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Date "DALKEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dalkey (King of). A kind of "Mayor of Garrat" (q.v.) at Kingstown, in Ireland. A full description is given of this mock mayor, etc., in a book entitled Ireland Ninety Years Ago. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DALKEY |
| Specialty definitions using "DALKEY": King of Dalkey. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That night at Dalkey the train had roared like that and then, when it went into the tunnel, the roar stopped. |
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| "DALKEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DALKEY" 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) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dalkey | 9 |
archive dalkey | 4 |
dalkey ireland | 4 |
kara dalkey | 4 |
archive dalkey press | 2 |
dalkey dublin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-l-y" | |
-1 letter: alkyd, delay, laked, layed, leady, leaky. | |
-2 letters: alky, dale, deal, dyke, kale, lade, lady, lake, laky, lead, leak, yald, yeld, yelk. | |
-3 letters: ale, aye, dak, dal, day, del, dey, dye, eld, elk, kae, kay, kea, key, lad, lay, lea, led, lek, ley, lye, yak, yea. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, al, ay, de, ed, el, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-k-l-y" | |
+1 letter: nakedly. | |
+2 letters: kaleyard, lackeyed, ladylike, markedly. | |
+3 letters: alkylated, ankylosed, jaywalked, kaleyards, skylarked. | |
+4 letters: unladylike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 4C 4B 45 59 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- .-.. -.- . -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01001100 01001011 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A L K E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 004C 004B 0045 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383546453959 |
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