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Douyin
Douyin (抖音) is the Chinese short-video platform operated by ByteDance. Launched in 2016, it is separate from TikTok and had over 850 million daily users and about RMB 901 billion in 2025 revenue.
DouYu
DouYu (斗鱼, formerly 斗鱼TV) is a Wuhan-based Chinese game live streaming platform founded in 2014 by Chen Shaojie and Zhang Wenming, listed on NASDAQ since 2019.
DouZero
DouZero is an open-source reinforcement learning agent for DouDizhu, China's most popular card game, released in 2021 by Kwai Inc. and Texas A&M University and presented at ICML 2021.
Dov Charney
Dov Charney is a Canadian-born fashion executive best known as the founder of American Apparel, which he built into a retailer with roughly $634 million in annual revenue.
Dov Levine
Dov Levine is a condensed matter theorist who co-founded the theory of quasicrystals with Paul Steinhardt in 1984 and is a professor of physics at the Technion in Israel.
Dovber Schneuri (Mitteler Rebbe)
Dovber Schneuri, known as the Mitteler Rebbe, was the second Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty, leading from 1813 to 1827 and making Lubavitch its center.
Dove Cameron
Dove Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman, 1996) is an American actress and singer known for Disney's Liv and Maddie, the Descendants franchise, the 2022 hit 'Boyfriend', and the 2023 album Alchemical: Volume 1.
Dove Ellis
Dove Ellis is the stage name of Thomas O'Donoghue, an Irish singer-songwriter born around 2002 in Galway and based in Manchester, whose 2025 debut album Blizzard drew wide acclaim and a Mercury Prize nomination.
Dovecote
Dovecote (also culverhouse, columbarium, doocot): a structure for housing and breeding pigeons or doves. A medieval aristocratic privilege in England and France, built for meat, eggs, feathers, and manure; over 25,000 existed in England by the mid-17th century.
Dover
Dover (Kent, England): coastal town and ferry port in the river Dour valley, 21 miles from France. Busiest passenger ferryport; over 9 million passengers and 2 million freight vehicles in 2025; site of Dover Castle and the Bronze Age Boat.
Dover (American industrial corporation)
Dover Corporation is an American diversified industrial manufacturer headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, making fuel dispensers, heat exchangers, and liquid-cooling connectors for AI data centers.
Dover (band)
Dover, a Spanish rock band from Madrid founded in 1992 by sisters Cristina and Amparo Llanos with Jesús Antúnez, sang in English; its 1997 album Devil Came to Me sold around 800,000 copies before the 2016 dissolution. Not the London Britainicana band of the same name.
Dover Air Force Base
Dover Air Force Base (Dover AFB) is a US Air Force base in Delaware, home of the 436th and 512th Airlift Wings flying C-5M and C-17 aircraft, and of AFMAO, the DoD's sole stateside port mortuary.
Dover Athletic F.C.
Dover Athletic F.C., the Whites, an English semi-professional football club in Dover, Kent, formed 1983 to replace folded Dover FC; plays at Crabble Athletic Ground in National League South, chaired by Jim Parmenter, with FA Cup third-round runs in 2010-11 and 2014-15.
Dover Beach
Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold's most celebrated lyric poem, published 1867 in New Poems but likely written around his 1851 honeymoon at Dover; four irregular stanzas mourning the retreating Sea of Faith and ending with the darkling plain image.
Dover Castle
Dover Castle is a medieval royal fortress in Kent, England, on the chalk cliffs above Dover, the largest castle in England by area, garrisoned continuously until 1958.
Dover Motor Speedway
Dover Motor Speedway, the Monster Mile, is a 1-mile, 24-degree-banked concrete oval in Dover, Delaware, opened in 1969; NASCAR's only other concrete Cup track is Bristol. Jimmie Johnson leads with 11 Cup wins.
Dover Publications
Dover Publications (Dover Books), founded 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker, is an American paperback publisher of public-domain reprints and originals: Thrift Editions classics, math and science books, coloring books; Courier acquired it for $39M in 2000, later LSC Communications.
Dover Street X AIF SCSp
Dover Street X AIF SCSp is a 2018-vintage private equity secondaries fund organized as a Luxembourg special limited partnership and managed by HarbourVest Partners of Boston.
Dover, DE Metro Area
The Dover, DE Metropolitan Statistical Area (Dover, DE MSA, CBSA code 20100) is an OMB-designated metro area covering Kent County, Delaware, around the state capital Dover, with about 195,000 residents in 2025.
Dover, Delaware
Dover, Delaware: capital of Delaware and Kent County seat, founded by William Penn in 1683, plotted 1717, permanent capital since 1779. Population 39,403 (2020); economy based on state government and Dover Air Force Base.
Doves (band)
Doves are a Manchester indie rock band formed in 1998 by Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams, formerly dance act Sub Sub. Three UK No. 1 albums, Mercury nominations, and 2025's Constellations for the Lonely.
Doves as symbols
Doves as symbols: meanings attached to doves across cultures, from mother-goddess emblems of Asherah, Astarte, and Venus, to Noah's olive-branch dove, the Holy Spirit at Jesus' baptism, and the modern political peace dove after 1919.
Doves Press
The Doves Press was a private press in Hammersmith, London, founded in 1900 by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson with Emery Walker, printing 40 titles in its Doves Type.
Dovetail joint
The dovetail joint, also known as dove-tail jointing or culvertail, is a woodworking and machining joint in which angled trapezoidal tails lock against separation, anchoring drawer construction for over 5,000 years.
Dovitinib
Dovitinib (TKI258, CHIR-258) is an oral multi-target tyrosine kinase inhibitor against FGFR, VEGFR, PDGFR, FLT3, KIT, and RET, trialed in RCC, HCC, and breast cancer; not FDA approved.
Dovmont of Pskov
Dovmont of Pskov (Довмонт), baptized Timofey, was a Lithuanian prince chosen as prince of Pskov in 1266 who won victories over Lithuania and the Livonian Order.
Dovydas Sasnauskas
Dovydas Sasnauskas, Lithuanian footballer, defender born 2007, right-footed; plays for Sheffield United U23, formerly Buxton, and represents Lithuania at U19 and U21 level.
Dovzhenko Film Studios (Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка)
Dovzhenko Film Studios (Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка), also called the Kyiv Film Studio, is Ukraine's state feature-film studio in Kyiv, founded 1928 under VUFKU, named after Oleksandr Dovzhenko in 1957, producer of Zemlya and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
Dow
Dow Inc. is an American materials-science company and holding company for The Dow Chemical Company, founded in 1897, with about 36,000 employees and $43 billion in 2024 sales.