BLIMBER

  

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BLIMBER

Date "BLIMBER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)


Specialty Definition: BLIMBER

DomainDefinition

Literature

Blimber (Miss ). A blue-stocking, who knows the dead languages, and wears learned spectacles. She is the daughter of Dr. Blimber, a fossil school-master of the high and dry grammar type (Dickens: Dombey and Son.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BLIMBER

"BLIMBER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLIMBER" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

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

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Anagrams: BLIMBER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-e-i-l-m-r"

-1 letter: libber, limber.

-2 letters: bible, birle, bribe, liber, miler.

-3 letters: berm, bier, bile, birl, bleb, brie, brim, emir, lier, limb, lime, lire, merl, mile, mire, riel, rile, rime.

-4 letters: bel, bib, ebb, elm, ire, lei, lib, lie, mel, mib, mil, mir, reb, rei, rem, rib, rim.

-5 letters: be, bi, el, em, er, li, me, mi, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-e-i-l-m-r"
 

+2 letters: bramblier.

 

+3 letters: brambliest, improbable.

 

+4 letters: submergible, submersible.

 

+5 letters: reimbursable, submersibles, thimbleberry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BLIMBER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4C 49 4D 42 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    ..    --    -...    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001100 01001001 01001101 01000010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#73 &#77 &#66 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0049 004D 0042 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36464347363952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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