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Definitions: Decatur |
DecaturNoun1. A city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here. 2. A town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Decatur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Crosswords: Decatur |
| English words defined with "Decatur": eighter from Decatur. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Decatur": 16878 ♦ 30030, 30032, 30033, 30034, 30035, 35601, 35603, 37322, 39327 ♦ 46733, 49045 ♦ 50067 ♦ 62521, 62522, 62523, 68020 ♦ 72722, 76234. (references) |
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Lyrics | In DECATUR, where they pack that heat ("Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!)"; performing artist: Ludacris) | |
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Stephen Decatur | Our country right or wrong. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I can not close this communication without bringing to your view the just claim of the representatives of Commodore Decatur, his officers and crew, arising from the recapture of the frigate Philadelphia under the heavy batteries of Tripoli. |
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| "Decatur" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Decatur" 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Decatur" 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 |
| Decatur | Last name | 300 | 29,122 |
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| USA | Decatur First Bank Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Decatur, AL (city, FIPS 20104) 2. Decatur, AR (city, FIPS 17740) 3. Decatur, GA (city, FIPS 22052) 4. Decatur, IA 5. Decatur, IL (city, FIPS 18823) 6. Decatur, IN (city, FIPS 17074) 7. Decatur, MI (village, FIPS 21040) 8. Decatur, MS (town, FIPS 18180) 9. Decatur, NE (village, FIPS 12525) 10. Decatur, TN (town, FIPS 19880) 11. Decatur, TX (city, FIPS 19528) |
Expressions using "Decatur": Decatur City ♦ Decatur County ♦ eighter from Decatur ♦ North Decatur ♦ West Decatur. 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 |
decatur georgia | 1,232 |
decatur illinois | 932 |
decatur alabama | 560 |
decatur daily | 398 |
decatur herald review | 248 |
decatur texas | 200 |
decatur | 191 |
decatur indiana | 92 |
decatur hospital memorial | 88 |
decatur herald | 77 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "decatur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ecaturday.(various references) | |
Russian | декейтур. (various references) | |
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"Decatur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Damaturu, Decatex, Desipur, dicitur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: curated, traduce. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: acuter, carted, crated, curate, redact, traced, truced. | |
-2 letters: acred, acted, acute, arced, cadet, cadre, cared, caret, carte, cater, cedar, crate, crude, cruet, cured, curet, cuter, dater, derat, ducat, educt, eruct, raced, rated, react, recta, recut, tared, trace, trade, tread, truce, trued, urate. | |
-3 letters: aced, acre, cade, card, care, cart, cate, crud, cued, curd, cure, curt, cute, dace, dare, dart, date, daut, dear, drat, duce, duct, duet, dura, dure, ecru, race, rate, read, rude, rued, tace, tare, tear, trad, true, turd, urea. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, cad, car, cat, cud, cue, cur, cut, due, ear, eat, eau, ecu, era, eta, rad, rat, rec, red, ret, rue, rut, tad, tae, tar, tau, tea, ted, urd, uta. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, ar, at, de, ed, er, et, re, ta, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: aeroduct, arcuated, captured, educator, furcated, outraced, traduced, traducer, traduces, uncrated, underact, untraced. | |
+2 letters: accoutred, aeroducts, croustade, curtailed, curtained, educators, eructated, fractured, reductant, reductase, reeducate, traducers, transduce, trauchled, truncated, ulcerated, uncharted, uncreated, underacts, undercoat, urticated. | |
+3 letters: abductores, accoutered, bifurcated, carbureted, cauterized, circulated, coauthored, cofeatured, corrugated, coruscated, crassitude, crenulated, croustades, edulcorate, elucidator, incurvated, judicature, lubricated, mercurated, micturated, outcapered, outcharged, outcharmed, outcrawled, outmarched, outreached, parachuted, recaptured, reductants, reductases, reeducated, reeducates, reluctated, rubricated, rusticated, subcordate, subtracted, transduced, transducer, transduces, uncarpeted, underacted, undercoats, underreact. | |
+4 letters: articulated, audiometric, candidature, carburetted, caricatured, caterwauled, cotransduce, counterbade, countermand, counterraid, crassitudes, disturbance, diverticula, documentary, edulcorated, edulcorates, elucidators, elucubrated, excruciated, judicatures, operculated, outpreached, overeducate, proctodaeum, quarterdeck, radiolucent, recuperated, reductional, reduplicate, reeducating, reeducation, reeducative, reticulated, revictualed, sugarcoated, thunderclap, traducement, transducers, trifurcated, unbracketed, uncastrated, unchartered, uncurtained, undecorated, underacting, underactive, underreacts, urochordate. | |
+5 letters: acculturated, candidatures, clairaudient, coadjutrices, cotransduced, cotransduces, counteracted, countermands, counterraids, countertrade, creaturehood, denunciatory, deuteranopic, disturbances, diuretically, diverticular, edulcorating, fluidextract, judicatories, manufactured, matriculated, multitracked, overeducated, overeducates, precautioned, proctodaeums, propaedeutic, quarterdecks, reacquainted, recalculated, recirculated, recultivated, reduplicated, reduplicates, reeducations, reinoculated, relubricated, resuscitated, revictualled, thunderclaps, traducements, tuberculated, turbocharged, unaccredited, uncalibrated, uncelebrated, uncirculated, uncontracted, uncorrelated, undemocratic, undercoating, underreacted, undistracted, urochordates, vermiculated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 63 61 74 75 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -.-. .- - ..- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e c a t u r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0063 0061 0074 0075 0072 |
| 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)38716967868784 |
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