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"DIONE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus". |
Date "DIONE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"DIONE" is a common misspelling or typo for: dine, diode, doing, dome, done, drone, dyne. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A satellite of Saturn orbiting at a mean distance of 378,000 kilometers. (references) |
Literature | Dione (3 syl.). Venus, who sprang from the froth of the sea, after the mutilated body of Uranus (the sky) had been thrown there by Saturn. "So young Dione, nursed beneath the waves And rocked by Nereids in their coral caves ... Lisped her sweet tones, and tried her tender smiles." Darwin: Economy of Vegatation, ii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Greek mythology, Dione ("divine queen") was the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus. She was a Titan. Her name is actually a feminine form of the same name as Zeus. The name is also used to refer to Aphrodite.
In astronomy, Dione is a moon of Saturn. Asteroid 106 is also named for Dione.
In organic chemistry, a dione is a molecule with two ketone functional groups.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dione."
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![]() | Montage of Saturn and several of its satellites, Dione, Tethys, Mimas, Enceladus, Rhea, and Titan. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Color image of Saturn's satellite, Dione. Credit: NASA. |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "DIONE" 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 |
| Dione | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,591 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "DIONE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "DIONE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Dionysios | Male | Ancient Greek | Dionysos |
| Deon | Male | English | Dion |
| Deonne | Male | English | Dion |
| Dion | Male | English | Dionysios |
| Dione | Female | English | Dion |
| Dionne | Female | English | Dion |
| Dion | Male | French | Dionysios |
| Dionysios | Male | Greek | Dionysos |
| Dionysos | Male | Greek Mythology | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
celine dione | 143 | 38 dione | 5 |
dione | 43 | celine dione fly | 4 |
celine dione lyrics | 15 | casio dione | 4 |
dione warwick | 12 | celine dione in las vegas | 4 |
celin dione | 10 | dione quintuplets | 3 |
celine dione ticket | 8 | celene dione | 3 |
celine dione las vegas | 7 | celione dione | 3 |
de dione graaff | 5 | dione paul | 3 |
de dione graaf | 5 | dione lyrics warwick | 3 |
celion dione | 5 | 240 dione | 2 |
celine concert dione | 2 | ||
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "DIONE": menadione. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DIONE": menadiones. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: deni, dine, done, nide, node, nodi. | |
-2 letters: den, die, din, doe, don, end, eon, ion, nod, ode, one. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, en, id, in, ne, no, od, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: codein, coined, dinero, domine, donsie, emodin, foined, hoiden, honied, indole, iodine, ironed, joined, monied, nevoid, noised, oinked, onside, opined, ponied. | |
+2 letters: adenoid, amidone, aneroid, anodize, bedouin, codeina, codeine, codeins, coigned, confide, ctenoid, demoing, demonic, dentoid, deontic, dineros, dingoes, dioxane, doeskin, domines, dominie, dourine, downier, edition, eidolon, eloined, emodins, eroding, glenoid, groined, hedonic, hoidens, hordein, hyenoid, ignored, imponed, indoles, indorse, indowed, ingoted, intoned, invoked, iodines, ionised, ionized, joinder, jointed, lentoid, mendigo, minored, misdone, naevoid, negroid, neuroid, noddies, noticed, ordines, ozonide, phonied, poinded, pointed, quoined, redoing, rosined, secondi, sordine, unoiled, wendigo, widgeon. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 4F 4E 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 01001111 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I O N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 004F 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)3843494839 |
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