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Definition: Fulton |
FultonNoun1. American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Fulton" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a filthy place". |
Date "Fulton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | FULTON, Robert, inventor. Another brainy American who made a fortune for the Cunard and White Star lines. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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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 "Fulton."
Synonym: FultonSynonym: Robert Fulton (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Fulton scored, Fulton scored. (D3: The Mighty Ducks; writing credit: Steven Brill; Kenneth Johnson) Thanks, Fulton, real sensitive. (D3: The Mighty Ducks; writing credit: Steven Brill; Kenneth Johnson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fulton Market (1901) | |
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 | Pl. LX. 219. Coryphaena hippurus, Linnaeus (old male.) Obtained in Fulton Market, New York City. 220. Coryphaena hippurus, Linnaeus (young). Obtained in Fulton Market, New York City. 220A, B. Coryphaena hippurus, Linnaeus. From Lutkin, Spolia Atlantica. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Pl. CV. 363. Hippoglossus vulgaris, Fleming. Collected at Eastport, Maine. 364. Platysomatichthys hippoglossoides, (Walbaum), Goode and Bean. From a specimen obtained in the Fulton Market, New York. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Country road Fulton County, OH. Credit: USDA. |  | Rural town Fulton County, OH. Credit: USDA. |
 | USS Portland (CA-33), at right, transfers USS Yorktown survivors to USS Fulton (AS-11) on 7 June 1942, following the battle of Midway. Fulton transported the men to Pearl Harbor. Credit: NAVY. |  | Towing the submarine G-1, circa 1915. The original print's reverse contains the hand-written comment: "Towed 30 hrs. parted two line off Cape Hatteras, Fulton relieved by Castine, Castine stood by G-1 in storm off Hatteras for 48 hrs. before she could pick her up. G-1 registered a roll of 72 degrees. Arrow over rubber necks head." "rubber neck" is probably Chief Quartermaster John Harold. Credit: NAVY. |
 | The Fulton House, lower hall. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The United States steam frigate Fulton. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fulton Ferry, New York / lith. by G. Hayward. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Forge House, Fulton Chain, Adirondack Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Fulton J. Sheen | To say we want no dogmas in religion is to assert a dogma. |
| There are thousands of patients on their backs who would be made better if they were on their knees instead. | |
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| "Fulton" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fulton" is used about 65 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) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Fulton" 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 |
| Fulton | Last name | 14,000 | 861 |
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| USA | Fulton Bancorp, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Fulton, AL (town, FIPS 28504) 2. Fulton, AR (city, FIPS 25360) 3. Fulton, CA 4. Fulton, IL (city, FIPS 28144) 5. Fulton, IN (town, FIPS 26152) 6. Fulton, KS (city, FIPS 24925) 7. Fulton, KY (city, FIPS 29566) 8. Fulton, MD 9. Fulton, MI 10. Fulton, MO (city, FIPS 26182) 11. Fulton, MS (city, FIPS 26300) 12. Fulton, NY (city, FIPS 27815) 13. Fulton, OH (village, FIPS 29050) 14. Fulton, SD (town, FIPS 23220) 15. Fulton, TX (town, FIPS 27888) |
Expressions using "Fulton": canal Fulton ♦ Fulton County ♦ Robert Fulton ♦ Ruth Fulton ♦ South Fulton ♦ West Fulton. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Fulton": post-fulton. | |
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| 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. |
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"Fulton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faulston, Felten, Filion, Filtrona, Folkton, Folten, Folton, Fulco, fulforn, fulon, Furtok, Lulton, Pulton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-n-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: flout, fount, futon. | |
-2 letters: font, foul, loft, lout, lunt, tofu, tolu, unto. | |
-3 letters: flu, fon, fou, fun, lot, not, nut, oft, out, ton, tun. | |
-4 letters: lo, no, nu, of, on, to, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-l-n-o-t-u" | |
+2 letters: flouting, outflank, outflown. | |
+3 letters: bountiful, confluent, outflanks, outflying, profluent, sulfonate. | |
+4 letters: confluents, disulfoton, feuilleton, flocculant, flocculent, flounciest, fluorinate, fluoxetine, functional, latifundio, nonfactual, nonfaculty, outfabling, outfeeling, outflanked, outflowing, outfooling, sulfonated, sulfonates, unfoldment, unifoliate. | |
+5 letters: antifouling, bountifully, confabulate, conflictful, conflictual, counterflow, counterfoil, disulfotons, fantabulous, feuilletons, filamentous, flocculants, fluctuation, fluorescent, fluorinated, fluorinates, fluoxetines, formulating, formulation, fortunately, fulguration, fulmination, insufflator, latifundios, malfunction, nonaffluent, outbluffing, outflanking, outfumbling, sulfonating, sulfonation, teaspoonful, unfoldments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6C 74 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- .-.. - --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101100 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u l t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006C 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)408778868180 |
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