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Definition: Dog Catcher |
Dog CatcherNoun1. An employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and cats. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Captures and impounds unlicensed, stray, and uncontrolled animals: Snares animal with net, rope, or device. Cages or secures animal in truck. Drives truck to shelter. Removes animal from truck to shelter cage or other enclosure. Supplies food, water, and personal care to detained animals. Investigates complaints of animal bite cases. Destroys rabid animals as directed. Examines dog licenses for validity and issues warnings or summonses to delinquent owners. May destroy unclaimed animals, using gun, or by gas or electrocution. May examine captured animals for injuries and deliver injured animals to VETERINARIAN (medical ser.) for medical treatment. May maintain file of number of animals impounded and disposition of each. May enforce regulations concerning treatment of domestic animals and be designated Humane Officer (government ser.). (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alice and the Dog Catcher (1924) The Dog Catcher (1920) | |
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| 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 |
dog catcher | 19 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dogcatcher. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-g-h-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: chordate, crotched, goatherd. | |
-3 letters: caroche, catcher, cathode, charged, charted, coached, coacher, coacted, cordage, cordate, crochet, dogcart, garoted, hagrode, redcoat, roached, torched. | |
-4 letters: accord, arched, cached, cachet, cadger, caroch, carted, chador, chared, charge, chorea, chored, coated, coater, codger, cohead, cratch, crated, crotch, dearth, decoct, dehort, detach, dogear, dotage, echard, garote, gather, gherao, graced, grated. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-g-h-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: dogcatchers. | |
+4 letters: counterchanged, countercharged. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 67 43 61 74 63 68 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100111 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o g   C a t c h e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0067 0043 0061 0074 0063 0068 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388173237678669747184 |
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