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Definition: BARRY |
BARRYAdjective1. Divided into bars; -- said of the field. |
"BARRY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "fair-haired". |
Date "BARRY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | BARRY, Madame Du, writers' model, former queen of France. Was a great friend of Louis XV. and helped make the dances at Versailles a success. She always preferred marcel waves to pompadours. Ambition: To have and to hold. Address: See Louis. Clubs: Anti-suffragette. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Industry | Descriptive of a fabric containing bars. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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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 "Barry, Illinois."
Crosswords: BARRY |
| English words defined with "BARRY": Commodore John Barry Bridge, Comtesse Du Barry ♦ Du Barry ♦ Rowan barry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BARRY": 56210 ♦ 62312 ♦ 75102 ♦ Barry Cornwall, Barry mining ♦ Constructive Cost Model ♦ Fraserian Group ♦ Nell's Point, newsgroup ♦ Philemon, Epistle to ♦ Scratchpad I, story. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BARRY" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (Barry), German (Barry), Italian (Barry), Spanish (Barry). |
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Screenplays | Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? (The Breakfast Club; writing credit: John Hughes.) Barry can pick out the exact right flavor of ice cream to follow any meal. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) It's Barry White. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Company leader to identify Baker Team - Rambo, Messner, Ortega, Coletta, Jurgensen, Barry, Krakauer confirm! (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) Barry and Mindy are getting a divorce! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | You can play some Barry Manilow ("Achy Breaky Song"; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974) The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) Barry Humphries' Scandals (1970) The Barry Crocker Show (1966) Presenting Barry Morse (1960) | |
Song Titles | 37623 (performing artist: Len Barry) The Ballad of The Green Berets (performing artist: S/Sgt. Barry Sadler) BALLAD OF GREEN BERETS (performing artist: Ssgt. Barry Sadler ) | |
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![]() | Senior Airman Barry Strube, #140, right, and Staff Sgt. Gabriel Zorrero, #143, left, both Air Force Reserve Command Defender Challenge team members, race to the top of the "Tough One" Oct. 30 during the Defender Challenge competition at Lackland Air Force. | ![]() | Lychees, Litchi chinensis. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Barry Fitzgerald.. |
Barry M. Goldwater Range.Credit: Unknown. | ![]() | [Gens. Barry, Slocum, Newton, Franklin, &c.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. | |
![]() | [Miss Barry, Fordham Hospital Social Service].Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Stops for a helping of dessert from Ship's Cook 2nd Class William Barry, as she goes through a "chow" line at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, during World War II.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Coaling from the beach in the Philippine Islands. This destroyer is either USS Bainbridge (Destroyer # 1), USS Barry (Destroyer # 2) or USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3). The donor's original caption, which incorrectly identifies the ship as USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5), reads: "...coaling from the beach near Zamboanga, P.I., 1916. Mooring lines are tied to old stock anchors on the beach. The coal was carried aboard in baskets on a pole by two natives. This was Pocahontas coal from West. Va. The rest of the Asiatic Fleet used Japanese coal.".Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.). Front. Elevation. Rendering] / Barry A. Birrie 4 10 11.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Jack Barry.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Shad Barry.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Barry Farber | In a Russian tragedy, everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies, too. But they die happy. |
Barry Goldwater | It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me. |
| A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. | |
| If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. | |
Barry Humphries | My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. |
| There is perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics. | |
Senator Barry Goldwater | Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Military's Southern Command, General Barry McCaffrey, as America's new drug czar. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "BARRY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "BARRY" is used about 1,889 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) | 99.95% | 1,888 | 4,528 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,889 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BARRY" 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 |
| Barry | First name Male | 134,000 | 140 |
| Barry | Last name | 15,000 | 771 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "BARRY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "fair-haired". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "BARRY." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Barrie | Male | English | Barry |
| Barry | Male | English | Fionnbharr |
| Berry | Female, Male | English | Barry |
| Barra | Male | Irish | Fionnbharr |
| Barrie | Male | Irish | Barry |
| Barry | Male | Irish | Fionnbharr |
| Finbar | Male | Irish | Fionnbharr |
| Finnbar | Male | Irish | Fionnbharr |
| Fionnbharr | Male | Irish | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Switzerland | Barry Callebaut AG | USA | Barry (R.G.) Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Barry, IL (city, FIPS 3948) 2. Barry, MN (city, FIPS 3718) 3. Barry, TX (city, FIPS 5708) |
Expressions using "BARRY": Barry County ♦ Commodore John Barry Bridge ♦ comtesse Du Barry ♦ du Barry ♦ rose du Barry ♦ Rowan barry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BARRY": Barry-battesti, Barry-jon, Barry-walsh. | |
Ending with "BARRY": Jourdan-barry. | |
| 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 |
barry manilow | 1,518 |
barry white | 1,399 |
barry bond | 1,003 |
barry winchell | 814 |
barry university | 634 |
dave barry | 590 |
barry zito | 386 |
cathy barry | 362 |
barry sander | 359 |
halle barry | 292 |
barry pepper | 231 |
barry watson | 213 |
barry | 210 |
barry humphries | 185 |
barry white lyrics | 157 |
barry gibb | 150 |
barry manilow lyrics | 130 |
barry halle pic | 111 |
barry grant | 96 |
barry goldwater | 83 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BARRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | barré (barré). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | barré (barré), bankerig (barré), streperig (barré, striated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Barry, barré (bared, barré, barred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Barré (barré). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μπαρέ (barré). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | barry, sbarrato (barré, barred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | Dy Barrey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arrybay tecido barrado trama (barré). (various references) barry, barras transversales (barré). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"BARRY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baarrrp, Badri, Bahri, Bakri, Barari, Barly, Barrey, Barrit, Barrys, bary, batry, Beartrix, Birri, birry, borry, Bourry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BARRY" (pronounced 'Bar"ry'): Almry, Avowry, Aweary, Balloonry, Bawdry, Blurry, Chantry, Charry, Cheerry, Chowry, Commandry, Comminatory, Consuetudinary, Consulary, Coquetry, Cowries, Cowry, Cymry, Dairy, Disglory, Dismarry, Dowry, Farry, Firry, Forwweary, foundry, Frory, furry, Gharry, hagberry, Henry, Hostry, intermarry, Intervary, Jerry, Jewry, Kimry, Knarry, Knurry, Lampoonry, Lardry, Larry, Lary, Lepry, lory, Lowry, Lurry, merry, miscarry, Murry, Outweary, Overcarry, Overwary, overweary, Peltry, Querry, Recarry, remarry, Rory, Saltatory, saury, Serry, sherry, Skerry, Skurry, sorry, Sory, Sparry, Spurry, starry, Terry, Unmarry, unwary, unweary, Urry, vagary, vainglory, Vintry, Whirry, Whurry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-r-r-y" | |
-1 letter: bray. | |
-2 letters: aby, arb, bar, bay, bra, brr, ray, rya, yar. | |
-3 letters: ab, ar, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: brayer, briary. | |
+2 letters: bravery, brayers, bursary, library, turbary. | |
+3 letters: barberry, barnyard, barratry, barrenly, barretry, bayberry, betrayer, bewrayer, breviary, burglary, carbaryl, hagberry, rabbitry, ribaldry, teaberry, waxberry, yardbird. | |
+4 letters: aberrancy, arbitrary, baneberry, barbarity, barnyards, barometry, bearberry, betrayers, bewrayers, bizarrely, blaeberry, brickyard, carbaryls, carryback, cranberry, embracery, ferryboat, graybeard, hackberry, irritably, libratory, probatory, raspberry, shadberry, soapberry, tributary, vibratory, yardbirds. | |
+5 letters: aberrantly, arboreally, bardolatry, barleycorn, bayberries, blackberry, bricklayer, brickyards, carrybacks, cerebrally, chinaberry, coralberry, ferryboats, graybeards, hyperbaric, keyboarder, laboratory, loganberry, lumberyard, nonlibrary, perdurably, prebendary, preferably, rekeyboard, remarkably, rowanberry, rubrically, rubythroat, storyboard, strawberry, sugarberry, yarborough. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 52 52 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-. .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01010010 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A R R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0052 0052 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635525259 |
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