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"ADOLPH" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble wolf". |
Date "ADOLPH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Crosswords: ADOLPH |
| Specialty definitions using "ADOLPH": Kussmaul Breathing. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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Screenplays | It's 1909 and you're alone with a young artist named Adolph. Do you kill him? (The Last Supper; writing credit: Dan Rosen) | |
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![]() | Map of "Geology of the Sea Bottom in the Approaches to New York Bay." This map depicts the upper reaches of Hudson Canyon and the remnants of a valley in continental shelf. This early physiographic map was published in the Coast and Geodetic Survey Annual Report for 1884, Appendix 13, p. 438. It was drawn by Adolph Lindenkohl and is the earliest published map of a submarine canyon. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 12. Borgert net devised by Dr. Adolph Borgert of Hamburg in 1893. Having found the Hensen and Buchet nets too heavy, too complicated, and difficult to manage, and too expensive, Dr. Borgert designed this net for collecting plankton at the surface at high speed. This net was first tested from the steamer BARCELONA between Hamburg and the western Mediterranean. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Emil Adolph v. Behring. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Adolph Baginsky. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Psst -- Adolph, see if you see what I think I see!. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Activities of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolph Hitler Division during the campaign in Poland, September 1-29, 1939] / Klaus Weill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Sutro tunnel. Sutro tunnel and mule train. Adolph Sutro, founder of the Sutro tunnel. Sutro from the tunnel. Sutro mansion and machine shop. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Printing war ration book 2. Printing coupons for war ration book 2. Pressman Adolph Beyer watches as the coupons roll from the press in a steady stream at a printing establishment in Hoboken, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Make every minute count for Pershing / Adolph Treidler. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | "The girl he left behind" is still behind him--She's a WOW / Adolph Treidler. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Afghanistan | In February 1979, U.S. Ambassador Adolph "Spike" Dubs was murdered in Kabul after Afghan security forces burst in on his kidnapers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ADOLPH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "ADOLPH" is used about 48 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) | 91.67% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ADOLPH" 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 |
| Adolph | First name Male | 11,000 | 642 |
| Adolph | Last name | 1,000 | 16,658 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ADOLPH" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble wolf". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ADOLPH." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Adolph | Male | English | Adolf |
| Dolph | Male | English | Adolph |
| Aatto | Male | Finnish | Adolf |
| Aatu | Male | Finnish | Adolf |
| Adolphe | Male | French | Adolf |
| Adolf | Male | German | N/A |
| Adolfo | Male | Italian | Adolf |
| Adolfo | Male | Spanish | Adolf |
| Adolphus | Male | Swedish | Adolf |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Adolph Coors Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "ADOLPH": adolph Simon Ochs ♦ Karl Adolph Verner ♦ Richard Adolph Zsigmondy. 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 "ADOLPH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | αδόλφοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | adolphay адольф (adolf). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ADOLPH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adelphoe, adolfoi, Adolpho, Eadulf, Odulf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-l-o-p" | |
-1 letter: ahold. | |
-2 letters: apod, dahl, dhal, dopa, halo, hold, holp, load, opah, opal, plod. | |
-3 letters: ado, alp, dah, dal, dap, dol, had, hao, hap, hod, hop, lad, lap, lop, old, pad, pah, pal, pod, poh, pol. | |
-4 letters: ad, ah, al, do, ha, ho, la, lo, od, oh, op, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-l-o-p" | |
+1 letter: haploid. | |
+2 letters: asphodel, haploids, haploidy, plowhead, shipload. | |
+3 letters: acidophil, asphodels, hexaploid, hypnoidal, phyllodia, plowheads, polyhedra, shiploads. | |
+4 letters: acidophile, acidophils, amphiploid, audiophile, cephalopod, cladophyll, diplophase, drosophila, haploidies, hexaploids, hexaploidy, hydroplane, hypodermal, methyldopa, pedophilia, phenolated, polyhedral, potlatched, preholiday, sphenoidal, spheroidal, splashdown. | |
+5 letters: acidophiles, acidophilic, amphiploids, amphiploidy, audiophiles, cephalopods, cladophylla, cladophylls, diadelphous, diphthongal, diplophases, drosophilae, drosophilas, haloperidol, holographed, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, methyldopas, pedophiliac, pedophilias, philodendra, phylloclade, placeholder, postholiday, rhapsodical, splashboard, splashdowns. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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