D.I.Y.

Domain	Definition
Slang	Adjective. Source: Acronym for "Do It Yourself". Definition: Self-sufficient, independent. Context: Term used to describe person, group, or orginization that is independent of others influence or help . Social Source: Punk rock subculture. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: D.I.Y.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
d.i.y.	English	Do it yourself	Industry, Sports & Leisure
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Modern Usage: D.I.Y.

Commercial Usage: D.I.Y.

Domain	Title
References	D.I.Y. Home Warehouse, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	D.I.Y. Beauty (Alloy Books) (reference) Vw Beetle & Transporter : Guide to Purchase & D.I.Y. Restoration (Foulis Motoring Book) (Reissue ed) (reference) D.I.Y. Girl: The Real Girl's Guide to Making Everything from Lip Gloss to Lamps (reference) Vw Beetle & Transporter: Guide to Purchase & D.I.Y. Restoration (Foulis Motoring Book) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	D.I.Y. Or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Saints of Infinity/Simulated D.I.Y. (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: D.I.Y.

"D.I.Y." is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "D.I.Y." is used about 5 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)

Usage in Company Names: D.I.Y.

Anagrams: D.I.Y.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters ".-.-.-d-i-y"
	-3 letters: yid.
	-4 letters: id.
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Alternative Orthography: D.I.Y.

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

44 2E 49 2E 59 2E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 00101110 01001001 00101110 01011001 00101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#46 &#73 &#46 &#89 &#46

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 002E 0049 002E 0059 002E

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

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Mitre 10 D.I.Y. Rescue (2000)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	60%	3	202,518
Noun (common)	40%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Country	Name
USA	D.I.Y. Home Warehouse, Inc.
	(more examples...)

D.I.Y.

Specialty Definition: D.I.Y.

Slang

Abbreviations & Acronyms: D.I.Y.

d.i.y.

Modern Usage: D.I.Y.

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: D.I.Y.

References

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Usage Frequency: D.I.Y.

Usage in Company Names: D.I.Y.

D.I.Y. Home Warehouse, Inc.

Anagrams: D.I.Y.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: D.I.Y.

44 2E 49 2E 59 2E

01000100 00101110 01001001 00101110 01011001 00101110

&#68 &#46 &#73 &#46 &#89 &#46

0044 002E 0049 002E 0059 002E

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