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Definition: Dormy |
DormyAdjective1. (golf) in match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played; "he was dormie three and still lost the match". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Dormy \Dor"my\, adjective. [Origin uncertain.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Dormy" is a common misspelling or typo for: dorm, dory, wormy. |
Synonym: DormySynonym: dormie (adj). (additional references) |
| "Dormy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Dormy" is used about 4 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) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dormy": be dormy ♦ be dormy two. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
dormy | 4 |
dormy house | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dormy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ドーナツ現象 (Doberman, Dobermann Pinscher, dole queue, dome, domesday, doomsday, dope check, dope test, doping, Doria, dormer window, dormie, dormie hole, dormitory, doughnut phenomenon, drug test). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ドーミー (dormie). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ormyday dormi, sayıca önde olan. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-m-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: dorm, dory. | |
-2 letters: dom, dor, dry, mod, mor, rod, rom, yod, yom. | |
-3 letters: do, mo, my, od, om, or, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-m-o-r-y" | |
+2 letters: dayroom. | |
+3 letters: corymbed, dayrooms, dormancy, embryoid, hydromel, hypoderm, midstory, modernly, monandry, morbidly, mordancy, myriapod, myriopod, myrmidon, odometry, pyoderma, randomly, reembody, remodify, rowdyism, syndrome, udometry. | |
+4 letters: comradely, comradery, damnatory, deformity, democracy, doomsayer, dormitory, dosimetry, dromedary, dynamotor, embryoids, hybridoma, hydromels, hydronium, hypoderms, mandatory, martyrdom, mediatory, modernity, modularly, morbidity, mordantly, myocardia, myriapods, myriopods, myrmidons, premodify, pyodermas, rhytidome, rowdyisms, syndromes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 72 6D 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .-. -- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110010 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o r m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0072 006D 0079 |
| 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)3881847991 |
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