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Definitions: Dis |
DisNoun1. God of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Dis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Dis Pluto. "Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered." Milton: Paradise Lost, iv 270. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Celtic mythology, Dis was the Roman name assigned to the supreme god of the Celts by Julius Caesar. Nobody knows which Celtic god this refers to.
In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Dis was both the name of the city separating the fifth and sixth circles of Hell and an alternate name for Lucifer.
In keeping with this general theme, Dis is also the name of the virtual machine within the Inferno computer operating system. Dis was designed to execute programs written in the programming language Limbo.
Dis is also an Ebonics slang word for 'disrespect'.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dis."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DIS | Dutch | Documentair informatiesysteem | Computing |
dis | English | Disturbance | N/A |
DIS | German | Drogeninformationssystem | Medicine |
DIS | Greek | Σχέδιο "ιεθνούς ροτύπου | Meteorology & Standards |
| Rheu ht dis | English | Rheumatic heart disease | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: DisSynonym: Orcus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dis |
| Specialty definitions using "Dis": Bump Dis ♦ No Dis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Dis": Diffident, Ditation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (dish, it is, it's, that's), Czech (sharp), French (said, say), Haitian Creole (ten), Latin (possessing wealth or worth, rich), Norwegian (fog, haze), Pidgin English (this), Romany (town), Scottish (susceptible to cold), Swedish (film, haze), Welsh (dice, die). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholeslike yourselves. (Johnny Dangerously; writing credit: Harry Colomby; Jeff Harris) | |
Lyrics | We go we go we go a little sumthin like dis like (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) Gal free up unu mind caw nobody can dis you man wont let it can (Get Busy; performing artist: SEAN PAUL) Some knucklehead tried to dis (Baby Got Back; performing artist: SIR MIX-A-LOT) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait de l'oeil (1950) J'te dis qu'elle t'a fait de l'oeil Et moi (1935) To Dis examartin (1994) Tu m'aimes? Dis maman (1992) The Big Dis (1989) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Probes and scoops] / Russo dis. F. Martano inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Servendo nell 'Ospedale della Consolazione di Roma ne contrae un morbo Contagioso. / Dom. del Frate inv. e dis. Vinc Feoli inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Aqueducts of Rome] / [G.B.] Piranesi Archit. dis. inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | S. Apollonia : Verg. e Mart. / L.A. inv. e dis. P. Fontana inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Francesco Luigi Fanzago / Giuseppe Cornienti dis. Milano Lith. di P. Bertotti. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Seven dollars fo' one hat!!!! : come right out of dis!!! : is you crazy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | I am der Chief! dis feur iss by me. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | P'lice say, 'Wuz you de cause o' dis disfiggerment, boy?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Yellow Kid Me an de captain is runnin dis ship / / R.F. Outcault. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Porta S. Paolo ot. Trigemina / /G. Vasi dis. e inc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Denmark | In addition, ships under bareboat charter to a Danish company may be registered in the DIS. (references) |
Hong Kong | It is expected that the earliest time for the introduction of a DIS in Hong Kong would be 2002. (references) | |
Trade | Ghana | This implies that under the DIS, imports will only be inspected at the port of clearance in Ghana as against inspection prior to export to Ghana under the PSI. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dis" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 33.14% of the time. "Dis" is used about 172 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 33.14% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Determiner (general) | 27.91% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Noun (plural) | 16.28% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.37% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.65% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 3.49% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.58% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.58% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 172 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Germany | DIS Deutscher Industrie Service AG | Turkey | Turk Dis Ticaret Bankasi A.S. (Disbank) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "Dis": Dis Pater. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Dis": dis-ambiguation, dis-applied, dis-ap-point-ment, dis-assembled, dis-assembler, dis-assembly, dis-associate, dis-aster, dis-autonomization, dis-barring, dis-believing, dis-benefits, dis-continuing, dis-continuity, dis-corporation, dis-cover, dis-ease, dis-economies, dis-economy, dis-embarrass, dis-enfranchised, dis-enfranchisement, dis-equilibria, dis-equilibrium, dis-honour, dis-honoured, dis-information, dis-inhibitive, dis-invent, dis-investment, dis-obey, dis-passionate, dis-represent, dis-satisfaction, dis-satisfied, dis-stress, dis-used. | |
Ending with "Dis": Igbp-dis. | |
Containing "Dis": Con-dis-corde. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Dis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا (anti-, dis-, im-, in-, neither, no, un-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | on- (dis-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, un-), in- (dis-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, un-), im- (dis-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, un-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | ó- (dis-, il-, im-, in-, ir-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | un- (dis-, il-, im-, in-, ir-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jeh- (dis-, prefix dis-), jee- (dis-, prefix dis-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isday dis- (dis-). (various references) o- (dis-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, non-, un-). (various references) dad- (back, dis-, re-, un-), an- (de-, dis-, in-, un-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Dis": disabilities, disability, disable, disabled, disablement, disablements, disables, disabling, disabuse, disabused, disabuses, disabusing, disaccharidase, disaccharidases, disaccharide, disaccharides, disaccord, disaccorded, disaccording, disaccords, disaccustom, disaccustomed, disaccustoming, disaccustoms, disadvantage, disadvantaged, disadvantagedness, disadvantagednesses, disadvantageous, disadvantageously, disadvantageousness, disadvantageousnesses, disadvantages, disadvantaging, disaffect, disaffected, disaffecting, disaffection, disaffections, disaffects, disaffiliate, disaffiliated, disaffiliates, disaffiliating, disaffiliation, disaffiliations, disaffirm, disaffirmance, disaffirmances, disaffirmed, disaffirming. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Dis": barramundis, bindis, caddis, cadis, cedis, coatimundis, effendis, gaddis, gadis, garibaldis, jaborandis, jaguarondis, jaguarundis, kadis, khadis, maravedis, midis, miladis, padis, sadis, salmagundis, tsadis, tuladis, wadis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Dis": absurdism, absurdisms, absurdist, absurdists, aggrandise, aggrandised, aggrandises, aggrandising, anaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiacs, antiaphrodisiac, antiaphrodisiacs, antidiscrimination, aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, aphrodisiacs, arrondissement, arrondissements, aspidistra, aspidistras, baldish, balladist, balladists, bastardise, bastardised, bastardises, bastardising, blackguardism, blackguardisms, blandish, blandished, blandisher, blandishers, blandishes, blandishing, blandishment, blandishments, blastodisc, blastodiscs, blondish, brandish, brandished, brandishes, brandishing, broadish, bundist, bundists, caddises, caddish, caddishly, caddishness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Dis" (pronounced di"s) |
| 3 | d i" s | Diss. |
| 2 | -i" s | abyss, Amiss, bis, bliss, Cris, dismiss, hiss, kiss, Kris, Lis, mis, Miss, piss, reminisce, remiss, sis, swiss, this, vis, wis, wiss. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ids. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-s" | |
-1 letter: id, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-s" | |
+1 letter: aids, bids, dais, dibs, dies, digs, dims, dins, dips, disc, dish, disk, diss, dits, fids, gids, ides, kids, lids, mids, rids, sadi, said, side, sild, skid, slid, yids. | |
+2 letters: acids, adios, adits, aides, amids, asdic, aside, bides, binds, birds, cadis, caids, cedis, daisy, dashi, defis, deils, deism, deist, delis, dials, dices, dicks, didos, didst, diets, dikes, dills, dimes, dines, dings, dinks, dints, diols, dipso, dirks, dirls, dirts, disci, disco, discs, dishy, disks, disme, ditas, dites, ditsy, divas, dives, djins, doits, dribs, dries, drips, duits, edits, eidos, fidos, finds, gadis, gilds, girds, grids, guids, hides, hinds, ideas, idles, idols, idyls, imids, irids, isled, kadis, kinds, lidos, maids, midis, midst, minds, misdo, mysid, nides, nidus, odist, oxids, padis, qaids, quids, raids, resid, rides, rinds, sadis, saids, sapid, sayid, scudi, shied, sided, sides, sidle, silds, siped, sired, sited, sized, skids, skied, slide, sloid, snide, sodic, soldi, solid, spied, squid, staid, stied, tides, tsadi, vised, voids, wadis, whids, wides, wilds, winds, wised, yirds. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 |
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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 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 |
| 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)387585 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, arábiskt, arabisch, Arabish, arabic, arabisk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, hollendskt, holländisch, Ollanish, Germaanish, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, holländsk |
Faeroese | orðabók, orðbók | føroyskur, färöisk, färöbo |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, Duitse, týskt, týskari, týskur, deutsch, Deutsche, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, neamţ, tysk, Almaenwr |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, från ön man |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | Roemeens, rumenskt, rumäne, Roomainagh, român, rumänsk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | اللغة السويدية, Zweeds, svenskt, schwedisch, Soolynish, Soolynagh, svensk |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | تهرب من دفع الرهان, الولزية لغة إقليم ويلز, ويلزي, Wels, valisiskt, walisisch, Bretnagh, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, walesisk, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, enskt, englisch, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, englezesc, engelsk, Saesneg |
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