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Definition: DASHER |
DASHERNoun1. One who makes an ostentatious parade. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. |
Date "DASHER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
Note: Dasher \Dash"er\ (d[a^]sh"[~e]r), noun. 1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. [U. S.]. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dasher, Georgia."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refuge | Covert, cover, shelter, screen, lee wall, wing, shield, umbrella; barrier; dashboard, dasher. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen (Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; writing credit: Romeo Muller) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | W.C. Wicks, residence on Route 1, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Licking the dasher. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "DASHER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DASHER" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DASHER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dasher | Last name | 1,000 | 7,843 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
dasher | 26 |
dasher boards | 7 |
dasher insurance | 6 |
dasher vw | 5 |
volkswagen dasher | 5 |
dasher ted | 3 |
blue dasher dragonfly | 2 |
business.com dasher home instant | 2 |
auto dasher insurance | 2 |
dasher express | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DASHER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | baltëpritëse (dash-board), ai që lë një përshtypje e madhe. (various references) | |
Arabic | شخص أنيق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | човек който произвежда фурор, прът за биене на масло. (various references) | |
French | élégant (dapper). (various references) | |
German | schneidige (spirited). (various references) | |
Greek | ορμών επιδεικτικά. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rámenõs ember. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asherday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paralama (dash-board, mudguard, splashboard, splasher), grã-fino (nob), flutuador (float), batedor de nata (churn-staff, mixer), batedeira (beater, churn, mixer, thresher). (various references) | |
Russian | крыло автомобиля (dash-board, fender, mudguard, splashboard, vane), мутовка (churn-staff, verticil). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bućkalica (churn). (various references) | |
Spanish | presuntuoso (bumptious, cocksure, conceited, overweening, pontifical, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, upstart). (various references) | |
Swedish | käck (bold, brave, dashing, gamy, jaunty, perky, saucy), elegant (chic, courtly, dressy, elegant, fashionable, fine, graceful, handsomely, posh, refined, sleek, smart). (various references) | |
Turkish | modayı takip eden kimse (fashion plate), kaymak karıştırıcı, şık tip (plate). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | товкач (pestle, pounder), збивачка (churn-staff), легковажна людина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người chịu diện người hay loè, người ăn diện. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DASHER": dashers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DASHER": haberdasher. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DASHER": haberdasheries, haberdashers, haberdashery. (additional references) | |
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"DASHER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adshel, Adzhar, D'acier, Daghir, Daschle, dashe, dashi, Dashiel, Dasho, dashuer, Dashur, Dashut, dather, desher, Discher, Disha, dishr, doshe, Duphar, Dusshera, jasher, tasher, tisher. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DASHER" (pronounced da"sher) |
| 3 | -a" sh er | basher, brasher, flasher, lasher, slasher, smasher, Thrasher. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: shader, shared. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ashed, dares, dears, deash, hades, hards, hared, hares, heads, heard, hears, herds, rased, reads, rheas, sadhe, shade, shard, share, shear, sherd, shred. | |
-2 letters: ares, arse, dahs, dare, dash, dear, ears, edhs, eras, hade, haed, haes, hard, hare, head, hear, herd, hers, rads, rase, rash, read, reds, resh, rhea, sade, sard, sear, sera. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-r-s" | |
+1 letter: adheres, airshed, crashed, dashers, dashier, dearths, echards, hardens, hardest, hardies, hardset, hatreds, headers, hearsed, heralds, hydrase, phrased, shaders, shadier, sharked, sharped, sheared, threads, trashed. | |
+2 letters: adherers, airheads, airsheds, ashlared, ashlered, breadths, charades, cheddars, chresard, diehards, dishware, ephedras, haeredes, hagrides, halberds, handlers, harassed, hardcase, hardiest, hardness, hardnose, hayrides, headrest, herdsman, hoarders, hydrases, hydrates, jarheads, kashered, misheard, rachides, radishes, raphides, ravished, rawhides, redheads, redshank, rehashed, reshaped, reshaved, rewashed, rhapsode, scarphed, searched, semihard, shadower, sorehead, starched, swanherd, thrashed, unshared, warheads. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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