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Definition: Behring |
BehringNoun1. Danish explorer who explored the North Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Behring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Synonyms: BehringSynonyms: Bering (n), Vitus Behring (n), Vitus Bering (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Behring |
| English words defined with "Behring": Vitus Behring. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | E. Behring.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Emil Adolph v. Behring.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Business | European companies control the serology/virology market sector, especially German and Austrian companies, such as Behring, SLT, Lab Systems, Delphia, and Anthor. (references) | |
Given the dominance of the German IVD industry in Europe -- the German market accounts for 26 percent of the European market -- it is not surprising that two leading German IVD manufacturers have operations in the United Kingdom; namely, Bayer Plc. and Behring Diagnostics. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Behring" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Behring" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Behring" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Behring | Last name | 200 | 32,409 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Dade Behring Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "Behring": Vitus Behring. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Behring": hoeschst-behring. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dade behring | 158 |
aventis behring | 32 |
dade behring inc | 7 |
behring | 6 |
behring diagnostics | 3 |
behring jitsu jiu | 3 |
behring ken | 3 |
behring emil von | 3 |
behring e family hall kenneth mammal | 2 |
behring chiron | 2 |
behring lisa | 2 |
behring jitsu.net jiu | 2 |
behring dade microscan | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-h-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: binger, hinger, nigher. | |
-2 letters: begin, being, binge, brine, bring, giber, hinge, neigh, reign, renig. | |
-3 letters: berg, bier, bine, bren, brie, brig, brin, gibe, gien, girn, grin, heir, herb, hern, hire, nigh, rein, ring. | |
-4 letters: beg, ben, big, bin, eng, erg, ern, gen, ghi, gib, gie, gin, hen, her, hie, hin, ire, neb, nib, reb. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-h-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: berthing, brighten, neighbor. | |
+2 letters: berhyming, bothering, breaching, breathing, breeching, brightens, harbinger, neighbors, neighbour, rehabbing. | |
+3 letters: becharming, beshrewing, bethorning, betrothing, blathering, blethering, blithering, breathings, breechings, brightened, brightener, brightness, brothering, burthening, butchering, chambering, harbingers, hebraizing, highbinder, neighbored, neighborly, neighbours. | |
+4 letters: bedrenching, bescorching, beshivering, beshrouding, besmirching, brighteners, brightening, harbingered, herringbone, hibernating, highbinders, inbreathing, negrophobia, neighboring, neighboured, rebranching, unbreeching. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 68 72 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .... .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101000 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e h r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0068 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36717484758073 |
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