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Definition: Dalton |
DaltonNoun1. English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Dalton" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a valley town". |
Date "Dalton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | = atomic mass unit. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dalton is also a placename in the United States of America:
Dalton also means an atomic mass unit named after John Dalton in recognition of his achievement in introducing the atomic hypothesis into chemistry.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dalton."
Synonym: DaltonSynonym: John Dalton (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dalton |
| English words defined with "Dalton": Dalton Trumbo ♦ John Dalton ♦ Law of multiple proportion. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Dalton": 01226 ♦ 14836, 18414 ♦ 30720, 30721 ♦ 44618 ♦ 53926, 56324 ♦ 61925, 65246, 69131 ♦ Dalton law, Dalton law of partial pressure ♦ gas laws ♦ partial pressure. (references) |
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Screenplays | Thank you for playing Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. (Dead Poets Society; writing credit: Tom Schulman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Dalton That Got Away (1960) Relentless Dalton (1915) Curses! Jack Dalton (1915) Persistent Dalton (1915) Dalton (1993) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Coldfoot Visitor Center, Dalton Highway.Credit: unknown. |  | Relignment of Dietrich River, Dalton Highway.Credit: unknown. |
 | Trans-alaska Pipeline near Galbraith Lake, Dalton Highway.Credit: unknown. |  | Galbraith Lake, Dalton Highway.Credit: Dan Gullickson. |
 | Arctic Circle Wayside, Dalton Highway.Credit: Edward Bovy. |  | Sukakpak Mountain, Dalton Highway, Alaska.Credit: unknown. |
 | Atigun Pass, Brooks Range, Dalton Highway.Credit: Edward Bovy. |  | Dr. Dalton, F.R.S. / Painted by Lonsdale, Esq. Engraved by C. Turner A.R.A.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Charles F. Dalton, M.D.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | John Dalton, F.R.S. / Allen, Pinxt. Cook, Sc.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Dalton" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.23% of the time. "Dalton" is used about 226 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) | 98.23% | 222 | 20,237 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 226 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Dalton" 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 |
| Dalton | First name Male | 8,000 | 765 |
| Dalton | Last name | 19,000 | 608 |
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1. Dalton, GA (city, FIPS 21380) 2. Dalton, MA 3. Dalton, MN (city, FIPS 14626) 4. Dalton, MO (town, FIPS 18118) 5. Dalton, NE (village, FIPS 12070) 6. Dalton, NY 7. Dalton, OH (village, FIPS 19974) 8. Dalton, PA (borough, FIPS 18088) 9. Dalton, WI |
Expressions using "Dalton": Dalton City ♦ dalton ga ♦ Dalton Gardens ♦ Dalton Trumbo ♦ john dalton ♦ Law of Dalton. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Dalton": Dalton-in-furness, Dalton-on-tees. | |
| 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 |
mark dalton | 951 |
dalton georgia | 603 |
b dalton | 492 |
dalton | 311 |
dalton carpet | 289 |
wayne dalton | 276 |
john dalton | 178 |
dalton book store | 141 |
dalton state college | 130 |
royal dalton | 130 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Dalton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 多å°"é¡¿. (various references) | |
Korean | ëŒí„´. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | altonday.(various references) | |
Russian | далтон. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Dalton": daltonic, daltons. (additional references) | |
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"Dalton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dahlstom, Dakleton, D'albon, Dalboni, Dalden, Dalmon, Dalo, dalon, D'anthon, Daption, Darlton, daton, Dauto, Davlatov, Dbauto, Defton, Detlof, Dipton, Djallon, dualthon, Dulston, Edwalton, kdaltons, Raylton, Salzton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Dalton" (pronounced dô"ltun) |
| 4 | -l t u n | Melton, molten, Singleton, sultan. |
| 3 | -t u n | actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, fatten, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-l-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: dotal, nodal, notal, talon, tolan, tonal. | |
-2 letters: alto, dato, doat, dolt, dona, land, load, loan, lota, nota, toad, tola, told. | |
-3 letters: ado, alt, and, ant, dal, dol, don, dot, lad, lat, lot, nod, not, oat, old, tad, tan, tao, tod, ton. | |
-4 letters: ad, al, an, at, do, la, lo, na, no, od, on, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: daltons, outland, sandlot, taloned, troland. | |
+2 letters: anticold, daltonic, delation, dilation, lentando, nodality, nonadult, nontidal, outlands, sandlots, trinodal, trolands. | |
+3 letters: adulation, anecdotal, antidotal, antinodal, antipodal, coastland, conflated, dealation, decathlon, deflation, defoliant, delations, detonable, dictional, dilations, doctrinal, elongated, endosteal, gladstone, insolated, laudation, loadstone, lotusland, montadale, mordantly, nautiloid, nonadults, northland, outlander, planetoid, platooned, southland, toenailed, trainload. | |
+4 letters: additional, adolescent, adulations, antipodals, bloodstain, bottomland, coastlands, dealations, decathlons, deflations, defoliants, delegation, delineator, depilation, desolating, desolation, devotional, dilatation, documental, dominantly, endothelia, entodermal, forestland, gadolinite, gladstones, goaltender, ideational, inoculated, intaglioed, intermodal, internodal, latifundio, laudations, laundromat, loadstones, lotuslands, modulating, modulation, montadales, motherland, nautiloids, nodalities, nodulation, northlands, occidental, outflanked, outlanders, outlandish, outlearned, outplanned, pentaploid, phenolated, planetoids, pollinated, ponytailed, roundtable, sandlotter, southlands, sulfonated, trainloads, ultrasound, undulation, undulatory, untowardly, validation. | |
+5 letters: accordantly, acidulation, adolescents, aldosterone, allantoides, amontillado, anecdotally, anecdotical, antidotally, autoloading, bloodstains, bottomlands, chlorinated, conciliated, condimental, conditional, condolatory, condylomata, conglobated, consolidate, deceptional, declamation, declaration, declination, decollating, decollation, defalcation, defloration, defoliating, defoliation, delectation, delegations, delineation, delineators, demountable, depilations, desalinator, desolations, detonatable, devaluation, devotionals, dictionally, dilatations, diphthongal, directional, dislocating, dislocation, disrelation, dissonantly, doctrinally, dovetailing, duplication, educational, elucidation, endometrial, endosteally, endothelial, fluorinated, forestlands, gadolinites, goaltenders, goaltending, gradational, halogenated, idolization, indomitable, indomitably, inosculated, invalidator, labiodental, latifundios, laundromats, lionhearted, liquidation, malediction, mandatorily, mandolinist, mediational, mentholated, modulations, motherlands, multidomain, nematocidal, nodulations, nondelegate, nonvalidity, notochordal, obnubilated, odontoblast, outbalanced, outdazzling, overplanted, pentaploids, pentaploidy, periodontal, planetoidal, postlanding, radiational, radiolucent, rallentando, redactional, reductional, roundtables, sandlotters, stonewalled, traditional, ultramodern, ultrasounds, unadoptable, unallocated, uncataloged, undoubtable, undulations, valediction, validations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6C 74 6F 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- .-.. - --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01101100 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a l t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006C 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)386778868180 |
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