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Cooke

Definition: Cooke

Cooke

Noun

1. United States journalist (born in England in 1908).

2. American financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905).

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

Date "Cooke" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

"Cooke" is a common misspelling or typo for: choke, coke, cokes, cook, cooked, cooker, cookie, cooks.


Synonyms: Cooke

Synonyms: Alfred Alistair Cooke (n), Alistair Cooke (n), Jay Cooke (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Basle Committee (finance), Basle Supervisor's Committee, capital adequacy ratio, Castel and Cooke (food & agriculture), Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices (finance), Cooke and Ponder classification (medicine), Cooke Committee (finance), Cooke Ratio, Cooke unit (medicine), Cooke-Bryce-Smith method.

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Crosswords: Cooke

Specialty definitions using "Cooke": Basel Agreement, Basle Committee, Basle Supervisor's CommitteeCommittee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices, Cooke CommitteeStimulants of Great Men. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cooke

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If you wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would you go? (Under the Cherry Moon; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

Lyrics

Sam Cooke didn't know what I know (Sleepwalker; performing artist: The Wallflowers)

Song Titles

Wonderful World (performing artist: Sam Cooke)

Another Saturday Night (performing artist: Sam Cooke)

Chain Gang (performing artist: Sam Cooke)

Shake (performing artist: Sam Cooke)

Twistin' The Night Away (performing artist: Sam Cooke)

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

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Commercial Usage: Cooke

DomainTitle

References

  • Castle & Cooke, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • CASTLE & COOKE, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • E.W. Cooke, R.A., F.R.S. 1811-1880: The Life & Works (reference)

  • Optics Cooke Book (reference)

  • The Life and Times of Henry Cooke (reference)

  • Cooke and Wheatstone and the Invention of the Electric Telegraph (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Cooke

Photos:
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Photo Album: Cooke

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Biologist Peter Cooke explains the use of a transmission electron microscope to honor students (L-R) Conor Davis, Anne Hoffman, and Andrew Shieh. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Vera Effigies Jacobi Cooke / R. White Scul. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

J. Cooke, M.D. F.R.S. / W. Holl. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Mark Thompson, Wilton J. Lambert, Sen. Atlee Pomerene, Levi Cooke, Peyton Gordon, and Frederic R. Kellogg. Credit: Library of Congress.

Morris L. Cooke, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sam Cooke, singer, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, singing into microphone. Credit: Library of Congress.

Morris Cooke and Colonel Harrington inspect a stock water dam. Campbell County, Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three members of drought committee: Tugwell, Cooke and Moore. Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

City of Charleston, South Carolina, looking across Cooper's River / painted by G. Cooke ; engraved by W.J. Bennett. Credit: Library of Congress.

City of Washington from beyond the Navy Yard / painted by G. Cooke ; engd. by W.J. Bennett. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Cooke

AuthorQuotation

Alistair Cooke

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Cooke

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The four companies of guards under Cooke held their ground for seven hours, against the fury of an assaulting army.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cooke

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Argentina

Sources: The above statistics are unofficial estimates, based on Argentine Customs data and other specialized sources (IDC Argentina, Prince & Cooke, Cicomra). (references)

Argentina

According to Prince & Cooke, the IT industry (hardware, software and services) reached $ 4.2 billion in revenues, in the year 2000. Hardware accounted for 38%, services 36%, consumables and accessories 7% and software 19% or $ 798 million. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cooke

"Cooke" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.35% of the time. "Cooke" is used about 306 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)99.35%30416,610
Lexical Verb (base form)0.33%1339,140
Noun (singular)0.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%306N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Cooke

The following table summarizes the usage of "Cooke" 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
CookeLast name12,000996
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cooke

Expressions using "Cooke": Alfred Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke Cooke Committee Cooke County jay Cooke. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Cooke": Croft-cooke.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cooke

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

sam cooke

410

castle cooke home

18

cooke lenny

314

appraisal cooke county district

16

castle cooke

79

castle cooke hawaii

15

cooke city montana

58

c cooke jennifer

14

cooke

50

cooke thomas

13

sam cooke lyrics

50

matt cooke

13

cooke city mt

49

cooke leigh rachel

12

cooke rachel

47

cooke foundation jack kent

12

cooke city

44

cooke joshua

11

cooke realty

39

book cooke hawley seller

10

cooke county texas

32

cooke death sam

9

jennifer cooke

28

cooke real estate

9

cooke jay park state

28

cooke realtor

9

cooke graham

26

cooke joshua p

8

cooke hawley

26

cooke sam tab

8

cooke janet

26

keith cooke

8

cooke victoria

23

cooke jay

7

cooke estate real school

21

elizabeth cooke

7

cooke county

19

cooke jane wright

7

alistair cooke

18

alan cooke

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cooke

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

Danish

  

Cooke-Ponder's klassifikation (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

classificatie van Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references)

   

French

  

classification de Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references)

   

German

  

Cooke-Ponder Klassifikation (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατάταξη Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification), ταξινόμηση Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references)

   

Italian

  

classificazione di Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ookecay

   

Portuguese

  

classificação de Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

clasificación de Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cooke

Derivations

Words beginning with "Cooke": cooked, cooker, cookeries, cookers, cookery, cookey, cookeys. (additional references)

Words containing "Cooke": miscooked, outcooked, overcooked, precooked, recooked, uncooked. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cooke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cnoke, Cocove, Cok, Colotka, Cooeee, Coogee, cooki, Coole, Coore, Cuiken, Cukor, Kooee, Ocko. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Cooke

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-k-o-o"

-1 letter: coke, cook.

-2 letters: coo, oke.

-3 letters: oe.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-k-o-o"
 

+1 letter: cooked, cooker, cookey, cookie, recook.

 

+2 letters: convoke, cookers, cookery, cookeys, cookies, cowpoke, crooked, kerchoo, precook, recooks.

 

+3 letters: bookcase, booklice, buckeroo, caretook, casebook, codebook, convoked, convoker, convokes, cookable, cookless, cookware, coworker, cowpokes, crookery, cuckooed, forelock, jackeroo, lovelock, overcook, precooks, recooked, rockrose, uncooked.

 

+4 letters: bookcases, buckeroos, casebooks, checkbook, checkroom, chokehold, cockhorse, codebooks, convokers, cookeries, cookhouse, cookstove, cookwares, coworkers, crookeder, crookedly, crookneck, doohickey, forelocks, foreshock, gooseneck, jackeroos, lockboxes, lovelocks, miscooked, outcooked, outrocked, overcooks, overstock, precooked, recooking, rockroses, workforce.

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

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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. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Derivations
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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