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BLUM

Specialty Definition: Blum, Texas

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Blum is a town located in Hill County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 399.

Geography


Blum is located at 32°8'33" North, 97°23'44" West (32.142367, -97.395481)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 399 people, 147 households, and 110 families residing in the town. The population density is 152.5/km² (395.8/mi²). There are 177 housing units at an average density of 67.7/km² (175.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 92.73% White, 0.50% African American, 0.50% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 3.51% from other races, and 2.76% from two or more races. 8.52% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 147 households out of which 40.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.5% are married couples living together, 8.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% are non-families. 22.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.71 and the average family size is 3.17. In the town the population is spread out with 32.8% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 31 years. For every 100 females there are 102.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.8 males. The median income for a household in the town is $31,094, and the median income for a family is $40,521. Males have a median income of $30,250 versus $22,708 for females. The per capita income for the town is $11,459. 15.9% of the population and 13.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 19.3% are under the age of 18 and 16.7% are 65 or older.

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

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Date "BLUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)


Modern Usage: BLUM

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (1974)

Blum (1970)

Affäre Blum (1962)

Affaire Blum (1948)

Léon Blum l'échelle humaine (1986)

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

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Commercial Usage: BLUM

DomainTitle

Books

  • Blum! (reference)

  • Certain mounds of Arkansas and of Mississippi. Part I. Mounds and cemeteries of the lower Arkansas River. Part II. Mounds of the lower Yazoo and lower Sunflower rivers, Mississippi. Part III. The Blum mounds, Mississippi (LC History-America-E) (reference)

  • The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (reference)

  • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Transaction Large Print Books) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: BLUM

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[Bernard M. Blum, M.D.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Two-room home of Clifford Blum farm, one hundred thirty acres. Rents farm from active farmer. Crop share lease, half corn, two-fifths small grains. Owner intends to add on to house next year. Buildings are kept up. Near Terril, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ballets russes de Monte-Carlo Directeur général: W. de Basil - Directeur artistique: René Blum / / André Masson -33-. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Ralph Blum. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: BLUM

"BLUM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "BLUM" is used about 23 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)91.3%2176,261
Noun (singular)8.7%2245,945
                    Total100.00%23N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: BLUM

The following table summarizes the usage of "BLUM" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BlumLast name6,0002,145
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: BLUM


1. Blum, TX (town, FIPS 9004)
Location: 32.14182 N, 97.39678 W
Population (1990): 358 (160 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 76627
Country: USA

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Expressions: BLUM

Expression using "BLUM": Blum approximation. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "BLUM": Blum-helman, Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt, Blum-kulka.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLUM

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

latter and blum

478

blum cabinet hinge

11

cheri blum

146

louise blum

11

blum

130

blum drawer slide

10

blum.com latter

116

ardan blum michael

10

blum hinge

86

armstrong blum

10

julius blum

52

blum latter realty

9

blum hardware

37

blum cabinet hardware

9

latter and blum real estate

25

leon blum

9

blum texas

23

michael blum

8

blum jay steven

21

blum bob

8

blum latter new orleans

21

animal blum hospital

8

blum jordyn

20

blum furniture lee

8

latter blum realtor

20

richard blum

8

blum kirk

14

blum cheri wallpaper

8

geoff blum

13

blum shapiro

8

cheri blum dinnerware

13

mark blum

7

blum later

12

blum capital partner

7

blum capital

12

action affirmative american blum cato center center connor court day ed equal institute jay justice law o opportunity pilon roger sandra sekulow supreme

7

blum brad

11

blum scott

7

david blum

11

cheri blum product

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BLUM

Language Translations for "BLUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Blum's understøttende diæt (Blum supportive diet), Blum's tumor (Blum tumour), Blum's syndrom (Blum syndrome), Blum's nyrestilk-tang (Blum renal pedicle clamp), Blum's diæt (Blum diet), Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt uafhængighedstest (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), Blum approksimering (Blum approximation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt-toets op onafhankelijkheid (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), benaderingsprocedure van Blum (Blum approximation), tumor van Blum (Blum tumour), niersteelklem van Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), dieet van Blum (Blum diet), azotaemia hypochloraemica (Blum syndrome). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblattin riippumattomuustesti (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), Blumin approksimaatio (Blum approximation). (various references)

   

French

  

tumeur de Blum (Blum tumour), syndrome de Blum (Blum syndrome), régime protecteur de Blum (Blum supportive diet), régime de Blum (Blum diet), pince rénale de Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), azotémie par manque de sel (Blum syndrome). (various references)

   

German

  

Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt-Unabhängigkeitstest (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), Blum Tumor (Blum tumour), Blum Syndrom (Blum syndrome), Blum Schutzkost (Blum supportive diet), Blum Nierenstielklemme (Blum renal pedicle clamp), Blum Diaet (Blum diet), Näherungsverfahren von Blum (Blum approximation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όγκος Blum (Blum tumour), έλεγχος ανεξαρτησίας Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), σύνδρομο Blum (Blum syndrome), προσέγγιση Blum (Blum approximation), υποστηρικτική δίαιτα Blum (Blum supportive diet), χλωροπενική αζωθαιμία (Blum syndrome), λαβίδα νεφρικού μίσχου τύπου Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), δίαιτα Blum (Blum diet). (various references)

   

Italian

  

test d'indipendenza di Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), approssimazione di Blum (Blum approximation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umblay

   

Portuguese

  

tumor de Blum (Blum tumour), teste de independência de Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), síndrome de Blum (Blum syndrome), pinça renal de Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), dieta de suporte de Blum (Blum supportive diet), dieta de Blum (Blum diet), aproximação de Blum (Blum approximation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tumor de Blum (Blum tumour), test de independencia de Blum, Kiefer y Rosenblatt (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), síndrome de Blum (Blum syndrome), pinza renal de Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), dieta protectora de Blum (Blum supportive diet), dieta de Blum (Blum diet), aproximación de Blum (Blum approximation). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

BlumKieferRosenblatts oberoendetest (Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt independence test), Blum-approximering (Blum approximation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: BLUM

Derivations

Words beginning with "BLUM": blume, blumed, blumes, bluming. (additional references)

Words ending with "BLUM": pablum. (additional references)

Words containing "BLUM": pablums. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BLUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-l-m-u"

-1 letter: bum, lum.

-2 letters: mu, um.

 Words containing the letters "b-l-m-u"
 

+1 letter: album, blume, plumb, umbel.

 

+2 letters: albums, blumed, blumes, brumal, bumble, dumbly, fumble, humble, humbly, jumbal, jumble, labium, labrum, limbus, lumbar, lumber, mumble, mumbly, numbly, pablum, plumbs, rumble, rumbly, tumble, umbels, umbles, umbral.

 

+3 letters: albumen, albumin, baculum, blellum, bluegum, bluming, brimful, bulimia, bulimic, bumbled, bumbler, bumbles, bumpily, buxomly, clubman, clubmen, clumber, coulomb, crumble, crumbly, drumble, embolus, fumbled, fumbler, fumbles, grumble, grumbly, gumboil, humbled, humbler, humbles, jumbals, jumbled, jumbler, jumbles, labarum, labrums, lumbago, lumbars, lumbers, mumbled, mumbler, mumbles, mutable, mutably, nelumbo, numbles, pablums, pabulum, plumbed, plumber, plumbic, plumbum, replumb, rumbled, rumbler, rumbles, scumble, slumber, stumble, sublime, tumbled, tumbler, tumbles, tumbrel, tumbril, umbeled, umbonal, upclimb.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Cities
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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