What is the name meaning of DEX. Phrases containing DEX
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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.
Girl/Female
Latin
Adroit; skillful.
Boy/Male
Latin
right-handed.
Boy/Male
Latin
right-handed.
Boy/Male
Indian, Traditional
Meditation
Boy/Male
African, American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Jamaican, Latin
Dexterous; Right Handed; Dyer; Woman Dyer; One who
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English (East Midlands)
English (East Midlands) : occupational name from Middle English dyster ‘dyer’ (see Dyer).
Boy/Male
Arabic
Skilfulness; Dexterity
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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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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.
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Dexterous
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English
English : nickname from Middle English hondi ‘skillful with one’s hands’, ‘dextrous’.
Girl/Female
British, English, Latin
Dyer; Skillful; Dexterous; Adroit; Right-handed
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English, Latin
Woman Dyer; Right-handed
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English American Latin
From a surname meaning 'dyer'.
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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’.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
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adv.
Toward the right side; dextrally.
a.
See Dextrotatory.
n.
The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.
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.
Alt. of Dextrorse
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid.
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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.
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Same as Dextrorotatory.
n.
Alt. of Dextrousness
n.
Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc.
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.
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Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management.
n.
Alt. of Dextrousness
adv.
Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
a.
Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager.
n.
Same as Dextrose.
a.
See Dextrogyrate.