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Definition: Crookes |
CrookesNoun1. English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Crookes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonyms: CrookesSynonyms: Sir William Crookes (n), William Crookes (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Crookes glass (medicine), Crookes lens, Crookes tube (physics). |
Crosswords: Crookes |
| Etymologies containing "Crookes": Crookes space. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dr. William Crookes, F.R.S. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Sir William Crookes / Spy [pseud.] Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Crookes" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.81% of the time. "Crookes" is used about 42 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) | 73.81% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (plural) | 26.19% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Crookes" 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 |
| Crookes | Last name | 100 | 73,921 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| South Africa | Crookes Brothers Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Crookes": Crookes layer ♦ Crookes radiometer ♦ Crookes space ♦ Crookes tube ♦ Sir William Crookes ♦ William Crookes. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
crookes tube | 8 |
crookes william | 6 |
crookes | 6 |
crookes sir william | 3 |
crookes dennis | 3 |
crookes radiometer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cookers, recooks. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: cooers, cooker, crooks, ockers, recook, roscoe. | |
-2 letters: ceros, cokes, cooer, cooks, cores, corks, corse, crook, ocker, recks, rocks, rooks, roose, score, socko. | |
-3 letters: cero, coke, cook, coos, core, cork, cors, eros, kore, kors, okes, orcs, ores, reck, recs, rock, rocs, roes, rook, rose, sock, soke, sook, sore. | |
-4 letters: coo, cor, cos, ers, kor, kos. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: precooks, rockrose. | |
+2 letters: buckeroos, cockhorse, convokers, cookeries, cookwares, coworkers, forelocks, foreshock, jackeroos, overcooks, overstock, rockroses. | |
+3 letters: checkrooms, cockhorses, crookedest, crookeries, crooknecks, foreshocks, overstocks, sourcebook, workforces. | |
+4 letters: bloodsucker, bootlickers, cockroaches, crookedness, dockworkers, footlockers, overstocked, peckerwoods, rockhoppers, sockdolager, sockdologer, sourcebooks, stockbroker, stockholder, stockjobber, woodpeckers. | |
+5 letters: bloodsuckers, electroshock, kilocalories, kinetochores, overstocking, retrorockets, sockdolagers, sockdologers, stockbrokers, stockholders, stockjobbers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 6F 6F 6B 65 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. --- --- -.- . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101011 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r o o k e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 006F 006F 006B 0065 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37848181777185 |
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