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Definitions: DEMY |
DEMYAdjective1. Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book. Noun1. A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. 2. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper. |
Crosswords: DEMY |
| English words defined with "DEMY": Demi, Demies. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | L' Univers de Jacques Demy (1995) | |
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Books | |
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| "DEMY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "DEMY" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
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 |
valentine demy | 37 |
demy moore | 19 |
demy moor | 7 |
demy more | 6 |
demy | 3 |
mathieu demy | 2 |
demy valentina | 2 |
demy moore nude | 2 |
jacques demy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEMY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Format Letre (elephant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Формат Хартия (Pott). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Félív Papiros. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emyday Формат Бумаги. (various references) polu (half, hemi-, semi). (various references) Demi Boy Kâğıt, Oxfordlu Burslu Öğrenci. (various references) giấy viết 15, 5 x 22, 5 insơ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEMY": demyelinating, demyelination, demyelinations, demystification, demystifications, demystified, demystifies, demystify, demystifying, demythologization, demythologizations, demythologize, demythologized, demythologizer, demythologizers, demythologizes, demythologizing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DEMY": academy. (additional references) | |
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"DEMY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ademi, damy, Damyl, damyo, ddmmyy, deemy, deevy, degy, dehmc, dehy, dem, Demby, Demdyke, demic, Demmy, demp, denvy, denyl, deoy, dermy, devy, dexy, diemy, dimey, dimi, dimy, Djem, Domby, domey, donny, Dpmi, dremyth, Dumay, dumgy, dumy, Dumycz, dwem, Dwymyn, edm, femy, Kemmy, remy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: emyd. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-y" | |
-1 letter: dey, dye, med. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, em, me, my, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m-y" | |
+1 letter: emyde, emyds, mayed. | |
+2 letters: comedy, dreamy, embody, emydes, hymned, medfly, medley, melody, remedy, rhymed. | |
+3 letters: academy, daymare, daysmen, daytime, dramedy, draymen, embayed, mayweed, mazedly, meadowy, mediacy, medleys, midyear, mildewy, modesty, moneyed, moseyed, mutedly, myeloid, samoyed, semidry, someday, stymied, yardmen. | |
+4 letters: amazedly, amusedly, amygdale, amygdule, berhymed, coembody, corymbed, dairymen, daydream, daymares, daytimes, demagogy, demurely, dimethyl, dismayed, domesday, dreamily, dynamite, embryoid, employed, endogamy, ependyma, ganymede, handymen, homebody, hydromel, hypoderm, maidenly, markedly, martyred, massedly, mattedly, mayweeds, medially, medianly, megadyne, midyears, mistyped, misyoked, modernly, modestly, monkeyed, myceloid, myxedema, odometry, pyoderma, reembody, remodify, samoyeds, seldomly, shamoyed, somebody, symboled, syndrome, udometry, unrhymed, yammered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4D 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E M Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004D 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38394759 |
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