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Definition: Frederick |
FrederickNoun1. A town in northern Maryland west of Baltimore. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Frederick" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a peaceful ruler". |
Date "Frederick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Screenplays | Woo-oo! You look like sex on a stick in that Frederick Montana getup! (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Frederick Gray! (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood) (quoting Frederick Douglas) (Higher Learning; writing credit: John Singleton) | |
Clever | Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. (references; author: Frederick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lady Frederick (1963) Ten North Frederick (1958) Frederick Douglass: The House on Cedar Hill (1953) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | An aerial photograph of the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center (FCRDC) taken circa 1985. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | The Cray supercomputer is located at FCRF, the Frederick Cancer Research Facility. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts Surveyed by Henry L. Whiting, 1846; updated by Frederick W. Dorr, 1865 Topographic Survey T-205. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Observing at Station Meade in Frederick Sound Triangulation party of J. M. Smook. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Flying over The Narrows at Port Frederick. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Rainbow in Frederick Sound. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Five Fingers Lighthouse in Frederick Sound. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Devils Paw in Frederick Sound area. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Salt Lake Bay, Port Frederick, Alaska 1982 May. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |  | Neka Bay, Port Frederick, Alaska 1982 May. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |
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| Author | Quotation |
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great | Rogues, would you live forever? |
| Talents go by nature not by birth. | |
| I love opposition that has convictions. | |
| An educated people can be easily governed. | |
| In trying to defend everything he defended nothing. | |
| I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king. | |
Frederick Douglass | One and God make a majority. |
Frederick I | An emperor is subject to no one but God and Justice. |
Frederick W. Faber | They always win who side with God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Dr. Frederick Koster, University of New Mexico, School of Medicine. (references) | |
Economic History | Ghana | Frederick Akuffo, who replaced him as head of state and leader of what became known as the SMC-2. (references) |
Zambia | Zambia's first multi-party elections for parliament and the presidency since the 1960s were held on October 31, 1991. MMD candidate Frederick Chiluba resoundingly carried the presidential election over Kenneth Kaunda with 81% of the vote. (references) | |
Human Rights | Namibia | In June a judge awarded three inmates in Windhoek Central Prison damages of approximately $3,500 (N$40,000) as compensation for assaults by prison guards during 2000. Sageus Frederick, also a prisoner in Windhoek, was awarded damages of approximately $1,400 (N$15,000) in compensation for beating by prison officers in 2000. A total of 15 suits against the Minister of Prisons over the use of leg chains in prisons were settled out of court in August. (references) |
Political Economy | Zambia | After 2 decades of one-party rule, free and fair multiparty elections in November 1991 resulted in the victory of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and the election of President Frederick J.T. Chiluba, a former trade unionist. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Frederick" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.82% of the time. "Frederick" is used about 722 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) | 96.82% | 699 | 9,549 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.21% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.97% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 722 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Frederick" 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 |
| Frederick | First name Male | 154,000 | 131 |
| Frederick | Last name | 14,000 | 879 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Frederick" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a peaceful ruler". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Frederick." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Bedrich | Male | Czech | Frederick |
| Frederik | Male | Danish | Frederick |
| Freek | Male | Dutch | Frederick |
| Fred | Male | English | Frederick |
| Freddie | Male, Female | English | Frederick |
| Freddy | Male | English | Frederick |
| Frederica | Female | English | Frederick |
| Frederick | Male | English | N/A |
| Fredrick | Male | English | Frederick |
| Frédéric | Male | French | Frederick |
| Friederike | Female | German | Frederick |
| Friedrich | Male | German | Frederick |
| Fridrik | Male | Hungarian | Frederick |
| Frigyes | Male | Hungarian | Frederick |
| Federica | Female | Italian | Frederick |
| Federico | Male | Italian | Frederick |
| Fryderyk | Male | Polish | Frederick |
| Frederica | Female | Portuguese | Frederick |
| Frederico | Male | Portuguese | Frederick |
| Federico | Male | Spanish | Frederick |
| Federigo | Male | Spanish | Frederick |
| Fredrik | Male | Swedish | Frederick |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Frederick Cooper plc | USA | Frederick Brewing Co. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Frederick, CO (town, FIPS 28360) 2. Frederick, IL 3. Frederick, KS (city, FIPS 24550) 4. Frederick, MD (city, FIPS 30325) 5. Frederick, OK (city, FIPS 27800) 6. Frederick, PA 7. Frederick, SD (town, FIPS 22860) |
Expressions using "Frederick": Charles Frederick Menninger ♦ Charles Frederick Worth ♦ Frederick Barbarossa ♦ Frederick Carleton Lewis ♦ Frederick Childe Hassam ♦ Frederick County ♦ Frederick Delius ♦ Frederick Douglass ♦ Frederick I ♦ Frederick II ♦ Frederick Jackson Turner ♦ Frederick Law Olmsted ♦ Frederick Loewe ♦ Frederick Moore Vinson ♦ Frederick North ♦ Frederick Soddy ♦ Frederick the Great ♦ Frederick William ♦ Frederick William I ♦ Frederick William II ♦ Frederick William III ♦ Frederick William Iv ♦ George Frederick Handel ♦ Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins ♦ Maxfield Frederick Parrish ♦ Prince Frederick ♦ Sir Frederick Ashton ♦ Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins ♦ Sir Frederick Grant Banting ♦ Sir Frederick William Herschel ♦ Sir John Frederick William Herschel ♦ Sri Frederick Handley Page ♦ William Frederick Cody. Additional references. | |
| 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 "Frederick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Friedrich. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | Φρειδερίκοσ (Fred, Frederic). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | Ferdorraghey. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ederickfray фредерик. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Frederick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bretherick, Ferderic, Frederike, Freidrich, Friederich, Friedericke, Friederike, Friedreich. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-k-r-r" | |
-2 letters: decrier, derrick, ferried, fiercer, refired, refried. | |
-3 letters: decker, defier, deicer, dicker, ferric, fierce, kerfed, recked, refire, ricked. | |
-4 letters: ceder, cered, cider, creed, creek, cried, crier, defer, deice, dicer, diker, direr, dreck, drier, eider, erred, fired, firer, freed, freer, frere, fried, frier, icker, irked, kefir, refed, refer, riced, ricer, rider, rifer. | |
-5 letters: cede, cedi, cere. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 65 64 65 72 69 63 6B |
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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)01000110 01110010 01100101 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r e d e r i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0065 0064 0065 0072 0069 0063 006B |
| 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)408471707184756977 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | "ερμανός, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, немецкий |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, Greagish, Greagagh, греческий, грек |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский |
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