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Byrd

Definition: Byrd

Byrd

Noun

1. Explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Byrd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

"Byrd" is a common misspelling or typo for: bard, bird, birds, byre.


Synonyms: Byrd

Synonyms: Admiral Byrd (n), Richard E. Byrd (n), Richard Evelyn Byrd (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Byrd operation (medicine), Byrd-Dew method, Green Bank Telescope Robert C.Byrd (geography).

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Crosswords: Byrd

English words defined with "Byrd": Admiral ByrdBennettFloyd BennettRichard E. Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Byrd": obert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship. (references)

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Modern Usage: Byrd

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Follow Thru with Sam Byrd (1944)

With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)

Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story (1994)

Song Titles

Desafinado (Spanish) (performing artist: Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd)

KEEPER OF THE STARS (performing artist: TRACY BYRD)

TEN ROUNDS WITH JOSE CUERVO (performing artist: TRACY BYRD)

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

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Commercial Usage: Byrd

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Missing Diary of Admiral Richard E. Byrd (reference)

  • The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virgin (reference)

  • Rise and Walk: The Trial and Triumph of Dennis Byrd (reference)

  • The Browder connections : with references to Bolling, Bowman, Byrd, Cleveland, Clift, Crump, Cunningham, Cate, Dickey, Eldridge, Erwin, Gilliam, Grisham, Heiskell, John/Johns, Lovelace, Pickel, Privett, Sides, Smith, Winton, and many other related familie (reference)

  • Letters from a Young Shaker: William S. Byrd at Pleasant Hill (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • With Byrd at the South Pole: The Story of Little America (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Byrd

Illustrations:
Byrd

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Photo Album: Byrd

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Measuring distances with a tellurometer. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Map showing two main traverse routes of the 1960-1961 summer season. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station and McMurdo Station to South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Tractor-train on the move. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Map of Camp Minnesota to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Tractor equipped with crevasse finding discs. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Trailor with large tires filled with fuel. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd at McMurdo Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Transit magnetometer used to measure magnetic declination and dip. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Herb Meyers getting ready to don the goggles to protect eyes from snow blindness. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

John Trapp, Vern Byrd, Dennis Woolington. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Byrd

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Nightingale S, Byrd L, Southern P, Jockusch J, Cal S, Wynne B. Incidence of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex bacteremia in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Byrd

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Robert Novak

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was asked if he agreed with Senator Byrd, and he said absolutely. And then he said the things that we had at the beginning of this program.

Rush Limbaugh

I would love to see Byrd on TV fulminating, explaining and apologizing for that white N-word like Lott had to apologize for his statements, but it'll never happen.

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

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Speeches: Byrd

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989I spoke today with Speaker of the House O'Neill, Senate Majority Leader Baker, Senator Minority Leader Byrd, and House Minority Leader Michel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Byrd

"Byrd" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.33% of the time. "Byrd" is used about 149 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)99.33%14825,903
Noun (singular)0.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%149N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Byrd

The following table summarizes the usage of "Byrd" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ByrdLast name41,000261
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Byrd

Expressions using "Byrd": admiral Byrd Richard E. Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Byrd": Hann-byrd, Tallis-byrd.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Byrd

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tracy byrd

668

charlie byrd

20

byrd james jr

136

byrd kkk robert

20

byrd

127

mitch byrd

19

robert byrd

123

paul byrd

19

tracy byrd lyrics

96

marlon byrd

18

senator byrd

83

dennis byrd

18

james byrd

76

tracy byrd keeper of the star

16

senator robert byrd

73

admiral byrd

15

byrd man tracy truth

52

byrd robert sen

15

byrd theater

52

richard byrd

14

chris byrd

51

byrd james jr picture

14

byrd jonathan

48

byrd richmond theater

14

byrd lyrics man tracy truth

46

bill byrd kia

14

byrd william

44

larry byrd

12

donald byrd

39

tracy byrd song lyrics

12

robert c byrd

35

robert c byrd honor scholarship

12

byrd da juana

33

byrd dan

11

robin byrd

30

byrd in just let love lyrics tracy

11

tracey byrd

28

byrd robert scholarship

10

byrd c robert scholarship

22

byrd jonathon

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Byrd

Misspellings

"Byrd" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berd, Bierd, Burd, Bydv. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Byrd

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-r-y"

-1 letter: dry.

-2 letters: by.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-r-y"
 

+1 letter: derby.

 

+2 letters: bawdry, bayard, boyard, brandy, brayed, bready, broody, byrled, byroad, byword, daubry, drably, hybrid, rebody, redbay.

 

+3 letters: bayards, bedirty, beeyard, bindery, boyards, broadly, buirdly, byroads, bywords, daubery, dribbly, dryable, durably, hybrids, jaybird, rabidly, redbays, rudesby.

 

+4 letters: absurdly, adorably, backyard, badgerly, balladry, banditry, barnyard, bastardy, bayadeer, bayadere, beeyards, berhymed, betrayed, bewrayed, birdseye, birthday, bladdery, boatyard, bodysurf, bodywork, boneyard, botryoid, bouldery, boundary, bridally, broidery, broodily, burgundy, carboyed, corymbed, credibly, daybreak, dewberry, diablery, dihybrid, dogberry, embryoid, forebody, jaybirds, keyboard, ladybird, lyrebird, morbidly, obduracy, polybrid, rabidity, readably, reembody, ribaldly, ribaldry, turbidly, underbuy, yabbered, yardbird.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Byrd


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 79 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    -.--.    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01111001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#121 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0079 0072 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36918470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Derivations
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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