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Definition: Dive-bombing |
Dive-bombingNoun1. A bombing run in which the bomber release the bomb while flying straight toward the target. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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| "Dive-bombing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Dive-bombing" is used about 9 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dive-bombing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | zuhanóbombázás. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ive-bombingday | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Dive-bombing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: divebombing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: divebombing. | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-o-v" | |
-2 letters: demobbing. | |
-3 letters: divebomb. | |
-4 letters: bombing, demoing, dibbing, dominie, imbibed, mendigo, mobbing, voiding. | |
-5 letters: biding, binged, biogen, boding, bombed, bonged, bovine, dieing, divine, diving, dobbin, domine, doming, ebbing, emodin, gibbed, gibbon, gobbed, ibidem, imbibe, indigo, iodine, mobbed, monied, moving, nevoid, nibbed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 65 2D 62 6F 6D 62 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00101101 01100010 01101111 01101101 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v e - b o m b i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 0065 002D 0062 006F 006D 0062 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387588711568817968758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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