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"IGOR" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a yew", "a bow", "an army", "a warrior". |
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Aerospace | Intercept ground optical recorder. A long-focal-length telescopic camera used to observe attitude and other details of a rocket in flight.Abbreviation. (references) |
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Igor or Egor is the traditional or cliché hunch-backed lab assistant to the mad scientist, familiar from many horror movies and horror movie parodies.The cliché has its origins in the character of Ygor, played by Bela Lugosi, in the Universal Studios horror movies Son of Frankenstein and Ghost of Frankenstein; it also owes something to the hunchbacked lab assistant in the first film of the series, whose name was Fritz. The archetypal Igor, however, is probably the character of that name played by Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks's parody of Universal's Frankenstein movies.
In Terry Pratchett's humourous fantasy novels, the Uberwald region of the Discworld (that is, the region of the Discworld noted for resembling a collection of horror movie clichés) is home to an extended family of hunch-backed lab assistants with speech disabilities, every single one of whom is named Igor.
The "Albino" character in The Princess Bride seems to be built on the Igor archetype.
In general, an Igor is any flunky, patsy, minion or bidding-doer in a fantasy or science fiction work--and the more disfigured the better.
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: "You know, I'm a very prominent surgeon. I can do something about your hump." Igor: "What hump?"
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The Varangian Prince Igor (or Ingvar Helgisson) ruled Kievan Rus from (912-945). Igor expanded Kiev's power until being killed by Derevlians in 945.
Preceded by:
OlegRulers of Kievan Rus Succeeded by:
OlgaSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Igor of Kiev."
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Screenplays | Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) You must be Igor. (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Knyaz Igor (1970) Igor Stravinsky Young People's Concerts: Happy Birthday (1962) The Igor Cassini Show (1953) Igor Stravinsky: Composer (2001) Prince Igor (1990) | |
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 | Igor Stravinsky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Igor I. Sikorsky, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Members of the New York City Ballet portray Noah, his sons and their wives in the world premier of Igor Stravinsky's dance drama, "Noah and the flood" [...] on the CBS Television Network. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pennsylvania plane / Igor Kordey, 2001. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Face" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "Pisa Airport - Sculptures of Igor Mitoraj." |
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Civil Liberties | Russia | At the time of his death, Khatloni had been investigating alleged human rights abuses by the federal military in Chechnya; the July 2000 killing of Igor Domnikov, a journalist with Novaya Gazeta; and the July 2000 killing of Sergey Novikov, president of independent radio station Vesna. (references) |
Human Rights | Yugoslavia | On August 11, police brought Igor Borisic to a police station after having accused him of talking too loudly, and beat him severely. (references) |
Russia | In November 1999, Igor Sutyagin, a disarmament researcher with the U.S. and Canada Institute, was detained on suspicion of espionage for allegedly passing classified information about the country's nuclear weapons to a London-based firm. (references) | |
Political Rights | Moldova | Elections for "President," of the unrecognized state took place on December 9 and the incumbent, Igor Smirnov, was declared the winner. (references) |
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| "IGOR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "IGOR" is used about 80 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) | 95% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 1.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "IGOR" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a yew", "a bow", "an army", "a warrior". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "IGOR." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ivor | Male | English | N/A |
| Íomhar | Male | Irish | Ivor |
| Igor | Male | Russian | Ivor |
| Ivar | Male | Scandinavian | Ivor |
| Iomhar | Male | Scottish | Ivor |
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Expressions using "IGOR": Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ♦ Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky ♦ Igor Sikorsky ♦ Igor Stravinsky ♦ Igor Tamm ♦ Igor Yevgeneevich Tamm. Additional references. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
voyeur web igor | 171 | bril igor | 7 |
voyeur igor | 142 | funbags igor | 7 |
igor | 141 | cavalera igor | 7 |
igor stravinsky | 103 | igor ansoff | 6 |
cloud igor red | 94 | igor nikolaev | 6 |
igor sikorsky | 41 | igor kraszewski | 6 |
igor gouzenko | 39 | gavrilov igor | 6 |
fame hall igor | 37 | igor talkov | 6 |
igor medvedev | 23 | igor olshansky | 6 |
hall igor | 22 | voyeur web igor red cloud | 6 |
free voyeur web igor | 22 | igor sypniewski | 6 |
igor rakocevic | 21 | igor longo | 5 |
prince igor | 16 | free voyeur igor | 5 |
igor stravinski | 13 | igor serebryany | 5 |
grigorenko igor | 12 | igor pro | 5 |
igor mitoraj | 11 | hofbauer igor | 5 |
igor larionov | 10 | gonzalez igor | 5 |
igor vovchanchyn | 9 | asher igor voyeur web | 5 |
igor tudor | 8 | gonzalez igor juan | 5 |
igor vovchanchin | 7 | igor engraver | 5 |
boris igor robert | 5 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "IGOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | игорь. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "IGOR": obligor, rigor, vigor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "IGOR": frigorific, invigorate, invigorated, invigorates, invigorating, invigoratingly, invigoration, invigorations, invigorator, invigorators, obligors, reinvigorate, reinvigorated, reinvigorates, reinvigorating, reinvigoration, reinvigorations, reinvigorator, reinvigorators, rigorism, rigorisms, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorists, rigorous, rigorously, rigorousness, rigorousnesses, rigors, vigorish, vigorishes, vigoroso, vigorous, vigorously, vigorousness, vigorousnesses, vigors. (additional references) | |
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"IGOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atgor, egor, Eivor, Gibor, Giora, Gioura, Higoi, igar, iggor, igo, Igors, Igr, igrf, Ihor, Ijo, ingor, ior, ogor, Ogork, Ozgur, Pibor, Sgorr, Sigur, Tigor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: giro. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-o-r" | |
-1 letter: gor, rig. | |
-2 letters: go, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-o-r" | |
+1 letter: corgi, giron, giros, griot, groin, guiro, orgic, pirog, rigor, trigo, vigor. | |
+2 letters: boring, corgis, coring, eringo, giaour, girons, gloria, goiter, goitre, gooier, gorier, gorily, goring, gringo, griots, grison, groins, guiros, ignore, logier, oaring, ogrish, ogrism, onagri, orbing, orgiac, orgies, origan, origin, pirogi, poring, region, righto, rigors, rigour, robing, roping, rosing, roving, rowing, rubigo, signor, soring, trigon, trigos, vigors, vigour, virago. | |
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