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Date "DELOS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Delos A floating island ultimately made fast to the bottom of the sea by Poseidon (Neptune). Apollo having become possessor of it by exchange, made it his favourite retreat. It is one of the Cyclades. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Inhabited since the third millennium BC Between 900 BC-100 AD Delos was a major political centre, in 166 BC it was given by the Romans to the Athenian city state, but in modern times it has become uninhabitited. It is currently only used for archeology and tourism.
Landmarks on the island include,
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Delos."
Crosswords: DELOS |
| Specialty definitions using "DELOS": Calauri'a ♦ Delias ♦ Oracles. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Delos Adventure (1987) | |
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 | Caption: Bldg. 5, Legal Dept., Left to Right, Mina McArthur, Anna Klehm, Delos Holden, Alexander Elliot Is Standing; West Orange, NJ; May, 1904; {10.389/17} (jpg). |  | With other flag and general officers, at CinCPac Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1944. Those present are (left to right): Admiral Nimitz; Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, U.S. Army; Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, USN; Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN and Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, U.S. Army. Credit: NAVY. |
 | On board ship, probably at Pearl Harbor in mid-1942. With him are, from left: Rear Admiral David W. Bagley, Commander, Hawaiian Sea Frontier; Major General Delos C. Emmons, U.S. Army; and Rear Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch. Credit: NAVY. |  | Harrison's Landing, Va. Col. Albert V. Colburn, Col. Delos B. Sacket, and Gen. John Sedgwick. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DELOS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.65% of the time. "DELOS" is used about 74 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) | 98.65% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Noun (plural) | 1.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DELOS" 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 |
| Delos | Last name | 170 | 52,222 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "DELOS". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Delia | Female | English | Someone from Delos |
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| 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 |
delos | 47 |
becky delos santos | 23 |
bbs delos | 7 |
delos island | 5 |
delos greece | 5 |
delos santos | 4 |
delos kim santos | 4 |
autec delos | 4 |
cosgrove delos | 3 |
delos record | 2 |
delos significado sueños | 2 |
delos spectacular surround | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"DELOS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dallos, Dalo, Deflo, Deglon, Dellow, Delmo, Delor, Delsol, delus, Deluz, D'erlon, Deslon, D'eslon, Detlof, Diblos, Dolgos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: doles, lodes, soled. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-s" | |
-1 letter: dels, does, dole, dols, dose, elds, lode, lose, odes, olds, oles, sled, sloe, sold, sole. | |
-2 letters: del, doe, dol, dos, eds, eld, els, led, ode, ods, oes, old, ole, ose, sel, sod, sol. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, el, es, lo, od, oe, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-s" | |
+1 letter: aldose, closed, dholes, dorsel, dossel, dowels, lodens, lodges, loosed, loused, models, odyles, oldest, oldies, oodles, resold, seldom, siloed, sloped, slowed, soiled, solder, soloed, solved, souled, stoled, yodels, yodles. | |
+2 letters: albedos, aldoses, beholds, blondes, bloused, blowsed, bobsled, boldest, bolides, boodles, bordels, coddles, coldest, coleads, damosel, delouse, deploys, deposal, despoil, dewools, dildoes, diploes, dipoles, doglegs, dogsled, doilies, dollies, dolmens, dongles, donzels, doodles, doolees, doolies, dorsels, dossels, dottels, dottles, doubles, doyleys, doylies, duellos, elodeas, enfolds, flossed, folders, fondles, glossed, godless, goldest, holders, hondles, idolise, indoles, isolead, jostled, keloids, lassoed, loaders, lodgers, loudens, loudest, meloids, midsole, modules, molders, noddles, nodules, noodles, oilseed, oldness, oldster, ordeals, pedalos, polders, poodles, presold, refolds, reloads, remolds, resoled, rodless, rondels, salvoed, scolded, scolder, scowled, selfdom, shoaled, shooled, skoaled, slogged, slopped, sloshed, slotted, smolder, snooled, solaced, solated, solders, soldier, solider, sozzled, splodge, spoiled, spooled, stooled, toddles, toledos, tousled, waldoes, weldors, yodlers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4C 4F 53 |
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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 01000101 01001100 01001111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E L O S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004C 004F 0053 |
| 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)3839464953 |
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