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Cavendish

Definition: Cavendish

Cavendish

Noun

1. British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810).

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

Date "Cavendish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)


Synonym: Cavendish

Synonym: Henry Cavendish (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cavendish

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Pungency

Nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cavendish

English words defined with "Cavendish": Cut cavendish ♦ Henry Cavendish ♦ Negro head. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Cavendish": Cavendish Tobacco, Cotta ♦ Mantalini. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cavendish

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Cavendish Country (1973)

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

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Commercial Usage: Cavendish

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle (reference)

  • Last Voyages Cavendish, Hudson, Raleigh: The Original Narratives (reference)

  • Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader (Broadview Literary Texts) (reference)

  • The Duchess of Jermyn Street: The Life and Good Times of Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish Hotel (reference)

  • The Laws of Gravitation: Memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Cavendish

Illustrations:
Cavendish

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Photo Album: Cavendish

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Figure 1. Cavendish thermometer. Beginning in 1757 Lord Charles Cavendish, vice-president of the Royal Society, invented and described a number of thermome ters utilizing the principle of the dilatation of liquid. One of these was a " minimum" thermometer used to retain the minimum temperature observed. The liquid used was alcohol. It was first used by John Phipps on the RACEHORSE in 1773.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Valley below Cavendish, Vt.Credit: Library of Congress.

In Cavendish gorge, Vt.Credit: Library of Congress.

In Cavendish gorge, Vt.Credit: Library of Congress.

Looking out of Cavendish gorge, Vt.Credit: Library of Congress.

Cavendish Trading Co., business at 1412 Broadway, New York. Showroom I.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Cavendish

"Cavendish" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cavendish" is used about 106 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)100%10631,637

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Cavendish

The following table summarizes the usage of "Cavendish" 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
CavendishLast name20036,115
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Cavendish


1. Cavendish, VT
Zip Code(s): 05142
Country: USA

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Expressions: Cavendish

Expressions using "Cavendish": Cut cavendish ♦ Henry Cavendish. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Cavendish": Cavendish-woodhouse.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cavendish

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

  cavendish

106

  accommodation cavendish pei

6

  cavendish pei

47

  cavendish de james st vere

5

  henry cavendish

30

  campground cavendish sunset

5

  cavendish hotel

23

  cavendish cottage pei

5

  beach cavendish

19

  cavendish accommodation

5

  cavendish vt

16

  cavendish white

5

  cavendish mall

16

  cavendish p.e.i

5

  marshall cavendish

15

  cavendish de vere

5

  cavendish farm

15

  cavendish college

4

  cavendish prince edward island

14

  beach cavendish pei

4

  margaret cavendish

11

  cavendish press

4

  cavendish cottage

10

  cavendish suffolk

4

  cavendish management white yacht

9

  cavendish fruit

4

  cavendish thomas

9

  cavendish ikin

4

  cavendish hotel london

9

  cavendish charter white yacht

4

  banana cavendish

8

  cavendish sales white yacht

4

  cavendish charter management white

8

  dwarf cavendish

3

  campground cavendish

8

  beach cavendish cottage

3

  cavendish motel

6

  beach cavendish volleyball

3

  balance cavendish s

6

  cavendish motel pei

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cavendish

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

Bulgarian 

  

'ид Тъмен Тютюн За "ъвчене. (various references)

   

Danish

  

Cavendish banan (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana), frugtbanan (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dwergbanaan (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kääpiöbanaani (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana). (various references)

   

French

  

banane naine (Cavendish banana), banane Cavendish (Cavendish banana). (various references)

   

German

  

Cavendish-Banane (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana), Obstbanane (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μπανάνα νάνος (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Pácolt És Kockába Sajtolt Dohány. (various references)

   

Italian

  

banana Cavendish (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

avendishcay

   

Portuguese

  

Tabaco Em Tabletes, Adocicado E Amolecido. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Плиточный Табак. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrsta zaslađenog duvana, kavendiš. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuatrofilos (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana), colicero (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana), carapé (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana), cachaco (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana), popocho (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana), banano enano (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Cavendish-banan (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana), kanariebanan (Cavendish banana, dwarf banana, fruit banana). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Ýşlenmiş Tütün. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thuốc lá bánh (plug). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cavendish

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Musa cavendishii, Musa sapientum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Cavendish"

Words rhyming with "Cavendish" (pronounced 'Cav"en*dish'): Baddish, Blandish, Caddish, Cloddish, Eddish, Gaddish, Maddish, reddish, Tun-dish, Washdish, Yiddish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Cavendish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-i-n-s-v"

-1 letter: echidnas, vanished.

-2 letters: advices, candies, chained, chaines, echidna, evanish, incased, invades, vahines.

-3 letters: advice, advise, ascend, canids, casein, cashed, cavies, chaine, chains, chaise, chased, chides, chinas, chined, chines, chives, dances, danish, davens, davies, divans, encash, hances, havens, incase, inched, inches, invade, naches, naives, navies, nicads, niched, niches, sained, sandhi, savine, shaved, shaven, shavie.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-i-n-s-v"
 

+4 letters: underachieves.

 

+5 letters: handkerchieves, underachievers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cavendish


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

43 61 76 65 6E 64 69 73 68

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 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0076 0065 006E 0064 0069 0073 0068

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

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

376788718070758574

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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. Usage Frequency 		9. Names: Frequency
10. Cities
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet 		13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams 		17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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