What is the name meaning of DEX. Phrases containing DEX
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English American Latin
From a surname meaning 'dyer'.
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Latin
right-handed.
Girl/Female
British, English, Latin
Dyer; Skillful; Dexterous; Adroit; Right-handed
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Indian, Traditional
Meditation
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English
English : nickname from Middle English hondi ‘skillful with one’s hands’, ‘dextrous’.
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Swedish (Hägg)
Swedish (Hägg) : ornamental name from hägg ‘bird cherry’ (Prunus padus). This is one of the surnames drawn from the vocabulary of nature and adopted more or less arbitrarily in the 19th century.English : from Old Norse Hagi, which has been identified as a byname from hagr ‘deft’, ‘dextrous’, although it could equally well be a habitational name meaning ‘the enclosure’, see Hagen.South German : variant of Haack.
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English (East Midlands)
English (East Midlands) : occupational name from Middle English dyster ‘dyer’ (see Dyer).
Boy/Male
Latin
right-handed.
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English
English : occupational name for a wool or flax comber, Middle English kem(be)stere (an agent derivative of Old English cemban ‘to comb’). Although this was originally a feminine form of the masculine kembere, by the Middle English period the suffix -stre had lost its feminine force, and the term was used to refer to both sexes. Compare Baxter, Brewster, Dexter.
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Hindu, Indian
To Teach
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Dexterous
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African, American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Jamaican, Latin
Dexterous; Right Handed; Dyer; Woman Dyer; One who
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English
English : nickname, possibly for someone who was very dextrous such as a juggler or conjuror, from Old French quatremains ‘four hands’.
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Arabic
Skilfulness; Dexterity
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German
German : occupational name or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant’, ‘apprentice’, or ‘miner’.German : in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hillock, Middle English knappe, Old English cnæpp, or habitational name from any of the several minor places named with the word, in particular Knapp in Hampshire and Knepp in Sussex.German and western Slavic : variant of Knabe.
Girl/Female
Latin
Adroit; skillful.
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English, Latin
Woman Dyer; Right-handed
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Tamil
Chandnika | சாஂத நிகா
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English
English : probably from a place called Pebley in Derbyshire.
Boy/Male
Irish
Fire.
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German
German : from a Germanic personal name Poppo, Boppo, of uncertain origin and meaning, perhaps originally a nursery word or a short form of for example Bodobert, a Germanic personal name meaning ‘famous leader’. It was a hereditary personal name among the counts of Henneberg and Babenberg in East Franconia between the 9th and 14th centuries.English : from a Middle English continuation of an Old English personal name, Poppa, known only from occurrences in place names.
Male
Polish
Polish form of Greek Loukianos, ÅUCJAN means "light."
Boy/Male
Danish, Finnish, French, German, Swedish
Free Man; Strong and Masculine
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Muslim
Approved, Accepted
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American, British, English
Youthful; Jove's Child
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Lord Krishna; Divine
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Hindu
Dedicated to truth, Personified
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a.
See Dextrotatory.
n.
Alt. of Dextrousness
adv.
Toward the right side; dextrally.
a.
Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager.
n.
Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc.
a.
Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.
n.
A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.
adv.
In a dexterous manner; skillfully.
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid.
a.
Alt. of Dextrorse
n.
The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.
a.
Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman.
a.
Same as Dextrorotatory.
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See Dextrogyrate.
n.
Same as Dextrose.
a.
Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management.
adv.
Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
n.
Alt. of Dextrousness