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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Gerald ["Gerald: An Exceptional Lazy Functional Programming Language", A.C. Reeves et al, in Functional Programming, Glasgow 1989, K. Davis et al eds, Springer 1990]. (1995-01-10). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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"GERALD" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the rule of the spear". |
Date "GERALD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references) |
Crosswords: GERALD |
| English words defined with "GERALD": glug. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GERALD": AI koan ♦ Gerald Sussman, Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. ♦ Jerry Sussman ♦ Nerd pride ♦ PC-Scheme ♦ snacc. (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Very good, Gerald. (Gremlins; writing credit: Chris Columbus) I'm going to laugh at you someday, Gerald Howells. (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael; writing credit: Karen Leigh Hopkins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (1956) Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo (1956) The Gerald Mann Ministries (1999) All-Star Celebration Opening the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Connecting the float to a tide gauge Tides party of Gerald B. Mills Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Putting the nipple on a float well Tides party of Gerald B. Mills Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Figure 11. Lightning sounder, designed in 1866 by Lieutenant Charles C. P. Fitz gerald, RN. This model was used on the LIGHTNING during the Faroe Islands expedition of 1868. It was used for systematic sounding operations in depths up to 1189 meters and according to Charles Wyville Thomson, a mission participant, it never failed despite its primitive and unlikely appearance. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Jim Arnold (left), with the Laramie County Conservation District in southeastern Wyoming, discusses with ARS soil scientist Gerald Schuman the use of trees instead of wooden fences to trap drifting snow. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Watercolor painting of a male Cinnamon Teal by Oklahoma artist Gerald Mobley, 1110 South Chestnut, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74012. Mobley also won the 1983 and 1985 Oklahoma waterfowl competition. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | Richard Nixon departs from the White House before Gerald Ford was sworn in as President By Oliver F. Atkins, Washington, DC, August 9, 1974. Credit: Nixon Presidential Materials Project, National Archives and Records Administration. |
 | The Dropsical Woman. / Godard del. & sc. from a painting by Gerald Dou. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Margaret Shepard Witter Barnard, M.D.] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Gerald English.. |
 | Some of the airship's officers on board USS Richmond (CL-9) on the morning after her crash. Macon went down during the night on 12 February 1935. Present are (left to right): Lieutenant (Junior Grade) George W. Campbell, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Gerald L. Huff, Lieutenant Anthony L. Danis, Lieutenant Harold B. Miller, Lieutenant Commander George H. Mills, Lieutenant Commander Calvin M. Bolster, Construction Corps, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Earl K. Van Swearingen, Lieutenant Howard N. Coulter, Chief Boatswain William A. Buckley, and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Leroy C. Simpler. Credit: NAVY. |  | Ship's gunnery officers, 24 October 1943. Lieutenant Gerald R. Ford, Jr., USNR, is second from right in the front row. He was President of the United States in 1974-77. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Gerald R. Ford | I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. |
| Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. | |
| I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. | |
Gerald Stanley Lee | Business today consists in persuading crowds. |
Gerald W. Johnson | Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | Officer Gerald Jose Espinoza and another police officer found Artola at the neighborhood high school and proceeded to make the arrest. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We pay honor to Sergeant Gerald Pendell who was killed in Viet Nam. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I have received the most generous cooperation from the leaders of the Republican Party in the Congress of the United States, Senator Dirksen and Congressman Gerald Ford, the Minority Leader. |
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| "GERALD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.90% of the time. "GERALD" is used about 987 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) | 99.9% | 986 | 7,437 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 987 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GERALD" 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 |
| Gerald | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,565 |
| Gerald | First name Male | 309,000 | 58 |
| Gerald | Last name | 3,000 | 4,154 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "GERALD" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the rule of the spear". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "GERALD." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Gerolt | Male | Dutch | Gerald |
| Garrett | Male | English | Gerald |
| Gerald | Male | English | N/A |
| Geraldine | Female | English | Gerald |
| Gerry | Male, Female | English | Gerald |
| Jerald | Male | English | Gerald |
| Jerold | Male | English | Gerald |
| Jerrold | Male | English | Gerald |
| Gérald | Male | French | Gerald |
| Géraud | Male | French | Gerald |
| Gerhold | Male | German | Gerald |
| Gearóid | Male | Irish | Gerald |
| Gearalt | Male | Irish | Gerald |
| Giraldo | Male | Italian | Gerald |
| Geraldo | Male | Spanish | Gerald |
| Gerallt | Male | Welsh | Gerald |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Gerald Stephens, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Gerald, MO (city, FIPS 26866) |
Expressions using "GERALD": Gerald Ford ♦ Gerald R. Ford ♦ Gerald Rudolph Ford ♦ Gerald Sussman ♦ Michael Gerald Tyson ♦ Sir William Gerald Golding. 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gerald levert | 602 | airport ford gerald r | 20 |
gerald ford | 243 | gerald butler | 19 |
gerald | 72 | gerald mann | 19 |
gerald albright | 56 | diamond gerald | 17 |
gerald levert lyrics | 45 | gerald wallace | 17 |
ford gerald r | 44 | gerald veasley | 16 |
gerald metal | 42 | gerald scarfe | 16 |
gerald mcraney | 39 | gerald ford picture | 16 |
closure gerald levert lyrics | 36 | bull gerald | 15 |
gerald lavert | 34 | gerald durrell | 15 |
boyd editor gerald managing | 34 | gerald jones honda | 14 |
gerald genta | 33 | gerald heyward | 13 |
gerald missouri | 28 | gerald manley hopkins | 13 |
gerald hege | 25 | airport ford gerald | 13 |
gerald boyd | 24 | garson gerald | 13 |
airport ford gerald international r | 24 | gerald hege sheriff | 12 |
gerald gardner | 23 | gerald alston | 12 |
gerald nissan | 21 | gerald massey | 12 |
gerald brom | 21 | boyd gerald m | 12 |
president gerald ford | 21 | gerald browne | 12 |
gerald levert.com | 12 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "GERALD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | Gerrylt. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eraldgay Ð"жеральд. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"GERALD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beraldi, Bermaldo, Fernald, Garrould, Garvald, Gavrad, Gedali, Gelard, Gelardi, Gemalde, Genrad, Gerad, Geral, Gerlaud, Gerrand, Gerwald, gevald, Girald, Giraudy, Girbaud, Gumald. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: argled, glared. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-r" | |
-1 letter: alder, argle, glade, glare, grade, lader, lager, large, raged, regal. | |
-2 letters: aged, ager, dale, dare, deal, dear, drag, dreg, earl, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gear, geld, glad, gled, grad, lade, lard, lead, lear, rage, rale, read, real. | |
-3 letters: age, ale, are, dag, dal, del, ear, eld, era, erg, gad, gae, gal, gar, ged. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-r" | |
+1 letter: dangler, draggle, garbled, gargled, gladder, gladier, glaired, gnarled, lagered, regaled. | |
+2 letters: badgerly, danglers, dialoger, draggled, draggles, dragline, enlarged, gladlier, glanders, grabbled, gradable, grappled, graveled, grillade, laagered, overglad, raggedly, reglazed, wrangled. | |
+3 letters: bedraggle, clangored, declaring, delegator, derailing, dialogers, draglines, engarland, engrailed, everglade, filagreed, galleried, gardenful, gargoyled, garlanded, garlicked, gasholder, girandole, gladsomer, glamoured, glandered, glissader, gradeless, gravelled, grillades, guardedly, heralding, laddering, leaguered, legendary, leveraged, lifeguard, ligatured, outglared, rangeland, realigned, redialing, regardful, regelated, regicidal, regulated, relegated, reloading, straggled, strangled, treadling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Names: Company Usage 14. Cities 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Derivations 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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