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Comstock

Definition: Comstock

Comstock

Noun

1. United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915).

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

Date "Comstock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)


Specialty Definition: Comstock, Minnesota

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Comstock is a city located in Clay County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 123.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 123 people, 47 households, and 39 families residing in the city. The population density is 215.9/km² (570.5/mi²). There are 49 housing units at an average density of 86.0/km² (227.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 95.12% White, 0.00% African American, 1.63% Native American, 1.63% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.81% from other races, and 0.81% from two or more races. 1.63% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 47 households out of which 40.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.2% are married couples living together, 8.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 17.0% are non-families. 14.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.62 and the average family size is 2.82. In the city the population is spread out with 25.2% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 16.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 136.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 124.4 males. The median income for a household in the city is $37,917, and the median income for a family is $41,563. Males have a median income of $29,286 versus $19,375 for females. The per capita income for the city is $19,781. 2.2% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 9.4% are 65 or older.


Comstock, Nebraska

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Comstock is a village located in Custer County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 110.

Geography


Comstock is located at 41°33'25" North, 99°14'29" West (41.556919, -99.241292)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 110 people, 62 households, and 29 families residing in the village. The population density is 121.3/km² (316.1/mi²). There are 92 housing units at an average density of 101.5/km² (264.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 98.18% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.82% from two or more races. 4.55% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 62 households out of which 16.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.5% are married couples living together, 6.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 53.2% are non-families. 48.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 33.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.77 and the average family size is 2.48. In the village the population is spread out with 16.4% under the age of 18, 3.6% from 18 to 24, 14.5% from 25 to 44, 28.2% from 45 to 64, and 37.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 58 years. For every 100 females there are 83.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 80.4 males. The median income for a household in the village is $25,833, and the median income for a family is $32,500. Males have a median income of $20,833 versus $22,000 for females. The per capita income for the village is $13,955. 13.3% of the population and 7.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 20.0% are under the age of 18 and 13.8% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Comstock, Minnesota."

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Synonym: Comstock

Synonym: Anthony Comstock (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Comstock

Specialty definitions using "Comstock": wedge rock. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Comstock

DomainTitle

References

  • Comstock Resources Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Comstock Lode (reference)

  • Crime of 1873: The Comstock Connection (reference)

  • Graphic Street Guide of Greater Kalamazoo 2002-03: Including Comstock, Galesburg, Oshtemo, Parchment, Portage, Richland, Schoolcraft, Vicksburg and o (reference)

  • Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock (reference)

  • Sun Mountain: A Comstock Memoir (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Comstock

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Exterior view. Photograph by Robert W. Kerrigan, March 1937. (Reproduction Number: HABS NEV,15-GOLD,1-1) This weathered firehouse once served the now-abandoned town of Gold Hill, the frontier mining community associated with the discovery of the Comstock Lode of silver ore in 1859. Gold Hill and neighboring Virginia City profited greatly from the rich lode through the 1860s and 1870s until the mines gave out around 1880. The Liberty Fire House is typical of the early wooden fire houses that protected many Western mining towns. It featured a false parapet front, a simple belfry, and rustic siding. It collapsed not long after this 1937 photo was taken. The belfry alone was retained as a monument. Credit: Library of Congress.

C.B. Comstock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mining on the Comstock / drawn by T.L. Dawes ; engraved and printed by Le Count Bro's., San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress.

Puppies / Kelloggs & Comstock, Hartford, Conn. ; D. Needham, Buffalo. Credit: Library of Congress.

The life & age of woman. Stages of woman's life from the cradle to the grave / Kelloggs & Comstock, N.Y. & Hartford, Conn. Credit: Library of Congress.

F. Ray Comstock offers the delightful musical success, The school girl music by Leslie Stuart, composer of "Florodora" ; book by Henry Hamilton, author of "The Duchess of Dantzig" & Paul M. Potter, author of "Trilby.". Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Comstock

"Comstock" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Comstock" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Comstock

The following table summarizes the usage of "Comstock" 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
ComstockLast name4,0003,071
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Comstock

CountryName
USA

Comstock Resources Inc

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Comstock


1. Comstock, MN (city, FIPS 12862)
Location: 46.65997 N, 96.74658 W
Population (1990): 123 (52 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 56525
Country: USA

2. Comstock, NE (village, FIPS 10180)
Location: 41.55787 N, 99.24254 W
Population (1990): 135 (101 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 68828
Country: USA

3. Comstock, NY
Zip Code(s): 12821
Country: USA

4. Comstock, TX
Zip Code(s): 78837
Country: USA

5. Comstock, WI
Zip Code(s): 54826
Country: USA

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Expressions: Comstock

Expressions using "Comstock": Anthony Comstock ♦ comstock mealybug ♦ comstock Northwest ♦ comstock Park. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Comstock": Comstock-needham, Comstock-smith.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Comstock

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

comstock

317

comstock ny

10

comstock nebraska

79

comstock festival rock

8

comstock festival windmill

75

comstock hotel

8

comstock park mi

67

comstock canada

8

comstock mi

59

comstock park public school

8

comstock rock

36

comstock filling pie

8

uss comstock

33

comstock festival music

7

comstock home

24

comstock public school

7

comstock lode

21

comstock wi

7

comstock resource

20

comstock edna

7

comstock festival

19

mortgage comstock

7

law comstock

17

comstock tx

7

comstock windmill

16

comstock kelly

7

comstock funds

14

comstock castle

6

comstock partner

14

comstock park

6

comstock image

14

comstock photo

5

comstock p s

13

comstock park michigan

5

comstock concert

11

century comstock

5

comstock net services

11

comstock texas

5

anthony comstock

10

comstock reno

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Comstock

Misspellings

"Comstock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Corsock, Cosstick, Kostick. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Comstock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-k-m-o-o-s-t"

-3 letters: cocos, cooks, coots, kotos, mocks, moots, scoot, smock, socko, stock, stook.

-4 letters: coco, cook, coos, coot, cost, cots, koto, mock, mocs, moos, moot, mosk, most, mots, oots, scot, sock, sook, soot, toms, took, toom.

-5 letters: coo, cos, cot, kos, moc, moo, mos, mot, oms, oot, som, sot, tom, too, tsk.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Comstock


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

43 6F 6D 73 74 6F 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01101111 01101101 01110011 01110100 01101111 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#109 &#115 &#116 &#111 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006D 0073 0074 006F 0063 006B

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

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

3781798586816977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage 		9. Cities
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Derivations 		13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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