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Definition: Fleming |
FlemingNoun1. British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964). 2. English bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955). 3. A native of Flanders or a Flemish-speaking Belgian. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Fleming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Flemings are inhabitants of Flanders, the northern half of Belgium. Their native language typically is Dutch.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fleming."
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Fleming is a town located in Cayuga County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,647.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 62.9 km² (24.3 mi²). 56.5 km² (21.8 mi²) of it is land and 6.3 km² (2.4 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 10.05% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,647 people, 1,041 households, and 756 families residing in the town. The population density is 46.8/km² (121.3/mi²). There are 1,153 housing units at an average density of 20.4/km² (52.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.68% White, 0.15% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.57% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.15% from other races, and 0.34% from two or more races. 0.79% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,041 households out of which 30.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.7% are married couples living together, 7.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.3% are non-families. 23.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.54 and the average family size is 2.99. In the town the population is spread out with 23.1% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 101.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $49,363, and the median income for a family is $54,879. Males have a median income of $40,789 versus $28,182 for females. The per capita income for the town is $22,603. 5.7% of the population and 3.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.2% are under the age of 18 and 7.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fleming, New York."
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Fleming is a city located in Ray County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 122.Geography
Fleming is located at 39°11'39" North, 94°3'3" West (39.194252, -94.050881)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.4 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 122 people, 47 households, and 33 families residing in the city. The population density is 87.2/km² (225.6/mi²). There are 48 housing units at an average density of 34.3/km² (88.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 98.36% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.64% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 47 households out of which 38.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.7% are married couples living together, 10.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.7% are non-families. 23.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.60 and the average family size is 3.06. In the city the population is spread out with 25.4% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 31.1% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 103.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 97.8 males. The median income for a household in the city is $35,625, and the median income for a family is $60,625. Males have a median income of $47,500 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,697. 11.2% of the population and 3.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 12.8% are under the age of 18 and 30.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fleming, Missouri."
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Fleming is a town located in Logan County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 426.Geography
Fleming is located at 40°40'58" North, 102°50'24" West (40.682874, -102.839871)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 426 people, 169 households, and 115 families residing in the town. The population density is 316.3/km² (822.9/mi²). There are 198 housing units at an average density of 147.0/km² (382.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.71% White, 2.35% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.70% from two or more races. 2.35% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 169 households out of which 30.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.6% are married couples living together, 7.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 31.4% are non-families. 30.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.14. In the town the population is spread out with 28.9% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 91.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 93.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $26,484, and the median income for a family is $31,818. Males have a median income of $25,417 versus $14,063 for females. The per capita income for the town is $12,113. 12.4% of the population and 6.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 23.0% are under the age of 18 and 10.8% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fleming, Colorado."
Synonyms: FlemingSynonyms: Alexander Fleming (n), Ian Fleming (n), Ian Lancaster Fleming (n), Sir Alexander Fleming (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fleming |
| English words defined with "Fleming": bond ♦ chain ♦ Ernst Boris Chain ♦ Florey ♦ Howard Florey ♦ James Bond ♦ Sir Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Fleming": Kingston Bridge ♦ Lincoln College ♦ Nannie ♦ TPL. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I did not write 'Denise Fleming is a tampon' on your locker (Can't Hardly Wait; writing credit: Deborah Kaplan; Harry Elfont) Rhonda Fleming. (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson) If they press you closely, tell 'em you hail from Fleming County, Kentucky (The Great Locomotive Chase; writing credit: Lawrence Edward Watkin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Peggy Fleming at Sun Valley (1970) Renée Fleming (2002) Einsatz Mord - Kommissarin Fleming und der Mord vor der Kamera (2002) The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) Costa Fleming Madrid (1975) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dr. Richard Fleming on the bow of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship BROWN BEAR. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Plate 54. The Halibut. Hippoglossus vulgaris, Fleming. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Plate 181. The Two-Spined Stickleback. Gasterosteus aculeatus, L. The Silver Gar-Fish. Tylosurus longirostris (Mitch.), J. & G. The Skipper or Saury. Scomberesox saurus (Walb.), Fleming. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Air Force Falcons wide receiver Ryan Fleming, playing with a separated shoulder, catches a pass thrown by quarterback Mike Thiessen. The Falcons came up short in their overtime loss 34-31 against Notre Dame's Fighting Irish, Oct. 28. (P.; photo by Staff. Sgt.. |
 | [Arthur Fleming addresses a gathering at the groundbreaking ceremony]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Secretary Fleming speaking with three NLM supporters at the groundbreaking ceremony]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Paramount presents Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix [and] Sir Cedric Hardwicke in Mark Twain's "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Florence Fleming Noyes in a scarf dance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead learning to drive a tractor on the farm of Mr. Arthur Fleming, where he was placed after finishing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Noyes, Florence Fleming. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Fleming was very decent to ask him. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Fischer M, Hedberg K, Cardosi P, Plikaytis BD, Hoesly FC, Steingart KR, Bell TA, Fleming DW, Wenger JD, Perkins BA. Tobacco smoke as a risk factor for meningococcal disease. (references) | |
Business | Research conducted by Jardine Fleming revealed that the estimated one million cable TV households in the country translates to a 7% penetration rate of total households. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fleming" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fleming" is used about 524 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% | 524 | 11,646 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Fleming" 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 |
| Fleming | Last name | 41,000 | 258 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Fleming Japanese Smaller Companies Investment Trust P.L.C. | USA | Fleming Cos Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Fleming, CO (town, FIPS 26875) 2. Fleming, GA 3. Fleming, MO (city, FIPS 24562) 4. Fleming, OH |
Expressions using "Fleming": Alexander Fleming ♦ Fleming County ♦ Fleming Neon ♦ Ian Fleming ♦ Ian Lancaster Fleming ♦ Sir Alexander Fleming. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Fleming": Fleming-Neon. | |
Ending with "Fleming": Fellow-fleming, Mundell-fleming. | |
| 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 |
fleming | 560 | fleming island | 22 |
fleming company | 410 | bankruptcy fleming | 20 |
fleming food | 202 | fleming mail web | 20 |
alexander fleming | 168 | fleming news | 19 |
ian fleming | 126 | jp morgan fleming | 18 |
sir alexander fleming | 77 | fleming cos | 18 |
fleming college | 71 | board fleming message | 17 |
sir sandford fleming college | 70 | fleming jeopardy | 17 |
fleming company inc | 67 | bill fleming | 16 |
john fleming | 65 | thomas fleming | 14 |
renee fleming | 55 | denise fleming | 14 |
rhonda fleming | 47 | jeff fleming | 14 |
gannett fleming | 45 | fleming yacht | 13 |
peggy fleming | 43 | fleming island plantation | 12 |
sir sanford fleming | 40 | robert fleming | 11 |
fleming colorado | 37 | alexander fleming penicillin | 11 |
college fleming sanford sir | 37 | fleming high island school | 11 |
eric fleming | 33 | fleming associate | 11 |
author fleming | 25 | jardine fleming | 10 |
sir sandford fleming | 24 | fleming art | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Fleming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Vlaming (Flemming). (various references) | |
Albanian | Flamand (flemish). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Фламандец. (various references) | |
Czech | Vlám. (various references) | |
Dutch | Vlaming (Flemming). (various references) | |
Finnish | flaami. (various references) | |
French | Flamand (Flemish). (various references) | |
Frisian | Flaming. (various references) | |
German | Flamin, Flame, Flämin. (various references) | |
Hebrew | װלמי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Flamand Ember, Flamand (flemish). (various references) | |
Italian | Fiammingo (flemish). (various references) | |
Manx | Flandrynagh (Flemish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flamengo (flemish). (various references) | |
Romanian | Flamandã, Flamand (flemish), Belgian Care Vorbeşte Flamandã. (various references) | |
Russian | фламандец, Фламандец. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flamanac. (various references) | |
Spanish | flamenco (flemish, Flemmish). (various references) | |
Swedish | Flamländare. (various references) | |
Turkish | Flaman (flemish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Фламандець. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flandrensis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Fleming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Femmina, Fleeman, Fremin, Fyleman. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Fleming" (pronounced 'Flem"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, During, firing, Fleaking, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, grooving, interworking, Loring, Louping, Mandarining, Maying, Meaking, Miching, Misbecoming, Misfeeling, Misguiding, Mispleading, Misproceeding, Mistreading, Miting, Monking, morning, Muting, Newing, Noncomplying, Nonconcluding, Noncondensing. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-l-m-n" | |
-1 letter: mingle. | |
-2 letters: elfin, feign, fling, gimel, glime, ingle, limen. | |
-3 letters: file, film, fine, gien, glen, glim, lief, lien, life, lime, limn, line, ling, mien, mile, mine, neif. | |
-4 letters: elf, elm, emf, eng, fem, fen, fie, fig, fil, fin, gel, gem, gen, gie, gin, leg, lei, lie, lin, meg, mel, men, mig, mil, nil, nim. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-l-m-n" | |
+2 letters: enflaming, flambeing, refilming. | |
+3 letters: flamingoes, flemishing, meaningful. | |
+4 letters: emulsifying, filmsetting, misfielding. | |
+5 letters: exemplifying, filmsettings, meaningfully, solemnifying. | |
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