Morgue

Definition: Morgue

Morgue

Noun

1. A building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.

Date "morgue" was first used: 1821. (references)

Etymology: Morgue \Morgue\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Morgue

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you visit a morgue searching for some one, denotes that you will be shocked by news of the death of a relative or friend. To see many corpses there, much sorrow and trouble will come under your notice. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Morgue a dead-house, is generally associated with mors (death). but this is a blunder, as the word means visage, and was first applied to prison vestibules, where new criminals were placed to be scrutinised, that the prison officials might become familiar with their faces and general appearance. "On me conduit donc an petit chastelet, o� du guichet estant passé dans la morgue, un homme gros, court, et carrié, vint � moy."- Assoucy: La Prison. de M. Dassouch (1674), p. 35. "Morgue. Endroit o� l'on tient quelque temps ceux que l'on ecroue, afin que les guichetiers puissent les reconnaltre ensuit."- Fleming and Tibbins, vol. ii. p. 688. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Medicine	A place where corpses are kept temporarily ; room or building where dead bodies are kept temporarily for identification or burial formalities. Source: European Union. (references)
Publishing & Graphic Arts	A reference file of newspaper clippings and other useful information. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Morgue

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A morgue is a building or room (as in a hospital) used for the storage of human remains.

Probably because it is in a sense where the "dead bodies" are kept, the term morgue is also used to refer to the room where newspapers and magazines keep back issues and other historical references.

The word is predominately American English. It originally referred to a building in Paris, France, the Morgue, where bodies were kept until identified.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Morgue."

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Synonyms: Morgue

Synonyms: dead room (n), mortuary (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Morgue

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interment	Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence.
Style	Noun: style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language; (eloquence); authorship; la morgue litteraire.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Morgue

English words defined with "morgue": Deadhouse. (references)

Specialty definitions using "morgue": anatomic wart ♦ dissection tuberculoma ♦ MORGUE ATTENDANT, Morgue la Faye ♦ POLICE OFFICER III ♦ Rings Noted in Fable ♦ tuberculomas. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Morgue" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (haughtiness, lordliness, morgue, mortuary), Portuguese (cadaver storage, morgue, mortuary), Spanish (morgue, mortuary).

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Modern Usage: Morgue

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Okay, you can't count A, and L really wanted to go back to that morgue. (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon) Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send on of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness) Well that'sthat's the morgue. (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley) Just go to the morgue and open any drawer. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) You two donkey-dicks couldn't get laid in a morgue. (Weird Science; writing credit: John Hughes)
Movie/TV Titles	Le Double assassinat de la rue Morgue (1973) El Jorobado de la Morgue (1973) Four for the Morgue (1962) The Case of the River Morgue (1956) Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Morgue

Domain	Title
Books	Hotel Morgue [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Lady in the Morgue (reference) Meet Me at the Morgue (reference) Murders in the Rue Morgue, Mystery of Marie Roget, Purloined Letter: The Dupin Stories [UNABRIDGED] (reference) Mystery Rummy Card Case No 2: Murders in the Rue Morgue (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Rue Morgue Magazine (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Murders in the Rue Morgue (reference) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Da Morgue [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) Morgue [IMPORT] (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: Morgue

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Photo Album: Morgue

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	U. S. Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Morgue. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		U.S. Army Station Hospital, Fort Snelling, Minnesota. : Old morgue, enlarged and remodeled as quarters for personnel. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[Bloodletting: Left- surgeon and attendant. Right- morgue with corpse] / G. Juliet delin: P. Philippe sculp:. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		La Morgue. / Lith. de Marlet. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	The morgue, Twenty-Sixth Street, New York, near the East River Visitors' room in the morgue, from which the bodies of deceased persons are viewed ; The Morgue - Room in which the bodies are placed for recognition. Credit: Library of Congress.		Mrs. Betty Shabazz, bust portrait, facing right, leaving Bellevue Hospital morgue after identifying the body of her slain husband, Malcolm X, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Poughkeepsie New Yorker Building, Poughkeepsie, New York. Morgue. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Morgue

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He stood still and gazed up at the sombre porch of the morgue and from that to the dark cobbled laneway at its side.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Morgue

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Macedonia	According to Human Rights Watch, family members of Atulah Qaini recovered his badly bruised body from the Skopje morgue, shortly after he had been taken into police custody at Ljuboten. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Morgue

"Morgue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.51% of the time. "Morgue" is used about 67 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 (singular)	98.51%	66	41,290
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.49%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	67	N/A

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

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Expression: Morgue

Expression using "morgue": la morgue litteraire. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Morgue

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
morgue	472	morgue photo selena	8
celebrity morgue	334	magazine morgue rue	8
morgue photo	121	cook county morgue	7
morgue picture	105	job morgue	7
morgue rue	35	angeles county los morgue	6
murder in the rue morgue	26	celebrity com morgue	6
celebrity morgue photo	22	celeb morgue	6
morgue pic	21	city gift morgue shop	6
aaliyah morgue photo	19	hospital morgue	6
lisa lopes morgue picture	18	in morgue murder	6
lisa lopes morgue photo	17	morgue perpetrator rue	5
from morgue story true	15	in morgue murder poes	5
city morgue	14	de fotos la morgue	5
autopsy cadaver morgue photo	12	morgue woman	4
aaliyah morgue picture	12	from morgue picture	4
city morgue rock	9	from morgue tale	4
la morgue	9	equipment morgue mortuary	4
morgue picture selena	9	lisa lopez morgue photo	4
korn morgue	9	morgue photograph	4
celebrity morgue picture	8	coroner morgue picture	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Morgue

Language		Translations for "morgue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		morg (dead house, deadhouse, mortuary), arkiv (archives, Chancery, records). (various references)

Arabic		‏معرض التعرف على الجثث, ‏مجموعة المراجع, ‏غرفة الموت (death-chamber, mortuary). (various references)

Bulgarian		справочен отдел, морга (deadhouse, mortuary). (various references)

Czech		márnice (deadhouse, lych-gate, mortuary), archiv. (various references)

Danish		ligkapel (cadaver storage, mortuary), lighus (cadaver storage, mortuary). (various references)

Dutch		mortuarium (cadaver storage, mortuary), morgue (cadaver storage, mortuary), lijkenhuis (cadaver storage, mortuary). (various references)

Farsi		مرده خانه , بایگانی راکد. (various references)

Finnish		ruumishuone (mortuary). (various references)

French		morgue (mortuary). (various references)

German		leichenschauhaus. (various references)

Greek		νεκροτομείο (mortuary), νεκροφυλακείο (charnel house, mortuary). (various references)

Hebrew		ח�"ר מתים (mortuary). (various references)

Hungarian		hullaház, tetemnéző. (various references)

Italian		obitorio (mortuaries, mortuary). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		霊安室 , モリブデン酸アンモニウ� (ammonium molybdate, guinea pig, malt, malt whisky, marmotte, Moldavia, molybdenium, morphine, mortar), 死�"置き� � . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		モルグ , したいおきば, れいあ�"しつ. (various references)

Manx		ynnyd ny merriu (mortuary), marroolan. (various references)

Pig Latin		orguemay

Portuguese		morgue (pt.) (mortuary), morgue (cadaver storage, mortuary), orgulho (bounce, haughtiness, lordliness, pride, self-conceit, vainglory), casa mortuária (mortuary), arrogância (arrogance, arrogation, assumingness, assurance, audacity, bigness, loftiness, presumption, pride, self-assertion, swank). (various references)

Romanian		morgã (arrogance, dead house, mortuary, pomposity), arhivã (archive, Chancery, file, records). (various references)

Russian		морг (deadhouse, dead-house, mortuary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mrtvačnica (charnel house, deadhouse, mortuary), oholost (arrogance, disdain, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, snoot, superciliousness, swelled head), nadmenost (disdain). (various references)

Spanish		depósito de cadáveres (mortuary). (various references)

Swedish		bårhus (charnel house, mortuary). (various references)

Turkish		morg (mortuary). (various references)

Ukrainian		морг (dead house, mortuary), покійницька (dead house, mortuary). (various references)

Vietnamese		tư liệu (document). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Morgue

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	morguer. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Morgue

Derivations
	Words beginning with "morgue": morgues. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Morgue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: margee, marguee, Marguet, merauke, Miroglu, Mogue, mogur, Mogwe, Moigua, Mongkut, moorgai, morbus, morg, morge, Morgex, Morglum, Morgner, Morgor, Morue, mourge, Mulguy, murge, murgi, Murgu, murzuk, Norge, torgue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Morgue"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "morgue" (pronounced mô"rg)
3	-ô" r g	Bourg.
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Anagrams: Morgue

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-m-o-r-u"
	-1 letter: erugo, grume, rogue, rouge.
	-2 letters: ergo, euro, germ, geum, goer, gore, grue, grum, meou, more, moue, mure, ogre, omer, roue, urge.
	-3 letters: ego, emu, erg, gem, gor, gum, meg, mog, mor, mug, ore, our, reg, rem, roe, rom, rue, rug, rum.
	-4 letters: em, er, go, me, mo, mu, oe, om, or, re, um.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-m-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: gourmet, grumose, morgues.
	+2 letters: gourmets, gruesome, promulge.
	+3 letters: augmentor, beglamour, glamoured, glomerule, glomeruli, gouramies, gruesomer, guestroom, promulged, promulges, semigroup.
	+4 letters: armigerous, augmentors, beglamours, curmudgeon, enamouring, glamourize, glomerular, glomerules, glomerulus, gramineous, groundsmen, gruesomely, gruesomest, guestrooms, largemouth, mouldering, numerology, promulgate, rampageous, remounting, seaborgium, semigroups, summerlong, umbrageous.
	+5 letters: archegonium, beglamoured, burgomaster, corrigendum, curmudgeons, demagoguery, florilegium, glamourized, glamourizes, glamourless, gourmandise, gourmandize, ignoramuses, largemouths, manoeuvring, monseigneur, nonargument, outdreaming, outhomering, overpumping, pelargonium, pneumograph, promulgated, promulgates, recomputing, resummoning, rumormonger, seaborgiums, smouldering, superorgasm, tumorigenic.
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