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Ripley is a small town in the Amber Valley area of Derbyshire in England.
The surrounding area has been industrialised since the late 18th century. One of the earliest companies to take advantage of the mineral resources around Ripley was the Butterley Company. The company was formed in 1790 and still survives to the day in the guise of Butterley Engineering, Butterley Brick and Butterley Aggregates (now all separate companies). Over the last 200 years the companies have been a steelworks, coal mining, quarrying, railway, foundry, brickworks. One of the early, and most well known, examples of the work of the company includes the graceful arched roof of St. Pancras Station in London. A recent major achievement was the design and construction of the Falkirk Wheel, a spectacular canal boat lift funded by the Millennium Commission.
The inventor Barnes Wallis lived for a time in Ripley and now has one of the town's parks named after him.
Constructed under the premises of the Butterley Company is a 3 mile long canal tunnel for the Cromford Canal. The central section of the canal is currently disused, but a charitable fund has been formed to reopen the canal.
Ripley is also home to the Midland Railway Centre a steam preservation trust, dedicated to preserving locomotives, rolling stock and other items related to the Midland Railway.
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Date "RIPLEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references) |
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Screenplays | Thank you, Officer Ripley, that will be all. (Aliens; writing credit: James Cameron.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) | |
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 | Pen and pencil drawing of American Wigeons by Alden Lassel Ripley, famous for his wildlife etchings, murals, dry point and oil paintings. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | Ship's sponsor, Mrs. Bradford D. Ripley, II, of Dayton, Ohio, poses with the christening bottle, at launching ceremonies at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 20 March 1945. Mrs. Ripley is accompanied by Lieutenant George Gay, USNR, the only survivor of the Battle of Midway attack by Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) from USS Hornet (CV-8). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Ripley Falls, Crawford Notch, White Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A marble storeyard. Ripley, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cirkut view of Ripley from Carrol's Dock, Houghten [sic], Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "RIPLEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RIPLEY" is used about 142 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) | 100% | 142 | 26,554 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "RIPLEY" 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 |
| Ripley | Last name | 3,000 | 3,794 |
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1. Ripley, IL (village, FIPS 64174) 2. Ripley, MS (city, FIPS 62600) 3. Ripley, NY (CDP, FIPS 61874) 4. Ripley, OH (village, FIPS 67272) 5. Ripley, OK (town, FIPS 63500) 6. Ripley, TN (city, FIPS 63340) 7. Ripley, WV (city, FIPS 68596) |
Expressions using "RIPLEY": Fort Ripley ♦ Lake Ripley ♦ Old Ripley ♦ Ripley County. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "RIPLEY": Ripley-rust. | |
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| 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. |
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"RIPLEY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rapley, ripely, ripply, Ripsley, Rupolei. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ripely. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: peril, plier, plyer, reply, riley. | |
-2 letters: lier, lipe, lire, lyre, peri, pier, pile, pily, plie, prey, pyre, rely, riel, rile, ripe, yelp, yipe. | |
-3 letters: ire, lei, ley, lie, lip, lye, per, pie, ply, pry, pye, rei, rep, rip, rye, yep, yip. | |
-4 letters: el, er, li, pe, pi, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: perkily, primely. | |
+2 letters: creepily, impurely, pleurisy, preppily, prettily, priestly, princely, pyrexial, pyrolize, replying, slippery, unripely. | |
+3 letters: hyperlink, interplay, micropyle, painterly, pargyline, parleying, pellitory, pericycle, perilymph, peristyle, polymeric, preachily, precisely, privately, puerilely, puerility, pyrolized, pyrolizes, redisplay, replaying, splintery, xerophily. | |
+4 letters: biopolymer, decrepitly, depilatory, epistolary, eruptively, erysipelas, hieroglyph, hyperbolic, hypergolic, hyperlinks, hyperploid, imperially, improperly, inexpertly, interplays, intrepidly, micropyles, overplying, oversimply, pargylines, peculiarly, pericycles, pericyclic, perikaryal, perilously, perilymphs, peristyles, perplexity, phyllaries, piercingly, pleiotropy, plyometric, polymerise, polymerism, polymerize, polyparies, preciously, preholiday, prequalify, pressingly, previously, pridefully, primevally, pristinely, pruriently, pyrologies, pyrolusite, reapplying, redisplays, replevying, sperrylite, spinsterly, spiritedly, sportively, superiorly, superlying, viperously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 49 50 4C 45 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .. .--. .-.. . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001001 01010000 01001100 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R I P L E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0049 0050 004C 0045 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)524350463959 |
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