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Definition: Gehrig |
GehrigNoun1. Baseball player with the New York Yankees; died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GehrigSynonyms: Henry Louis Gehrig (n), Lou Gehrig (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (medicine), Lou Gehrig's disease. |
Crosswords: Gehrig |
| English words defined with "Gehrig": Henry Louis Gehrig ♦ Lou Gehrig. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Then there's pretty Dottie Henson, who plays like Gehrig, and looks like Garbo. (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) You're Lou Gehrig. (Fathers' Day; writing credit: Francis Veber) Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt gave Lou Gehrig the clap? (Lenny; writing credit: Julian Barry) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pitcher Jackie Mitchell shaking hands with Babe Ruth, while Lou Gehrig (left) and Joe Engel stand by.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Denis Leary | Gotta love Lou Gehrig. Jesus Christ, poor Lou Gehrig. Died of Lou Gehrig's disease. How the hell do you not see that coming? You know. We used to tell him, Lou, there's a disease with your name all over it, pal! |
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| "Gehrig" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gehrig" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Gehrig" 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 |
| Gehrig | Last name | 200 | 31,970 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Gehrig": Henry Louis Gehrig ♦ Lou Gehrig. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
lou gehrig | 502 |
gehrig | 29 |
eleanor gehrig | 7 |
gehrig lou stats | 5 |
gehrig lou speech video | 3 |
gehrig lou quote | 3 |
gehrig lou story | 3 |
gehrig lou movie | 2 |
gehrig lou symptom | 2 |
gehrig henry louis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-h-i-r" | |
-1 letter: gighe. | |
-2 letters: grig, heir, hire. | |
-3 letters: egg, erg, ghi, gie, gig, her, hie, ire, reg, rei, rig. | |
-4 letters: eh, er, he, hi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-h-i-r" | |
+1 letter: chigger, higgler. | |
+2 letters: chiggers, dreggish, higglers, shaggier. | |
+3 letters: gathering, gheraoing, gigahertz, hungering, rehanging, rehinging. | |
+4 letters: freightage, freighting, gatherings, geographic, gunfighter, jaggheries, lighterage, lightering, rechanging, recharging, refighting, relighting, resighting, reweighing, roughening, skreeghing, skreighing, thuggeries. | |
+5 letters: brightening, ditchdigger, freightages, frightening, gangsterish, geographies, gunfighters, highlighter, ingathering, lighterages, neighboring, overhanging, regathering, reshingling, roughhewing, triggerfish, upgathering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 68 72 69 67 |
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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)01000111 01100101 01101000 01110010 01101001 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e h r i g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0068 0072 0069 0067 |
| 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)417174847573 |
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