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Definition: Cooke |
CookeNoun1. 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: CookeSynonyms: 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. |
Crosswords: Cooke |
| Specialty definitions using "Cooke": Basel Agreement, Basle Committee, Basle Supervisor's Committee ♦ Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices, Cooke Committee ♦ Stimulants of Great Men. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The four companies of guards under Cooke held their ground for seven hours, against the fury of an assaulting army. |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.35% | 304 | 16,610 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 306 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cooke | Last name | 12,000 | 996 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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 |
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. | |||
| 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 classificação de Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references) clasificación de Cooke-Ponder (Cooke and Ponder classification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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