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Definitions: DELPHINE |
DELPHINEAdjective1. Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes. 2. Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini). |
"DELPHINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Delphi", "a dolphin". |
Date "DELPHINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Crosswords: DELPHINE |
| English words defined with "DELPHINE": Delphin. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Delphine (1969) Yvan 0 Delphine 1 (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1948, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I. This steamer served as USS Florida during 1861-1868. After returning to civilian ownership, she was renamed Delphine.Credit: NAVY. |  | President Coolidge presents "Presidents Cup" to Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell / Underwood & Underwood, Washington.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DELPHINE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DELPHINE" is used about 8 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) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DELPHINE" 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 |
| Delphine | First name Female | 7,000 | 1,105 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "DELPHINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Delphi", "a dolphin". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "DELPHINE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Delphina | Female | N/A | N/A |
| Delphine | Female | French | Delphina |
| Delfina | Female | Italian | Delphina |
| Delfina | Female | Spanish | Delphina |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-l-n-p" | |
-2 letters: heiled, helped, peined, penile. | |
-3 letters: diene, edile, elide, lined, piled, pined, plied. | |
-4 letters: deep, deil, dele, deli, dene, deni, diel, dine, eide, elhi, heed, heel, heil, held, help, hide, hied, hind, idle, lend, lied, lien, line, lipe, need, neep, nide, peed, peel, peen, pein, pele, pend, pied, pile, pine, pled, plie. | |
-5 letters: dee, del, den, die, din, dip, edh, eel, eld, end, hen, hep, hid, hie, hin, hip, led, lee, lei, lid, lie, lin, lip, nee, nil, nip, ped, pee, peh, pen, phi, pie, pin. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-i-l-n-p" | |
+1 letter: plenished. | |
+2 letters: pinwheeled. | |
+3 letters: diencephala, hyperlinked, philandered, philanderer, pigeonholed, pitchblende, replenished. | |
+4 letters: diencephalic, diencephalon, philanderers, pitchblendes, stepchildren. | |
+5 letters: cephaloridine, diencephalons, diphenylamine, hyperinflated, phencyclidine, prescheduling. | |
| 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 45 4C 50 48 49 4E 45 |
| 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 01000101 01001100 01010000 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E L P H I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004C 0050 0048 0049 004E 0045 |
| 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)3839465042434839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Names: Derived from | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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