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Definition: Drake |
DrakeNoun1. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596). 2. Adult male of a wild or domestic duck. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Drake" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a male duck", "a dragon". |
Date "Drake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | DRAKE, Francis, an English admiral who did not have a public square named after him. D. also introduced the spud into Ireland. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Drake means the "duck-king." The old English word end means a duck, and end-ric becomes 'dric, drake. Similarly the German tauber-rich is a male dove, and ganse-rich, a male goose, or gander. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drake, North Dakota."
Synonyms: DrakeSynonyms: Francis Drake (n), Sir Francis Drake (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Man | Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drake |
| English words defined with "Drake": Drake fly, Drank ♦ Frobisher ♦ Golden Gate, Gorse duck ♦ Sir Martin Frobisher. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Drake": Sheldrake. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Drake" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Norwegian (dragon), Swedish (dragon, kite, viking ship). |
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Screenplays | Not enough to have to wake up to your face, Drake. (Aliens; writing credit: James Cameron; David Giler) I'm not Drake. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Drake, now, takes out a bunch of those fake dicks (North Dallas Forty; writing credit: Peter Gent) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Charlie Drake Show (1967) Sir Francis Drake (1962) The Charlie Drake Show (1960) Charlie Drake (1958) The Galen Drake Show (1957) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fanciful view of Drake's Bay with the Drake's vessel, the GOLDEN HIND, at anchor Drake sailed on the California coast in 1577. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Frontispiece. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Gadwall Drake. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |
 | James Drake, M.D. / Tho. Forster delin. M. Vdr. Gucht sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Monument in Memory of Joseph Rodman Drake, M.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Del Drake. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | S[i]r Francis Drake. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Str. M.M. Drake. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Revenge of Sir Francis Drake. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Weslaco, Texas. A member of the musical Drake family. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The family of Almond Drake on moving day. They are moving out of the Pine Camp expansion area to a new farm in Adams, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Excellent opportunities exist for the export of power transformers above 10,000 KVA, transformer lighting arrestors control panels, circuit breakers insulator hardware, power line carrier equipment, SCADA equipment, grounding materials ACSR drake and AAA Greeley conductors and conductor accessories and shield wire and shield wire accessories. (references) | |
Economic History | Cape Verde | Sir Francis Drake sacked Ribeira Grande in 1585. After a French attack in 1712, the city declined in importance relative to Praia, which became the capital in 1770. (references) |
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| "Drake" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 51.69% of the time. "Drake" is used about 236 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) | 51.69% | 122 | 29,069 |
| Noun (singular) | 48.31% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Total | 100.00% | 236 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Drake" 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 |
| Drake | Last name | 25,000 | 458 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Drake, CO 2. Drake, ND (city, FIPS 20300) |
Expressions using "Drake": corn drake ♦ drake fern ♦ Drake fly ♦ eider drake ♦ Francis Drake ♦ grass drake ♦ land drake ♦ sea drake ♦ Sir Francis Drake ♦ wild drake ♦ wood drake. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Drake": drake-ish. | |
| 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 |
drake dusty | 569 | drake lyrics nick | 53 |
jessica drake | 557 | walter drake catalog | 49 |
drake | 419 | drake beam morin | 48 |
walter drake | 402 | gabrielle drake | 45 |
drake university | 378 | sir francis drake hotel san francisco | 42 |
drake hotel | 361 | drake binding | 40 |
nick drake | 328 | drake mary | 38 |
sir francis drake | 247 | drake gary | 36 |
drake hotel chicago | 237 | shannon drake | 36 |
ashton drake | 195 | bcl drake | 35 |
sir francis drake hotel | 135 | drake equation | 34 |
ashton drake gallery | 121 | bob drake | 33 |
drake dusty last lyrics one time | 99 | david drake | 32 |
drake dusty lyrics | 89 | drake hogestyn | 32 |
ashton drake doll | 87 | daren drake | 31 |
drake dusty last one time | 81 | drake hotel new york | 29 |
francis drake | 77 | drake nick tab | 29 |
drake international | 70 | green drake | 29 |
drake bell | 64 | drake gary lee | 27 |
drake chicago | 56 | scott drake | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Drake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Rosak. (various references) | |
Arabic | مدفع (cannon, gun, ordnance). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Паток, Муха Използувана За Стръв, Малко Оръдие, 'икингски Кораб. (various references) | |
Czech | Kaèer. (various references) | |
Dutch | woerd. (various references) | |
Finnish | ankka (canard, duck, false report, hoax). (various references) | |
French | malard, canard. (various references) | |
Frisian | jerke, jerk. (various references) | |
German | Erpel, Enterich. (various references) | |
Greek | αρσενική πάπια, Αρσενική άπια. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֱרוז. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gácsér, tiszavirág (day fly, drake fly, may-fly), sárkány (airframe, basilisk, brimstone, cockatrice, dragon, kite, vixen, wyvern), kis ágyúfajta. (various references) | |
Indonesian | itik jantan. (various references) | |
Italian | mallardo (mallard), Anitra (duck), anatrone. (various references) | |
Manx | thunnag irryn, kellagh thunnag. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akedray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pato (brant, duck). (various references) | |
Romanian | Gâscan, Gânsac (gander). (various references) | |
Russian | селезень, Муха-поденка, Селезень. (various references) | |
Scottish | dr c (a drake). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | patak, mali top. (various references) | |
Spanish | pato (duck). (various references) | |
Swedish | Ankhanne, Ankbonde, Anddrake. (various references) | |
Thai | เป็"ตัวผู้. (various references) | |
Turkish | Suna, Erkek Ördek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Муха, Селезень. (various references) | |
Welsh | meilart, marlad, barlad, adiad. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Drake": drakes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Drake": firedrake, mandrake, sheldrake. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Drake": firedrakes, mandrakes, sheldrakes. (additional references) | |
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"Drake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arake, daek, daki, darka, darke, Darkey, Darku, Diakka, Doake, draak, drabe, drac, draca, drachen, draci, Drack, dracl, drade, drae, draee, drafe, drage, drak, Draka, Draken, draker, drakey, Drakon, draky, drale, drame, drane, dranke, dranked, drare, drate, drave, drawe, draye, Drazen, dreaker, dreek, drek, Dreye, Dreze, drice, drke, Drucke, Drueke, druje, druke, Drukov, dtake, dyaki, mrake, trake, wrake. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Drake" (pronounced drā"k) |
| 3 | -r ā" k | brake, break, rake. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: raked. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-r" | |
-1 letter: dare, dark, dear, drek, rake, read. | |
-2 letters: are, ark, dak, ear, era, kae, kea, rad, red. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, ka, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-k-r" | |
+1 letter: arcked, barked, braked, carked, dacker, daiker, danker, darked, darken, darker, darkle, debark, dekare, demark, drakes, harked, larked, marked, narked, parked, racked, ranked, warked. | |
+2 letters: beraked, charked, cracked, cranked, creaked, croaked, dackers, daikers, darkens, darkest, darkled, darkles, debarks, dekares, demarks, franked, freaked, keycard, knarred, kneader, kraaled, nakeder, pranked, rankled, rewaked, sharked, sparked, straked, tracked, traiked, troaked, unraked, wracked, wreaked. | |
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