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Definition: Emmy |
EmmyNoun1. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Emmy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be whole", "universal". |
Date "Emmy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1879. (references) |
"Emmy" is a common misspelling or typo for: gemmy. |
Crosswords: Emmy |
| English words defined with "Emmy": Emmy Noether. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Emmy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (emmy). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Every time I kiss you I think I deserve an Emmy. (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg) She must be going for the first Internet Emmy. (Halloween: Resurrection; writing credit: Debra Hill; John Carpenter) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The 26th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1974) Emmy (1934) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sea surface as observed from 500 feet in Hurricane Emmy. Wind speed 70 knots.Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Looking southeast in the eye of Hurricane Emmy.Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Sea surface from approximately 500 feet altitude in 60 knots wind speed in Hurricane Emmy.Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | In the eye of Hurricane Emmy.Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Looking south in the eye of Hurricane Emmy.Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Emmy Banys, welder-trainee at General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division in Linden, New Jersey, holds the forty-seven-cent Victory lunch which is served daily in the plant cafeteria. Including a small steak, two vegetables, salad, enriched breads, custard.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Emmy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 46.67% of the time. "Emmy" is used about 15 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) | 46.67% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Emmy" 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 |
| Emmy | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,320 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Emmy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be whole", "universal". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Emmy." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Emma | Female | English | N/A |
| Emmeline | Female | English | Emma |
| Emmet | Male | English | Emma |
| Emmie | Female | English | Emma |
| Emmy | Female | English | Emma |
| Emma | Female | French | N/A |
| Emma | Female | Italian | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Emmy": emmy Noether. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Emmy": Emmy-award-winning. | |
| 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 |
emmy award | 223 |
emmy | 127 |
emmy rossum | 122 |
emmy lou harris | 61 |
emmy noether | 36 |
emmy falco winner | 29 |
2003 award emmy | 27 |
emmy nominations | 19 |
emmy winner | 17 |
2003 award daytime emmy | 15 |
daytime emmy | 12 |
emmy award winner | 10 |
emmy harris lou lyrics | 9 |
2002 award emmy | 8 |
emmy falco | 7 |
emmy root winner | 7 |
emmy magazine | 7 |
2003 emmy | 6 |
clarke emmy | 6 |
2003 daytime emmy | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Emmy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | emmy. (various references) | |
Thai | รางวัลประจำปีของวงการโทรทัศน์ของสหรัฐอเมริกาที่มอบให้รายการ, การผลิต, และการแส"งทางโทรท. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Emmy": gemmy, gremmy, jemmy, stemmy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Emmy": jemmying. (additional references) | |
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"Emmy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Emly, emm, emmm, Emmo, emmty, Emyn, Kemmy, Lemmie, Semmy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-m-y" | |
-1 letter: mem. | |
-2 letters: em, me, mm, my, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-m-y" | |
+1 letter: gemmy, jemmy, mamey. | |
+2 letters: gremmy, mameys, mammey, mayhem, memory, stemmy, yammer. | |
+3 letters: empyema, gemmily, malmsey, mameyes, mammeys, mayhems, metonym, mummery, myeloma, myotome, summery, yammers, yummier, yummies. | |
+4 letters: empyemas, empyemic, flummery, hymenium, jemmying, malmseys, maumetry, metonyms, metonymy, momently, moneyman, moneymen, mycelium, mycetoma, myelomas, myotomes, myxedema, shimmery, stemmery, summerly, symmetry, yammered, yammerer, yummiest. | |
+5 letters: asymmetry, embayment, emphysema, empyemata, enthymeme, epimysium, gemmology, hemolymph, hymeniums, immanency, immediacy, immensely, immensity, imminency, immodesty, manometry, memorably, metaxylem, metonymic, misemploy, momentary, monorhyme, mycetomas, myelomata, mythmaker, myxedemas, neodymium, osmometry, symmetric, yammerers, yammering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 6D 79 |
| 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 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 006D 0079 |
| 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)39797991 |
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