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DOWL

Definition: DOWL

DOWL

Noun

1. Same as Dowle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"DOWL" is a common misspelling or typo for: Cowl, Doll, Dow, Dowel, Down, Fowl, Owl.


Specialty Definition: DOWL

DomainDefinition

Industry

Feathery or woolly down: filament. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOWL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dowl

12

dowl engineer

4

dowl it

3

dowl pin

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOWL

Language Translations for "DOWL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

duvet (down), bourre (bud down, dowle), barbe (dowle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owlday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DOWL

Derivations

Words containing "DOWL": meadowland, meadowlands, meadowlark, meadowlarks, shadowless, shadowlike, windowless. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DOWL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wold.

Words within the letters "d-l-o-w"

-1 letter: dol, dow, low, old, owl.

-2 letters: do, lo, od, ow, wo.

 Words containing the letters "d-l-o-w"
 

+1 letter: dowel, lowed, waldo, woald, wolds, world, would.

 

+2 letters: blowed, bowled, cowled, dewool, dowels, flowed, fowled, glowed, howled, jowled, plowed, slowed, wadmol, weldor, woalds, wolfed, wooled, worlds, yowled.

 

+3 letters: allowed, blowsed, blowzed, boweled, bowlder, clowder, clowned, cowedly, dayglow, dewools, dowable, dowdily, doweled, elbowed, growled, letdown, logwood, lowbred, lowdown, lowered, lowland, mudflow, oldwife, plywood, prowled, rowdily, roweled, scowled, toweled, twofold, wadmoll, wadmols, waldoes, warlord, wedlock, weldors, whorled, wobbled, woodlot, woolled, wordily, worldly, wouldst.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DOWL


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

44 4F 57 4C

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 01001111 01010111 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#87 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0057 004C

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

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

38495746

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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