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Definition: Dog Star |
Dog StarNoun1. The brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Dog StarSynonyms: Canicula (n), Sirius (n), Sothis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dog Star |
| English words defined with "Dog Star": canicular, Canis major, Cannicula ♦ heliac, heliacal ♦ Sothic, Swart star. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Dog Star": siriasis. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Children of the Dog Star (1974) Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964) Prelude: Dog Star Man (1961) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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 |
dog star | 48 |
dog star triumph war | 12 |
sirius the dog star | 11 |
comic dog star triumph war | 3 |
dog star war | 2 |
clothing dog star two | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Dog Star"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | siriusi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сириус (canicula). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hvìzda (cartwheel, catherine wheel, personality, star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sziriusz csillagképe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 天狼星 (Sirius, the Dog Star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | て"ろうせい (Sirius, the Dog Star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Rollage y Voddee (Sirius, the dog star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogday arstay сириус (canicula, sirius). (various references) sirijus (canicula, canicule). (various references) sirio (Syrian). (various references) sirius, hundstjärnan. (various references) büyük köpek burcunun en parlak yıldızı, akyıldız. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Canis lupus f.familiaris, RM:chaun. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: argots, gators, groats. | |
-2 letters: argot, dagos, darts, datos, doats, dorsa, drags, drats, gator, goads, goats, grads, groat, grots, ratos, roads, roast, rotas, sarod, tardo, taros, toads, togas, toras. | |
-3 letters: ados, arts, dago, dags, dart, dato, doat, dogs, dors, dost, dots, drag, drat, gads, gars, gast, gats, goad, goas, goat, gods, grad, grat, grot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: dogcarts, outdrags, postgrad. | |
+2 letters: derogates, dragonets, gastropod, goatherds, postgrads, tagboards, waterdogs. | |
+3 letters: coastguard, delegators, designator, gastropods, gladiators, godfathers, godparents, gradations, graduators, headstrong, indagators, isografted, subrogated, surrogated. | |
+4 letters: categorised, coastguards, denigrators, dermatogens, derogations, designators, designatory, dogcatchers, dogmatizers, gangsterdom, goaltenders, graduations, grandiosity, montagnards, radiologist, retrogrades, scattergood, sugarcoated. | |
+5 letters: aggradations, beardtongues, broadcasting, cardiologist, degradations, denigrations, dreadnoughts, footdraggers, gangsterdoms, goddaughters, gradiometers, grandmothers, groundwaters, hydrogenates, nongraduates, outspreading, postgraduate, propagandist, radiologists, scattergoods, shortchanged, starboarding, stranglehold. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 67 53 74 61 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100111 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o g   S t a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0067 0053 0074 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388173253866784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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