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Florey

Definition: Florey

Florey

Noun

1. British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Florey

Synonyms: Howard Florey (n), Sir Howard Walter Florey (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Florey

DomainTitle

Books

  • Howard Florey, Penicillin and After (reference)

  • Rise up to life: a biography of Howard Walter Florey who gave penicillin to the world (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Florey

"Florey" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Florey" is used about 49 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%4948,677

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Florey

The following table summarizes the usage of "Florey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FloreyLast name30025,605
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Florey

Expressions using "Florey": Howard Florey Sir Howard Walter Florey. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Florey

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

florey howard

9

robert florey

4

florey

2

florey howard lord

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Florey

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-l-o-r-y"

-1 letter: ferly, flyer, foyer, refly.

-2 letters: fley, floe, fore, froe, lore, lory, lyre, orle, oyer, rely, role, rolf, yore.

-3 letters: elf, fer, fey, fly, foe, for, foy, fro, fry, ley, lye, ole, ore, ref, roe, rye.

-4 letters: ef, el, er, lo, oe, of, or, oy, re, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-l-o-r-y"
 

+1 letter: felonry, flowery, flyover, foolery, overfly.

 

+2 letters: flyovers, forcedly, forelady, foreplay, forkedly, formerly, frozenly, horsefly, yourself.

 

+3 letters: dayflower, flowerily, foreplays, joyfuller, mayflower, profanely, profusely, wolfberry.

 

+4 letters: dayflowers, fearsomely, forcefully, formlessly, inferiorly, informedly, mayflowers, mycoflorae, overflying, powerfully, resolidify, tomfoolery.

 

+5 letters: calefactory, confirmedly, effortfully, factorylike, fellmongery, ferociously, flexography, fluorimetry, fluorometry, forgetfully, formatively, fortunately, frontolyses, gillyflower, nefariously, professedly, reflexology, reposefully, wonderfully.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Florey


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 6C 6F 72 65 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-..    ---    .-.    .    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

F l o r e y

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006C 006F 0072 0065 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407881847191

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