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Definition: Dowse |
DowseNoun1. Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod. Verb1. Wet thoroughly. 2. Use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal. 3. Slacken; "douse a rope". 4. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: DowseSynonyms: dowsing (n), rhabdomancy (n), douse (v), drench (v), soak (v), sop (v), souse (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish). |
Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe. | |
Ship | Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dowse |
| English words defined with "dowse": Dowst. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dowse": Dowse on the Chops. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dowse": Dowst. (references) |
| "Dowse" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Dowse" is used about 8 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 62.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dowse" 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 |
| Dowse | Last name | 200 | 32,106 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
dowse | 19 |
denise dowse | 5 |
denise y dowse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dowse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | begießen (baste, douse, pour water on, to douse, to dowse, water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | couylley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owseday gå med slagruta (divine, douse). (various references) suya sokmak (douse, soak), su serpmek, söndürmek (attenuate, damp, damp down, dampen, deflate, douse, extinguish, hydrate, kill, put out, quench, slack, slacken, slake, snuff out, suffocate, switch off, trample out, turn off, turn out), çubukla yeraltı suyu aramak, çubukla maden aramak, ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, douse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, soak, sop, souse, sprinkle, steep, swim, water, wet). (various references) гасити (choke, extinguish, null, out, quench, turn out), занурюватися (dip, dive, douse, merge, plunge, swamp), занурювати (dip, douse, drown, duck, enwrap, immerse, plunge, steep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dowse": dowsed, dowser, dowsers, dowses. (additional references) | |
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"Dowse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dewjee, doase, Doise, D'oise, donse, doose, dosi, Dossi, Douwe, Douwes, douwse, dowe, dowes, dowex, dowie, dowre, dows, dowsy, dowt, Doxsie, D'oysel, fowse, gowse, mowse, powse, towse, vowse, wowse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dowse" (pronounced dou"s) |
| 3 | d ou" s | douse. |
| 2 | -ou" s | blouse, bouse, Crouse, espouse, Gauss, grouse, house, louse, mouse, spouse, youse. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sowed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: dews, does, dose, dows, odes, owed, owes, owse, weds, woes. | |
-2 letters: dew, doe, dos, dow, eds, ode, ods, oes, ose, owe, sew, sod, sow, wed, woe, wos. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, es, od, oe, os, ow, so, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: bowsed, dowels, dowers, dowsed, dowser, dowses, drowse, endows, scowed, showed, slowed, snowed, stowed, wodges. | |
+2 letters: blowsed, browsed, chowsed, cowshed, dewools, deworms, dowdies, downers, dowries, dowsers, drowsed, drowses, howdies, meadows, powders, redowas, resowed, rewords, rowdies, scowder, scowled, strowed, swobbed, swooned, swooped, swopped, swotted, swouned, unsowed, waldoes, weirdos, weldors, wonders, woodies, woopsed, wooshed, worsted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 77 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .--. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o w s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0077 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3881898571 |
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