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DHL

Specialty Definition: DHL

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

DHL is a multinational courier firm. It is owned by Deutsche Post World Net. It was formed in 1969. The company's name comes from the surnames of its three founders: Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, and Robert Lynn.

It owns several air fleets, including DHL Aviation, an airline based in Brussels, Belgium

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "DHL."

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"DHL" is a common misspelling or typo for: Dahl, dell, dhal, dill, doll, dull, duly.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: DHL

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DHL

EnglishDelft Hydraulics LaboratoryN/A

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: DHL

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Among the most developed are the U.S. firms DHL International, FedEx and United Parcel Service. (references)

By 1992, the first outdoor neon billboard in the country was erected for DHL. In 1993, local Vietnamese TV accepted the first foreign advertising spots. (references)

If you are sending a small order to a Japanese retailer, you can use regular air mail, a courier service like FedEx, UPS or DHL. They will deliver the order to your Japanese clients. (references)

Economic History

Italy

Federal Express, DHL, and other rapid delivery services are also available. (references)

Mauritius

UPS, Fedex and DHL also have offices here, with DHL being a regional center. (references)

Botswana

They include DHL, Federal Express, Coca-Cola, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Avis. (references)

Travel

South Africa

DHL and Federal Express offer air express services to South Africa. (references)

El Salvador

The official mail system is inadequate, but there are many private courier services, including DHL and Federal Express. (references)

Botswana

International Courier Service: DHL and Federal Express, TNT and MDS provide services in Gaborone, Francistown and other cities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DHL

"DHL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DHL" is used about 10 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%10111,207

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DHL

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

dhl tracking

395

dhl worldwide express

149

dhl worldwide

101

dhl shipping

99

dhl courier

83

dhl airway

64

airborne dhl

10

dhl loomis

7

danza dhl

3

dhl shipment tracking

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DHL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "d-h-l"
 

+1 letter: dahl, dhal, held, hold.

 

+2 letters: ahold, child, dahls, dhals, dhole, hadal, haled, halid, holds, holed.

 

+3 letters: aholds, beheld, behold, chield, childe, dahlia, daledh, daleth, dholes, dhooly, hailed, halide, halids, haloed, haloid, halted, halved, handle, hardly, hauled, healed, heddle, heeled, heiled, helled, helmed, helped, helved, herald, hilled, hilted, holard, holden, holder, holdup, holked, hondle, howled, huddle, hulked, hulled, hurdle, hurled, lamedh, lashed, lathed, leched, lushed, oldish, shaled, shield, should, tholed, upheld, uphold, whaled, whiled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DHL


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

44 48 4C

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01001000 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#72 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0048 004C

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

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

384246

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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