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Dahl

Definitions: Dahl

Dahl

Noun

1. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics.

2. Small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant.

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

Date "dahl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

Synonyms: Dahl

Synonyms: cajan pea (n), catjang pea (n), dhal (n), pigeon pea (n), pigeon-pea plant (n), red gram (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dahl

Specialty definitions using "dahl": Haakon Dahl measureRats, Inbred DahlSIMULA I. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dahl

DomainUsage

Song Titles

Do You Think I'm Disco? (performing artist: Steve Dahl)

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

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Commercial Usage: Dahl

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (reference)

  • Learning Through Literacy: Adapting Novels by Roald Dahl for Students in Self-Contained or Inclusive Classrooms (Professional Growth Series) (reference)

  • The Best of Roald Dahl (reference)

  • The Roald Dahl Audio Collection (reference)

  • The Roald Dahl Treasury (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Dahl

"Dahl" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dahl" is used about 130 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%13028,019

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Dahl

The following table summarizes the usage of "dahl" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DahlLast name8,0001,570
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dahl

Expression using "dahl": Haakon Dahl measure. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "dahl": Dahl-beck.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dahl

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

brandy dahl

804

roald dahl

557

sophie dahl

231

stephanie dahl

210

ian van dahl

194

dahl

171

dahl steve

128

author dahl

64

brandi dahl

61

arlene dahl

49
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dahl

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

Danish

  

Hoppus raatraeopmaalingssystem (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Hoppus-maat (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references)

   

French

  

cubage au quart sans déduction (Haakon Dahl measure). (various references)

   

German

  

Viertelkubierung (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυβισμός εις το τέταρτον χωρίς αφαίρεσιν (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references)

   

Italian

  

misura Hoppus (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure), cubatura al quarto senza deduzione (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

タ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "tsu", dark, dark matter, darling, Darwin, diagram, dial, dialogue, dial-up, diary, diatonic, diet, digest, Dijkstra, Diner's Club, diode, dozen, DynaBook, dynamic, dynamics, dynamism, dynamite, necktie, tie). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ダール . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ahlday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

método de cubagem Hoppus (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cubicación Hoppus (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Hoppusmått (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dahl

Derivations

Words beginning with "dahl": dahlia, dahlias, dahls. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dahl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dabhk, Dael, Dagh, dahg, dahil, Dahlak, Dahls, daho, Dakhil, Dalj, Darl, Dhah, Dhar, Dhat, dhl, Dihli, Dikhil, Duhhh, Mahl, Rahul, Zahl. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Dahl"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dahl" (pronounced dÄ"l)
3d Ä" lDol, doll, Nidal.
2-Ä" lbanal, cabal, caul, fall, loll, Moll, Pall, reinstall, Sol.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dahl

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dhal.

Words within the letters "a-d-h-l"

-1 letter: dah, dal, had, lad.

-2 letters: ad, ah, al, ha, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-l"
 

+1 letter: ahold, dahls, dhals, hadal, haled, halid.

 

+2 letters: aholds, dahlia, daledh, daleth, hailed, halide, halids, haloed, haloid, halted, halved, handle, hardly, hauled, healed, herald, holard, lamedh, lashed, lathed, shaled, whaled.

 

+3 letters: baldish, chalcid, chalked, chiliad, chordal, clashed, dahlias, daledhs, daleths, deathly, exhaled, flashed, hackled, haggled, halberd, halides, halidom, halloed, haloids, halyard, handful, handily, handled, handler, handles, handsel, haploid, hardily, hassled, headily, helipad, heralds, hidable, hidalgo, holards, holdall, holiday, hollaed, holland, holyday, hyaloid, hyoidal, inhaled, ladyish, lamedhs, latched, laughed, leached, leashed, loathed, plashed, ralphed, shadfly, shadily, shauled, shawled, shoaled, slashed.

 

+4 letters: aldehyde, alighted, ashlared, ashlered, asphodel, baldhead, billhead, blanched, blandish, bleached, blowhard, bluehead, bolthead, bulkhead, bullhead, bushland, cathodal, cephalad, chadless, chalcids, chaldron, chaliced, chandler, charlady, chelated, chiliads, chlordan, clochard, clubhand, coalshed, daylight, dealfish, deathful, dihedral, downhaul, enhaloed, fahlband, flathead, galoshed, gildhall, gilthead, habdalah, halberds, halidome, halidoms, halliard, halloaed, hallooed, hallowed, haltered, halyards, handball, handbell, handbill, handfuls, handheld, handhold, handlers, handless, handlike, handling, handlist, handloom, handrail, handsels, handsful, hanseled, haploids, haploidy, hardball, hardline, haulyard, havdalah, hayfield, headlamp, headland, headless, headline, headlock, headlong, headsail, heatedly, helipads, heralded, heraldic, heraldry, hidalgos, highland, hilloaed, holdable, holdalls, holdback, holdfast, holidays, hollands, holloaed, holydays, homeland, hulloaed, hyaloids, jadishly, kathodal, khedival, ladyfish, ladyhood, ladyship, lathered, launched, lavished, longhand, longhead, lunkhead, nailhead, pilchard, pleached, plowhead, railhead, rehandle, shackled, shadblow, shambled, shedable, shetland, shipload, slapdash, splashed, thalloid, thinclad, thraldom, thralled, toolhead, trachled, unhailed, unhalved, unhealed, unlashed, wellhead.

 

+5 letters: abolished, acidophil, adulthood, aldehydes, aldehydic, archducal, ashamedly, asphalted, asphodels, baldachin, baldheads, bechalked, benchland, billheads, blackhead, blathered, blockhead, bloodbath, blowhards, blueheads, boltheads, boxhauled, brushland, bulkheads, bullheads, bushlands, caddishly, cathedral, chaldrons, chandelle, chandlers, chandlery, channeled, chapleted, cheerlead, chlamydes, chlamydia, chlordane, chlordans, choroidal, chrysalid, cichlidae, claughted, clochards, clubhands, coalsheds, dashingly, daylights, deadlight, deathblow, deathless, deathlike, decathlon, diarrheal, dihedrals, djellabah, downhauls, enchilada, ethmoidal, ethylated, fahlbands, falsehood, flashcard, flatheads, foolhardy, galumphed, gasholder, gildhalls, giltheads, glochidia, guildhall, habdalahs, haggardly, halidomes, halliards, handballs, handbells, handbills, handblown, handclasp, handhelds, handholds, handlebar, handlings, handlists, handlooms, handrails, handseled, handwheel, hanselled, hardballs, hatcheled, haulyards, havdalahs, hayfields, headlamps, headlands, headlight, headlined, headliner, headlines, headlocks, headsails, headstall, heartland, heathland, heralding, hexaploid, highlands, hobnailed, holandric, holdbacks, holdfasts, holidayed, holidayer, homelands, homicidal, husbandly, hydraulic, hydrolase, hypnoidal, keelhaled, khedivial, ladyhoods, ladyships, launchpad, leasehold, leathered, longhands, longheads, lowlihead, lunkheads, manhandle, marshaled, marshland, mishandle, nailheads, northland, nymphalid, panhandle, philander, phyllodia, pilchards, planished, plowheads, polyhedra, railheads, rehandled, rehandles, rhizoidal, shadblows, shadeless, shadflies, shadowily, shallowed, sheldrake, shetlands, shiploads, slathered, southland, steelhead, sulphated, swellhead, tallyhoed, thinclads, thraldoms, thralldom, thylakoid, thyroidal, toolheads, trailhead, trauchled, trihedral, unhandily, unlatched, unleashed, wellheads.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dahl


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

44 61 68 6C

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 01100001 01101000 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#97 &#104 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0061 0068 006C

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

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

38677478

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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