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Date "BERKLEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Berkley (Mr. ). An Englishman of fortune, good-humoured, and humane. He is a bachelor and somewhat eccentric, but sound common sense is a silver thread which is never lost. (Longfellow: Hyperion (a romance), 1839.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BERKLEY |
| Specialty definitions using "BERKLEY": AMD 29000 ♦ Lady Magistrate. (references) |
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Screenplays | In the last few weeks he's gone to Harvard and Berkley, I think he can get a passport. (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) | |
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 | The Berkley [i.e. Berkeley], Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mts., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Beltsville, Maryland. Indian scientists visiting the Agricultural Research Center. Left to right: Dr. E.E. Berkley, Dr. E.C. Auchter, Dr. N. Ahmad, Dr. H.W. Barre and Dr. H.D. Barker. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | National Cathedral. Mr. Berkley and party, National Cathedral I. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Support our boys in Vietnam, Korea, Germany, Japan, England, Italy, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Berkley [sic], Watts, Boston ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "BERKLEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BERKLEY" is used about 45 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% | 45 | 50,900 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "BERKLEY" 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 |
| Berkley | Last name | 2,000 | 6,932 |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Berkley Petroleum Corp | USA | W.R. Berkley Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Berkley, IA (city, FIPS 6040) 2. Berkley, MA 3. Berkley, MI (city, FIPS 7660) |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "BERKLEY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | Berkley-farvning (Berkley staining). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | coloration de Berkley (Berkley staining). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Berkley Faerbung (Berkley staining). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | χρώσις του BERKLEY (Berkley staining). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | バークレイ . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | erkleybay coloração de Berkley (Berkley staining). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BERKLEY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barcle, Barklem, Barkly, Bearnley, Benkulen, Bercula, Berkely, Berkev, Berkheya, berklee, Birchley, Birkley, Bkerke, Bordley, Breeley, Burkey, Byerley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-k-l-r-y" | |
-2 letters: beery, beryl, leery, rebel, reeky, rekey. | |
-3 letters: beer, bree, byre, byrl, eely, eery, eyer, eyre, keel, kerb, leek, leer, leke, lyre, reek, reel, rely, ryke, yelk, yerk. | |
-4 letters: bee, bel, bey, bye, eel, eke, elk, ere, eye, key, lee, lek, ley, lye, reb, ree, rye. | |
-5 letters: be, by, el, er, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-k-l-r-y" | |
+2 letters: berrylike, berserkly. | |
+4 letters: farkleberry, huckleberry. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 52 4B 4C 45 59 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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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)01000010 01000101 01010010 01001011 01001100 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E R K L E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0052 004B 004C 0045 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)36395245463959 |
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