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CAIRD

Definition: CAIRD

CAIRD

Noun

1. A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CAIRD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Note: Caird \Caird\, noun. [Ir. ceard tinker.]. (Websters 1913)

Commercial Usage: CAIRD

DomainTitle

Books

  • CAIRD GROUP PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • CAIRD GROUP PLC: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Rectorial address delivered at an academic ceremony in the Caird Hall, Dundee, on 17th October 1968, on the occasion of his installation as the first Rector of Dundee (reference)

  • The Collected Works of Edward Caird (reference)

  • The life and philosophy of Edward Caird : 1921 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: CAIRD

AuthorQuotation

John Caird

Carry religion into common life, and your life will be rendered useful as well as noble.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: CAIRD

"CAIRD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "CAIRD" is used about 32 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)96.88%3162,296
Noun (singular)3.13%1339,140
                    Total100.00%32N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CAIRD

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

the james caird

4

caird

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: CAIRD

Language Translations for "CAIRD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

ادم خانه بدوش , دوره گرد (Badger, Huckster, Itinerant, Peripatetic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airdcay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CAIRD

Derivations

Words beginning with "CAIRD": cairds. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "CAIRD"

Words ending with "aird": Laird. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CAIRD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: acrid, daric.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-r"

-1 letter: acid, arid, cadi, caid, card, raid.

-2 letters: aid, air, arc, cad, car, rad, ria, rid.

-3 letters: ad, ai, ar, id.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-r"
 

+1 letter: acarid, bardic, cairds, cardia, caried, chadri, darics, rancid.

 

+2 letters: acarids, acaroid, acrider, acridly, arcadia, ascarid, baldric, bawdric, cairned, carabid, carbide, cardiac, cardiae, cardias, carding, carotid, carried, catbird, chaired, cordial, corrida, daturic, deciare, decrial, dharmic, diarchy, discard, drastic, dryadic, faradic, iracund, parodic, peracid, picador, quadric, radical, radicel, radices, radicle, sarcoid, sidecar, triacid, triadic, triclad.

 

+3 letters: acaridan, accredit, aciduria, acquired, acridest, acridine, acridity, adscript, arachnid, arcadian, arcadias, arcading, archived, articled, ascarids, ascribed, auricled, baldrick, baldrics, bawdrics, bedchair, birdcage, birdcall, braconid, caldaria, calibred, cancroid, candider, carabids, carangid, carbides, cardiacs, cardigan, cardinal, cardings, cardioid, carditic, carditis, carotids, caryatid, catbirds, ceratoid, chadarim, characid, charquid, chedarim, citrated, cityward, coadmire, coracoid, cordials, cordwain, corridas, cradling, crannied, deciares, decigram, decrials, diapiric, diarchic, dicentra, dicrotal, dictator, diffract, dioramic, discards, disgrace, distract, drachmai, draconic, dramatic, dyarchic, faradaic, filmcard, fricando, grimaced, hadronic, heraldic, hydracid, hyracoid, idocrase, inarched, ironclad, lacertid, medicare, peracids, picadors, picrated, pilchard, podagric, quadrics, racemoid, rachides, radiance, radiancy, radicals, radicand, radicate, radicels, radicles, rancidly, raticide, readdict, riddance, sarcoids, sardonic, sidecars, sporadic, subacrid, tetracid, tetradic, timecard, tornadic, tracheid, triacids, triadics, tribadic, triclads.

 

+4 letters: abdicator, acaricide, acaridans, according, accordion, accredits, acidifier, acidurias, acierated, acridines, acridness, adscripts, androecia, aperiodic, arachnids, arachnoid, arcadians, arcadings, archaised, archaized, archfiend, ardencies, ascarides, astricted, backfired, bacteroid, baldricks, barricade, barricado, bedchairs, birdcages, birdcalls, blackbird, braconids, bratticed, brickyard, brocading, cabdriver, cadaveric, caldarium, calendric, calipered, calorized, cancroids, caprioled, carangids, carbamide, carcinoid, cardigans, cardinals, cardioids, carinated, carnified, cartridge, caryatids, cashiered, cedarbird, chagrined, chancroid, characids, charioted, chipboard, chivareed, chivaried, choroidal, chromatid, chrysalid, circadian, clarified, clarioned, clipboard, cnidarian, coadmired, coadmires, cochaired, coracoids, coralloid, cordially, cordwains, coriander, corrading, corydalis, cowardice, crusading, cuadrilla, cuirassed, curarized, curtailed, curtained, dackering, decaliter, decigrams, declaimer, declaring, dedicator, diachrony, diacritic, diaeretic, diametric, diarchies, diarrheic, dicentras, dichondra, dichromat, dictators, dicumarol, diffracts, digastric, digraphic, disaccord, discarded, discarder, discharge, disgraced, disgracer, disgraces, distracts, doctrinal, draconian, dramatics, dropsical, druidical, dyarchies, dyscrasia, epicardia, eradicate, fiduciary, filmcards, friedcake, garlicked, goliardic, graecized, hindrance, holandric, hydracids, hydraulic, hyperacid, hyracoids, idocrases, increased, indicator, infarcted, infracted, ironclads, judiciary, juridical, kickboard, lacertids, larvicide, manicured, matricide, medicares, midrashic, miracidia, mistraced, mydriatic, myocardia, ordinance, paramedic, parricide, patricide, pediatric, picadores, picofarad, pilchards, podiatric, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, quadratic, racemized, radiances, radically, radicands, radicated, radicates, radicchio, radicular, rancidity, raticides, readdicts, recarried, reclaimed, redacting, redaction, regicidal, rhachides, rhapsodic, riddances, rudbeckia, scarified, scraiched, scraighed, sidetrack, tetracids, timecards, traceried, tracheids, trackside, traducing, urticated, varicosed, veridical, viricidal, virucidal, yardstick.

 

+5 letters: abdicators, abstricted, acaricidal, acaricides, accordions, accredited, achondrite, acidifiers, acidimeter, acidimetry, acridities, acrylamide, adrenergic, aldermanic, androecium, androgenic, antidromic, arabicized, arachnoids, archfiends, backslider, bacterized, bacteroids, barricaded, barricades, bifurcated, blackbirds, brachiated, brachiopod, brainchild, breadstick, brecciated, brickyards, cabdrivers, cadaverine, caddisworm, calibrated, callipered, carbamides, carbonized, carburised, carburized, carcinoids, cardinally, cardiogram, cardiology, carditides, carditises, carotenoid, carotinoid, cartelised, cartelized, cartridges, caryatides, cauterized, cavaliered, cedarbirds, centigrade, chagrinned, chairmaned, chancroids, chandelier, charladies, chipboards, chromatids, chrysalids, cicatrized, circulated, clavichord, clipboards, clostridia, cnidarians, coadjutrix, coadmiring, confirmand, contradict, coordinate, cordiality, cordillera, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, cowardices, crassitude, crawfished, credential, creditable, creditably, crepitated, criminated, crispbread, cuadrillas, cypripedia, deaconries, decaliters, decametric, decemviral, decenaries, declaimers, decorating, decoration, decorative, decreasing, dedicators, dedicatory, dekametric, democratic, depreciate, deracinate, desiccator, detracting, detraction, detractive, diachronic, diacritics, diarrhetic, diathermic, dichondras, dichromate, dichromats, dicoumarin, dicoumarol, dictionary, dicumarols, diffracted, disaccords, discarders, discarding, discarnate, discharged, dischargee, discharger, discharges, disclaimer, discordant, discourage, discrepant, disgracers, disgracing, dispatcher, distracted, divaricate, dormancies, duplicator, dyscrasias, elucidator, enchiridia, endarchies, endocardia, epicardial, epicardium, eradicable, eradicated, eradicates, eradicator, escadrille, excoriated, extricated, fabricated, factorized, federacies, fireplaced, forecaddie, fornicated, fractioned, franchised, fratricide, fricandeau, fricandoes, fricasseed, friedcakes, germicidal, gramicidin, grandchild, grandniece, handicraft, headachier, herbicidal, hindrances, hydraulics, icosahedra, ideogramic, imbricated, immoderacy, imprecated, incarnated, incendiary, incurvated, indicators, indicatory, interacted, interfaced, interlaced, irradiance, judicatory, judicature, kickboards, larvicidal, larvicides, lubricated, madreporic, mandarinic, matricidal, matricides, microfarad, microwaved, micturated, miracidial, miracidium, miscarried, mischarged, miscreated, mordancies, mydriatics, myocardial, myocardium, narcotized, noncardiac, nudibranch, obduracies, orchardist, ordinances, ostracised, ostracized, paediatric, paradisaic, paradisiac, paramedics, parodistic, parricidal, parricides, patricidal, patricides, pederastic, pediatrics, pericardia, periodical, picarooned, picofarads, placarding, predacious, predicable, predicated, predicates, premedical, proclaimed, prosodical, quadratics, quadriceps, rachitides, radiancies, radicalise, radicalism, radicalize, radicating, radicchios, radiogenic, radiologic, radiolytic, rancidness, reacceding, reaccredit, reacquired, readdicted, redactions, rededicate, refinanced, repacified, replicated, rubricated, rudbeckias, rusticated, saccharide, sacrificed, scorpaenid, scrimmaged, semisacred, sidetracks, sporicidal, switchyard, syndicator, taxidermic, tracksides, trafficked, trochoidal, undramatic, verdancies, vindicator, wildcatter, yardsticks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAIRD


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

43 41 49 52 44

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)

01000011 01000001 01001001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0049 0052 0044

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

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

3735435238

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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