What is the name meaning of DEX. Phrases containing DEX
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Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Dexterous
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname, possibly for someone who was very dextrous such as a juggler or conjuror, from Old French quatremains ‘four hands’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English hondi ‘skillful with one’s hands’, ‘dextrous’.
Boy/Male
Latin
right-handed.
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English, Latin
Woman Dyer; Right-handed
Surname or Lastname
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.
Boy/Male
Arabic
Skilfulness; Dexterity
Girl/Female
British, English, Latin
Dyer; Skillful; Dexterous; Adroit; Right-handed
Boy/Male
African, American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Jamaican, Latin
Dexterous; Right Handed; Dyer; Woman Dyer; One who
Surname or Lastname
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.
Surname or Lastname
English (East Midlands)
English (East Midlands) : occupational name from Middle English dyster ‘dyer’ (see Dyer).
Boy/Male
Indian, Traditional
Meditation
Surname or Lastname
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
Hindu, Indian
To Teach
Boy/Male
Latin
right-handed.
Boy/Male
English American Latin
From a surname meaning 'dyer'.
Girl/Female
Latin
Adroit; skillful.
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Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Light of God's Grace
Biblical
God is my praise
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Protection Support
Boy/Male
Arabic, Australian
Handsome
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from the medieval personal name Hudde (see Hutt 1). This surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and is also well established in Ireland.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Goddess Lakshmi
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Bagge.
Girl/Female
Polish
Farmer.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Indian, Kannada, Muslim
Excellence of Religion
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Lovely; Beautiful
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adv.
In a dexterous manner; skillfully.
a.
Same as Dextrorotatory.
n.
Alt. of Dextrousness
a.
See Dextrotatory.
adv.
Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
a.
Alt. of Dextrorse
a.
See Dextrogyrate.
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.
Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid.
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.
Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc.
a.
Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager.
a.
Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management.
adv.
Toward the right side; dextrally.
n.
Alt. of Dextrousness
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.
n.
The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.
n.
Same as Dextrose.