Burroughs

Definition: Burroughs

Burroughs

Noun

1. United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (born 1914).

2. United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898).

3. United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950).

Date "Burroughs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1693. (references)

Synonyms: Burroughs

Synonyms: Edgar Rice Burroughs (n), William Burroughs (n), William Seward Burroughs (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Burroughs

English words defined with "Burroughs": Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes ♦ William Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Burroughs": BALGOL, Burroughs Corporation ♦ Convergent Technologies Operating System ♦ DMALGOL ♦ Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language, Extended ALGOL ♦ Internal Translator ♦ MCP ♦ Network Definition Language, NEW Programming language ♦ P-code ♦ SDL, Sperry Univac ♦ terminal junkie ♦ UNIVAC ♦ WFL. (references)

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Modern Usage: Burroughs

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Tarzan: The Legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1996)

Burroughs (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Burroughs

Domain	Title
Books	Edgar Rice Burroughs Science Fiction Classics: Pellucidar, Thuvia Maid of Mars, Tanar of Pellucidar, the Chessman of Mars, the Master Mind of Mars (reference) Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader (reference) Re/Search #4/5 : W.S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle (reference) Re-Search: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle (reference) Warlord of Mars (Martian Tale of Edgar Rice Burroughs, No 3) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Burroughs

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Photo Album: Burroughs

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Caption: Edison, Harvey Firestone Jr., R.J.H. Deloach, John Burroughs, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone on Water Wheel at Old Evans Mill; Bolar Springs, VA; August 23, 1918; {14.475/119} (jpg).		John Burroughs and Henry Ford;{28.500/9}.
	[Exterior view- Corporate headquarters and research laboratories of Burroughs Wellcome CO.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Allie Mae Burroughs milking. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Faculty, National Training School for Women and Girls, Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, President, Lincoln Heights, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.		John Burroughs, head-and-shoulders portrait. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Kitchen in house of Floyd Burroughs, sharecropper, near Moundville, Hale County, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.		Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.		Mrs. Richard Derby (Ethel Roosevelt), residence on Lexington Ave., Oyster Bay. Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by Burroughs Torrey. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Burroughs

Author	Quotation
John Burroughs	I was born with chronic anxiety about the weather.
	Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
	One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
	I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
	Nature teaches us more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Burroughs

"Burroughs" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.53% of the time. "Burroughs" is used about 102 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)	73.53%	75	38,535
Noun (plural)	26.47%	27	66,962
Total	100.00%	102	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Burroughs

The following table summarizes the usage of "Burroughs" 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
Burroughs	Last name	7,000	1,701
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Burroughs

Expressions using "Burroughs": Burroughs Corporation ♦ Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ William Burroughs ♦ William Seward Burroughs. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Burroughs

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
edgar rice burroughs	90	ben burroughs	8
william s burroughs	86	burroughs company merger sperry	8
william burroughs	83	buckingham doolittle burroughs	7
burroughs	70	burroughs fund wellcome	7
augusten burroughs	65	adding burroughs machine	6
stanley burroughs	59	jackie burroughs	6
burroughs chapin	28	nannie helen burroughs	6
john burroughs	27	augusten burroughs dry	5
sean burroughs	27	burroughs margaret	5
burroughs high school	20	burroughs diet lemonade stanley	5
john burroughs high school	19	burroughs park	5
burroughs wellcome	14	william seward burroughs	5
burroughs sperry	14	burroughs quote william	5
burroughs new york	12	burroughs helen nannie school	4
burroughs cleanse master stanley	11	jeff burroughs	4
burroughs john school	10	burroughs corporation	4
burroughs merger sperry	10	burroughs home	4
burroughs city new york	9	burroughs lunch naked william	4
burroughs john middle school	9	burroughs quote s william	4
burroughs cleanser master stanley	9	bonnie burroughs	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Burroughs

Misspellings
	"Burroughs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Borroughs, Broughs, burrough, Burroughes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Burroughs

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-g-h-o-r-r-s-u-u"
	-3 letters: boughs, bourgs, brughs, burghs, burros, roughs, rugous.
	-4 letters: bogus, bough, bourg, brugh, brush, buhrs, burgh, burgs, burro, burrs, grubs, gursh, gurus, hours, rough, rubus, shrub, shrug, sough.
	-5 letters: bogs, bosh, bros, bugs, buhr, burg, burr, burs, bush, gobs, gosh, grub, guru, gush, hobs, hogs, hour, hubs, hugs, orbs, ours, rhos, rhus, robs, rubs.
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