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Definition: Dumb Show |
Dumb ShowNoun1. A performance using gestures and body movements without words. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Dumb ShowSynonyms: mime (n), pantomime (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent. |
Adverb: in token of; symbolically; Adjective: in dumb show. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dumb Show |
| English words defined with "dumb show": Pantomimical. (references) |
Expressions using "dumb show": by dumb show ♦ in dumb show. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
big dumb show | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dumb show"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pantomima (harlequinade, mime, pantomime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pantomiimi, elenäytelmä (pantomime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | némajáték (mime, mummery, pantomime, pantomimic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umbday owshay pantomimã (by-play, Mummery, pantomime). (various references) немая сцена, пантомима (mime, pantomime). (various references) pantomim (mime, pantomime). (various references) pandomim (harlequinade, pantomime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-h-m-o-s-u-w" | |
-3 letters: dhows, doums, dumbs, modus, umbos, wombs. | |
-4 letters: bods, bosh, bows, buds, bums, bush, dhow, doms, doum, dows, dubs, dumb, duos, hobs, hods, hows, hubs, hums, mhos, mobs, mods, mosh, mows, muds, mush, ohms, ouds, shmo, shod, show, sumo, swob, swum, udos, umbo, whom, womb. | |
-5 letters: bod, bos, bow, bud, bum, bus, dom, dos. | |
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