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Definition: Acheson |
AchesonNoun1. American statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: AchesonSynonyms: Dean Acheson (n), Dean Gooderham Acheson (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Deflocculated Acheson Graphite (chemistry), Defloculated Acheson Graphite (mechanical engineering). |
Crosswords: Acheson |
| English words defined with "Acheson": Acheson process ♦ Dean Acheson, Dean Gooderham Acheson. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Acheson": Acheson graphite. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Secretary Acheson handing over Atlantic Pact to Senators Vandenberg and Connally.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dean Acheson, half-length portrait, seated at table, facing left, surrounded by news reporters.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Dean Acheson | Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. |
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| "Acheson" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acheson" is used about 126 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% | 126 | 28,512 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Acheson" 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 |
| Acheson | Last name | 1,000 | 13,599 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Acheson": Acheson process ♦ Dean Acheson ♦ Dean Gooderham Acheson. 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 |
dean acheson | 31 |
acheson | 27 |
acheson colloids | 9 |
acheson venture | 8 |
acheson edward goodrich | 3 |
james acheson | 3 |
acheson colloids company | 3 |
acheson industry | 3 |
acheson appraisal | 3 |
acheson realty | 2 |
acheson group intelligence | 2 |
acheson ann | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: canoes, chosen, encash, hances, naches, nachos, oceans. | |
-2 letters: aches, acnes, aeons, ashen, canes, canoe, canso, chaos, chase, chose, cones, echos, hance, hanse, hones, hosen, nacho, ocean, onces, scena, scone, shone. | |
-3 letters: aces, ache, acne, aeon, anes, cane, cans, case, cash, chao, chon, cone, cons, cosh, each, echo, eons, haen, haes, hens, hoes, hone, hons, hose, naos, noes, nose, nosh, ocas, once, ones, sane, scan, shea, shoe, sone. | |
-4 letters: ace, ane, ash, can, con, cos, ens, eon, hae, hao, has, hen, hes, hoe, hon, nae, nah, noh, nos, oca, oes, ohs, one, ons, ose, sac, sae, sea, sec, sen, sha, she, son. | |
-5 letters: ae, ah, an, as, eh, en, es, ha, he, ho, na, ne, no, oe, oh, on, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: chalones, panoches. | |
+2 letters: anchoress, anchorets, anchovies, canephors, ceanothus, cenotaphs, chaconnes, chaperons, cheongsam, eulachons, rancheros, stonechat. | |
+3 letters: aitchbones, anchorages, anchorites, anchorless, anchovetas, antechoirs, chalcogens, chameleons, chaperones, chelations, chelonians, cheongsams, chloracnes, chlordanes, chronaxies, cochineals, cymophanes, decathlons, encroaches, hacendados, haloclines, headcounts, hoactzines, houseclean, kalanchoes, monarchies, nomarchies, scherzando, secondhand, stonechats. | |
+4 letters: abhorrences, achondrites, anchoresses, anchovettas, anthracnose, archdeacons, avouchments, beachfronts, cacophonies, ceanothuses, cellophanes, chairperson, chancellors, changeovers, chansonnier, chatoyances, chiffonades, chloramines, chlorinates, choanocytes, coelacanths, decahedrons, diachronies, encroachers, fianchettos, haciendados, hemocyanins, housecleans, hyoscyamine, icosahedron, inchoatives, johnnycakes, macintoshes, marchioness, neophiliacs, octahedrons, scenography, scherzandos, shacklebone, shortchange, stanchioned, stenobathic, technocrats, trochanters, unshockable. | |
+5 letters: anchorperson, anthracnoses, anticathodes, archdiocesan, archenterons, asynchronies, autochthones, biomechanics, cephalothins, chaetognaths, chairpersons, chalcedonies, chansonniers, chaperonages, chatoyancies, chiromancers, chiromancies, chiropterans, chrominances, collenchymas, cornstarches, ctenophorans, cyclohexanes, elasmobranch, euchromatins, hallucinoses, hemodynamics, housecleaned, hydromancies, hyoscyamines, icosahedrons, inchoateness, lycanthropes, mackintoshes, melancholias, melancholics, melancholies, necrophagous, necrophilias, nonaesthetic, nonchalances, nonchemicals, noncrushable, nonspherical, packinghouse, phoneticians, plainclothes, rhetoricians, scenographer, scenographic, shacklebones, shortchanged, shortchanger, shortchanges, stenographic, sycophancies, thiocyanates, untouchables. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 68 65 73 6F 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. .... . ... --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c h e s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0068 0065 0073 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35697471858180 |
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