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"IVAN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the four letters", "be", "become". |
Date "IVAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Ivan A Diana-like language making up part of VHDL. ["VHDL - The Designer Environment", A. Gilman, IEEE Design & Test 3, (Apr 1986)]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Iter Vehemens ad Necem (IVAN) is a graphical roguelike game, which currently runs in Windows, DOS and Linux.Its latest version is 0.430.
Its name roughly translates from Latin as 'Highway to Hell'.
External Link
- IVAN's official site: http://ivan.sourceforge.net/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "IVAN."
Crosswords: IVAN |
| English words defined with "IVAN": Pavlovian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "IVAN": Church of the SubGenius, cycle of reincarnation ♦ Grebenski Cossacks ♦ ILISP, I'van, Ivan Sutherland ♦ Kingly Titles ♦ Sketchpad. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Like Nero and Ivan the Terrible (Little House on the Prairie; writing credit: Arthur Heinemann; John Hawkins) Crazy Ivan! (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson) Here lies Ivan The Optimist (The 10th Kingdom; writing credit: Simon Moore) Ivan take charge (Eddie; writing credit: Steve Zacharias; Jeff Buhai) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ivan Kondarev (1974) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970) Tzar Ivan Shishman (1969) Ivan Makarovich (1968) Soldat Ivan Brovkin (1955) | |
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![]() | Tech. Sgt. "Ivan,"stands watch over two KC-10A. | ![]() | Master Sergeant Ivan Alva, chief of accounting, together with Yoko Vanoss review accounts receivable records from other agencies, such as the Defense Commissary Agency, Department of the Navy, and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, to ensure utility. |
![]() | Ivan Olson. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Let's sit down, Ivan -- we're both in this together!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Bird's-eye view of the city of Moscow, Russia, from Ivan Viliky overlooking the Uspensky Cathedral and the Moscow River. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Two images of sports in Czechoslovakia: a tennis game and spectators; and Ivan Andreadis and his partner, Ladislav Stipek, playing table tennis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Yevgeny Yevtushenko, author of Ivan the Terrible & Ivan the Fool. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Every man, a poster at Camp Hood. Taking a cue from the Office of War Information (OWI) poster "If you talk too much, this man may die", Private Ivan A. Smith, editor of the Camp Hood Panther, Camp Hood,Texas, originated this novel method of reminding his. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Rice's production of the latest London novelty, The girl from Paris written by George Dance ; music by Ivan Caryll. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Piazza - Pietrasanta" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "The Sculpture is made by Ivan Theimer." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Ivan Turgenev | I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own. |
| Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. | |
| However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. | |
| ... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. | |
| To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice . . . you feel -- . . in yourself. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Belarus | In May BOAC priest Ivan Spasyuk was arrested by authorities while attempting to hold a service in the village of Radaulyany. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Ivan Mandic, an HDZ hard-liner and the head of Mostar Muncipality Southwest (MSW) continued to refuse to grant permission for reconstruction of the Baba Besir Mosque, one of three mosques in MSW that were destroyed during the war. (references) | |
Bulgaria | In February and March, journalists protested the appointment of Ivan Borislavov as director of Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) by the NCRT. The journalists alleged that Borislavov's appointment was a politically motivated move by the UDF party to gain control of the state radio station before the June parliamentary elections. (references) | |
Economic History | Bulgaria | With the help of the international community, former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov initiated a series of economic reforms in 1997 that helped stabilize the country. (references) |
Russia | Ivan III (1462-1505) was able to refer to his empire as "the Third Rome" and heir to the Byzantine tradition, and a century later the Romanov dynasty was established under Tsar Mikhail in 1613. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Bulgaria has followed a sure path towards a market economy since former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) took office in April 1997. Since 1997 the lev stabilized and inflation was tamed. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | On February 13, gunmen shot and killed Ivan Villamizar, a former regional ombudsman, in Cucuta, Santander department. (references) |
Yugoslavia | In August 2000, former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic disappeared while on a daily jog in a park near his home in Belgrade. (references) | |
Colombia | A paramilitary was charged in the January murder of regional human rights ombudsman Ivan Villamizar in Cucuta, Norte de Santander department. (references) | |
Political Economy | Bulgaria | UDF Chairman Ivan Kostov was appointed Prime Minister by the National Assembly. (references) |
Bulgaria | The then-ruling Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) lost its parliamentary majority in elections on June 17, 2001, and the government of Prime Minister Ivan Kostov resigned. (references) | |
BULGARIA | Parliamentary elections in June 2001 resulted in the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Ivan Kostov and his Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) and its replacement by a coalition government led by former king (now Prime Minister) Simeon Saxe-Coburg. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "IVAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "IVAN" is used about 572 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) | 99.83% | 571 | 11,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 572 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "IVAN" 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 |
| Ivan | First name Male | 53,000 | 272 |
| Ivan | Last name | 200 | 33,578 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "IVAN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the four letters", "be", "become". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "IVAN." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Malone | Male | N/A | John |
| Van | Male | N/A | Ivan |
| Gjon | Male | Albanian | John |
| Yahya | Male | Arabic | John |
| Hovhannes | Male | Armenian | John |
| Ion | Male | Basque | John |
| Jon | Male | Basque | John |
| Joanna | Female | Biblical | John |
| John | Male | Biblical | Yahweh |
| Yochanan | Male | Biblical (Original) | John |
| Yann | Male | Breton | John |
| Ioan | Male | Bulgarian | John |
| Ioana | Female | Bulgarian | John |
| Joan | Male | Catalan | John |
| Jowan | Male | Cornish | John |
| Ivan | Male | Croatian | John |
| Ivana | Female | Croatian | Ivan |
| Ivan | Male | Czech | John |
| Ivana | Female | Czech | Ivan |
| Jan | Male | Czech | John |
| Jana | Female | Czech | John |
| Johan | Male | Czech | John |
| Jens | Male | Danish | John |
| Jan | Male | Dutch | John |
| Jana | Female | Dutch | John |
| Johanna | Female | Dutch | John |
| Johannes | Male | Dutch | John |
| Evan | Male | English | John |
| Hank | Male | English | John |
| Ian | Male | English | John |
| Jack | Male | English | John |
| Jan | Female | English | John |
| Jane | Female | English | John |
| Joan | Female | English | John |
| Joanna | Female | English | John |
| John | Male | English | Yahweh |
| Johnie | Male | English | John |
| Johnnie | Male, Female | English | John |
| Johnny | Male | English | John |
| Jonelle | Female | English | John |
| Jonette | Female | English | John |
| Jonie | Female | English | John |
| Jochjo | Male | Esperanto | John |
| Johano | Male | Esperanto | John |
| Hannu | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jani | Male | Finnish | John |
| Joni | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jouni | Male | Finnish | John |
| Juha | Male | Finnish | John |
| Juhana | Male | Finnish | John |
| Juhani | Male | Finnish | John |
| Juho | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jukka | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jussi | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jean | Male | French | John |
| Jeanne | Female | French | John |
| Yann | Male | French | John |
| Xoán | Male | Galician | John |
| Jan | Male | German | John |
| Johan | Male | German | John |
| Johann | Male | German | John |
| Johanna | Female | German | John |
| Johannes | Male | German | John |
| Ioanna | Female | Greek | John |
| Ioannes | Male | Greek | John |
| Ioannis | Male | Greek | John |
| Yannis | Male | Greek | John |
| Keoni | Male | Hawaiian | John |
| János | Male | Hungarian | John |
| Jani | Male | Hungarian | John |
| Johanna | Female | Hungarian | John |
| Jón | Male | Icelandic | John |
| Eoin | Male | Irish | John |
| Seán | Male | Irish | John |
| Giovanna | Female | Italian | John |
| Giovanni | Male | Italian | John |
| Johannes | Male | Late Roman | John |
| Janis | Male | Latvian | John |
| Jonas | Male | Lithuanian | John |
| Jovan | Male | Macedonian | John |
| Ean | Male | Manx | John |
| Jonette | Female | Norwegian | John |
| Iwan | Male | Polish | John |
| Jan | Male | Polish | John |
| Jana | Female | Polish | John |
| Joanna | Female | Polish | John |
| João | Male | Portuguese | John |
| Joana | Female | Portuguese | John |
| Iancu | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ioan | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ioana | Female | Romanian | John |
| Ion | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ionel | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ionela | Female | Romanian | John |
| Ionut | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ioann | Male | Russian | John |
| Ivan | Male | Russian | John |
| Ivanna | Female | Russian | Ivan |
| Vanya | Male | Russian | Ivan |
| Jan | Male | Scandinavian | John |
| Johan | Male | Scandinavian | John |
| Johanna | Female | Scandinavian | John |
| Johannes | Male | Scandinavian | John |
| Jon | Male | Scandinavian | John |
| Eoin | Male | Scottish | John |
| Iain | Male | Scottish | John |
| Ian | Male | Scottish | John |
| Ivan | Male | Serbian | John |
| Ivana | Female | Serbian | Ivan |
| Jovan | Male | Serbian | John |
| Jovana | Female | Serbian | John |
| Janez | Male | Slovene | John |
| Juan | Male | Spanish | John |
| Yahweh | Male | Theology | N/A |
| Ivanna | Female | Ukrainian | Ivan |
| Evan | Male | Welsh | John |
| Iefan | Male | Welsh | John |
| Ieuan | Male | Welsh | John |
| Ifan | Male | Welsh | John |
| Siôn | Male | Welsh | John |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Ivan, AR |
Expressions using "IVAN": Ivan III ♦ Ivan III Vasilievich ♦ Ivan IV ♦ Ivan Iv Vasilievich ♦ Ivan Ivanovitch ♦ Ivan Lendl ♦ Ivan Pavlov ♦ Ivan Petrovich Pavlov ♦ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev ♦ Ivan Sutherland ♦ Ivan the Great ♦ Ivan the Terrible ♦ say hello to ivan. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ivan | 211 | ivan smith | 25 |
ivan the terrible | 204 | ivan shaw | 23 |
ivan rodriguez | 111 | ivan rebroff | 23 |
ivan pavlov | 108 | the death of ivan ilych | 19 |
ivan lendl | 80 | ivan koloff | 16 |
ivan zamorano | 70 | ivan merz | 15 |
by city founded iv ivan | 57 | albright ivan | 15 |
ivan iv | 52 | death of ivan ilyich | 14 |
ivan putski | 50 | city founded iv ivan | 13 |
ivan sergei | 50 | de ivan pineda | 13 |
furniture ivan smith | 49 | ivan van sertima | 13 |
ivan reitman | 48 | ivan shapovalov | 13 |
ivan illich | 48 | city iv ivan | 13 |
ivan boesky | 47 | ivan stewart | 12 |
ivan parker | 47 | ivan cruz | 11 |
drago ivan | 36 | ivan seidenberg | 11 |
one day in the life of ivan denisovich | 36 | chevrolet ivan leonard | 11 |
ivan lins | 31 | feher ivan | 11 |
dear ivan | 26 | ivan kupala | 11 |
great ivan | 25 | la muerte de ivan ilich | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "IVAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | поздрави иван (say hello to ivan). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ivanay.(various references) | |
Russian | иван. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người Liên xô. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "IVAN": divan, minivan. (additional references) | |
Words containing "IVAN": connivance, connivances, contrivance, contrivances, divans, galivant, galivanted, galivanting, galivants, gallivant, gallivanted, gallivanting, gallivants, minivans, pursuivant, pursuivants, survivance, survivances, vivandiere, vivandieres. (additional references) | |
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"IVAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iann, Idan, Ifano, Ihan, Ilva, Ioviani, Isvar, ivane, Ivean, Ivi, Ivins, ivn, ivon, Uvaq, Vivan, Xidan, Zidan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vain, vina. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-v" | |
-1 letter: ain, ani, van, via. | |
-2 letters: ai, an, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-v" | |
+1 letter: anvil, avian, avion, divan, invar, mavin, naevi, naive, nival, pavin, ravin, savin, viand, vinal, vinas, vinca. | |
+2 letters: alevin, alvine, anvils, avians, avidin, avions, caving, divans, flavin, having, invade, invars, laving, mavins, mayvin, naiver, naives, native, navaid, navies, paving, pavins, ravine, raving, ravins, savine, saving, savins, silvan, spavin, vagina, vahine, vainer, vainly, valine, vanish, vanity, veinal, venial, viands, vicuna, vimina, vinals, vincas, vineal, waving. | |
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