, swab, swob, tampon, tent, wad). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abberday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tintar com boneca (canvas), boneca (bunch, canvas, doll, Dolly, dummy, poppet, poppet valve, puppet). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rollo (bolt, canvas, coil, crossbar, doughnut, jazz, reel, roll, spiel, twist), muñequilla estopada (canvas), jirón (canvas, shred, wisp), escudete (bud, bud shield, canvas, chip bud, escutcheon, gusset, scutcheon, shield). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người xoa nhẹ người chấm nhẹ, người vỗ nhẹ, người thấm nhẹ nùi vải, người đánh nhẹ, nùi bông (flue, fluey). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DABBER

Derivations

Words beginning with "DABBER": dabbers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DABBER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dabar, dabe, d'abord, D'alberi, D'ambert, dambor, Debbeh, Djabord, dobber, dober, Dubber, dubbier. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "DABBER"

Words rhyming with "DABBER" (pronounced 'Dab"ber'): Accumber, Antenumber, Assober, Beblubber, Berber, Beslabber, Beslobber, Beslubber, Bibber, Blabber, Blobber, Bobber, Clubber, Clumber, Crabber, Craber, December, Dibber, Discumber, Disencumber, Dismember, Disremember, Drabber, Dribber, Drubber, Encomber, Encumber, Ensober, fibber, Gabber, grabber, Gueber, Guebre, Inchamber, Incomber, Jibber, jobber, Liber, lubber, Megaweber, Microweber, Milliweber, Misnumber, misremember, Nonmember, November, October, Outnumber, remember, robber, rubber, Scomber, Scraber, scrubber, Sea-blubber, September, Slibber, stabber, Swobber, tuber, Unencumber, Unlimber, Unmember, Webber. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DABBER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: barbed.

Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-e-r"

-1 letter: ardeb, barbe, barde, bared, beard, bread, debar.

-2 letters: abbe, abed, babe, bade, barb, bard, bare, bead, bear, brad, brae, bred, darb, dare, dear, drab, read.

-3 letters: arb, are, bad, bar, bed, bra, dab, deb, ear, ebb, era, rad, reb, red.

-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, ar, ba, be, de, ed, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-e-r"
 

+1 letter: crabbed, dabbers, dabbler, drabbed, drabber, drabbet, drabble, grabbed, rabbled.

 

+2 letters: absorbed, barbered, beebread, brabbled, brambled, breadbox, dabblers, drabbest, drabbets, drabbled, drabbles, grabbled, jabbered, rabbeted, rabbited, rehabbed, unbarbed, yabbered.

 

+3 letters: abradable, barbecued, barbequed, baseboard, beebreads, belabored, blabbered, bluebeard, bombarded, clabbered, prefabbed, scrabbled, slabbered.

 

+4 letters: aboveboard, adsorbable, barbarized, barebacked, bargeboard, baseboards, bedchamber, belaboured, bluebeards, bombardier, breadboard, breadboxes, breadcrumb, bridgeable, fiberboard, fibreboard, landlubber, reabsorbed, scabbarded, unabsorbed, unbarbered.

 

+5 letters: abbreviated, bargeboards, beaverboard, bedchambers, billboarded, birdbrained, blackbirded, blackbirder, boatbuilder, bombardiers, bombardment, breadbasket, breadboards, breadcrumbs, crabbedness, describable, fiberboards, fibreboards, grandbabies, landlubbers, redoubtable, redoubtably.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: DABBER


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

44 41 42 42 45 52

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

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

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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 01000001 01000010 01000010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#65 &#66 &#66 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0041 0042 0042 0045 0052

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

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

383536363952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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