Translation for '
dime' from English to Russian
NOUN | a dime | dimes | |
VERB | to dime | dimed | dimed diming | dimes | |
SYNO | dime | dime bag |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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Usage Examples English
- (1863-1940) was a writer, publisher and historian of dime novels which was a class of popular fiction that flourished in the mid- and late-nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century.
- Dimebacks are brought into the game when the defense uses a dime formation, which uses six defensive backs rather than four or five.
- He also authored "The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels" (1950).
- He became the writer of a series of dime novels under the title "The Master of Mississippi", based on a highly exaggerated description of his life.
- The Roosevelt dime is the current dime, or ten-cent piece, of the United States.
- His brother Albert Johannsen was a professor of petrology at the University of Chicago and a collector of dime store novels who wrote a book on one of the dime novel publishing houses and another on Charles Dickens illustrator Phiz.
- "Pluck and Luck: Complete Stories of Adventure" was an American dime novel first published by Frank Tousey and was the longest-running dime novel.
- The Capped Bust coinage of the United States consisted of a half dime, dime, quarter and half dollar.
- His literary interests also extended to collecting rare late-19th and early-20th century dime novels, a collection which was recently discovered in basement of Villanova's library, and now forms the core of the University's Dime Novel and Popular Literature collection and Digital Library resource.
- The name 'Dime Buildings' has to do with the weekly "dubbeltje" ("dime") dues that members of the BVEW paid to the construction company.
- Some examples include cents struck on dime planchets, nickels on cent planchets, or quarters on dime planchets.
- He was a writer of dime novels. His first published dime novel was "The Diamond Sport; or, The Double Face of Bed Rock", published in 1886 by Beadle.
- The Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn was chartered in 1859; its name referenced the fact that clients could originally create an account with as little as a dime.
- In 1881, the first Jesse James dime novel story appeared in Tousey's five-cent "Wide Awake Library": "The Train Robbers; or, A Story of the James Boys'.
- The word "dime" comes from the Old French "disme" (Modern French dîme), meaning "tithe" or "tenth part", from the Latin "decima [...]".
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