Durham

  

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Durham

Definition: Durham

Durham

Noun

1. A city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University.

2. English breed of short-horned cattle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Durham" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)


Specialty Definition: Durham

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This article is about the English city of Durham. For other uses see Durham (disambiguation)

Durham is a city in County Durham in North East England, roughly 20 miles south of Newcastle upon Tyne. The city centre is enclosed on three sides by the River Wear.

It is home to the University of Durham; its Cathedral and Castle (now University College Durham), which face each other across Palace Green, are jointly designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In medieval times, Durham was a major centre of both political and ecclesiastical power, mainly due to its strategic importance near the border with Scotland. The Prince-Bishops had in their palatine the power over life and death, coined their own money and maintained their own armies. Every Bishop of Durham from 1071 to 1836 was a Prince Bishop except the first Norman-appointed bishop Walcher, who was an Earl-Bishop.

A popular annual event in Durham is the Durham Miners Gala

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Durham

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
Dur.EnglishDurhamN/A

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

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Synonym: Durham

Synonym: shorthorn (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Durham

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Durham

Specialty definitions using "Durham": brokenscinder coalDevil looking Over Lincoln, Durham Book, DURHAM MAN, Durham Mustardgateway longwallHell Kettles, Holy Isle, HoodsIlluminationsScripto res DecemUniversity of Durhamyellow sands. (references)

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Modern Usage: Durham

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Una Reparación buque tanque Esso Durham (1962)

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

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Commercial Usage: Durham

DomainTitle

Books

  • Jews and Christians: The Parting of the Ways, A.D. 70 to 135: The Second Durham-Tubingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism (Durham, September 1989 (reference)

  • Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organisation: The Durham Miners and the English Political Tradition (reference)

  • The Hidden Places of Northumberland and Durham (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Image Slideshow: Durham

Illustrations:
Durham

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Photo Album: Durham

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"South China Sea . . . Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship U.S.S. Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard from a small craft. The refugees will be transferred later by mechanized landing craft (LCM) to the freighter Transcolorado." By JO1 Mike McGougan, April 3, 1975. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1947-.

Durham Cathedral viewed from river, Durham, England. Credit: Library of Congress.

A memory, Durham / [by] CG. Credit: Library of Congress.

Trouble in the Spartan ranks. Old Durham in the field. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bull Durham. Credit: Library of Congress.

Construction of portion of national highway from Durham toward Raleigh, North Carolina, by Robert G. Lassiter & Co., of Oxford, N.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tombstones of Mrs. Martha Hickcox, d.1776; Capt. Joseph Hickcox, d.1776;and Capt. James Hickcox, d.1706; Durham, Connecticut(?). Credit: Library of Congress.

Durham Cathedral. Credit: Library of Congress.

Durham Cathedral, England. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negro woman carrying laundry home along highway between Durham and Mebane, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Use in Literature: Durham

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Jule took back his Durham.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Durham

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Although there is no evidence that autosomal dominant inheritance of mutated genes causes late-onset AD, genetics does appear to play a role in the development of this more common form of AD. In the early 1990s, researchers at the NIA-supported Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, found an increased risk for late-onset AD with inheritance of one or two copies of the apolipoprotein E epsilon4 (APOE e4) allele on chromosome 19 (Strittmatter et al., 1993). Different alleles of particular genes produce variations in inherited characteristics, such as eye color or blood type. In this case, the variations are in the APOE gene that directs the manufacture of the ApoE protein. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Durham

"Durham" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.96% of the time. "Durham" is used about 2,430 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)99.96%2,4293,694
Noun (singular)0.04%1339,140
                    Total100.00%2,430N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Durham

The following table summarizes the usage of "Durham" 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
DurhamLast name17,000696
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Durham


1. Durham, CA (CDP, FIPS 20270)
Location: 39.59953 N, 121.82768 W
Population (1990): 4784 (1766 housing units)
Area: 357.8 sq km (land), 1.7 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 95938
Country: USA


2. Durham, CT (CDP, FIPS 20740)
Location: 41.47391 N, 72.68192 W
Population (1990): 2650 (954 housing units)
Area: 16.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 06422
Country: USA


3. Durham, KS (city, FIPS 19050)
Location: 38.48508 N, 97.22697 W
Population (1990): 119 (64 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 67438
Country: USA


4. Durham, MO
Zip Code(s): 63438
Country: USA


5. Durham, NC (city, FIPS 19000)
Location: 35.98043 N, 78.91497 W
Population (1990): 136611 (60607 housing units)
Area: 179.4 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 27701, 27703, 27704, 27705, 27706, 27707, 27712
Country: USA


6. Durham, NH (CDP, FIPS 19620)
Location: 43.13945 N, 70.92323 W
Population (1990): 9236 (1569 housing units)
Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Country: USA


7. Durham, NY
Zip Code(s): 12422
Country: USA


8. Durham, OK
Zip Code(s): 73642
Country: USA


9. Durham, OR (city, FIPS 21250)
Location: 45.39467 N, 122.75748 W
Population (1990): 748 (268 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expressions: Durham

Expressions using "Durham": Durham County East Durham New Durham university of Durham. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Durham": durham-based, durham-born, Durham-mancelle, Durham-parkes, Durham-somerset.

Ending with "Durham": Cleveland-durham, Raleigh-durham, Yorkshire-durham.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Durham

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

durham north carolina

2,351

raleigh durham

98

durham rhea

1,879

durham in it maintenance

94

arpt durham international nc raleigh

718

durham real estate

94

durham

551

durham hospital regional

84

durham bull

537

durham regional police

83

durham college

397

durham toyota

77

durham nh

393

durham hotel

76

durham herald sun

298

durham newspaper

73

durham region

217

durham board of education

72

raleigh durham airport

208

durham nc real estate

68

durham district school board

196

durham ct

68

durham public school

186

raleigh durham international airport

68

durham herald

173

durham united kingdom

67

bull durham

157

county durham government

57

durham tech

143

durham web site designer

57

durham furniture

135

durham police

55

durham county

124

web site design in durham

53

college community durham technical

119

durham cathedral

52

university of durham

117

durham herald morning

51

city of durham

106

durham county nc

50
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Durham

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

Danish

  

Durham-Caldwell's operation (Durham-Caldwell operation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lyhytsarvirotu (Durham cattle, Shorthorn cattle). (various references)

   

French

  

race Shorthorn (Durham cattle), race Durham (Durham cattle), opération de Durham-Caldwell (Durham-Caldwell operation). (various references)

   

German

  

Durham-Caldwell Operation (Durham-Caldwell operation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγχείρηση Durham-Caldwell (Durham-Caldwell operation), αγελάδα Σόρτχορν (Durham cattle, Shorthorn cattle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urhamday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

operação de Durham-Caldwell (Durham-Caldwell operation). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

"арем. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

operación de Durham-Caldwell (Durham-Caldwell operation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Durham

Misspellings

"Durham" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Burham, Burhan, Darkhan, Darsham, Darshan, Daurah, Derham, Dilham, dirhams, Diriham, Dorlhac, Druzhba, Dryham, Dubha, Duchac, Duchane, Ducharme, Dudhia, Duhan, Duhm, Duphar, Duraj, duram, Durhams, Durhanl, Durji, Durzak, Duthac, Dyrham, Nurhan, Rudha. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Durham"

Words rhyming with "Durham" (pronounced 'Dur"ham'): Fulham, Gingham, Ogham. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Durham

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-h-m-r-u"

-1 letter: mudra.

-2 letters: arum, dram, drum, duma, dura, hard, harm, maud, mura.

-3 letters: amu, arm, dah, dam, duh, had, ham, hum, mad, mar, mud, rad, rah, ram, rum, urd.

-4 letters: ad, ah, am, ar, ha, hm, ma, mu, uh, um.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-m-r-u"
 

+2 letters: drumhead, rhumbaed, unharmed.

 

+3 letters: drumheads, harumphed.

 

+4 letters: harrumphed, outcharmed, outmarched, rheumatoid, unhampered.

 

+5 letters: antheridium, archdukedom, draughtsman, draughtsmen, hardmouthed, hydromedusa, rehumanized.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Cities
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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