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Dvorak

Definition: Dvorak

Dvorak

Noun

1. Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Dvorak

DomainDefinition

Computing

Dvorak A configuration of (computer) keyboard keys arranged to increase the speed and ease of typing over the normal qwerty layout; the most common characters (for English) have been put on the home row. The standard Dvorak International (http://www.dvorakint.org/) layout is: `~ 1! 2@ 3# 4% 5^ 6^ 7& 8* 9( 0) [\]\ \\| '" ,< .> p y f g c r l /? += a o e u i d h t n s -_ ;: q j k x b m w v z [Do other Dvorak-like layout standards exist for other languages?] (1998-01-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Specialty Definition: Dvorak

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dvorak."

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Synonym: Dvorak

Synonym: Antonin Dvorak (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Dvorak

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Herbert von Karajan: His Legacy for Home Video: Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 (1992)

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Commercial Usage: Dvorak

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dvorak (The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers) (reference)

  • Dvorak in Love: A Light-Hearted Dream (reference)

  • Dvorak in Spillville (reference)

  • Two Scarlet Songbirds: A Story of Anton Dvorak (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Herbert Von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video: Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Usage Frequency: Dvorak

"Dvorak" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dvorak" is used about 27 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2766,962

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Dvorak

The following table summarizes the usage of "Dvorak" 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
DvorakLast name2,0005,674
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Dvorak

Expression using "Dvorak": Antonin Dvorak. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dvorak

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

dvorak

199

dvorak mp3

4

jan dvorak

134

dvorak layout

4

dvorak keyboard

96

dvorak new world

3

antonin dvorak

58

dvorak cello concerto

3

anton dvorak

13

ann dvorak

3

radek dvorak

8

biography dvorak

3

the jan dvorak story

8

dvorak humoresque

3

dvorak jan novotny pavel

6

dvorak mater stabat

3

dvorak keyboard layout

6

dvorak typing tutor

3

dvorak cd

6

dvorak karen

3

john dvorak

6

dvorak going home

2

czech dvorak republic

6

dvorak gay jan

2

antonin biography dvorak

5

dvorak humoreske

2

john c dvorak

5

dvorak sheet music

2

ergonomic dvorak keyboard

5

american dvorak quartet

2

hotel dvorak

4

dvorak composer

2

dvorak pavel

4

dvorak from new world

2

dvorak typing

4

dvorak gallery jan

2

dvorak new symphony world

4

dvorak music

2

dvorak jan pic

4

dvorak nine number symphony

2

dvorak tomes

2
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Anagrams: Dvorak

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-k-o-r-v"

-1 letter: vodka.

-2 letters: arvo, dark, dork, okra, orad, road.

-3 letters: ado, ark, avo, dak, dor, koa, kor, oak, oar, oka, ora, ova, rad, rod, var.

-4 letters: ad, ar, do, ka, od, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-k-o-r-v"
 

+3 letters: overbaked, overdrank.

 

+4 letters: oversoaked, overtalked, overtasked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dvorak


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

44 76 6F 72 61 6B

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

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

=

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 01110110 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#118 &#111 &#114 &#97 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0076 006F 0072 0061 006B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

388881846777

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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