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PRONUNCIATION OF DRABBER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRABBER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drabber is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRABBER

drab
drabbed
drabbest
drabbet
drabbiness
drabbing
drabbish
drabble
drabbler
drabby
drabette
drably
drabness
drac
dracaena
drachm
drachma
drachmae
drack

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRABBER

backstabber
blabber
bobber
bonnyclabber
clabber
crabber
dabber
gabber
grabber
jabber
jobber
nabber
rehabber
robber
rubber
scrubber
slabber
stabber
swabber
yabber

Synonyms and antonyms of drabber in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DRABBER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drabber» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of drabber

Translation of «drabber» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRABBER

Find out the translation of drabber to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drabber from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drabber» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

drabber
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

drabber
570 millions of speakers

English

drabber
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

drabber
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

drabber
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

drabber
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

drabber
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

drabber
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plus terne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Drabber
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

düsterer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

drabber
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

drabber
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drabber
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

drabber
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

drabber
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ड्रेबेर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

drabber
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

drabber
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drabber
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

drabber
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

drabber
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

drabber
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

valer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drabber
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drabber
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drabber

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRABBER»

The term «drabber» is used very little and occupies the 159.491 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of drabber
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRABBER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drabber» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drabber» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drabber

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRABBER»

Discover the use of drabber in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drabber and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fish Cognition and Behavior
In different experiments, test females could observe either no model female, one model female interacting with the drabber male for 5 minutes, two different model females interacting with the drabber male each for 5 minutes or one model ...
Culum Brown, Kevin Laland, Jens Krause, 2011
2
The Court magazine and belle assemblée [afterw.] and monthly ...
So Mrs. Drabber had instructions to prepare for her master's departure. " Heavens I" cried Mrs. D , with inward fervor. " What is the world a- going to come to ?" Having secured the service of one of those genii loci of The Temple — a ragged, ...
Court magazine and monthly critic
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The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine, & ...
So Mrs. Drabber had instructions to prepare for her master's departure. " Heavens !" cried Mrs. D , with inward fervor. " What is the world a- going to come to ?" Having secured the service of one of those genii loci of The Temple — a ragged, ...
4
Haircoloring in Plain English
When lifting tbree levels, use an ash series color and a moderate amount of the appropriate ash drabber (usually 30 volume). • When lifting four levels, use an ash series color and maximum drabber (usually 40 volume). For maximum lift and ...
Roxy A. Warren, 1998
5
The Architecture of Additions: Design and Regulation
The still drabber proposal when abandoned 3-143 the same scale balanced the original, with a tapered, semicylindrical stair tower in between. A long, rectangular third object laid over them on its side tied them together with a large, arched ...
Paul Spencer Byard, 1998
6
A Red Bird in a Brown Bag: The Function and Evolution of ...
The group of males implanted with testosterone late in the spring, however, grew plumage that was much drabber than their pre-treatment plumage (Stoehr and Hill 2001) (Figure 8.6). Virtually all of the males in this latter group started out ...
Geoffrey Edward Hill, 2002
7
National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: Maryland & ...
field notes The nonbreeding male goldfinch (inset) loses his black cap except for a spot just above the bill and molts into much drabber yellowish brown plumage. The nonbreeding female is similar, but an even drabber grayish overall. field ...
Jonathan K. Alderfer, 2006
8
Hair to Dye for: A Hair Colorist's Secrets Revealed
How is dark colored hair lightened? How can two-toned hair be made all one color? How should Manic Panic be removed from hair? When should a drabber be used? Answers Color correction is the process of changing a disliked hair color.
Penny Baptista, 2009
9
White Peak Walks: The Southern Dales: 30 walks in Derbyshire ...
The river has incised the gorge with deference to the isolated limestone reefs that outcrop at intervals, such as Drabber Tor and Peaseland Rocks, thus keeping to the inter-reef channel systems trending south. Drabber Tor is an eye-catching ...
Mark Richards, 2012
10
The Warbler Guide
... more separate without using distinctive vocalizations; always have wide and short eyee active, rarely on ground; overall drabber; arcs (vs. eyering); Mourning eyerings are thinner and usually complete at least at smaller and finerebilled; faint ...
Tom Stephenson, Scott Whittle, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRABBER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drabber is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Comic Book Review – Airboy #2
They manage to convince themselves that he's some kind of hallucination, but he's having the same worries in a world much drabber than the ... «Flickering Myth, Jul 15»
2
Ingham's world: New birds are invading Britain's hot gardens
Young blue tits have pale yellow on their faces where adults have white feathers while robins are much drabber versions of their bolshy parents ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Santa Fe Aspens looking bare due to caterpillars
“They're going to be a little bit drabber,” Overton said. “They'll still be yellow but they're going to be more bronze than that bright gold we're ... «KRQE News 13, Jun 15»
4
Malta, Nelson and a cuckolded English aristocrat's tortured soul
... emerges as shamefully arrogant, obsessively conceited and uncouth; and it is Lord Nelson, not Lord Hamilton who seems the drabber figure ... «Times of Malta, Jun 15»
5
Mr. Curry Speaks Its Own Language
... of India to the yearnings of their drabber climate. Now London reportedly boasts more Indian restaurants than Delhi and Mumbai combined. «New York Times, Jun 15»
6
Long Migrations Make Drab Warblers 'Dress Down'
That's why the fashion police will probably give some female warblers a free pass, even after researchers found that they boast drabber feather ... «Nature World News, May 15»
7
In warblers, longer migration means drabber females
Here's an easy way to tell if a female warbler is a year-round resident of the tropics or just a visiting snowbird: Females from species that spend ... «Science /AAAS, May 15»
8
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker: EW review
Our world would be much drabber without Barker, whose career over the decades has branched across prose, painting, cinema, theater, ... «Entertainment Weekly, May 15»
9
Wild Ideas: Convenience stores in the trees
As with many species, the female Baltimore oriole is much drabber than the male. Eastern tent caterpillars leave during the day to feed, but ... «Rappahannock News, May 15»
10
REVIEW: At end, IFFBoston introduces “Me and Earl and the Dying …
... nothing but praise for the people involved in making the film, Andrews did concede that he had always imagined his characters a bit drabber. «Daily Free Press, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
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