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DIONE

"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.


Specialty Definition: DIONE

DomainDefinition

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.

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

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Specialty Definition: Dione

(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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Commercial Usage: DIONE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dione Lucas Book of Natural Fren (reference)

  • The Dione Lucas Book of French Cooking (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: 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.

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

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Name Usage Frequency: DIONE

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DioneFirst name Female2,0002,591
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: DIONE

"DIONE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "DIONE."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
DionysiosMaleAncient GreekDionysos
DeonMaleEnglishDion
DeonneMaleEnglishDion
DionMaleEnglishDionysios
DioneFemaleEnglishDion
DionneFemaleEnglishDion
DionMaleFrenchDionysios
DionysiosMaleGreekDionysos
DionysosMaleGreek MythologyN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIONE

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

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

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Derivations: DIONE

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).

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Anagrams: DIONE

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DIONE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 4F 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ---    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#69

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3843494839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Names: Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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