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Definition: DABSTER |
DABSTERNoun1. One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept. |
Date "DABSTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Note: Dabster \Dab"ster\, noun. [Compare to Dab an expert.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Proficient | Noun: proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster, crackerjack; connoisseur; (scholar); master, master hand; prima donna, first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist; past master; mahatma. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "DABSTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | usta i keq. (various references) | |
Arabic | الهاوي (amateur, dabbler, dilettante). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | специалист (adept, authority, dab, fancier, pro, professional, proficient, shark, specialist), лош работник (cobbler, slob). (various references) | |
French | amateur (dabbler). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mestere valaminek. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | absterday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amador (amateur, dabbler, dilettante, fancier, lover, unprofessional). (various references) | |
Romanian | meşter (artisan, artist, expert, master, skilful, skillful, tradesman), maestru (artistic, artistical, expert, maestro, master), expert (Ace, adept, authority, connoisseur, dab, Don, expert, proficient, specialist). (various references) | |
Russian | знаток (adept, cognoscente, connoisseur, dab, expert, fancier, judge, scholar, watcher). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stručnjak (authority, expert, savant, specialist), specijalista (specialist). (various references) | |
Spanish | trabajador desaplicado. (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzüne gözüne bulaştıran kimse, uzman (adept, authority, connoisseur, dab, Don, expert, fiend, judge, oracle, professional, proficient, regular, specialist, technician), usta (adept, adroit, artist, connoisseur, constructor, craftsman, dab, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, facile, hand, ingenious, intelligent, journeyman, master, old hand, proficient, shark, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtile, versed, whizz, wise, workman, Wright), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job). (various references) | |
Ukranian | фахівець (expert, guru, specialist, technician), невмілий працівник, недотепа, знавець (adept, cognoscenti, connoisseur, expert, proficient, sharp, whale). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người thạo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DABSTER": dabsters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "DABSTER" (pronounced 'Dab"ster'): Backster, Bemonster, Chepster, Chidester, Deemster, Doomster, Drugster, Fibster, Gamester, Hackster, hamster, holster, Knitster, Lewdster, maltster, minster, Oldster, Palster, Pinkster, Punster, rhymester, roadster, Scopster, seamster, Sempster, Semster, Sewster, Shepster, shyster, Singster, songster, spinster, tapster, teamster, throwster, tipster, Tonguester, trickster, Ulster, Undertapster, Webster, Whipster, Whitester, Whitster, Youngster. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ardebs, bardes, barest, basted, baster, beards, breads, breast, daters, debars, derats, sabred, serdab, stared, tabers, trades, treads. | |
-2 letters: abets, ardeb, aster, barde, bards, bared, bares, based, baser, baste, bated, bates, beads, beard, bears, beast, beats, betas, brads, braes, brats, bread, darbs, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, debar, debts, derat, drabs, drats, drest, rased, rated, rates, reads, sabed, saber, sabre, sated, stade, stare, stead, taber, tabes, tared, tares, tears, trade, tread, tsade. | |
-3 letters: abed, abet, arbs, ares, arse, arts, ates, bade, bads, bard, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bead, bear, beat, beds, best, beta, bets, brad, brae, bras, brat, bred, dabs, darb, dare, dart, date, dear, debs, debt, drab, drat, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rads, rase, rate, rats, read, rebs, reds, rest, rets, sabe, sade, sard, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, stab, star, tabs, tads, tare, tars, tear, teas, teds, trad, tsar. | |
-4 letters: abs, ads, arb, are, ars, art, ate, bad, bar, bas, bat, bed, bet, bra, dab, deb, ear, eat, eds, era, ers, eta, rad, ras, rat, reb, red, res, ret, sab, sad, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tab, tad, tae, tar, tas, tea, ted. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, ar, as, at, ba, be, de, ed, er, es, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bartends, bedstraw, breadths, breasted, broadest, dabsters, debaters, drabbest, drabbets, redbaits, tribades. | |
+2 letters: absterged, absurdest, adsorbate, adsorbent, bedstraws, breadnuts, bystander, diatribes, drawtubes, drumbeats, redbreast, streambed, teaboards, waterbeds. | |
+3 letters: abductores, abstracted, abstricted, adsorbates, adsorbents, adumbrates, bacteroids, balustrade, banditries, bandmaster, banistered, bartenders, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, birthdates, blastoderm, breadstick, breadstuff, broadsheet, brutalised, bystanders, debarments, disbarment, grubstaked, pasteboard, rabidities, redbreasts, shortbread, skateboard, streambeds, subcordate, subrogated, subtracted, subtrahend, sweetbread, waterbirds. | |
+4 letters: abridgments, absurdities, balustraded, balustrades, bandmasters, bardolaters, barnstormed, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, bespattered, bladdernuts, blastoderms, bloodstream, breadbasket, breadfruits, breadsticks, breadstuffs, breadthwise, breakfasted, broadcasted, broadcaster, broadsheets, deliberates, disbarments, disturbance, drumbeaters, dumbwaiters, featherbeds, keyboardist, masturbated, pasteboards, prediabetes, rebroadcast, roundtables, sandblaster, shortbreads, skateboards, starboarded, subordinate, subtrahends, sweetbreads, timberheads, timberlands, transcribed, wattlebirds, whitebeards, whiteboards. | |
+5 letters: abridgements, abstractedly, ambidextrous, bactericides, bardolatries, beardtongues, birdwatchers, bladderworts, bloodstreams, boatbuilders, bombardments, bootstrapped, brainstormed, breadbaskets, broadcasters, centerboards, debarkations, decarbonates, decerebrates, defibrinates, demonstrable, demonstrably, desirability, detribalizes, deverbatives, disreputable, disreputably, distractable, distractible, distrainable, disturbances, drumbeatings, durabilities, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, handbreadths, handsbreadth, keyboardists, labradorites, motherboards, obdurateness, plasterboard, prediabetics, readjustable, rebroadcasts, restabilized, sandblasters, skateboarder, standardbred, storyboarded, straightbred, subeditorial, subirrigated, subordinated, subordinates, subsaturated, teeterboards. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 42 53 54 45 52 |
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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 01000001 01000010 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A B S T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0042 0053 0054 0045 0052 |
| 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)38353653543952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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