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Definition: Cummings |
CummingsNoun1. United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cummings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1922. (references) |
Synonym: CummingsSynonym: e. e. cummings (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cummings |
| Specialty definitions using "Cummings": Booch method. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | E.E. Cummings (1970) The Bob Cummings Show (1961) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | NRCS employees Mitch Cummings and Joe Evans with landowner discussing plantings along the Trask River, Tillamook Oregon. Credit: Gary Wilson. |  | Conservation planning with NRCS employees Mitch Cummings and Joe Evans and landowner along Trask River, Oregon. Credit: Gary Wilson. |
 | [Retirement ceremonies for Dr. Rolla E. Dyer] : [Dr. Cummings and Thompson] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Robert A. Kennedy.. |  | [Dr. Martin M. Cummings receives the Rockefeller Public Service Award]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | At San Diego, California, in October 1941. Ships are (from inboard): USS Clark (DD-361), Squadron flagship; USS Case (DD-370), Division flagship; USS Cummings (DD-365); USS Shaw (DD-373); USS Tucker (DD-374). Note that these destroyers are painted in at least two different camouflage schemes. There is a tuna boat passing in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Self-portrait of E.E. Cummings, head-and-shoulders length, facing left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chandelier tree, Underwood Park / P.O. Cummings, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Professor Cummings, the celebrated magician, vocalist, and comedian!!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cummings" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.79% of the time. "Cummings" is used about 76 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) | 90.79% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (plural) | 9.21% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Cummings" 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 |
| Cummings | Last name | 32,000 | 336 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Cummings, KS 2. Cummings, ND |
Expressions using "Cummings": e. e. cummings ♦ Edward Estlin Cummings. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Cummings": Carrington-cummings. | |
| 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 |
summer cummings | 1,223 | e.e cummings poem | 22 |
ee cummings | 586 | summer cummings gallery | 22 |
cummings | 191 | ee cummings poem | 21 |
burton cummings | 164 | ee cummings poetry | 21 |
dave cummings | 144 | cummings plastic surgery | 20 |
carol cummings | 83 | elijah cummings | 20 |
cummings tool | 59 | cummings georgia | 20 |
ehrinn cummings | 49 | bob cummings | 19 |
chris cummings | 49 | summer cummings free pic | 18 |
alan cummings | 44 | biography cummings e.e | 16 |
summer cummings pic | 41 | summer cummings picture | 16 |
jonathan cummings | 37 | cummings foundation nathan | 16 |
robert cummings | 36 | cummings ga | 16 |
e e cummings poetry | 32 | bj cummings | 16 |
cummings engine | 32 | terry cummings | 15 |
benjamin cummings | 32 | poem by ee cummings | 15 |
cummings lockwood | 31 | quinn cummings | 14 |
jim cummings | 31 | burton cummings lyrics | 14 |
e e cummings poem | 28 | cummings park research | 13 |
cummings diesel | 24 | e.e cummings poetry | 12 |
david cummings | 12 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Misspellings | |
"Cummings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cumidge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: scumming. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-m-m-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cummins, summing. | |
-2 letters: cumins, cummin, mucins, musing. | |
-3 letters: cuing, cumin, incus, minus, mucin, munis, music, suing, using. | |
-4 letters: cigs, gins, gnus, gums, guns, migs, mugs, mums, muni, muns, nims, scum, sign, sing, smug, snug, sung, unci. | |
-5 letters: cig, cis, cum, gin, gnu, gum, gun, ins, ism, mig, mim, mis, mug, mum, mun, mus, nim, nus. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-m-m-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: scrumming. | |
+3 letters: communising, scrummaging. | |
+4 letters: consummating, miscomputing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 75 6D 6D 69 6E 67 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 01110101 01101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C u m m i n g s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0075 006D 006D 0069 006E 0067 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)3787797975807385 |
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