Bird Dog

  

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Bird Dog

Definition: Bird Dog

Bird Dog

Noun

1. A gun dog trained to locate or retrieve birds.

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

Crosswords: Bird Dog

English words defined with "bird dog": Brittany spaniel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bird Dog

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Bird-Brain Bird Dog (1954)

Coo-Coo Bird Dog (1949)

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

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Commercial Usage: Bird Dog

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways (reference)

  • For the Love of a Dog: Classic Bird Dog Stories (reference)

  • Nite Lights: Three Bedtime Stories for Grownups: Walking Man-Spanking Hand, Bird Dog, m R. Snuggle (reference)

  • Speed Train Your Own Bird Dog (reference)

  • The Case of the Missing Bird Dog (Hank the Cowdog, 40) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Wonderful World of Sporting Dogs (A Bird Dog Puppy's First Year) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Bird Dog

Illustrations:
Bird Dog

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Computer Images:
Bird Dog

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bird Dog

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

  bird dog

200

  upland bird dog

9

  train a bird dog

3

  bird dog trained

3

  bird dog sale trained

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

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Modern Translations: Bird Dog

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

Finnish

  

lintukoira (pointer, setter). (various references)

   

French

  

chien oiseleur. (various references)

   

German

  

beschatten (overshadow, shade, shadow, tail, to shade), spürhund (beagle, sleuth, sniffer dog, track hound, tracker, tracker dog). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irdbay ogday

   

Portuguese

  

perdigueiro (pointful). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

perro de caza (harrier, hound). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fågelhund (pointer, setter). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

av köpeği (beagle, draghound, gun dog, hound, pointer, retriever, setter). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bird Dog

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-g-i-o-r"

-2 letters: droid.

-3 letters: bird, brig, brio, dido, drib, gird, giro, grid.

-4 letters: bid, big, bio, bod, bog, bro, dib, did, dig, dog, dor, gib, gid, gob, god, gor, obi, odd, orb, rib, rid, rig, rob, rod.

-5 letters: bi, bo, do, go, id, od, or.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-d-g-i-o-r"
 

+3 letters: biodegrade, forbidding.

 

+4 letters: biodegraded, biodegrades, broadsiding, goldbricked, overbidding.

 

+5 letters: biodegrading, forbiddingly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bird Dog


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

42 69 72 64      44 6F 67

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

    

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

01000010 01101001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01000100 01101111 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#114 &#100 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0072 0064      0044 006F 0067

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

367584702388173

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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