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Frisch

Definition: Frisch

Frisch

Noun

1. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979).

2. Norwegian economist noted for his work in econometrics (1895-1973).

3. Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982).

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


Synonyms: Frisch

Synonyms: Karl von Frisch (n), Otto Frisch (n), Otto Robert Frisch (n), Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (n), Ragnar Frisch (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Frisch roller tubes cultivation (medicine), Frisch sign.

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Crosswords: Frisch

English words defined with "Frisch": Karl von FrischLise MeitnerMeitnerOtto Frisch, Otto Robert FrischRagnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Ragnar Frisch. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Frisch" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, cheery, chill, chilly, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, freshly, keen, new, newly, newly-laid, nippy, Parky, recent, sweet, undressed, wet).

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Modern Usage: Frisch

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Frisch gekocht ist halb gewonnen (1999)

Journal I-III Max Frisch (1981)

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

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Commercial Usage: Frisch

DomainTitle

Books

  • Existenziale Themen bei Max Frisch : d. Existenzialphilosophie Martin Heideggers in d. Romanen Stiller, Homo faber u. Mein Name sei Gantenbein (reference)

  • Lektèurehilfen Max Frisch "Stiller" (reference)

  • Max Frisch, Stiller (reference)

  • Frisch aus de Kelter : halb Süsse, halb Speierling : besinnl. u. heitere Gedichte in Frankfurter Mundart (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Frisch

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Aus deutschen Landen, frisch auf den Tisch. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Frisch

"Frisch" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Frisch" is used about 30 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)93.33%2865,706
Noun (singular)6.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%30N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Frisch

The following table summarizes the usage of "Frisch" 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
FrischLast name1,0007,981
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Frisch

Expressions using "Frisch": Karl von Frisch Otto Frisch Otto Robert Frisch Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch Ragnar Frisch. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Frisch

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

max frisch

27

frisch

20

faber frisch homo max

11

frisch kohl

8

andorra frisch max

6

cyrus frisch

5

don frisch juan max

4

frankie frisch

3

karl von frisch

3

frisch school

3

david frisch

3

byron frisch

2

frisch grid

2

biographie frisch max

2

frisch mail

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

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Anagrams: Frisch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-h-i-r-s"

-2 letters: chis, cris, firs, fisc, fish, ichs, rich, rifs, shri.

-3 letters: chi, cis, fir, hic, his, ich, ifs, rif, sic, sir, sri.

-4 letters: hi, if, is, sh, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-f-h-i-r-s"
 

+2 letters: crawfish, crayfish, filchers, rockfish.

 

+3 letters: flichters, flinchers, franchise, kerchiefs.

 

+4 letters: archerfish, archfiends, chairlifts, crawfished, crawfishes, crayfishes, factorship, franchised, franchisee, franchiser, franchises, franchisor, honorifics, pitchforks, rockfishes, saccharify.

 

+5 letters: chiffoniers, chifforobes, childproofs, crawfishing, enfranchise, factorships, franchisees, franchisers, franchising, franchisors, frenchifies, handicrafts, microfiches, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, preachifies, ultrafiches, witchcrafts.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Frisch


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

46 72 69 73 63 68

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

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

=

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 01110010 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 0069 0073 0063 0068

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

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

408475856974

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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