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Date "DELMONICO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | DELMONICO, founder of a Fifth Avenue New York City cafe, where the cost of living has ever been high. He introduced the French menu into the U. S. and with it considerable indigestion. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Delmonico The great American cuisinier, of New York. "The table service is of heavy silver, French cut glasses, and handsome china; and the meals are worthy of Delmonico." - The Oracle, August 2nd 1884, p. 495. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Dining room of the Café Martin "Old" Delmonico, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sander AM, Kreutzer JS, Rosenthal M, Delmonico R, Young ME. A multicenter longitudinal investigation of return to work and community integration following traumatic brain injury. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DELMONICO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DELMONICO" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DELMONICO" 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 |
| Delmonico | Last name | 300 | 29,112 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "DELMONICO": Delmonico steak. 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-m-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: monocled. | |
-2 letters: condole, demonic, eidolon, melodic, monocle, monodic, oceloid, oinomel. | |
-3 letters: cineol, cloned, codein, codlin, coelom, coiled, coined, colone, coloni, comedo, condom, conoid, cooled, coolie, docile, dolmen, domine, domino, doolie, emodin, enolic, income, indole, limned, locoed, lomein, loomed, medico, meloid, milden, minced, moiled, moline, monied, mooned, noodle, oilmen. | |
-4 letters: celom, clime, cline, clone, coden. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-m-n-o-o" | |
+3 letters: complexioned, oleandomycin. | |
+4 letters: compendiously, demonological, monoglyceride, oleandomycins. | |
+5 letters: indecomposable, monoglycerides, mononucleotide, noncomplicated, novemdecillion, sedimentologic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4C 4D 4F 4E 49 43 4F |
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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)01000100 01000101 01001100 01001101 01001111 01001110 01001001 01000011 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E L M O N I C O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004C 004D 004F 004E 0049 0043 004F |
| 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)383946474948433749 |
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