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Definition: Byrd |
ByrdNoun1. 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: ByrdSynonyms: 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). |
Crosswords: Byrd |
| English words defined with "Byrd": Admiral Byrd ♦ Bennett ♦ Floyd Bennett ♦ Richard E. Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Byrd": obert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Follow Thru with Sam Byrd (1944) With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) | |
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) | |
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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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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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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. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I spoke today with Speaker of the House O'Neill, Senate Majority Leader Baker, Senator Minority Leader Byrd, and House Minority Leader Michel. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.33% | 148 | 25,903 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 149 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Byrd | Last name | 41,000 | 261 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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 |
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. | |||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 79 72 64 |
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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 01111001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B y r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0079 0072 0064 |
| 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)36918470 |
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