Ives

Definition: Ives

Ives

Noun

1. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).

2. United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895).

"Ives" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a yew".

Date "Ives" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

"Ives" is a common misspelling or typo for: dives, gives, hives, ides, ivies, lives.

Synonyms: Ives

Synonyms: Charles Edward Ives (n), James Ives (n), James Merritt Ives (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: Ives colorimeter (medicine), Ives method (physics), Ives raster plates (medicine), Ives-Fansler speculum.

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Crosswords: Ives

English words defined with "Ives": Currier ♦ Nathaniel Currier. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Ives": Honest Lawyer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ives

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Secret of St. Ives (1949)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Ives

Domain	Title
References	St. Ives Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Beaux Arts USA's Pocket Guide to American Art Prints: Guide to Currier & Ives, Wallace Nutting, Maxfield Parrish, and Other American Printmakers (reference) All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing (reference) Shipwrecks North Coast: St. Ives to Bude (reference) Burl Ives Bible-Time Stories (reference) Burl Ives Christmas Album (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Very Best of Burl Ives Christmas [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) Varied Air: Charles Ives - The Piano Music (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Ives

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Photo Album: Ives

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Good For A Cold. / Lith. & Pub. By Currier & Ives. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		The Wonderful Albino Family / Currier & Ives, Lith. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Colored lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1862, entitled "The Sinking of the 'Cumberland' by the Iron Clad 'Merrimac', off Newport News, Va., March 8th 1862. 'Cumberland' went down with all her Flags flying: -- destroyed, but not conquered. Her gallant Commander Lieut. Morris calling to his crew 'Given them a Broadside boys, as she goes'.". Credit: NAVY.		Lithograph by Currier & Ives, New York, providing a curious (and quite inaccurate) view of the action off Fort Pillow in which the Confederate River Defense Fleet, under Captain James E. Montgomery, attacked Federal gunboats. The print identifies the following ships (from left to right): CSS "Mallory" (a non-existent vessel, shown sinking); CSS Louisiana (an ironclad that had already been destroyed by this time); USS Cincinnati; USS Benton; USS Cairo; USS Carondelet; USS Saint Louis; and USS Conestoga. Credit: NAVY.
	A winter night in Cordova / H.A. Ives. Credit: Library of Congress.		Dr. Charles G. Abbott, Professor Floyd K. Richtmyer, Dr. Herbert E. Ives, and Dr. James McKeen Cattell at National Academy of Sciences meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Trotting cracks at home, a model stable / sketched by Thos. Worth ; lith of Currier & Ives. Credit: Library of Congress.		Yosemite Valley--California: "The Bridal Veil" Fall / F.F. Palmer del. ; Currier & Ives Lith., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Rocky Mountains, emigrants crossing the plains / F.F. Palmer, del. ; Currier & Ives lith., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.		Portrait of Burl Ives. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ives

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		For example, the French company Ives Rocher has opened several cosmetic stores in Moscow as well as in a number of other cities, including Vladivostok, Ivanovo, Pyatigorsk, Magnitigirsk, Izhevsk, Cheboksary and others. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ives

"Ives" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.19% of the time. "Ives" is used about 178 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)	97.19%	173	23,656
Lexical Verb (-s form)	1.69%	3	202,518
Unclassified Items	0.56%	1	339,140
Noun (plural)	0.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	178	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Ives

The following table summarizes the usage of "Ives" 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
Ives	Last name	3,000	4,070
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Ives

"Ives" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a yew".

The following table summarizes names related to "Ives."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Ives	Male	N/A	Yves
Ivo	Male	Dutch	Yves
Yves	Male	French	N/A
Yvette	Female	French	Yves
Ivo	Male	German	Yves
Yvo	Male	German	Yves
Iwo	Male	Polish	Yves
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Ives

Country	Name
United Kingdom	St. Ives Plc
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Ives

Expressions using "Ives": Charles Edward Ives ♦ Ives Estates ♦ James Ives ♦ James Merritt Ives. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Ives": sub-ives.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ives

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
st ives	224	st ives golf course	15
currier and ives	184	holiday ives st	14
ives	117	catering ives self st	13
burl ives	108	bed and breakfast st ives	12
ives hardware	75	currier dish ives	12
ives charles	51	currier dinnerware ives	12
ives kingdom st united	44	center danbury ives	12
st ives cornwall	43	st ives product	11
center ives	42	bed breakfast cornwall ives st uk	10
st ives hotel	37	accommodation cornwall hotel ives st uk	10
center charles ives	36	burl ives lyrics	9
st ives accommodation	26	h.b ives	9
concert ives park	26	cornwall in ives st stay where	9
currier and ives print	25	b h ives	8
ives rocher	24	currier ives plate	8
ives door hardware	20	cornwall hotel in ives st uk	8
st ives country club	19	courier ives	8
guest house st ives	18	cornwall guest house ives st uk	8
david ives	18	ives lotion st	7
golf ives st	16	center ct danbury ives	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Ives

Derivations
	Words ending with "Ives": ablatives, abrasives, accusatives, actives, additives, adhesives, adjectives, adventives, adversatives, affirmatives, affricatives, afterlives, agentives, alewives, alternatives, anticonvulsives, anticorrosives, antiderivatives, antihypertensives, antisubversives, antitussives, appellatives, apperceives, appositives, archconservatives, archives, arrives, attributives, auditives, augmentatives, beehives, calmatives, captives, carminatives, causatives, chives, coderives, codrives, collaboratives, collectives, commemoratives, comparatives, compulsives, conceives, conjunctives, connectives, connives, conservatives, constatives, consumptives, contemplatives. (additional references)
	Words containing "Ives": divest, divested, divesting, divestiture, divestitures, divestment, divestments, divests, driveshaft, driveshafts, livest, livestock, livestocks, naivest, positivest, postdivestiture. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ives

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: vies, vise.
	Words within the letters "e-i-s-v"
	-1 letter: sei, vie, vis.
	-2 letters: es, is, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-s-v"
	+1 letter: dives, evils, fives, gives, hives, ivies, jives, lives, rives, shive, sieve, siver, skive, swive, veils, veins, vibes, vices, viers, views, vines, vires, vised, vises, wives.
	+2 letters: advise, aivers, bevies, cavies, chives, civets, civies, clevis, davies, devils, devise, divers, divest, drives, elvish, envies, envois, ervils, evicts, evites, fivers, givens, givers, invest, jivers, kevils, knives, levies, levins, livens, livers, livest, livres, mavies, movies, naives, navies, nieves, ogives, olives, ovines, pavise, pelvis, reives, revise, rivers, rivets, savine, scrive, shavie, shiver, shives, shrive, sieved, sieves, silvae, silver, silvex, sivers, skived, skiver, skives, sliver, snivel, soviet, spavie, stiver, strive, swived, swivel, swives, swivet, valise, varies, vegies, venins, verism, verist, vermis, vesica, vespid, vexils, videos, vilest, vipers, vireos, visaed, visage, viseed, visive, vivers, vixens, voices, voiles, waives, wavies, wivers.
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