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Definitions: Carnegie |
CarnegieNoun1. United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955). 2. American industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Carnegie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | CARNEGIE, Andrew, or "Andy," or the Laird of Skibo. A fine old American who went about giving away libraries, advice, peace buildings, and advertising armor plate. When a young Scotchman he scotched his three dollars a week and purchased the steel trust. Later retired. Ambition: Universal peace with all dreadnaughts steel trust armored. Also a library in every town. Recreation: Telling young men how to scorn the root of all fortunes. Also receiving university degrees. Address: University commencement platforms, New York City and Scotland. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CARSO | English | Carnegie Southern Observatory | N/A |
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Synonyms: CarnegieSynonyms: Andrew Carnegie (n), Dale Carnegie (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carnegie |
| English words defined with "Carnegie": Andrew Carnegie ♦ Dale Carnegie ♦ perform, play. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Carnegie": 20-GATE ♦ Andrew Project ♦ CARNEGIE, Carnegie Mellon University, CMU, CRL ♦ DARLING ♦ Formula ALGOL ♦ GANDALF ♦ Information Processing Language, Internal Translator ♦ Knowledge Management System ♦ LIBRARY, Linear Graph Notation ♦ NESL ♦ sml2c ♦ Wall. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962) Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (1961) The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie (1997) | |
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Shows photo of Dr. E. C. MacDowell and associates at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Genetics studying hereditary pattern of leukemia in 1935.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ![]() | Ephemeral Lake Carnegie, in Western Australia, fills with water only during periods of significant rainfall. In dry years, it is reduced to a muddy marsh.Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | Architectural drawing for a library ("Washington Public Library") for Andrew Carnegie, Mount Vernon Square, N.W., Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Sketch of Mr. Elihu Root at meeting of the Board of the Carnegie Institution of Washington / Cass Gilbert.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The honeymoon is over : he gave me a black eye at Carnegie Hall.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Carnegie Institution--D.C. Public Library, Mass. & N.Y. Aves., N.W., Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, speaking at Carnegie Hall.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Carnegie Steel Co., Duquesne Plant, Duquesne, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Edgar Thomson [i.e. Thompson] Works, Carnegie Steel Co., Braddock, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Andrew Carnegie.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Andrew Carnegie | Aim for the highest. |
| All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. | |
| I can't afford to pay them any other way. | |
| I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. | |
| No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. | |
| The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. | |
| Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket... | |
| You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself. | |
| Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WALL :STREET:, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven. Even the great and good Andrew Carnegie has made his profession of faith in the matter. Carnegie the dauntless has uttered his call To battle: "The brokers are parasites all!" Carnegie, Carnegie, you'll never prevail; Keep the wind of your slogan to belly your sail, Go back to your isle of perpetual brume, Silence your pibroch, doff tartan and plume: Ben Lomond is calling his son from the fray -- Fly, fly from the region of Wall Street away! While still you're possessed of a single baubee (I wish it were pledged to endowment of me) 'Twere wise to retreat from the wars of finance Lest its value decline ere your credit advance. For a man 'twixt a king of finance and the sea, Carnegie, Carnegie, your tongue is too free! Anonymus Bink |
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| "Carnegie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.81% of the time. "Carnegie" is used about 84 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) | 98.81% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Carnegie" 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 |
| Carnegie | Last name | 1,000 | 17,010 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Carnegie Financial Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Carnegie, OK (town, FIPS 12050) 2. Carnegie, PA (borough, FIPS 11336) |
Expressions using "Carnegie": Andrew Carnegie ♦ Carnegie Mellon University ♦ dale Carnegie. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Carnegie": carnegie-esque, Carnegie-mellon, Carnegie-Mellon University. | |
Ending with "Carnegie": Tomelty-carnegie. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Carnegie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卡内基. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Carnegie-eksperiment (Carnegie-experiment), Carnegie Corporation (Carnegie corporation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Carnegie Stichting (Carnegie Foundation, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust), Carnegie Corporation of New York (Carnegie corporation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | corporation de Carnegie (Carnegie corporation), recherche dans la cache de la fondation Carnegie (Carnegie-experiment), Fondation Carnegie pour les sauveteurs (Carnegie Hero Fund(Switzerland)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Carnegie-Stiftung für Lebensretter (Carnegie Hero Fund(Switzerland)), Carnegie-Experiment (Carnegie-experiment), Carnegie Corporation (Carnegie corporation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σωμάτειο Carnegie (Carnegie corporation), πείραμα Carnegie (Carnegie-experiment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Fondazione Carnegie per i salvatori di vite umane (Carnegie Hero Fund(Switzerland)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | カード会" (car heater, carbine, card holder, cardmember, carnation, Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Mellon, carnival, Kaaba, kernel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カーネギー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arnegiecay corporação de Carnegie (Carnegie corporation), experiência de Carnegie (Carnegie-experiment). (various references) карнеги. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Carnegie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caniggia, carnagie, Krengiel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: anergic, generic, reginae. | |
-2 letters: arcing, cagier, careen, caring, carnie, cering, cringe, earing, encage, enrage, gainer, genera, incage, racing, reagin, recane, regain, regina. | |
-3 letters: acing, aerie, agene, agree, anger, areic, cager, cairn, caner, ceria, cigar, crane, eager, eagre, erica, garni, genic, genie, genre, grace, grain, green, nacre, naric, nicer, niece, ragee, rance, ranee, range. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: careening, careering, grievance, recoinage. | |
+2 letters: adrenergic, allergenic, centigrade, cinemagoer, decreasing, execrating, grandniece, grecianize, grievances, reacceding, recleaning, recoinages, recreating, reenacting, regnancies, reteaching. | |
+3 letters: atherogenic, becarpeting, calendering, carrageenin, celebrating, cerebrating, chivareeing, cinemagoers, deprecating, desecrating, freelancing, generically, glycerinate, gracileness, grandnieces, grecianized, grecianizes, interagency, interchange, paragenetic, praelecting, precleaning, preclearing, precreasing, preenacting, pregnancies, reaccenting, reaccepting, reascending, recarpeting, reeducating, rejacketing, researching, sergeancies, teratogenic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 6E 65 67 69 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. -. . --. .. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100101 01100111 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r n e g i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 006E 0065 0067 0069 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767848071737571 |
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