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Definition: Bierce |
BierceNoun1. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Bierce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
"Bierce" is a common misspelling or typo for: Bireme, Byre, Fierce, Pierce, Pierced, Tierce. |
Synonyms: BierceSynonyms: Ambrose Bierce (n), Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bierce |
| English words defined with "Bierce": Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett Bierce ♦ metal, metallic. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bierce, Ambrose, and unidentified man at the Bohemian Club Grove.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ambrou Bierce | A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. |
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| "Bierce" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bierce" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Bierce" 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 |
| Bierce | Last name | 400 | 23,209 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Bierce": Ambrose Bierce ♦ Ambrose Gwinett Bierce. 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-r" | |
-1 letter: rebec. | |
-2 letters: beer, bice, bier, bree, brie, cere, cire, crib, rice. | |
-3 letters: bee, cee, ere, ice, ire, reb, rec, ree, rei, rib. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-i-r" | |
+1 letter: becrime, iceberg, terebic. | |
+2 letters: beachier, becrimed, becrimes, beechier, bernicle, bickered, bickerer, cerebric, credible, describe, icebergs. | |
+3 letters: bacterize, bernicles, bickerers, bigeneric, brecciate, breeching, briefcase, celebrity, coercible, corbeille, described, describer, describes, embracive, herbicide, iceboater, prescribe, recombine, reducible, verbicide. | |
+4 letters: acerbities, aerobicize, amerciable, bacteremia, bacteremic, bacterized, bacterizes, besmirched, besmirches, bewitchery, bitcheries, botcheries, brecciated, brecciates, breechings, brevetcies, briefcases, butcheries, carabineer, cherublike, cobwebbier, corbeilles, cowberries, creditable, cybernetic, describers, eradicable, extricable, fiberscope, herbicides, iceboaters, icebreaker, incredible, incumbered, linebacker, predicable, prescribed, prescriber, prescribes, probenecid, receivable, recombined, recombines, redescribe, replicable, seborrheic, tenebrific, verbicides. | |
| 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 69 65 72 63 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)-... .. . .-. -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i e r c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0065 0072 0063 0065 |
| 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)367571846971 |
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