Carson

Definitions: Carson

Carson

Noun

1. United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964).

2. United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the Civil War (1809-1868).

Date "Carson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CARSON	English	Mixed carbide fuel irradiation experiment with central fuel temperature measurement by ultrasonic thermometry(HFR)	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Carson

Synonyms: Christopher Carson (n), Kit Carson (n), Rachel Carson (n), Rachel Louise Carson (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Carson

English words defined with "Carson": black ♦ Carson City, Carson McCullers, Carson Smith McCullers, Christopher Carson, cryptic, cryptical ♦ deep, disgraceful ♦ ignominious, inglorious, inscrutable ♦ Kit Carson ♦ mysterious, mystifying ♦ opprobrious ♦ Rachel Carson, Rachel Louise Carson ♦ shameful. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Carson": hitcher-on ♦ tail-rope engineer. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carson" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Scottish (what for, wherefore, why).

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Well, like Johnny Carson on the Late Show ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)
Movie/TV Titles	The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) Carson City (1952) Cat Carson Rides Again (1952) The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951) Sunset Carson Rides Again (1948)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Carson Holdings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Carson, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	David Carson, 2nd Sight: Grafik Design After the End of Print (reference) Moon Handbooks: Tahoe 3 Ed: Including Reno and Carson Valley (reference) More Than Laughter: My Days on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (reference) Stranger in Paradise (A Carson Springs Novel, Book 1) (reference) Taste of Honey (Goudge, Eileen. Carson Spring Series, Bk. 2.) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Ultimate Johnny Carson Collection - His Favorite Moments from The Tonight Show (Vols. 1-3) (1962-1992) (reference) The Carson Collection - His Favorite Moments from The Tonight Show (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	Carson 3X Night-Vision Monocular (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife Service Vessel RACHEL CARSON.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Senior Airman Tara Carson.
	Rafting on the Carson River, near Carson City, Nevada.Credit: JoLynn Worley.		Seed warehousing operations for emergency fire rehabilitation, Fall 1999, Carson City, Nevada.Credit: Unknown.
	Speak Up America : Talk About Perscriptions / Design: Berns & Kay, Ltd. Illustration: Kathleen Carson.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[John M. Carson, M.D.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Supervisory Naval Architect Morton Gertler directs Instrument Maker Carson W. Caudle in preparing a model of the submarine for further tests at the David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, 1 March 1956. "This new type of submarine hull design was selected from a systematic series of streamlined bodies developed by Mr. Gertler, who also supervised the thorough development testing program that resulted in the hull and appendages as they now exist on the submarine Albacore." (quoted from the original picture caption).Credit: NAVY.		Man dressed as Saint Patrick standing at gateway to Carson City.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Detail of cast-iron corner entrance, store of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago.Credit: Library of Congress.		Frank Lloyd Wright, Baroness Hilla Rebay, and Solomon R. Guggenheim standing beside a model of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum] / Margaret Carson.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Ghana	VALCO--90% owned by Kaiser, and 10% by Reynolds--is by far the biggest investment, but other important U.S. companies operating in the country include Mobil, Coca Cola, S.C. Johnson, Ralston Purina, Star-Kist, A.H. Robins, Sterling, Pfizer, IBM, Carson Products, 3M, Pioneer Gold, Stewart & Stevenson, Price Waterhouse, Great Lakes Shipping, and National Cash Register (NCR). Several U.S. firms recently made or are considering investments in Ghana, primarily in gold mining, wood products, and petroleum. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Ed McMahon	Sure. He reads the letters. He read the letters. Sure. He's a company man. I mean, he really works at being Johnny Carson.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Carson" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.73% of the time. "Carson" is used about 376 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)	99.73%	375	14,556
Noun (singular)	0.27%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	376	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Carson" 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
Carson	First name Male	8,000	774
Carson	Last name	24,000	472
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name
South Africa	Carson Holdings Limited
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1. Carson, CA (city, FIPS 11530)
Location: 33.83618 N, 118.25789 W
Population (1990): 83995 (24441 housing units)
Area: 48.8 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 90745, 90746, 90810
Country: USA

2. Carson, IA (city, FIPS 11170)
Location: 41.23665 N, 95.41630 W
Population (1990): 705 (312 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 51525
Country: USA

3. Carson, MS
Zip Code(s): 39427
Country: USA

4. Carson, ND (city, FIPS 12460)
Location: 46.42190 N, 101.56977 W
Population (1990): 383 (224 housing units)
Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 58529
Country: USA

5. Carson, NV (City, FIPS 510)
Location: 39.14833 N, 119.74324 W
Population (1990): 40443 (16628 housing units)
Area: 371.8 sq km (land), 31.9 sq km (water)
Country: USA

6. Carson, NV (City, FIPS 9700)
Location: 39.14833 N, 119.74324 W
Population (1990): 40443 (16628 housing units)
Area: 371.8 sq km (land), 31.8 sq km (water)
Country: USA

7. Carson, PA
Zip Code(s): 15203
Country: USA

8. Carson, VA
Zip Code(s): 23830
Country: USA

9. Carson, WA
Zip Code(s): 98610
Country: USA

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Expressions: Carson

Expressions using "Carson": Carson City ♦ Carson County ♦ Carson McCullers ♦ Carson River Valley ♦ Carson Smith McCullers ♦ Christopher Carson ♦ Fort Carson ♦ Kit Carson ♦ Kit Carson County ♦ Rachel Carson ♦ Rachel Louise Carson ♦ West Carson. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Carson": carson-moved.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carson

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
carson city nv	980	ft carson	98
carson pirie scott	969	call carson daly last	96
carson city	440	fort carson colorado	87
carson california	420	carson daily	87
carson daly	363	carson newman	81
carson	325	carson elizabeth	74
carson city nevada	283	fort carson co	69
johnny carson	275	carson toyota	68
fort carson	271	carson palmer	68
lisa nicole carson	226	carson valley inn	62
carson dellosa	207	attraction carson	61
rachel carson	198	carson high school	60
carson newman college	166	carson ilona	58
carson trailer	150	carson city real estate	57
jeff carson	142	carson city hotel	55
kit carson	125	johnny carson video	54
carson pierre scott	114	carson national forest	54
david carson	104	carson pirie	53
carson piere scott	103	carson center depot home	50
ben carson	100	carson mccullers	48
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Carson

Misspellings
	"Carson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cairston, carcon, Cardon, Cardoni, Cargonja, Cariston, Carjon, Carnson, Carsa, Carsound, Carston, Carstone, Carzo, cason, Cayron, Chartson, Clairson, Clarosan, Cragson, Cranson, crazon, Curson, Harson, Kardon, Karsan, Karskoe, Karslon, Kirsan, Krasnow. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Carson

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: acorns, narcos, racons.
	Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: acorn, arson, canso, carns, corns, narco, narcs, orcas, racon, roans, scorn, sonar.
	-2 letters: arco, arcs, cans, carn, cars, cons, corn, cors, naos, narc, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, osar, roan, rocs, scan, scar, soar, sora, sorn.
	-3 letters: arc, ars, can, car, con, cor, cos, nor, nos, oar, oca, ons, ora, orc, ors, ran, ras.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: anchors, archons, candors, cantors, carbons, cartons, coarsen, contras, corbans, corneas, coronas, cratons, crayons, garcons, macrons, narcose, racoons, ranchos, rancors.
	+2 letters: acrogens, acronyms, ancestor, caldrons, candours, canorous, cardoons, carotins, carrions, carryons, cartoons, chantors, clangors, clarions, coarsens, congrats, consular, contrast, corantos, corbinas, coronals, corpsman, corvinas, courants, courlans, crampons, crankous, crannogs, enactors, endosarc, minorcas, monarchs, nacreous, narcoses, narcosis, nomarchs, ocarinas, organics, ostracon, parsonic, raccoons, rancours, romances, sardonic, scenario.
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