Dora may stand for: *

Dora (given name) Dora ( el, Δώρα) is a female name of Greek origin being a shortened form or derived from Dorothea (Dorothy), Theodora meaning "Gift" or in its full form "God's Gift", from , ''doron'', "gift" + , ''theos'', "god". The name ''Dora'' can also be ...

Places

United States

Dora, Alabama Dora is a city in Walker County, Alabama, Walker County, Alabama, United States. History The first settlers in the area now known as Dora were James. M. Davis, Ezekiel Morgan, and Cole Smith in the early 1830s. Later in the 1830s, homesteaders se ...

* Dora, Arkansas * Dora, Missouri *

Dora, New Mexico Dora is a village in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 133 at the 2010 census. Former Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball coach Larry Hays attended school in Dora. Geography Dora is located at (33.931279, -103.337472 ...

Dora, Oregon Dora is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States. It is about east of Coquille near the East Fork Coquille River on the former route of the Coos Bay Wagon Road. It is in the Southern Oregon Coast Range. Dora post offic ...

* Dora, Pennsylvania * Mount Dora, Florida

Other countries

Lake Dora (Tasmania) Lake Dora is a lake and also short-lived mining area of the late 1890s located in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia. It has a surface level of . Features and location It has two adjacent tarns just west of it, Maxfield and ...

Lake Dora (Western Australia) } Lake Dora ( Wanman: ''Ngayartakujarra'') is a seasonal salt lake located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It lies between the vegetated sand fields of the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts. The Rudall River The Rudall River ( W ...

Dora, Baghdad Dora (also al-Dura, or ad-Durah, ar, الدورة) is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern Baghdad, Iraq. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was home to the city's largest concentration of Christian Assyrians, as well ...

, Iraq *

Dora, Cyprus Dora ( gr, Δορά, ''Dhora'') is a village in the Limassol District of Cyprus, located 6 km southwest of Malia. Built at an elevation of more than 600 meters, Dora "emerges" between two rivers, Ha and Dirizo. From the above, they predate the p ...

* Dora, Lebanon *

Dura, Hebron Dura ( ar, دورا) is a Palestinian city located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a pop ...

, in the Israeli West Bank *

Dorasan Dorasan or Mount Dora is a 156-metre hill on the north bank of the Imjin River in northernmost Paju, South Korea. It lies very near the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The hill gives its name to several nearby landmarks, including Dorasan Station and ...

or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea * Dora Beel, a lake in Assam (India) *

Dora Baltea Dora Baltea () or Doire Baltée () is a river in northwestern Italy. It is a left-hand tributary of the Po and is about long. Name The river's Latin name was ''Duria maior'', ''Duria Baltica'' or ''Duria Bautica''. Strabo called it Δουρι ...

river and

Dora Riparia The Dora Riparia (; pms, Dòira Rivaira; french: Doire Ripaire or ''Doire''; la, Duria minor) is an alpine river, a left-hand tributary of the Po. It is long (of which 5 km in France), with a drainage basin. It originates in the Cottian ...

river, northern Italy

Entertainment

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Dora the Explorer ''Dora the Explorer'' is an American children's animated television series and multimedia franchise created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner that premiered on Nickelodeon on August 14, 2000, went on hiatus on June 5, 20 ...

'', American children's television program * ''

Dora and the Lost City of Gold ''Dora and the Lost City of Gold'' is a 2019 American adventure comedy film directed by James Bobin. It is a live-action adaptation of the Nick Jr. animated television series ''Dora the Explorer'' as well as the Nickelodeon animated series '' ...

'', a 2019 live-action movie loosely based on the TV program * ''Dora'' (TV series), a 1973 British sitcom series * ''Dora'' (1933 film), a British comedy film * ''Dora'' (2017 film), a Tamil language horror thriller movie * Dora Mavor Moore Award for Canadian professional theatre * "Dora", 1984 song by Ambitious Lovers from the album ''

Envy Envy is an emotion which occurs when a person lacks another's quality, skill, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it. Aristotle defined envy as pain at the sight of another's good fortune, stirred b ...

'' * Dora, a designated bonus tile used in Japanese Mahjong * ''

Doraemon ''Doraemon'' ( ja, ドラえもん ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. The manga was first serialized in December 1969, with List of Doraemon chapters, its 1,345 individual chapters compiled into 45 ' ...

'', Japanese anime and manga in Tv Asahi * Dora, fictional character in the webcomic '' Erfworld'' * Dora Bianchi, fictional character in the webcomic '' Questionable Content'' * Dora Spenlow, fictional character in ''David Copperfield'' by Charles Dickens * Dora, one of

Lazarus Long Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard Foundation, Lazarus (birth name Woodrow Wi ...

's primary spacecraft, and her sentient integral computer, in novels by Robert A. Heinlein *

Nymphadora Tonks The Order of the Phoenix is a secret organisation in the ''Harry Potter'' series of fiction books written by J. K. Rowling. Founded by Albus Dumbledore to fight Lord Voldemort and his followers, the Death Eaters, the Order lends its name to the ...

, fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' universe *

HRT Dora HRT may refer to: Health and medicine * Habit reversal training * Heart rate turbulence * Hormone replacement therapy, a treatment used to reduce symptoms associated with menopause * Transgender hormone therapy, also known as hormone replacem ...

, Croatian music festival and preselection venue for the Eurovision Song Contest

Military and war

Dora (artillery) Schwerer Gustav (English: ''Heavy Gustav'') was a German railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the stronges ...

, 80cm German railway artillery pieces *

Dora I Dora I (Dora 1) is a former German submarine base and submarine pen or bunker built in Trondheim, Norway. Construction of the bunker (designated by the Germans as DORA I) was undertaken during the Second World War. Nearby is the uncompleted Dora ...

, and

Dora II Dora II (Dora 2) is an unfinished German submarine base and submarine pen or bunker in Trondheim, Norway, which is next to Dora I (Dora 1). Construction of the bunker (designated by the Germans as DORA II) was undertaken during the Second World War ...

, German U-boat bases in Trondheim, Norway * Dora, code name of World War II Soviet intelligence agent

Alexander Radó Alexander Radó (5 November 1899, Újpest, near Budapest – 20 August 1981, Budapest), also: Alex, Alexander Radolfi, Sándor Kálmán Reich or Alexander Rado, was a Hungarian cartographer and a Soviet military intelligence agent in World War ...

Defence of the Realm Act 1914 The Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) was passed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 1914, four days after it entered the First World War and was added to as the war progressed. It gave the government wide-ranging powers during the war, such as the p ...

(DORA), British war legislation adopted in August 1914 * Fw 190 D "Dora", model of

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed ''Würger'' (" Shrike") is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Along with its well-known counterpart, ...

German fighter aircraft * Mittelbau-Dora, World War II concentration camp

Other uses

* DORA, acronym in computer networking for Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge process in the

DHCP The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks for automatically assigning IP addresses and other communication parameters to devices connected to the network using a cli ...

protocol *

668 Dora 668 Dora is an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped ...

, main belt asteroid *

Dora (case study) Dora is the pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whom he diagnosed with hysteria, and treated for about eleven weeks in 1900. Her most manifest hysterical symptom was aphonia, or loss of voice. The patient's real name was Ida Bauer (1882 ...

of Sigmund Freud, described in ''A Case of Hysteria'' *

Dora (grape) Fortana (also known as Canina ) is a red Italian wine grape variety grown primarily in the Emilia–Romagna region of northern Italy. A permitted grape variety in several ''Denominazione di origine controllatas'' (DOCs), mostly in Emilia, Fortana ...

, another name for the Italian wine grape Fortana * ''Dora'' (sternwheeler), a 1910 steamboat in Oregon * SS ''Dora'', one of at least two steamships active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries * Dora, a medieval title of the feudal landlord in the Telangana region of India *

dumb Dora ''Dumb Dora'' is a comic strip published from 1924 to 1936 distributed by King Features Syndicate. The term "dumb Dora" was a 1920s American slang term for a foolish woman; the strip helped popularize the term. Publication history ''Dumb Dora'' ...

, a slang term from the 1920s meaning "idiotic woman" *

Tropical Storm Dora (disambiguation) The name Dora has been used for fifteen tropical cyclones worldwide: two in the Atlantic Ocean, eight in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (two of which crossed over into the Western Pacific basin), one in the Western Pacific Ocean, two in the South-West I ...

, list of tropical cyclones worldwide named ''Dora'' * DORA, the

San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) intends to halt the practice of correlating the journal impact factor to the merits of a specific scientist's contributions. Also according to this statement, this practice creates bias ...

, intending to halt the practice of correlating the journal impact factor to the merits of a specific scientist's contributions *

Dual orexin receptor antagonist An orexin receptor antagonist, or orexin antagonist, is a drug that inhibits the effect of orexin by acting as a receptor antagonist of one or both of the orexin receptors, OX1 and OX2. Medical applications include treatment of sleep disorders su ...

, a type of sleep medication * Abbreviation for the gene downregulated by activation also known as