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Definition: DESTIN |
DESTINNoun1. Destiny. |
Date "DESTIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Destin \Des"tin\, noun. [Compare to the French expression destin.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Destin is a city located in Okaloosa County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 11,119.Geography
Destin is located at 30°23'36" North, 86°28'31" West (30.393407, -86.475276)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.2 km² (8.2 mi²). 19.5 km² (7.5 mi²) of it is land and 1.7 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 7.95% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 11,119 people, 4,877 households, and 3,135 families residing in the city. The population density is 570.1/km² (1,477.1/mi²). There are 10,599 housing units at an average density of 543.5/km² (1,408.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.21% White, 0.37% African American, 0.40% Native American, 1.03% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 0.37% from other races, and 1.54% from two or more races. 2.66% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 4,877 households out of which 24.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.0% are married couples living together, 8.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 35.7% are non-families. 27.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.26 and the average family size is 2.72. In the city the population is spread out with 19.4% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 29.8% from 25 to 44, 28.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 101.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.4 males. The median income for a household in the city is $53,042, and the median income for a family is $60,498. Males have a median income of $42,218 versus $26,146 for females. The per capita income for the city is $32,048. 5.5% of the population and 3.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 6.2% are under the age of 18 and 2.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Destin, Florida."
Crosswords: DESTIN |
| Non-English Usage: "DESTIN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (destiny, doom, fate, fortune, lot, portion, stroke), Romanian (chance, destiny, dole, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, hap, line, lot, luck). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Destin de Rossel (1966) Chansons ont leur destin (1953) L' Appel du destin (1953) Le Destin s'amuse (1947) Étrange destin (1945) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Magaly Rodriguez (left), NRCS Soil Conservation Tech. and Darryl Williams (right), NRCS District Conservationist, Okaloosa Co., FL, review the success of sand fencing and sea oats along Destin Beach. The fencing and sea oats were installed to stabilize er. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
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1. Destin, FL (city, FIPS 17325) |
| 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. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DESTIN": destination, destinations, destine, destined, destines, destinies, destining, destiny. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DESTIN": clandestine, clandestinely, clandestineness, clandestinenesses, clandestinities, clandestinity, nonclandestine, predestinarian, predestinarianism, predestinarianisms, predestinarians, predestinate, predestinated, predestinates, predestinating, predestination, predestinations, predestinator, predestinators, predestine, predestined, predestines, predestining. (additional references) | |
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"DESTIN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dassin, Dessein, Destec, Destina, Distin, Edlestein, Estyn, Festin, Gestin, Yelstin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: teinds. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: deist, dents, diets, dines, dints, dites, edits, inset, neist, nides, nites, senti, sited, snide, stein, stied, teind, tends, tides, tined, tines. | |
-2 letters: deni, dens, dent, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dite, dits, edit, ends, ides, nest, nets, nide, nite, nits, send, sent, side, sine, site, sned, snit, teds, tend, tens, tide, tied. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: density, dentils, dentins, dentist, destain, destine, destiny, detains, dipnets, dissent, distend, distent, dunites, endites, indents, indites, instead, intends, kindest, mindset, mistend, nidgets, sainted, snidest, stained, stinted, stipend, tinders, tineids. | |
+2 letters: adenitis, andesite, astonied, audients, blindest, dainties, dandiest, demonist, dentines, dentists, depaints, desinent, destains, destined, destines, detinues, detrains, deviants, dextrins, diluents, dinettes, dingiest, dinkiest, disinter, dissents, distance, distends, disunite, divinest, downiest, dungiest, dunnites, editions, enlisted, handiest, hedonist, inditers, infested, ingested, inserted, insetted, insisted, instated, insulted, intrudes, invested, listened, mediants, mindsets, mistends, mistuned, neediest, nerdiest, nitrides, nudities, randiest, resident, sandiest, sedating, sedation, sediment, sedition, signeted, sintered, sinuated, snitched, splinted, sprinted, squinted, steading, stipends, strained, stridden, strident, stringed, syndetic, tendrils, tidiness, tinseled, trendies, tridents, trindles, unlisted, unsifted, unsuited, untidies, windiest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 53 54 49 4E |
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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 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E S T I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0053 0054 0049 004E |
| 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)383953544348 |
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