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Definitions: DANG |
DANG1. Of Ding 2. Imp. of Ding. Transitive verb1. To dash. |
Date "DANG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references) |
Crosswords: DANG |
| Non-English Usage: "DANG" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkish (dengue). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Dang that was lucky! (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) Dang, Cletus, why'd y'all have to park in front of my parents' trailer? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Perfume! Dang it, you smell like Happy Minnie's back in Omaha. (Annie Oakley; writing credit: Joseph Fields; Ewart Adamson) At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen! (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) Dang it, Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! (Treasure Planet; writing credit: Robert Louis Stevenson; Ron Clements) | |
Lyrics | Dang me, dang me ("DANG ME"; performing artist: Roger Miller) I bought a round for the whole dang place ("Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo"; performing artist: TRACY BYRD) I dang sure ain't lookin' for romance ("Pour Me"; performing artist: Trick Pony) Dang diggy dang da dang da dang diggy diggy ("Freakin It"; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dang kou san lang (1973) Yi fu dang guan (1971) Dang nu chi nan (1970) | |
Song Titles | Dang Me (performing artist: Roger Miller) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Business | Next followed Semo Squalene by Semo Co. (Korean Won 19.5 billion or U$17.7 million), Ltd., L-Chito Gold by Suheung Capsule (Korean Won 9.5 billion or U$8.6 million), Chito Oligo 100 by Chong Keun Dang Co. (Korean Won 8.9 billion or U$8.1 million), Chito Oligo by YIP&F (Korean Won 8.8 billion or U$8 million), Semo Alkoxyglyserol (Korean Won 7.9 billion or U$7.2 million), Salmon-Omega 3 by Amway Korea (Korean Won 6 billion or U$ 5.5 million), CAL-D by Amway Korea (Korean Won 5.9 billion or U$5.4 million), LG Chitosan Pro by Suheung Capsule (Korean Won 5.3 billion or U$4.8 million) and Semo Smooth by Semo (Korean Won 5.3 billion or U$4.8 million). (references) | |
Human Rights | Nepal | Maoists attacks at two separate police posts killed nine policemen in Dang District as well. (references) |
Nepal | According to INSEC, on November 26, Jit Bahadur Ghatri was arrested by the RNA in Dang District. (references) | |
Nepal | In Dang District, Maoists overran an army barracks, killing the company commander and 11 other soldiers. (references) | |
Travel | Nepal | In addition, the Embassy restricts U.S. Government employee travel to or through Accham, Baglung, Bardia, Dailekh, Dang, Dolakha, Dolpa, Gorkha, Jumla, Kavre, Lamjung, Mugu, Pyuthan, Ramechap, Sindhuli, Dindhulpulhowk, and Surket districts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DANG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 52.63% of the time. "DANG" is used about 19 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) | 52.63% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.32% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DANG" 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 |
| Dang | Last name | 3,000 | 3,917 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| South Korea | Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DANG": dang-shi. | |
Ending with "DANG": sang-sang-dang. | |
Containing "DANG": Ba-ding-a-dang-ding. | |
| 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 |
dang me | 51 |
dang khanh | 13 |
wu dang | 7 |
dang gui | 5 |
dang shen | 5 |
dam dang | 4 |
dang quei | 4 |
dang son thai | 4 |
dang magazine | 4 |
cecilio dang | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DANG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | e marrtë dreqi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DANG": danged, danger, dangered, dangering, dangerous, dangerously, dangerousness, dangerousnesses, dangers, danging, dangle, dangled, dangler, danglers, dangles, dangling, dangs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DANG": quandang, saladang, seladang. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DANG": endanger, endangered, endangering, endangerment, endangerments, endangers, fandango, fandangos, mridanga, mridangam, mridangams, mridangas, quandangs, saladangs, seladangs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DANG" (pronounced da"ng) |
| 2 | -a" ng | bang, Chang, clang, Fang, gang, hang, harangue, Lang, Liang, pang, rang, sang, slang, spang, sprang, stang, Strang, tang, Vang, whang, Yang. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-n" | |
-1 letter: and, dag, gad, gan, nag. | |
-2 letters: ad, ag, an, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-n" | |
+1 letter: dangs, donga, gland, gonad, grand. | |
+2 letters: adding, agenda, aiding, angled, auding, augend, bandog, banged, danged, danger, dangle, daring, dating, dawing, dazing, defang, dognap, dongas, dragon, fading, fanged, gained, gander, ganged, ganoid, garden, glands, gnawed, gonads, gradin, grands, hading, hagdon, hanged, jading, lading, lagend, ligand, nagged, padnag, panged, ranged, tanged, unaged, wading. | |
+3 letters: abiding, aboding, addling, adoring, agendas, agendum, agnized, aground, aligned, angeled, angered, audings, augends, avenged, badging, balding, bandage, banding, bandogs, barding, beading, bondage, brigand, cadging, cantdog, carding, changed, clanged, congaed, dabbing, dadoing, daffing, damming, damning, damping, dancing, dangers, danging, dangled, dangler, dangles, dapping, darings, darking, darling, darning, darting, dashing, daubing, dauting, dawning, dawting, daylong, dealing, deaning, deaving, decagon, defangs, deraign, derange, dialing, dingbat, doating, dogbane, dognaps, dogvane, dongola, dragnet, dragons, dragoon, draping, drawing, draying, dunnage, encaged, endgame, engaged, enraged, evading, fadging, fadings, farding, flanged, gadding, gadroon, ganders, ganoids, gardant, gardens, garland, gladden, glanced, glandes, gleaned, gliadin, gnarled, gnarred, gnashed, goading, goddamn, goldarn, gonadal, gonadic, gondola, gonidia, goodman, gormand, gowaned, gradine, grading, gradins, grained, grandad, grandam, grandee, grander, grandly, grandma, grandpa, granted, grenade, groaned, gurnard, hagdons, handbag, handgun, handing, hangdog, heading, incaged, jangled, ladings, ladling, lagends, landing, languid, larding, lauding, leading, ligands, loading, madding, managed, mangled, mangold, negated, niggard, organdy, padding, padnags, pranged, radding, raiding, reading, sandbag, sandhog, sanding, shading, siganid, slanged, snagged, spading, stanged, tangled, tangoed, trading, twanged, uncaged, unguard, unpaged, wadding, wagoned, wangled, warding, whanged, windage, windbag, yarding. | |
+4 letters: abducing, abrading, acceding, adapting, adducing, adeeming, adhering, adjuring, admiring, admixing, adopting, adorning, advising, agedness, agendums, agenized, agonised, agonized, alluding, amending, amidogen, androgen, anglepod, antidrug, arcading, arranged, assigned, auditing, avoiding, awarding, awninged, badinage, bandaged, bandager, bandages, bandying, beadings, bearding, blindage, boarding, bondages, bradding, braiding, branding, breading, brigands, caddying, candling, candying, cantdogs, carangid, cardigan, cardings, cladding, cradling, dabbling, daddling, daggling, dairying, dallying, damaging, dampings, dandling, danegeld, dangered, danglers, dangling, dappling, daringly, darkling, darlings, darnings, dartling, daunting, davening, dawdling, dazzling, deairing, dealings, deashing, debasing, debating, decagons, decaying, defacing, defaming, defanged, delating, delaying, deraigns, deranged, deranges, derating, dewaxing, diagnose, diagonal, dialings, dialling, dilating, dingbats, dogbanes, dognaped, dognaper, dogvanes, donating, dongolas, drabbing, drafting, dragging, dragline, dragnets, dragoman, dragomen, dragonet, dragoons, drainage, draining, dramming, dratting, drawings, drawling, dreading, dreaming, dungaree, dunnages, dwarfing, endamage, endanger, endgames, endogamy, engraved, enlarged, fandango, fanegada, fenagled, finagled, gadarene, gadroons, gainsaid, gammoned, gandered, gangland, ganymede, gardened, gardener, gardenia, garlands, garnered, gendarme, gladdens, gladding, gladness, glanders, glandule, gliadine, gliadins, goddamns, golconda, goldarns, gonadial, gondolas, gonidial, gormands, gourmand, gradient, gradines, graduand, grandads, grandame, grandams, granddad, granddam, grandees, grandest, grandeur, grandkid, grandmas, grandpas, grandsir, grandson, grenades, guanidin, guardant, guardian, guarding, guidance, gurnards, gynandry, handbags, handgrip, handguns, handling, hangared, hangbird, hangdogs, headings, headlong, highland, hoarding, ideating, imagined, indagate, invading, iodating, jargoned, kneading, ladening, landgrab, landings, largando, leadings, loadings, longhand, longhead, magdalen, maligned, mangolds, margined, medaling, megadyne, midrange, montaged, mridanga, niggards, ondogram, organdie, paddings, paddling, pagandom, pandying, parading, pedaling, pleading, pomading, poundage, quadding, quandang, quandong, raddling, radioing, readding, readings, readying, redating, regained, rehanged, renegade, renegado, rigadoon, rigaudon, saddling, saladang, sandbags, sandhogs, sandling, scalding, sedating, seladang, shadings, siganids, signaled, spangled, standing, steading, swarding, teenaged, toadying, treading, twangled, unargued, undaring, underage, unfading, ungalled, unglazed, ungraced, ungraded, unguards, unhanged, unlading, untagged, updating, vagabond, vanguard, waddings, waddling, waddying, waggoned, windages, windbags, windgall, wrangled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 4E 47 |
| 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 01000001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 004E 0047 |
| 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)38354841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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