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Definition: Divot |
DivotNoun1. (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke; "it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot". 2. A piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Divot \Div"ot\, noun. thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel. [Scottish]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DIVOT | English | Digital to Voice Translator | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Divot |
| English words defined with "divot": Divet. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's fixing a divot! (Space Jam; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) Um, I'm fixing a divot. (Space Jam; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Divot Diggers (1936) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Divot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Divot" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | 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 |
divot tool | 75 |
divot | 29 |
divot repair tool | 28 |
golf divot tool | 24 |
divot golf | 9 |
divot repair | 8 |
golf divot repair tool | 6 |
golf design divot tool | 4 |
zivot divot tool | 4 |
callaway divot tool | 3 |
divot take | 3 |
golf divot repair | 2 |
divot tool display | 2 |
divot fixer | 2 |
divot tool cigar holder | 2 |
divot switchblade tool | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "divot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | divot, escalope. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tõzegkocka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, French kiss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ディボット . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scraa (green sod, scale, scraw, turf), foaid (block of peat, sod, turf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivotday torrão (cake, chunk, cob, dollop, lump, turf). (various references) дерн (greensward, sod, turf). (various references) busen trave izbačen štapom za golf. (various references) terrón (clod, lump), chuleta (chop, cutlet, pony, trot). (various references) golfte acemice vuruşla kopan çimen parçası, çimen (bent, bent grass, grass, greensward, lawn, meadow grass, sod, sward, turf), çim parçası. (various references) дерен (grass, greensward, sod, sward, turf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "divot": divots. (additional references) | |
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"Divot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bivot, dacot, dadot, Daviot, Davor, davot, Davox, davt, Davut, devet, devot, Devoto, dibo, didot, dijo, dijot, dimot, diot, divat, divit, Divo, divoto, divox, divvent, Dudot, Dyott, Dzikow, givot, Hivolt, rivot, tavot, Tiviot, tivot, wi'oot, wivout, Zivota. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: doit, void. | |
-2 letters: dit, dot, tod. | |
-3 letters: do, id, it, od, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: divots. | |
+2 letters: motived, outvied, oviduct, pivoted, vomited. | |
+3 letters: adoptive, demivolt, denotive, deviator, devoting, devotion, donative, dovetail, indevout, obviated, outdrive, outlived, overedit, oviducts, postdive, videotex, violated. | |
+4 letters: advection, bevomited, bloviated, contrived, convicted, demivolts, deviation, deviators, deviatory, devotions, donatives, dovetails, innovated, invocated, involuted, motivated, outdriven, outdrives, outvoiced, overedits, overtimed, overtired, oviductal, oxidative, provident, videotape, videotext, vitrioled, voodooist. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ...- --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 006F 0074 |
| 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)3875888186 |
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