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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PYE-DOG

Anglo-Indian pye, paë, from Hindi pāhī outsider.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PYE-DOG

pye-dog play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PYE-DOG

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Pye-Dog is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PYE-DOG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pye-dog

Pariah dog

In ecology, the term pariah dog may refer to a dog with a pariah lifestyle: a free-ranging dog that occupies the "pariah niche", which is the ecological niche based on waste from human settlements. Ecologists also have spoken of pariah birds and pariah cats. When used in this way, the term would describe a very large percentage of dogs worldwide, especially in developing countries and large parts of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Among dog experts, the term refers to a specific, ancient, and numerous landrace of dog native to south Asia, including Indian Pariah Dog, which has evolved features specialized to the pariah niche. When used in this way, the term applies to such dogs regardless of the lifestyle of any individual. At other times, dog experts use the term "pariah dog" for ancient or primitive dog, regardless of lineage or lifestyle. In addition, the term is used for any dog which exhibits the "long-term pariah morph", the set of characteristics typical of the Indian Pariah dog, regardless of lifestyle or ancestry.

Definition of pye-dog in the English dictionary

The definition of pye-dog in the dictionary is an ownerless half-wild Asian dog.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PYE-DOG

pycnogonoid
pycnometer
pycnometric
pycnoses
pycnosis
pycnospore
pycnostyle
pycnotic
Pydna
pye
pyelitic
pyelitis
pyelogram
pyelographic
pyelography
pyelonephritic
pyelonephritis
pyemia
pyemic
pyet

WORDS THAT END LIKE PYE-DOG

bird-dog
black dog
bulldog
dog
Eskimo dog
French bulldog
gun dog
hot dog
hot-dog
Newfoundland dog
pi-dog
pie-dog
Portuguese water dog
put on the dog
sheepdog
shepherd dog
sick-dog
top dog
underdog
watchdog

Synonyms and antonyms of pye-dog in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pye-dog» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PYE-DOG

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

Translator English - Chinese

野良犬
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pye -dog
570 millions of speakers

English

pye-dog
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दोग़ला कुत्ता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بى كلب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Пай - собака
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Pye -dog
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মালিকহীন খেঁকি কুকুর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pye -dog
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pye-anjing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pye -Dog
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パイドッグ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동남 아시아 - 개
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pye-anjing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Pye -dog
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pye-நாய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिए-कुत्रा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

melez köpek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Pye -dog
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Pye - pies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Пай- собака
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Pye - dog
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Pye - dog
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Pye - hond
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Pye -dog
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Pye - hund
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pye-dog

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PYE-DOG»

The term «pye-dog» is barely ever used and occupies the 193.728 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PYE-DOG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pye-dog» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pye-dog» 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 pye-dog

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PYE-DOG»

Discover the use of pye-dog in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pye-dog and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Selection – in the form of artificial selection by human breeders – can turn a pye- dog into a Pekinese, or a wild cabbage into a cauliflower, in a few centuries. The difference between any two breeds of dog gives us a rough idea of the quantity ...
Richard Dawkins, 2009
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Seagulls and Camels, and Other Tales That Touch the Heart
(Incidentally, anyone who asserts opinions in a dictatorial manner is properly defined as “dogmatic.” And speaking of definitions, how many people know right off what a “bandog” is? How about a “coydog”? A “pye-dog”? What would you say a ...
Douglas D. Hubbard, 2008
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Concise English Dictionary
pye-dog pyroscope pye-dog pt'-dog, n. an ownerless or pariah dog. — Also pi'- dog, pie -dog. [Hind, pahl, outsider.] pyelitis pi-j-lT'ti.s, n. inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney. — adj. pyelitfc (-lit'ik). — n. pyelonephritis (-nef-rftis) inflammation ...
G. (Ed ). Davidson, 2007
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The Ancient British Drama ...
0, dog-holes to't, Pye. Dog-holes, indeed. I can tell you, I have great hope to have my chamber here shortly, nay, and diet too ; for he's the most free heartedst gentleman, where he takes : you would little think it. And what a fine gallery were  ...
Sir Walter Scott, 1810
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Instruments of Darkness
Moses had pushed up his sunglasses and was frowning at the way things were developing. Inevitability was in the air. The pye-dog, its diseased hindquarters shaking, the crewman, his stainless steel cleaver glinting, closed on each other.
Robert Wilson, 2003
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The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Six Volumes. ...
Pye. Dog-holes indeed I can tell you I have great hope to have my Chamber here shortly, nay, and Dyet too, for he's the most free-heartedst Gentleman where he takes : you would little think it. And what a sineGallery were here for me to walk ...
William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, 1709
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Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published ...
Pye. Dog-holes, indeed. I can tell you, 1 have great hope to have my chamber here shortly, nay, and diet too ; for he's the most free-heartedst gentleman, where he takes : you would Jittle think it. And what a fine gallery were here for me to walk ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, 1780
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Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published ...
Pye. Dog-holes, indeed. I can tell you, I have great hope to have my chamber here shortly, nay, and diet too ; for he's the most free-heartedst gentleman, where he takes : you would little think it. And what a fine gallery were here for me to walk  ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, 1780
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The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
A howl came from somewhere outside, a pye-dog. She refused to cry, she had done crying. The drinking voices waxed very loud. Rosemary could not decipher the signature of the letters : Mal, May, Maya, something like that. She, too, had sent ...
Anthony Burgess, 1992
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'Tears Before Bedtime' and 'Weep No More'
Charles had two horses, a pye-dog and a broken-down old car. We would drive into the country taking a picnic, a gramophone and his pye-dog; his syce brought up the rear with the horses and we would ride back, until one day Charles fell ill ...
Barbara Skelton, 2012

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PYE-DOG»

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Film Review: 'Full Strike'
From his 2007 debut, “Pye-dog,” to last year's firefighter blockbuster “As the Light ... Helmer Kwok (“The Pye Dog,” “As the Light Goes Out”), who has a knack for ... «Variety, Apr 15»

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