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Health | Light seen through the pupil when a light source is held in the mouth. (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 "Davidson."
Date "DAVIDSON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Crosswords: DAVIDSON |
| Specialty definitions using "DAVIDSON": Cato-Street Conspiracy ♦ HPCode-Plus ♦ Register Transfer Language ♦ Sirocco fan. (references) |
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Screenplays | I got a Harley Davidson. Does that turn you on? (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The John Davidson Show (1969) Harley Davidson Girl (1994) The John Davidson Show (1980) | |
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 | Monterey Bay Case Study - Photo #5 1897 contoured map of Monterey "Submerged Valley" From George Davidson published paper in Proc. of Calif. Acad. of Sciences Monterey Canyon was first noted in 1857 by James Alden of C&GS Ship ACTIVE Alden termed the canyon a "submarine gulch". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | E. J. Brown using Davidson meridian telescope Astro party of E. J. Brown Part of World Longitude Campaign. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A view of Point Conception and the Point Conception Lighthouse from the Santa Barbara Channel. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 22. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Point Sur along the Big Sur coastline about 25 miles south of Monterey. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 45. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Title page of Coast Pilot of Alaska by George Davidson, 1869. In: "Coast Pilot of Alaska, (First Part,) ...." by George Davidson, 1869. Library Call Number VK943 .N3 1st 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Native dwelling and totem pole at Port Simpson, British Columbia. In: "Coast Pilot of Alaska, (First Part,) ...." by George Davidson, 1869. P.18. Library Call Number VK943 .N3 1st 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | View of Sitka Harbor in: "Coast Pilot of Alaska, (First Part,) ...." by George Davidson, 1869. P. 118. Library Call Number VK943 .N3 1st 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The boundary monument between the United States and Mexico just south of San Diego. This also gives a good seaward view of Tijuana Slough, now part of the the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 8. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Army Corps of Engineer employee, Russ Davidson, at the Bonneville Dam, Oregon. The Corps of Engineers uses NRCS snow survey data to manage the water in their dams. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | Davidson Flat of the Deschutes River Area. Credit: Unknown. |
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Business | The same as above can be stated for Harley Davidson accessories and bikers'apparel. (references) | |
Leading deodorant brands include Fa, Lady's Speed Stick, Rexona and Secret while leading shaving cream and foam brands are Gillette, Florena, Nivea, Denim, Old Spice, Mennen and Harley Davidson. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DAVIDSON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "DAVIDSON" is used about 416 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 (proper) | 99.28% | 413 | 13,687 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.72% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 416 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DAVIDSON" 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 |
| Davidson | Last name | 41,000 | 262 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Davidson, NC (town, FIPS 16400) 2. Davidson, OK (town, FIPS 19400) |
Expressions using "DAVIDSON": Davidson County ♦ Harley Davidson. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "DAVIDSON": Harley-davidson. | |
| 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 "DAVIDSON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | Mac Ghavy. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | avidsonday | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Balaenoptera acutorostrata. (various references) |
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"DAVIDSON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Advision, Arvidson, Avildsen, Davdison, Daveyton, Davidov, Davidsson, Davydov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-i-n-o-s-v" | |
-2 letters: adonis, avions, avoids, danios, divans, viands. | |
-3 letters: adios, avion, aviso, avoid, dados, danio, didos, divan, divas, donas, novas, savin, viand, vinas, vinos, voids. | |
-4 letters: adds, ados, aids, ains, ands, anis, avid, avos, dado, dads, dais, dido, dins, diva, dona, dons, ions, naoi, naos, nodi, nods, nova, odds, sadi, said, sain, sand, soda, vain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-i-n-o-s-v" | |
+2 letters: videolands. | |
| 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. | |
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