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Definition: DIGUE |
DIGUENoun1. A bank; a dike. |
Date "DIGUE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Digue \Digue\, noun. [French expression See Dike.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: DIGUE |
| Non-English Usage: "DIGUE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (breakwater, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, jetty, levee, mole, sea wall, spur). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Digue (1911) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Seychelles | Most others live on Praslin and La Digue, with the remaining smaller islands either sparsely populated or uninhabited. (references) |
Human Rights | Seychelles | The Constitution expressly forbids torture; however, while there were no reported instances of the use of torture by the security forces, there was a report that police beat a man while he was in police custody in March 2000 on the island of La Digue. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DIGUE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DIGUE" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
la digue | 43 |
la digue island | 12 |
la digue island seychelles | 7 |
digue hotel la | 3 |
digue la seychelles | 3 |
digue island la lodge | 3 |
grande digue | 3 |
de digue hotel la | 3 |
cul digue du la | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DIGUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | Gát (bar, barrage, dam, dike, dyke, hindrance, hurdle, hurdles, impediment, lasher, obstacle, pen, perineum, rampart, seal, shackle, stumbling-block, trammel, traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | igueday "амба (Causey). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: guide. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-u" | |
-1 letter: gied, gude, guid. | |
-2 letters: die, dig, due, dug, dui, ged, gid, gie. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-u" | |
+1 letter: budgie, guided, guider, guides, guiled, guised. | |
+2 letters: budgies, deucing, divulge, druggie, dueling, dungier, educing, eluding, enduing, exuding, feuding, figured, gaudier, gaudies, guiders, guilder, gullied, gussied, indulge, pudgier, sueding. | |
+3 letters: argufied, beguiled, debuting, deducing, defusing, defuzing, deluding, deluging, demiurge, denuding, deputing, dialogue, dinguses, dirgeful, disguise, divulged, divulger, divulges, doughier, druggier, druggies, duelling, duetting, dungiest, enduring, fatigued, gaudiest, gueridon, guidable, guidance, guideway, guilders, impugned, indulged, indulger, indulges, ingulfed, misguide, misjudge, outguide, pudgiest, reducing, seducing, sludgier, smudgier, uglified, unending, ungifted, ungirded, unguided, unhinged, unrigged, unsigned, untinged, upending, upgirded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 47 55 45 |
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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 01001001 01000111 01010101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I G U E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0047 0055 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)3843415539 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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