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Gillette

Definition: Gillette

Gillette

Noun

1. United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932).

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


Specialty Definition: Gillette

DomainDefinition

Biographical Satire

GILLETTE, manufacturer of a well-known Christmas present which cuts barbers out of their tips, and is deucedly annoying to clean. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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Specialty Definition: Gillette, Wyoming

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Gillette is a city located in Campbell County, Wyoming. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 19,646. It is the county seat of Campbell County6.

Geography


Gillette is located at 44°16'58" North, 105°30'19" West (44.282660, -105.505256)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 34.7 km² (13.4 mi²). 34.6 km² (13.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.15% water.

Demographics


As of the census1 of 2000, there are 19,646 people, 7,390 households, and 5,113 families residing in the city. The population density is 567.3/km² (1,469.5/mi²). There are 7,931 housing units at an average density of 229.0/km² (593.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 95.50% White, 0.20% African American, 0.96% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 1.31% from other races, and 1.51% from two or more races. 3.94% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 7,390 households out of which 41.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.4% are married couples living together, 10.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% are non-families. 24.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.62 and the average family size is 3.12. In the city the population is spread out with 30.2% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 31.7% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 6.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 103.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.6 males. The median income for a household in the city is $46,521, and the median income for a family is $52,383. Males have a median income of $41,131 versus $22,717 for females. The per capita income for the city is $19,749. 7.9% of the population and 5.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 6.2% are under the age of 18 and 14.1% 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 "Gillette, Wyoming."

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Synonym: Gillette

Synonym: King Camp Gilette (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gillette

Specialty definitions using "Gillette": EDISON ♦ SEVILLE. (references)

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Modern Usage: Gillette

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Gillette Soccer Saturday (2003)

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Commercial Usage: Gillette

DomainTitle

References

  • The Gillette Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906 (reference)

  • Cosmetics and Toiletries Company Profile - The Gillette Co [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • King C. Gillette, the Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device (reference)

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Gillette Company - G [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Resisting Hostile Takeovers: The Case of Gillette (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Gillette

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ROW's - Electric power south of Gillette, WY. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Windmill south of Gillette, WY. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Wallace L. Lind (3rd from left, seated) with some of her officers and men, while Omaha was serving in the Mediterranean Sea, circa 1938-1939. Commander Norman C. Gillette, Omaha's Executive Officer, is seated in the center, just to right of Captain Lind. The ship's forward twin 6"/53 gun turret is just behind the men. Credit: NAVY.

Decommissioning party salutes the colors, as Kearsarge goes out of commission for the last time, at Long Beach, California, 13 February 1970. Those present are (from left to right): Captain Frederick W. Zigler, USN, Commanding Officer, Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility; Rear Admiral Norman C. Gillette, USN, Commander Anti-Submarine Warfare Group Three; Rear Admiral William T. Rassieur, USN(Retired), former Commanding Officer of the ship; Captain Leonard M. Nearman, USN, ship's Commanding Officer; and Mr. C.E. (Gene) Gallman, representing the Mayor of Long Beach. Credit: NAVY.

Sherlock Holmes : farewell appearances of William Gillette, 1929-1932. Credit: Library of Congress.

President's train in Alaska--Work, Hoover, Wallace, Steese, Bone, Mrs. Jennings, President Harding, Gillette, and Mrs. Harding. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drought committee has informal discussion with farmers of Gillette, Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cocktail bar in home of former president of Gillette Razor Blade Company. Miami Beach, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Robert R. Robinson, kennel master at the White House for Herbert Hoover's dogs, Buckeye, a German police dog; King Tut, a Belgian police dog; and Englehurst Gillette, a Gordon setter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Scene at the opening of the House of Representatives today--Members left their seats to hold an informal reception before the Speaker's desk--Speaker Gillette [sic] is shown in the the chair. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Gillette

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The only two foreign firms present in this sector are 3M and Gillette. (references)

In the mouthwash segment the market is totally control by Western manufacturers, including Colgate-Palmolive, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble. (references)

The main companies in this sector are Unilever de Argentina S.A., Procter & Gamble, InterAmericas Inc., Prodesca S.A., Colgate-Pamolive Argentina S.A., and Gillette Argentina. (references)

Economic History

Australia

Well-known U.S. companies that have established regional headquarters in Victoria include Campbell's, Ford, GE Capital, Gillette, Monsanto, Hewlett-Packard, and many others. (references)

Egypt

Examples of U.S. investors include American Express, Citibank, Coca Cola, Ralston Purina, Eveready, General Motors, Johnson and Johnson, Procter and Gamble, Pfizer, H.J. Heinz, Gillette, American Standard, Bristol-Myers Squibb, PepsiCo, Pioneer, and Xerox. (references)

Russia

During the last several years, Northwest Russia has attracted a large portion of total U.S. investment in Russia, and U.S. companies such as Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, Ford, Gillette, International Paper, Lucent, Otis Elevator, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and Wrigley have all established production facilities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gillette

"Gillette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "Gillette" is used about 14 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 (singular)64.29%9117,287
Noun (proper)35.71%5157,705
                    Total100.00%14N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Gillette

The following table summarizes the usage of "Gillette" 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
GilletteLast name5,0002,676
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Gillette

CountryNameCountryName
India

Gillette (India) Ltd.

USA

The Gillette Company

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Gillette


1. Gillette, NJ
Zip Code(s): 07933
Country: USA

2. Gillette, WY (city, FIPS 31855)
Location: 44.28178 N, 105.51791 W
Population (1990): 17635 (7078 housing units)
Area: 33.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 82716, 82731
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gillette

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		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gillette

871

coupon gillette

16

gillette wyoming

543

gillette product

14

gillette stadium

529

gillette news record wy

13

castle gillette

117

foxboro gillette ma stadium

12

gillette razor

93

canada gillette

12

the gillette company

78

free gillette venus

12

gillette venus

75

generator gillette

12

gillette news record

67

hotel gillette

11

gillette nj

56

foxboro gillette stadium

11

gillette mach 3

35

gillette castle state park

11

child gillette hospital

29

fair gillette spring stadium

11

robert gillette

27

gillette lyrics

11

gillette mach3

25

gillette co

11

gillette venus razor

25

castle ct gillette

11

free gillette razor venus

23

gillette stadium seating chart

11

campus gillette

22

gillette jim

10

gillette vertigo

22

gillette mach 3 turbo

10

gillette tire

21

gillette newspaper

10

gillette newspaper wyoming

20

gillette for woman

9

free gillette razor

18

child gillette

9
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Modern Translation: Gillette

Language Translations for "Gillette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Gillette's ligament (Gillette suspensory ligament). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ligament van Gillette (Gillette suspensory ligament). (various references)

   

French

  

ligament de Gillette (Gillette suspensory ligament). (various references)

   

German

  

Gillette Ligament (Gillette suspensory ligament). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σύνδεσμος του Gillette (Gillette suspensory ligament). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illettegay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ligamento de Gillette (Gillette suspensory ligament). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

жилетт. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ligamento suspensorio de Gillette (Gillette suspensory ligament). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Gillette

Misspellings

"Gillette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Galeote, Galeotti, galette, galletti, Gelmetti, Gilette, gillettes, Gillit, Gillott, giolitti, Giulietta, Giulietti, Golledge, Grillet, Guillit, Gullotti, rillette. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Gillette

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-l-t-t"

-2 letters: elegit, little.

-3 letters: elite, gleet, legit, liege, title.

-4 letters: gelt, gill, gilt, glee, leet, lilt, lite, teel, tele, tell, tile, till, tilt.

-5 letters: eel, ell, gee, gel, get, gie, git, ill, lee, leg, lei, let, lie, lit, tee, teg, tel, tet, tie, til.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-l-t-t"
 

+2 letters: gillnetted, gillnetter.

 

+3 letters: aiguillette, gillnetters, intelligent, leafletting, tagliatelle, teleologist.

 

+4 letters: aiguillettes, illegitimate, intertillage, legitimately, tagliatelles, teetotalling, teleologists, tessellating.

 

+5 letters: electrologist, intelligently, intertillages, televangelist, unintelligent.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency 		9. Names: Frequency
10. Names: Company Usage
11. Cities
12. Expressions: Internet 		13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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