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Definition: Eccles |
EcclesNoun1. Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Eccles" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Synonyms: EcclesSynonyms: John Eccles (n), Sir John Carew Eccles (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eccles |
| English words defined with "Eccles": John Eccles ♦ Sir John Carew Eccles. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Eccles" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.33% of the time. "Eccles" is used about 109 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) | 96.33% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Noun (plural) | 3.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Eccles" 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 |
| Eccles | Last name | 1,000 | 8,145 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Eccles": John Eccles ♦ Sir John Carew Eccles. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Eccles": Eccles-Jordan circuit. | |
Ending with "Eccles": Smith-eccles. | |
| 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 |
eccles | 22 |
cake eccles | 8 |
eccles rice | 7 |
eccles foundation | 7 |
eccles wv | 6 |
aimee eccles | 5 |
brent eccles | 5 |
eccles matt | 5 |
center eccles | 3 |
caravan eccles | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Eccles"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | mazsolás sütemény (eccles cake, plum cake). (various references) | |
Manx | soddag churran (Eccles cake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecclesay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Eccles": ecclesia, ecclesiae, ecclesial, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ecclesiastically, ecclesiasticism, ecclesiasticisms, ecclesiastics, ecclesiological, ecclesiologies, ecclesiologist, ecclesiologists, ecclesiology. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Eccles": nonecclesiastical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-l-s" | |
-2 letters: cees, cels, eels, else, lees, seel. | |
-3 letters: cee, cel, eel, els, lee, sec, see, sel. | |
-4 letters: el, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-l-s" | |
+2 letters: caleches, cenacles, cicelies, clenches, coalesce, ecclesia, licences, lucences, recycles, scoleces. | |
+3 letters: cancelers, celeriacs, checkless, clarences, clenchers, coalesced, coalesces, cockerels, crepuscle, cycleries, ecclesiae, ecclesial, eclectics, electrics, encircles, epicycles, licencees, licencers, lucencies, necklaces, recircles, recyclers, scolecite, spectacle. | |
+4 letters: accentless, accessible, cancellers, celibacies, cerecloths, clearances, clemencies, coalescent, concealers, convalesce, covalences, crepuscles, crepuscule, crescively, delicacies, epicalyces, feculences, hemicycles, megacycles, pericycles, precancels, recollects, reconciles, scolecites, semicircle, spectacled, spectacles, succulence, telescopic, unclenches, uncoalesce. | |
+5 letters: acaulescent, accelerants, accelerates, adolescence, cheesecloth, cholesteric, chucklesome, coalescence, cockleshell, cocounseled, collectives, colonelcies, condolences, confluences, convalesced, convalesces, corpulences, covalencies, crepuscules, cyclodienes, cyclometers, cycloserine, decalcifies, dielectrics, eclecticism, electronics, epicuticles, excellences, florescence, incalescent, isoelectric, mesocyclone, opalescence, psychedelic, receptacles, reconcilers, recyclables, reluctances, semicircles, succulences, truculences, uncoalesced, uncoalesces, varicoceles. | |
| 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)45 63 63 6C 65 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000101 01100011 01100011 01101100 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E c c l e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0063 0063 006C 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)396969787185 |
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