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DIEGO

"DIEGO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter".

Date "DIEGO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

"DIEGO" is a common misspelling or typo for: dingo.

 

Specialty Definition: DIEGO

DomainDefinition

Literature

Diego (San). A corruption of Santiago (St. James), champion of the red cross, and patron saint of Spain. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DIEGO

English words defined with "DIEGO": San Andreas Fault, San Diego, San'aTijuana. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DIEGO": CALIFORNIA UTILITY RESEARCH COUNCIL, CMS-2GlishHagarenesLazarillo de TormesRegions, GeographicUna SerranillaYAUN. (references)
Etymologies containing "DIEGO": Dago. (references)
Non-English Usage: "DIEGO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (Diego), Serbo-Croatian (diego), Spanish (James).

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Modern Usage: DIEGO

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The number of that San Diego office (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend (Old School; writing credit: Court Crandall; Todd Phillips)

San Diego has a big carjacking problem (Flirting with Disaster; writing credit: David O. Russell)

Backed-up sewer line, this happened in San Diego last week (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Don Diego Vega (Zorro, the Gay Blade; writing credit: Greg Alt; Hal Dresner)

Lyrics

It's all good, from Diego to tha Bay (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

San Diego to Savannah, (If You Can Do Anything Else; performing artist: George Strait)

Movie/TV Titles

San Diego MCRD (1973)

Diego Corrientes (1959)

San Diego I Love You (1944)

Down in San Diego (1941)

Diego Corrientes (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: DIEGO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hidden Southern California 8 Ed: Including Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Palm Springs (reference)

  • Eighth Capacitor and Resistor Technology Symposium, San Diego, California March 1988 (reference)

  • Advanced Actuation, Controls and Integration for Aerospace Vehicles (A-6 Symposium San Diego, California October 9, 1985 P-170) (reference)

  • Dakota Doxy/San Diego Sirens (Spur Double Edition) (reference)

  • Materials for Magneto-Optic Data Storage: Symposium Held April 25-26, 1989, San Diego, California, U.S.A. (Materials Research Society Symposium Proc) (reference)

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Periodicals

  • Attorneys Directory Of San Diego County (reference)

  • Greater San Diego Chamber Of Commerce Economic Bulletin (reference)

  • Catholic Directory Of The Diocese Of San Diego (reference)

  • Uptown San Diego Examiner (reference)

  • San Diego Home-garden Lifestyles (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Afoot & Afield in San Diego : Neighborhood Hikes (reference)

  • Portrait of an Artist: The Frescoes of Diego Rivera (reference)

  • Baby Genius - A Trip to the San Diego Zoo (reference)

  • Gibraltar On The Pacific: San Diego Military History" (reference)

  • 1984 World Series - Detroit Tigers vs San Diego Padres (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: DIEGO

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Photo Album: DIEGO

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San Diego, California Survey by Sub-Assistant A.M. Harrison, 1851 Topographic Survey T-333. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Chart of the United States West Coast from San Francisco to San Diego. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Mission of San Diego, Plate XII. In: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Vol. 5, p. 40. Commonly known as Pacific Railroad Surveys. Call Number F593 .U58. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The boundary monument between the United States and Mexico just south of San Diego. This also gives a good seaward view of Tijuana Slough, now part of the the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 8. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Various fishing vessels at San Diego. Credit: Fisheries.

Chagos, Diego Garcia Island. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Taylor's Sea Slug, Phyllaplysia taylori, is common on blades of eelgrass (Zostera sp.) in low intertidal areas from Nanaimo, British Columbia to San Diego, California. The body is dorsoventrally flattened and from 25 to 45 cm long. Its color mimics Zostera, with a bright green base with brown-black and white spots. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

The RONALD H. BROWN in drydock in San Diego. A new coat of paint and the ship looks as good as new. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A view of the stern and stern thrusters of the RONALD H. BROWN while in drydock at San Diego. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Contrails south of San Diego. TIROS V orbit 3343. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: DIEGO
 

"San Diego at Night 1" by Erika Thorpe
Commentary: "View of Broadway street, downtown San Diego."
"Prado Stairway" by Larry Silva
Commentary: "A really cool hallway in Balboa Park, San Diego."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DIEGO

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Paul, Newark, Boston, Detroit, New Orleans, and San Diego. (references)

From the University of California, San Diego Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. (references)

Paul, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, New Orleans, Newark, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston, and Denver. (references)

Business

Icon Group has field offices in San Diego, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and Lomé, Togo (West Africa). (references)

Most purchasing managers of the large maquiladora plants are located at the parent company in the United States, many of them in San Diego. (references)

The study will focus on finding the routes that could pass through Mexico and/or the United States to serve Tijuana/Rosarito and San Diego. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mauritius

In November 2000, a group of citizens who are natives of the Chagos Archipelago (also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory) won a lawsuit against the British Government that claimed they had been removed illegally from their homeland in 1971. In response to the lawsuit, the British Government ruled that the Chagossians could return to the outer islands of the archipelago but not to Diego Garcia. (references)

Economic History

Chile

The first Europeans to arrive in Chile were Diego de Almagro and his band of Spanish conquistadors in 1541, who came from Peru in 1535 seeking gold. (references)

Madagascar

European contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diego Dias sighted the island after his ship became separated from a fleet bound for India. (references)

Human Rights

El Salvador

The appeals court upheld the lower court's decision that the trial against a sixth defendant, Diego Flores, (a lower ranking former guerilla), could proceed on kidnaping charges. (references)

Colombia

The investigation continued of the December 2000 killing of congressional peace commission chairman Diego Turbay Cote, his mother councilwoman Ines Cote, and five other persons in Caqueta department (near the FARC demilitarized zone). (references)

Colombia

In June a Rionegro, Antioquia department, court convicted in absentia army major David Hernandez Rojas and army captain Diego Fino Rodriguez of aggravated homicide in the 1999 murder of Antioquia peace commissioner (and former Vice Minister for Youth) Alex Lopera and two other persons, and sentenced them to 50 years in prison. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DIEGO

"DIEGO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DIEGO" is used about 362 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%36214,906

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: DIEGO

The following table summarizes the usage of "DIEGO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DiegoFirst name Male11,000640
DiegoLast name1,0007,545
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: DIEGO

"DIEGO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "DIEGO."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
JamesMaleBiblicalJacob
JacobMaleDutchN/A
JacobMaleEnglishN/A
JamesMaleEnglishJacob
DiogoMalePortugueseDiego
ThiagoMalePortugueseDiego
TiagoMalePortugueseDiego
JacobMaleScandinavianN/A
DiegoMaleSpanishSantiago
SantiagoMaleSpanishJames
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: DIEGO

Expressions using "DIEGO": Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez Rancho San Diego san diego San Diego Bay San Diego Country Estates San Diego County. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "DIEGO": Diego-based.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIEGO

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

san diego california

21,542

san diego city college

681

san diego

11,656

san diego airport

645

san diego hotel

3,655

san diego restaurant

634

san diego zoo

3,617

san diego weather

633

san diego union tribune

2,703

san diego apartment

630

sea world san diego

1,993

san diego reader

611

san diego padres

1,630

university of california san diego

605

san diego state university

1,555

san diego mesa college

594

county diego fair san

1,335

sign on san diego

594

diego rivera

1,326

san diego map

593

university of san diego

1,298

downtown san diego

580

county of san diego

1,285

san diego tribune

562

san diego real estate

1,222

san diego news

491

san diego charger

991

san diego downtown hotel

488

san diego escort

817

ca diego mcas miramar san

471

san diego wild animal park

769

san diego marathon

461

san diego newspaper

761

san diego union

457

san diego job

746

san diego community college

438

city of san diego

703

san diego state

430

diego garcia

687

san diego rental

425
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DIEGO

Language Translations for "DIEGO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

聖迭哥 (San Diego). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Texaanse padhagedis (Blainville horned lizard, San Diego horned lizard, Texas horned lizard). (various references)

   

French

  

tapaya (San Diego horned lizard), lézard cornu de San Diego (San Diego horned lizard). (various references)

   

German

  

Diego. (various references)

   

Italian

  

frinosoma coronata di San Diego (Blainville horned lizard, San Diego horned lizard, Texas horned lizard). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

サンケア指数 (belt, carefree, Saint-Simonism, San Diego, sand, sandal, sandwich, sandwich man, Sankei Sports, Sanskrit, sans-souci, Santa Clara, Santa Claus, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Maria, soundtrack, sun deck, sun protection index, sundae, sunset, sunshade, sunshine, suntan, suntan oil, Suntory, Suntory Hall, syndicalism, syndicalist, thunder, thunderbird). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

サンディエゴ (San Diego). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iegoday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lagarto corredor de garganta laranja (Blainville horned lizard, San Diego horned lizard, Texas horned lizard). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

диего. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

diego. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

iguana cornuda (Blainville horned lizard, San Diego horned lizard, Texas horned lizard). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DIEGO

Misspellings

"DIEGO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adyebo, Ciegos, dego, Deigo, deigu, diago, digo, Dileo, Dilga, Dimeco, Disegno, Dorego, ideog, Idigo, Wiyogo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DIEGO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dogie, geoid.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-o"

-1 letter: doge, gied.

-2 letters: die, dig, doe, dog, ego, ged, gid, gie, god, ode.

-3 letters: de, do, ed, go, id, od, oe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-o"
 

+1 letter: doggie, dogies, geodic, geoids, goodie.

 

+2 letters: bigoted, boogied, coigned, demigod, demoing, dingoes, dodgier, doggier, doggies, doglike, ergodic, eroding, firedog, geoidal, glenoid, gloried, godlier, godlike, goodies, grodier, groined, hogtied, ignored, ingoted, mendigo, negroid, obliged, podgier, redoing, wendigo, widgeon.

 

+3 letters: agonised, agonized, amidogen, codesign, cognised, cognized, cosigned, deboning, decoding, decoying, demigods, demoting, denoting, deponing, deposing, detoxing, devoting, diagnose, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, digestor, disgorge, dislodge, dodgiest, dogeship, doggiest, doughier, dovening, doweling, dowering, dozening, eloigned, encoding, endowing, firedogs, foliaged, genocide, geodesic, geodetic, goadlike, godliest, goodlier, goodwife, gossiped, grodiest, gueridon, gynecoid, idealogy, ideogram, ideology, indigoes, mendigos, mislodge, modeling, negroids, ordering, organdie, outguide, overgild, overgird, podgiest, porridge, recoding, ringdove, rodeoing, sidelong, smidgeon, stodgier, wendigos, widgeons, yodeling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Names: Derived from
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Anagrams
17. Bibliography


  

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