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Date "CHUBB" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Chubb (Thomas). A deistical writer who wrote upon miracles in the first half of the eighteenth century. "He heard of Blount, of Mandeville, and Chubb." Crabbe: Borough. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The strongboxes were placed into two specially-built Chubb safes constructed of three-quarter inch tempered steel. (The First Great Train Robbery; writing credit: Michael Crichton) | |
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References | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Italy | The handful of U.S. companies presently doing business in Italy (including AIG Europe, Cigna Life Insurance, Chubb Insurance, Prumerica Life and Allstate) are estimated to have increased their performance by 13%, but only still represent approximately 0.3 percent of the market. (references) |
China | To date there are 17 foreign insurers with operating licenses (twelve in operation and five pending approval): three from the United States (AIG, Chubb Group and John Hancock in operation) two from Britain (Royal & Sun Alliance and Prudential UK in operation), two from Canada (Manulife in operation and Sun Life Assurance pending approval) plus one each from Japan (Tokio Fire and Marine in operation), Switzerland (Winterthur in operation), Germany (Allianz Dazhong in operation), Holland (Aetna in operation, now part of ING) France (Axa-UAP in operation) and Australia (Colonial Mutual in operation). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CHUBB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.18% of the time. "CHUBB" is used about 44 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) | 93.18% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CHUBB" 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 |
| Chubb | Last name | 1,000 | 18,292 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Chubb PLC | USA | The Chubb Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "CHUBB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | antivol (chubb lock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sicherheitsschloss (chubb lock, safety lock), Sicherheitsschloß (chubb lock, safety lock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | antifurto (antitheft, chubb lock, safety lock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubbchay fechadura de segurança. (various references) чабб. (various references) Cachero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CHUBB": chubbier, chubbiest, chubbily, chubbiness, chubbinesses, chubby. (additional references) | |
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"CHUBB" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chubbs, Chyba. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-h-u" | |
-1 letter: chub. | |
-2 letters: bub, cub, hub. | |
-3 letters: uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-h-u" | |
+1 letter: chubby. | |
+2 letters: cubbish. | |
+3 letters: bushbuck, chubbier, chubbily, clubbish. | |
+4 letters: brushback, bushbucks, chubbiest, cubbyhole, subbranch. | |
+5 letters: brushbacks, bunchberry, chubbiness, cubbyholes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Names: Company Usage 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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