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Dogwatch

Definition: Dogwatch

Dogwatch

Noun

1. Either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Modern Usage: Dogwatch

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Dogwatch (2000)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dogwatch

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
dogwatch	31
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Dogwatch

Language		Translations for "dogwatch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shërbim dyorësh në anije. (various references)

Bulgarian		нощна смяна (night shift). (various references)

Pig Latin		ogwatchday

Russian		полувахта. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		straža (guard, look out, lookout, patrol, sentinel, sentry, sentry go, watch). (various references)

Swedish		plattvakt. (various references)

Turkish		iki saatlik akşam nöbeti (dog-watch), öksüz vardiya (dog-watch). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Dogwatch

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dogwatch": dogwatches. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dogwatch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dogpatch, Dowitcz, Howatch, toglach. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Dogwatch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: watchdog.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-h-o-t-w"
	-3 letters: cahow, octad, watch.
	-4 letters: chad, chao, chat, chaw, chow, coat, coda, dago, dato, dawt, dhow, doat, doth, ghat, goad, goat, gowd, oath, tach, taco, thaw, toad, toga, what, whoa, woad.
	-5 letters: act, ado, ago, cad, cat, caw, cod, cog, cot, cow, dag, dah, daw, doc, dog, dot, dow, gad, gat, goa, god, got.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-g-h-o-t-w"
	+1 letter: watchdogs.
	+2 letters: dogwatches.
	+3 letters: watchdogged.
	+4 letters: watchdogging.
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.

Alternative Orthography: Dogwatch

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 67 77 61 74 63 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.. --- --. .--. .- - -.-. ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01100111 01110111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#103 &#119 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0067 0077 0061 0074 0063 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3881738967866974

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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