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"YVES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a yew". |
Date "YVES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
"YVES" is a common misspelling or typo for: yes. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Yves (St.) (1 syl.). Patron saint of lawyers, being himself a lawyer. As he used his knowledge of the law in defending the oppressed, he is called in Brittany "the poor man's advocate." "Advocatus, sed non latro, Res miranda populo." Hymn to St. Yves. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: YVES |
| Specialty definitions using "YVES": Passing Rich. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Feel free to call me an idiot, Yves. (The Lone Gunmen; writing credit: Madeline Bassett; Diane Dixon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Adam and Yves (1974) Yves boit du lait (1960) James Dean meets Yves Montand (1995) Yves Préfontaine (1977) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | On nous accuse sans cesse de tuer nos malades : Je ne vois pas quel intérêt nous aurions ça / A. Grevin. Yves & Barret sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Guérissez, n'arrachez pas! / Stop [i.e. Louis P.G.B. Morel-Retz] Yves et Barret sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Amie vô! : Moi pas laisser croquer vous! / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé] Lith. by Yves & Barret. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Madame! une carte postale du dentiste, votre ratelier ne sera pas prêt avant huit jours! / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé] Yves & Barret. sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | According to Yves Rocher East Company, 90 percent of Russian make-up products are composed of foreign-made goods. (references) | |
The market for high-end or selective products, with names like Christian Dior, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Chanel, Givanchi, Yves Saint Laurent, Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden, Nina Ricci is practically closed to Russian manufacturers. (references) | ||
High fashion retailer, F.J. Benjamin, recently signed a joint-venture agreement with the Gucci Group of Italy for the exclusive retailing and distribution of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Sergio Rossi fashion brands in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | On January 15, gendarmes and members of the research brigade, an investigative arm of the gendarmes, detained and questioned for 1 hour D. Al Seni, Kore Emmanuel, Charles Sanga, and Yves M'Abiet, four journalists for Le Patriote, and Patrice Guehi following the publication of their articles on January 10 about the January 7-8 coup attempt. (references) |
Economic History | Slovak Rep | Active direct marketing firms include Amway, Avon, Quelle, Herbalife, Oriflame, Lander, Mary Kay, Yves Rocher, and Anthesis. (references) |
Poland | The largest foreign franchisers active in Poland are McDonald's, Domino's Pizza, TelePizza, Adidas, Intersport, Kodak Express, Fleury Michon, Avis Rent a Car, Marks & Spencer, Midas, The Athlete's Foot, English First, Futurekids, The Cheesecake Shop, Bianco Footwear, Bricomarche, Intermarche, Jean Claude Biguine, Jean Louis David, Saint Algue Paris, SPAR, Collagena, CyberLand, Blimpie, Jacadi Paris, Carre blanc, and the Yves Rocher Group. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | On July 22, plainclothes officers, subsequently identified as National Palace security police, arrested Dr. Yves Joseph Blondel Auguste, a prominent doctor and hospital director. (references) |
Cameroon | In 2000 the military court sentenced gendarme captain Engola to 10 years in prison for killing Yves Atiback in January 1999. On July 19, the military court of appeals reduced Engola's sentence from 10 years to 27 months, including time served, and reduced the damages from $400,000 (300 million CFA francs) to $20,000 (15 million CFA francs). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Karl Lagerfeld | The funny thing is they made the same contest the year before and two years after. Nobody knows what happened to the other people from the other contests except me because the boy who got the prize for the dress, was Yves Saint Laurent. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "YVES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.44% of the time. "YVES" is used about 119 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) | 92.44% | 110 | 30,952 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 6.72% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.84% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "YVES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a yew". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "YVES." | |||
| 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. | |||
Expressions using "YVES": Jacques Yves Costeau ♦ Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier ♦ Yves Tanguy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "YVES": yves-alain, yves-jacky. | |
Ending with "YVES": Jean-yves, Paul-yves. | |
| 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 "YVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | サンプリング周波数 (sample, sample book, sample selling system, sampling frequency, self-defence, SUG, Sun Microsystems, sun music, Sun User Group, Sunbelt, sunroof, sunroom, symbolism, symbolist, Yves Saint-Laurent), イノシン酸 (changing one's image, creating a better image, efreet, emergency, Eve, evening, evening dress, event, ichthammol, Ichthyol, image change, image character, image maker, image research, image survey, imagination, imagineering, imitation, immediate, immigration, innocence, innocent, innovation, inosinic acid, one's image, ruining one's image, Yves Saint-Laurent), インポ薬 (anti-impotence medication, Eve, in low, in-line, INMARSAT, International Maritime Satellite Organization, invariant, invention, inverse, invoice, megacycles chart, TV test pattern chart, Yves Saint-Laurent). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | サンローラン (Yves Saint-Laurent), イブサンローラン (Yves Saint-Laurent), イヴサンローラン (Yves Saint-Laurent). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | yvesay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "YVES": gyves. (additional references) | |
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"YVES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Vyas, Yavuz, Yfs, Yve. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-s-v-y" | |
-1 letter: yes. | |
-2 letters: es, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-s-v-y" | |
+1 letter: gyves. | |
+2 letters: coveys, envoys, shelvy, slavey, survey, sylvae, vestry, waveys. | |
+3 letters: conveys, garveys, jarveys, jayvees, livyers, peaveys, purveys, saveloy, seventy, shivery, silvery, skydive, skydove, slavery, slaveys, suavely, surveys, sylvine, sylvite, valleys, veejays, versify, volleys, voyages, voyeurs, wyverns, yeshiva. | |
+4 letters: aversely, dovekeys, duvetyns, elvishly, evonymus, flyovers, heavyset, layovers, overbusy, overbuys, overdyes, overeasy, overjoys, overlays, overpays, overstay, resurvey, revisory, savagely, savagery, saveloys, severely, severity, silverly, skydived, skydiver, skydives, slovenly, solvency, surveyed, surveyor, sveltely, sylvines, sylvites, travesty, vandykes, venosity, venously, vespiary, vestally, vestiary, viceroys, vilayets, virelays, voyagers, yeshivah, yeshivas, yeshivot. | |
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