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Definition: Doily |
DoilyNoun1. A small round piece of linen place under a dish or bowl. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references) |
Note: Doily \Doi"ly\, noun. [So called from the name of the dealer.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | A type of woollen fabric. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DoilySynonyms: doyley (n), doyly (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Napkin, cloth, maukin, malkin, handkerchief, towel, sudary; doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Doily |
| Non-English Usage: "Doily" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (doily). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I used to be a highly respected watcher, and now I'm a wounded dwarf with the mystical strength of a doily. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Living room table in the home of George Bolster, founder of Plentywood, Montana. Note Bible covered with doily. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Misc still life 3" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Red and green apple sitting on a knotty pine table w/ background fruit bowl, doily and window out of focus." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Doily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doily" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
doily free pattern | 43 | doily paper | 4 |
free crochet doily pattern | 34 | crochet doily pattern pineapple | 4 |
doily | 32 | crochet doily square | 4 |
crochet doily pattern | 22 | doily pattern pineapple | 4 |
doily pattern | 16 | doily edge | 4 |
crocheted doily free pattern | 14 | doily free knitted pattern | 3 |
crochet doily | 10 | doily knitted pattern | 3 |
doily pansy | 7 | doily mirror | 3 |
doily gallery | 6 | doily knit lace | 3 |
lace doily | 5 | doily free pattern suncatcher | 2 |
crocheted doily pattern | 4 | craft doily paper | 2 |
pineapple doily | 4 | crochet doily free pansy pattern | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "doily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | çentro. (various references) | |
Arabic | منديل المائدة (napkin, serviette), شرشف الطاولة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | салфетка (napkin, serviette), покривчица (mat). (various references) | |
Czech | ubrousek (napkin, serviette). (various references) | |
Danish | doily, uldstofkvalitet, brik (biscuit, brick, slug, stand, tetrabrick, tetrapack), bordskaaner (stand). (various references) | |
Dutch | onderlegger voor bord (stand). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوعی پارچه ابریشمی (Chiffon), دستمال کوچک سرسفره . (various references) | |
Finnish | kakkupaperi (cake doily). (various references) | |
French | doily, dessus d'assiette, dessous de plat, napperon. (various references) | |
German | Tassenunterlage. (various references) | |
Greek | κν.σουβέρ πιάτου (stand), ντόϊλυ, πετσετάκι (napkin), υπόθεμα πιάτου (stand). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפית (napkin, serviette). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsúrterítő, kis zsúrterítő, kis asztalkendő, kézimunka alátét. (various references) | |
Italian | doily, sottopiatto (plate, tablemat), centrino. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ドイツ連邦共和国 (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, dock, docking, doctor, doctor course, doctrine, document, documental, documentary, documentary drama, documentation, dodecaphony, dodge ball, doeskin, dog racing, dogfight, doggie bag, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatist, do-it-yourself, dominant, domino, donor, doom, doo-wop, dot, dot map, dot matrix, dot printer, dwell, dwelling, Federal Republic of Germany, referee's stop, thud, to be noisy, to make noise, yakuza sword). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドイリー . (various references) | |
Manx | doylee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oilyday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | doily, descanso de prato (stand). (various references) | |
Romanian | şerveţel de pânzã, şerveţel de dantelã. (various references) | |
Russian | салфетка (napkin, serviette, table napkin, table-napkin), салфеточка (antimacassar, tidy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | milje (delight, milieu), šustikla. (various references) | |
Spanish | doily, tapete (billiard cloth, coverlet, rug, scarf), salvamantel (stand), mantelito. (various references) | |
Swedish | tallriksunderlägg, liten spetsduk. (various references) | |
Turkish | tabak altlığı örtü (doiley), bardak altlığı peçete (doiley). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | серветка (napkin, overlay, serviette, table napkin, towel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Doily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boily, deely, diely, Dily, diocy, diol, Diolm, dioly, Dioula, docily, dodly, d'oeil, doil, d'oil, doiley, doileys, doili, doilie, D'oilly, doiry, doity, dolh, doli, dolie, Dolvy, doly, doodly, doolb, doolly, Dooly, dorly, dosil, dotil, douay, Doula, D'oulx, Dowlie, droily, foily, Moily, noily, odil, poily, voily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doily" (pronounced doy"lē) |
| 3 | -oy" l ē | coyly, oily. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-o-y" | |
-1 letter: diol, idly, idol, idyl, lido, odyl, oily, oldy. | |
-2 letters: dol, lid, oil, old, yid, yod. | |
-3 letters: do, id, li, lo, od, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-o-y" | |
+1 letter: bodily, dozily, ploidy, xyloid. | |
+2 letters: amyloid, cycloid, dicotyl, doomily, dottily, dowdily, doylies, godlily, holiday, hyaloid, hyoidal, indoxyl, moodily, myeloid, podgily, rowdily, solidly, styloid, wordily, yodling. | |
+3 letters: adroitly, amyloids, bloodily, bodingly, broodily, cloudily, cotyloid, cycloids, dicotyls, dilatory, diploidy, disloyal, docilely, docility, dollying, dotingly, droopily, drowsily, elytroid, euploidy, floridly, gyroidal, haploidy, holidays, holytide, horridly, hyaloids, idealogy, ideology, idolatry, indoxyls, lymphoid, modality, modishly, molybdic, morbidly, myceloid, nodality, odiously, olympiad, outyield, phylloid, polybrid, polypide, polypoid, shoddily, sodality, soldiery, solidary, solidify, solidity, sordidly, stodgily, stolidly, torpidly, torridly, yodeling. | |
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