GRADGRIND

Domain	Definition
Literature	Gradgrind (Thomas). A man who measures everything with rule and compass, allows nothing for the weakness of human nature, and deals with men and women as a mathematician with his figures. He shows that summum ius is suprema injuria. (Dickens: Hard Times.) "The gradgrinds under value and disparage it." - Church Review. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: GRADGRIND

"GRADGRIND" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "GRADGRIND" is used about 7 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)

Anagrams: GRADGRIND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-g-i-n-r-r"
	-2 letters: gadding, garring, grading, radding.
	-3 letters: adding, daring, gradin, raging, raring.
	-4 letters: aging, dinar, drain, gaddi, gadid, garni, gnarr, grain, grand, grind, nadir, ranid.
	-5 letters: agin, airn, arid, dang, darn, ding, drag, gadi, gain, gang, giga, gird, girn, gnar, grad, gran, grid, grig, grin, nard, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rind, ring.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-g-g-i-n-r-r"
	+3 letters: disregarding.
	+4 letters: gingerbreaded.
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Alternative Orthography: GRADGRIND

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

47 52 41 44 47 52 49 4E 44

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)

01000111 01010010 01000001 01000100 01000111 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#65 &#68 &#71 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0041 0044 0047 0052 0049 004E 0044

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

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

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	57.14%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	28.57%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

GRADGRIND

Specialty Definition: GRADGRIND

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