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Definition: Dory |
DoryNoun1. A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled. 2. Marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Dory" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gift from God". |
Date "dory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Etymology: Dory \Do"ry\, noun; plural Dories. [Named from 1st color, from French dor['e]e gilded, from dorer to gild, Latin deaurare. See Deaurate, and compare to Aureole.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A small flat-bottomed open rowboat of American origin, chiefly used by fishermen for setting their troll lines. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dory is also a nickname. For females, it is usually short for "Doris," "Dorinne" (or "Doreen"), "Dorothy," or "Dorothea" (or "Dorthea"); for males it is most often short for "Theodore."
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dory."
Synonyms: DorySynonyms: dinghy (n), rowboat (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dory |
| English words defined with "dory": Dories ♦ John dory ♦ Saint Peter's fish ♦ Zeus faber. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dory": Christian Traditions. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Dory, do you see anything (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) Dory, no singing (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) I'm sorry Dory, but I do. (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Views of the Dory Fleet Market. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A fishing dory owned by Mark Hickson, ready to be trailered home. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Dory used as purse seine boat fishing for herring on the Maine coast. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Part of the dory fishing fleet at Newport Beach. These small boats are launched through the surf and return to be trailered to storage areas. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Fishermen in dory hauling trawl; a dogfish caught From photograph by T.W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Fig. 1 - Bait chopper; Fig. 2 - Bait slivering knife Fig. 3 - Halibut killer and gob stick; Fig. 4 - Wooden hand nipper Fig. 5 - Halibut gaff; Fig. 6 - Trawl buoy and black ball Fig. 7 - Canvas skate for section of trawl; Fig. 8 - Dory scoop Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Plate 169. The Wall-Eyed Pike or Dory. Stizostedium vitreum (Mitch.), Jordan and Copeland. The Sauger or Land Pike. Stizostedium canadense (Smith), Jordan. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Dory and a kayakLower Salmon RiverCottonwood Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker. |
 | Tub of lines aboard a Portuguese dory out off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The catch aboard a Portuguese dory off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Horn; boat; harbor; yacht; baiter; baitskiff; barge; bark; bateau; canoe; catamaran; craft; dinghy; dory; dragger; highliner; hulk; ketch; launch; lifeboat; mackinaw; pointer; raft; rodney; sailboat; schooner; scow; shallop; ship; skiff; sloop; steamboat. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Dory" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.16% of the time. "Dory" is used about 19 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) | 63.16% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 31.58% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dory" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dory | Last name | 1,000 | 16,971 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Dory" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gift from God". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Dory." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Doretta | Female | N/A | Dora |
| Dorita | Female | N/A | Dora |
| Dory | Female | N/A | Dora |
| Dorothea | Female | Dutch | N/A |
| Dora | Female | English | Dorothea |
| Doreen | Female | English | Dora |
| Dorinda | Female | English | Dora |
| Dorothea | Female | English | N/A |
| Dorothea | Female | German | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "dory": dory boat ♦ john dory. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dory": hunky-dory. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dory | 301 | cape dory yacht | 10 |
dory left | 180 | bank dory grand | 9 |
c dory | 92 | dory picture | 8 |
cape dory | 86 | cape dory boat | 8 |
dory finding nemo | 85 | dory funk jr | 8 |
cape dory typhoon | 48 | dory sea | 7 |
c dory boat | 25 | 30 cape dory | 6 |
hunky dory | 21 | dory sailing | 6 |
dory finding nemo picture | 19 | cape dory sale typhoon | 6 |
dory boat | 18 | c dory sale | 6 |
dory finding from nemo | 18 | association cape dory owner | 6 |
dory plan | 16 | dory skiff | 6 |
dory nemo | 14 | dory lil | 5 |
dory fish | 14 | dory swampscott | 5 |
dory finding from nemo picture | 13 | dory fish john | 5 |
dory funk | 13 | oregon dory | 4 |
john dory | 13 | dory finding in nemo | 4 |
blue dory inn | 13 | 28 cape dory | 4 |
25 cape dory | 12 | dory hollander | 4 |
previn dory | 12 | boat dory plan | 4 |
cape dory sail boat | 11 | dell dory quay | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | barkë peshkimi (trawler), barkë me rrema (whale boat). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид морска риба (grunt, porgy), вид плоскодънна рибарска лодка. (various references) | |
Czech | úzký èlun. (various references) | |
Danish | dory (dory boat, skiff), sanktpetersfisk (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish), jolle (cockle boat, dory boat, ships boat), atlantisk sanktpetersfisk (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish). (various references) | |
Dutch | dory (dory boat), dorie (dory boat), zonnevis (Atlantic John Dory, Japanese John dory, John Dory, Peter fish), Sint-Pietervis (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish). (various references) | |
Finnish | pietarinkala (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish), apuvene (dory boat, skiff). (various references) | |
French | doris (Doppler Orbitography and radiopositioning integrated by satellite, DORIS, dory boat), dorée (john dory), zee (john dory), zée (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory), saint-pierre (Atlantic John Dory, dories, John Dories, john dory), saint-christophe (Atlantic John Dory, john dory), poule de mer dorée (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory), poule de mer (john dory), jean doré (Atlantic John Dory, john dory), \JOD (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory). (various references) | |
German | Dory-Boot (dory boat), Dory (dory boat), Sonnenfisch (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish), Petersfisch (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish), Peterfisch (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish), Heringskönig (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish). (various references) | |
Greek | χριστόψαρο (john dory), είδοσ λέμβου, δορίς (dory boat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בצית (canoe, skiff). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lapos fenekû csónak (punt). (various references) | |
Italian | dory (dory boat), pesce San Pietro (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish). (various references) | |
Manx | Juan Joarree (John Dory), breck airhey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oryday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peixe-galo (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish). (various references) | |
Russian | солнечник (john dory). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mali ribarski čamac. (various references) | |
Spanish | gallo (boss, chanticleer, expert, rooster). (various references) | |
Swedish | sanktpersfisk (Atlantic John Dory, John Dory, Peter fish), plattbottnad stäveka (dory boat), liten roddbåt (scull, wherry), liten flatbottnad båt, "doris" (dory boat), "dåre" (dory boat). (various references) | |
Turkish | dülgerbalığı (john dory), küçük altı düz kayık. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сонцевик, легка рибальска плоскодонка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuyền đánh cá Bắc-mỹ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Zeus faber, Zeus faber (Linnaeus), Zeus japonicus, Zeus pungio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Dory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dagry, darry, dary, deri, dermy, Dervy, Deryn, devry, dgry, dibry, dirdy, dirsy, dirvy, diry, djore, doby, Dody, doey, Dogru, doiry, dony, donyo, dooby, doody, Dooey, doore, doorn, doory, dooty, dopy, dorc, dord, Dorey, dorf, dori, dorie, dorj, dorky, Dorl, dorly, dormy, dorp, dorq, Dorrf, dorro, dorry, dorsy, dort, dorty, Dortyol, dorys, Dorz, dosy, douri, doury, dovy, doy, doyo, D'oyre, dro, droc, Droi, Drouyn, drowy, dryg, dryq, dryt, dryx, Durey, duri, durry, durty, dury, Duvy, Dvor, dvory, dwor, kory, odory, ody, orry, vorry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dory" (pronounced dô"rē) |
| 3 | -ô" r ē | cacciatore, Corrie, Cory, glory, gory, hoary, inventory, lorry, lory, pylori, quarry, Signori, storey, story, Tori, tory. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: dor, dry, rod, yod. | |
-2 letters: do, od, or, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: dorky, dormy, dorty, dowry, grody, hydro, rowdy, wordy. | |
+2 letters: boyard, broody, byroad, byword, corody, crowdy, dourly, dowery, drolly, droopy, dropsy, drosky, drossy, drowsy, drylot, dyvour, hydros, lordly, parody, rebody, yodler, yonder. | |
+3 letters: boyards, broadly, byroads, bywords, corrody, dayroom, daywork, decoyer, destroy, doddery, dodgery, doggery, doorway, droshky, droskys, drouthy, drylots, dyvours, feodary, forayed, foundry, hydroid, hydrops, hydrous, hydroxy, joyride, joyrode, keyword, orderly, organdy, overdry, overdye, powdery, prodigy, prosody, proudly, roadway, roundly, rowdily, stroyed, tardyon, thyroid, tripody, wordily, workday, worldly, yodeler, yodlers, zedoary. | |
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