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Dovekie

Definition: Dovekie

Dovekie

Noun

1. Small short-billed auk abundant in arctic regions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Dovekie

Synonym: little auk (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dovekie

English words defined with "dovekie": Rotche. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Dovekie

Illustrations:
Dovekie

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dovekie

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

dovekie

3

boat dovekie sail

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

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Modern Translation: Dovekie

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

Danish

  

soekonge (little auk, Usa: dovekie). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kleine alk (little auk, Usa: dovekie). (various references)

   

French

  

mergule nain (Usa: dovekie). (various references)

   

German

  

Krabbentaucher (little auk). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νανόκεπφος (little auk). (various references)

   

Italian

  

gazza marina minore (little auk, Usa: dovekie). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ovekieday

   

Spanish

  

mérgulo marino (little auk, Usa: dovekie). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dovekie

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Plautus alle, Plotus alle. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dovekie

Derivations

Words beginning with "dovekie": dovekies. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dovekie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Deekie, Divoky, doeverie, Dovekin, Duodecies, duvivier, dvoeverie. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Dovekie

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-k-o-v"

-1 letter: evoked.

-2 letters: evoke, video.

-3 letters: deke, dike, dive, dove, eide, eked, vide, vied, void.

-4 letters: dee, dev, die, doe, eke, eve, kid, koi, ode, oke, vee, vie, voe.

-5 letters: de, do, ed, id, od, oe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-k-o-v"
 

+1 letter: dovekies, dovelike.

 

+2 letters: reinvoked.

 

+3 letters: overkilled, overmilked.

 

+4 letters: overdecking, volkslieder.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dovekie


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

44 6F 76 65 6B 69 65

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 01101111 01110110 01100101 01101011 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#107 &#105 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0076 0065 006B 0069 0065

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

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

38818871777571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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