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Definition: Dollar Sign |
Dollar SignNoun1. A symbol of commercialism or greed; "he worships the almighty dollar" or "the dollar sign means little to him". 2. A mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Dollar SignSynonyms: dollar (n), dollar mark (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Sign, symbol; index, indice, indicator; point, pointer; exponent, note, token, symptom; dollar sign, dollar mark. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dollar Sign |
| English words defined with "dollar sign": dollar, dollar mark. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dollar sign": CI$. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | No, but he was carrying it in a canvas bag with a big dollar sign on it. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) You've got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart. (The Killing; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick; Jim Thompson) | |
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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 |
dollar sign | 186 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dollar sign"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ドル記号 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ドルき"う. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ollarday ignsay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-l-l-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: lordlings. | |
-2 letters: darlings, drolling, goldarns, goliards, gorillas, loadings, lordings, lordling, ordinals, rollings. | |
-3 letters: adoring, aldrins, darings, darling, dialogs, dollars, dolling, dragons, gallons, ganoids, girasol, glorias, goldarn, goliard, gorilla, gradins, inroads, ladings, ladinos, ladling, ladrons, larding, lardons, ligands, loading, lording, ordains, ordinal, origans, rolling, sadiron, signora, soaring. | |
-4 letters: adonis, adorns, aldols, aldrin, algins, algoid, algors. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 6C 6C 61 72 53 69 67 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110010 00100000 01010011 01101001 01100111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o l l a r   S i g n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 006C 006C 0061 0072 0053 0069 0067 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388178786784253757380 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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