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Definition: Doberman |
DobermanNoun1. Medium large breed of dog of German origin with a glossy black and tan coat; used as a watchdog. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Doberman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Synonym: DobermanSynonym: Doberman pinscher (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Doberman |
| English words defined with "Doberman": miniature pinscher. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Doberman" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (doberman). |
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Screenplays | A Doberman. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Doberman Gang (1972) | |
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| "Doberman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doberman" is used about 17 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 (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Doberman": doberman pinscher. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Doberman": Doberman-cross, Doberman-pinscher. | |
| 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 "Doberman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dobermann. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ドーナツ現象 (Dobermann Pinscher, dole queue, dome, domesday, doomsday, dope check, dope test, doping, Doria, dormer window, dormie, dormie hole, dormitory, dormy, doughnut phenomenon, drug test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ドーベルマン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obermanday doberman. (various references) caballero (cavalier, cavalryman, Chevalier, gent, gentleman, knight, lord, Mister, Mr., rider, Sir, sportsman). (various references) доберман. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Doberman" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debrecan, dobermann, Dobrnja, Dookeran, Dopeman, Hoberman, Hooberman, Logermann. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: boardmen. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: abdomen, bandore, broaden, madrone. | |
-2 letters: badmen, bander, barmen, bedamn, bemoan, bonder, borane, daemon, damner, enamor, moaned, moaner, modern, normed, radome, random, remand, roamed, roband, rodman, rodmen. | |
-3 letters: abode, admen, adobe, adore, adorn, amber, amend, anode, ardeb, armed, baned, barde, bared, baron, beano, beard, board, boned, boner, bored, borne, brand, bread, bream, broad, brome. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-m-n-o-r" | |
+2 letters: brominated. | |
+3 letters: barnstormed, bombardment, boomeranged, embryonated. | |
+4 letters: bombardments, brainstormed, demonstrable, demonstrably, dermabrasion, imponderable, imponderably, rhabdomancer. | |
+5 letters: dermabrasions, imponderables, recommendable, rhabdomancers, rhabdomancies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 62 65 72 6D 61 6E |
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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 01101111 01100010 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o b e r m a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0062 0065 0072 006D 0061 006E |
| 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)3881687184796780 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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