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Definition: Emile |
EmileNoun1. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Emile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
Crosswords: Emile |
| English words defined with "Emile": Emile Durkheim, Emile Gaboriau, Emile Herzog, Emile Zola ♦ Henri Emile Benoit Matisse ♦ Jules Emile Frederic Massenet ♦ Maximilien Paul Emile Littre ♦ Zolaesque. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Emile": Jenny l'Ouvrieere. (references) |
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Screenplays | Back in the 1870s, Emile Berliner invented something, and without it, I wouldn't be able to do my job. What was it? (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson) | |
Lyrics | Adieu, Emile, it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky. Now that the Spring is in the air ("Seasons in the Sun"; performing artist: Kingston Trio) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Emile Verhaeren (1954) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Emile (2003) | |
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![]() | Figure 3. Brouardel's luxmeter. This instrument was constructed in 1956 at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco by Jean Brouardel and Emile Rinck for their studies on the primary production in the Mediterranean Sea according to the methods of Steeman Nielsen. It was especially designed for photoelectric measurements in deep ocean water.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Cathédrale de Chartres. Vie de N.S. Jésus-Christ depuis son incarnation jusqu'à son entrée à Jérusalem / Emile Beau delt. et chromolith. ; Lassus dirext. ; imp. chromolith. Hangard-Maugé.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Emile Berliner, with the model of the first phonograph machine which he invented.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | La figure, etudes lithographiées par Emile Lassalle doux sommeil = sweet sleeping / / Emile Lassalle ; peint par Holfeld ; imp. Lemercier à Paris.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Emile Durkheim | Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. |
Emile Zola | I am an artist… I am here to live out loud. |
| Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. | |
Francois Emile | The moment has arrived for founding the Republic of Equals. |
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Economic History | Lebanon | After the election of then-commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces Emile Lahoud in 1998 following Hrawi's extended term as President, Salim al-Hoss again served as Prime Minister. (references) |
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Security forces arrested former Minister of State for the Interior and eventual PDCI presidential candidate, Emile Constant Bombet, following the December 2000 overthrow of Bedie and detained him for 1 month without charge. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | General Coulibaly was released from Agban camp on August 1. On June 26, Belgian NGO Genocide Prevention entered more than 150 complaints in a Brussels court against President Gbagbo, former President Guei, Minister of Defense Moise Lida Kouassi, and Minister of Interior Emile Boga Doudou for crimes against humanity. (references) | |
Political Economy | Lebanon | President Emile Lahoud took office in 1998 after an election by Parliament that was heavily influenced by Syria. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | In addition to Guei, 18 others declared their candidacy, including former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara and former Minister of the Interior Emile Constant Bombet, who were considered the two favorites. (references) | |
Political Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Emile Constant Bombet, PDCI candidate and former Minister of State for Interior and Decentralization, was disqualified because he faced outstanding charges of abuse of office from when he was Minister. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Emile" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.89% of the time. "Emile" 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) | 82.89% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.11% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Emile" 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 |
| Emile | First name Male | 6,000 | 862 |
| Emile | Last name | 130 | 57,425 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Emile": Emile Durkheim ♦ Emile Gaboriau ♦ Emile Herzog ♦ Emile Zola ♦ Henri Emile Benoit Matisse ♦ Jules Emile Frederic Massenet ♦ Maximilien Paul Emile Littre. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Emile": Etienne-emile, jacques-emile, Jean-emile. | |
| 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 |
emile hirsch | 159 |
emile durkheim | 136 |
emile zola | 89 |
emile writer | 77 |
emile | 74 |
emile henry | 47 |
emile nelligan | 23 |
bellet emile | 22 |
emile griffith | 17 |
emile robershaw | 15 |
emile galle | 15 |
emile hirsch picture | 14 |
emile gruppe | 14 |
emile coue | 14 |
emile pandolfi | 11 |
becat emile | 10 |
emile hirsh | 9 |
emile rousseau | 8 |
berliner emile | 8 |
emile mpenza | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "Emile": semilegendary, semilethal, semilethals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: elemi. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-m" | |
-1 letter: lime, mile. | |
-2 letters: eel, elm, eme, lee, lei, lie, mel, mil. | |
-3 letters: el, em, li, me, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-m" | |
+1 letter: delime, elemis, elmier, mealie, meikle. | |
+2 letters: beslime, besmile, delimed, delimes, elmiest, emailed, gemlike, hemline, lexemic, limeade, linemen, mealier, mealies, micelle, mileage, myeline, vermeil. | |
+3 letters: beamlike, bedimple, bemingle, bepimple, beslimed, beslimes, besmiled, besmiles, comelier, demilune, domelike, eglomise, embolies, emulsive, endemial, filename, flextime, fumelike, gamelike, gelsemia, gimleted, gleamier, hemlines, hemplike, homelier, homelike, ilmenite, imbecile, impelled, impeller, impledge, lemurine, leucemia, leucemic, leukemia, leukemic, liegeman, liegemen, lifetime, limbered, limberer, limeades, limeless, limonene, linesmen, materiel, mazelike, mealiest, mealtime, measlier, medflies, medieval, melamine, melanite, melanize, melilite, melinite, melodies, melodise, melodize, metalise, metalize, micellae, micelles, mildened, mildewed, mileages, milkweed, milleped, millieme, mineable, miquelet, myelines, pemoline, periblem, polemize, realtime, refilmed, relumine, remailed, remedial, riflemen, seamlike, seemlier, selenium, semplice, shlemiel, smellier, stemlike, telefilm, timeless, timelier, timeline, vermeils. | |
+4 letters: alchemies, alchemize, alimented, alinement, altimeter, bedimpled, bedimples, bedlamite, belemnite, bemingled, bemingles, bepimpled, bepimples, berkelium, blemished, blemishes, comeliest, crimeless, declaimed, declaimer, delimited, delimiter, demential, demilunes, devilment, dishelmed, dissemble, dreamlike, eliminate, embellish, embleming, embrittle, embroiled, eminently, emollient, emotively, emulative, enameling, enamelist, epidermal, estimable, exclaimed, exclaimer, exemplify, filenames, flemished, flemishes, flexitime, flextimes, gelsemium, gleamiest, glimmered, gnomelike, greenmail, guillemet, helmeting, hemicycle, homeliest, ilmenites, imbeciles, immensely, impaneled, impearled, impellers, imperiled, impleaded, impledged, impledges, implement, inclement, intermale, kilometer, leucemias, leukaemia, leukemias, leukemics, leukemoid, lifetimes, limberest, limestone, limewater, limonenes, lineament, lithesome, liverymen, luminesce, lysimeter, madeleine, madrilene, marbleise, marbleize, materiels, mealtimes, meanwhile, measliest, meclizine, mediaeval, mediately, medicable, medievals, melamines, melanites, melanized, melanizes, melilites, melinites, meliorate, melodised, melodises, melodized, melodizer, melodizes, meningeal, merciless, mescaline, messaline, metalised, metalises, metalized, metalizes, metallize, metheglin, middlemen, midweekly, milestone, milkweeds, millepeds, millerite, milliemes, millipede, minefield, minelayer, miquelets, misbelief, miserable, misleader, misleared, misrelate, misrelied, misrelies, missileer, mistletoe, pemolines, periblems, phlegmier, piecemeal, pimpernel, polemized, polemizes, policemen, reclaimed, recompile, relumined, relumines, remelting, schlemiel, seemingly, seemliest, seleniums, semimetal, semivowel, shlemiehl, shlemiels, simplexes, smelliest, smileless, smokelike, solemnize, sommelier, teemingly, telefilms, tillermen, tiltmeter, timeliest, timelines, timescale, timetable, tremblier, tremolite, willemite. | |
+5 letters: alchemized, alchemizes, alinements, altimeters, ameliorate, amerciable, antifemale, assemblies, bedlamites, belemnites, berkeliums, blithesome, bloomeries, caramelise, caramelize, ceilometer, centesimal, ceremonial, clematises, clemencies, clinometer, clomiphene, colemanite, comeliness, comestible, completive, decemviral, decimalize, declaimers, defilement, delaminate, delimiters, demobilize, demoiselle, demolished, demolisher, demolishes, demoralize, derailment, devilments, disembowel, dissembled, dissembler, dissembles, ecumenical, eliminated, eliminates, emalangeni, embezzling, emblematic, emboweling, embrittled, embrittles, emetically, emollients, empaneling, emulsified, emulsifier, emulsifies, enamelists, enamelling, enlistment, entailment, epidemical, epithelium, eremitical, evangelism, examinable, exclaimers, federalism, femininely, filmsetter, flexitimes, flummeries, gelsemiums, gemologies, genteelism, greenmails, guillemets, heliometer, helmetlike, hemiacetal, hemicycles, hemihedral, hemiplegia, hemiplegic, hermetical, homeliness, imboldened, immersible, immortelle, impalement, impanelled, impeccable, imperilled, implements, inclemency, incomplete, irremeable, kilometers, kimberlite, lamaseries, lambencies, legitimate, legitimise, legitimize, lemniscate, leukaemias, limberness, limestones, limewaters, liminesses, limpnesses, lineaments, littermate, luminesced, luminesces, lysimeters, madeleines, madrilenes, maledicted, maleficent, malingered, malingerer, manchineel, marbleised, marbleises, marbleized, marbleizes, meanwhiles, meclizines, mediaevals, medievally, meliorated, meliorates, melodizers, menologies, mercantile, mescalines, mesnalties, mesothelia, messalines, metabolite, metabolize, metallized, metallizes, metheglins, midfielder, mildnesses, milestones, millefleur, millerites, millimeter, millipedes, minefields, minelayers, mineralise, mineralize, misaltered, misbeliefs, misbelieve, misdevelop, miserables, misfielded, mislabeled, misleaders, mislearned, mispleaded, misrelated, misrelates, missileers, missilemen, misspelled, mistletoes, mongrelize, motiveless, mousseline, mulberries, multilevel, multipiece, multisense, multispeed, myelinated, myelitides, neorealism, neurilemma, nimbleness, overmilked, oversimple, pedimental, permillage, phlegmiest, pimpernels, planimeter, plumberies, polemicize, polymerise, polymerize, polysemies, prelimited, premedical, recompiled, recompiles, regimental, remediable, remedially, remediless, remissible, remittable, remobilize, remodeling, resembling, resmelting, revilement, schlemiels, seamanlike, seemliness, semeiology, semestrial, semicircle, semifeudal, semilethal, semimetals, semivowels, semiweekly, semiyearly, shlemiehls, simpleness, slimnesses, smelteries, solemnized, solemnizes, sommeliers, streamline, summerlike, telemetric, teleonomic, terminable, thermalize, thermopile, tiltmeters, timberline, timbrelled, timelessly, timeliness, timescales, timetables, tiresomely, trembliest, tremolites, umbellifer, unlimbered, unseemlier, untimelier, ureotelism, vermicelli, wilderment, willemites, zombielike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 69 6C 65 |
| 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 01101101 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0069 006C 0065 |
| 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)3979757871 |
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