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HARRINGTON

Date "HARRINGTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)


Specialty Definition: HARRINGTON

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Literature

Harrington A farthing. So called from Lord Harrington, to whom James I. granted a patent for making them of brass. Drunken Barnaby says -
"Thence to Harrington be it spoken,
For name-sake I gave a token
To a beggar that did crave it."
Drunken Barnaby's Journal.'
"I will not bate a Harrington of the sum."
Ben Jonson: The Devil is an Ass, ii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Harrington, Delaware

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Harrington is a city located in Kent County, Delaware. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,174.

Geography


Harrington is located at 38°55'28" North, 75°34'29" West (38.924446, -75.574720)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.3 km² (2.0 mi²). 5.2 km² (2.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.48% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 3,174 people, 1,223 households, and 825 families residing in the city. The population density is 612.7/km² (1,587.1/mi²). There are 1,328 housing units at an average density of 256.4/km² (664.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 75.17% White, 21.64% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.72% from other races, and 1.67% from two or more races. 2.52% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,223 households out of which 37.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.9% are married couples living together, 18.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 32.5% are non-families. 27.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.60 and the average family size is 3.13. In the city the population is spread out with 31.3% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 84.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 81.8 males. The median income for a household in the city is $30,945, and the median income for a family is $36,815. Males have a median income of $32,064 versus $20,801 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,049. 16.5% of the population and 12.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 26.7% are under the age of 18 and 13.3% are 65 or older.



Harrington, Maine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Harrington is a town located in Washington County, Maine. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 882.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 136.9 km² (52.9 mi²). 54.8 km² (21.2 mi²) of it is land and 82.1 km² (31.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 59.97% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 882 people, 364 households, and 256 families residing in the town. The population density is 16.1/km² (41.7/mi²). There are 563 housing units at an average density of 10.3/km² (26.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.07% White, 0.00% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.57% from other races, and 1.25% from two or more races. 1.70% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 364 households out of which 29.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.4% are married couples living together, 9.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.4% are non-families. 22.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.41 and the average family size is 2.79. In the town the population is spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 91.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.7 males. The median income for a household in the town is $26,579, and the median income for a family is $29,211. Males have a median income of $24,038 versus $16,447 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,224. 19.2% of the population and 14.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 31.9% are under the age of 18 and 9.1% are 65 or older.



Harrington, Washington

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Harrington is a city located in Lincoln County, Washington. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 426.

Geography


Harrington is located at 47°28'49" North, 118°15'20" West (47.480251, -118.255422)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.0 km² (0.4 mi²). 1.0 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 426 people, 187 households, and 115 families residing in the city. The population density is 432.8/km² (1,122.2/mi²). There are 235 housing units at an average density of 238.8/km² (619.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.18% White, 0.00% African American, 1.41% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.17% from two or more races. 0.94% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 187 households out of which 27.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.9% are married couples living together, 7.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 38.0% are non-families. 36.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.25 and the average family size is 2.92. In the city the population is spread out with 25.6% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 22.3% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 22.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 98.1 males. The median income for a household in the city is $29,792, and the median income for a family is $45,000. Males have a median income of $30,625 versus $16,563 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,744. 12.0% of the population and 3.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 7.7% are under the age of 18 and 7.7% 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 "Harrington, Delaware."

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Crosswords: HARRINGTON

Specialty definitions using "HARRINGTON": Interpress ♦ Launched into Eternity ♦ Oceana. (references)

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Modern Usage: HARRINGTON

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Movie/TV Titles

Baby Face Harrington (1935)

Lady Harrington (1926)

Demonstrating the Operation of the Harrington Rail Bonding System on the Line of the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Co. (1900)

The Haunting of Harrington House (1981)

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Commercial Usage: HARRINGTON

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Short Victorious War (Honor Harrington Series, Book 3) (reference)

  • War of Honor (Honor Harrington Series, Book 10) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: HARRINGTON

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Photo Album: HARRINGTON

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Figure 32. Plankton bottle devised by James I. Peck of Williams College, Massachusetts, and Nathan R. Harrington of Columbia University, New York, in 1896. It was used to collect plankton, both animal and vegetable, at various depths. It was first used in 1896 at the entrance to Puget Sound, Washington, at 5 levels up to 205 meters depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Chris Ellis (left) and Joe Bear (right), NRCS College Coop student trainee from Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, discuss the production of Harrington barley. The barley is marketed to Anheuser Busch. [Slide 97CS3051]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Photograph taken on board USS Hartford at Hampton Roads, Virginia, Winter 1876. The men present are: (Front row, left to right) Seaman James H. Bell and Quartermaster Thomas Trueman; (Second row, left to right) Boatswain's Mate Peter Eagen, Seaman Isaac Turner and Schoolmaster James Connell; (Rear row, left to right) Boatswain's Mate Edward Nash, Boatswain's Mate David Clark, Seaman William McNulty, Quarter Gunner William Harrington and Gunner's Mate Albert Allen. See Photo #s NH 63037 (extended caption) for more information on these men. Credit: NAVY.

General Blotchit, take your tanks and feint at Lynchville ... / Ollie Harrington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lobby of Harrington Hotel, Port Huron, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Harrington House, Lexington, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Morris Cooke and Colonel Harrington inspect a stock water dam. Campbell County, Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. Page and Colonel Harrington of drought committee at farm near Guymon, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gichner Sheet Metal Works. Entrance of Harrington Hotel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Flatts Village and Harrington Sound from Zuill's Peak, Bermuda. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Speeches: HARRINGTON

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.

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Usage Frequency: HARRINGTON

"HARRINGTON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HARRINGTON" is used about 137 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)100%13727,138

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

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Name Usage Frequency: HARRINGTON

The following table summarizes the usage of "HARRINGTON" 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
HarringtonLast name24,000478
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: HARRINGTON

CountryName
USA

Harrington Financial Group, Inc.

 (more examples...)

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

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Cities: HARRINGTON


1. Harrington, DE (city, FIPS 33120)
Location: 38.92274 N, 75.57232 W
Population (1990): 2311 (977 housing units)
Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 19952
Country: USA

2. Harrington, ME
Zip Code(s): 04643
Country: USA

3. Harrington, WA (city, FIPS 29745)
Location: 47.48037 N, 118.25435 W
Population (1990): 449 (229 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 99134
Country: USA

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Expression: HARRINGTON

Expression using "HARRINGTON": Harrington Park. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "HARRINGTON": Hartley-harrington.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HARRINGTON

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

desmond harrington

533

harrington institute

20

harrington

247

harrington matt

20

joey harrington

221

harbour harrington

19

harrington richardson

99

farm harrington

19

laura harrington

78

padraig harrington

19

desmond harrington picture

65

harrington brass

18

harrington park nj

57

harrington pam

18

harrington de

53

john harrington

18

harrington raceway

50

michael harrington

18

harrington me hotel

49

desmond harrington pic

17

benefit harrington

38

harrington group

17

harrington honor

37

harrington richardson firearm

16

harrington plastic

37

era harrington

16

harrington institute of interior design

36

harrington house

16

harrington delaware

29

harrington realty

16

catalog harrington

28

harrington hotel washington dc

15

font harrington

28

harrington hall

15

benefit harrington services

24

harrington industrial plastic

14

harrington hoist

23

al harrington

14

harrington rod

21

arms co harrington richardson

14
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Modern Translation: HARRINGTON

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

Danish

  

Harrington-Helmholz syndrom (Harrington-Helmholz syndrome). (various references)

   

French

  

syndrome de Helmholz-Harrington (Harrington-Helmholz syndrome), épreuve de Flocks-Harrington (Harrington-Flocks test), épreuve campimétrique de Flocks-Harrington (Harrington-Flocks test). (various references)

   

German

  

Harrington-Helmholz-Syndrom (Harrington-Helmholz syndrome), Flocks-Harrington-Test (Harrington-Flocks test). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σύνδρομο Harrington-Helmholz (Harrington-Helmholz syndrome). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arringtonhay

   

Portuguese

  

síndrome de Helmholz-Harrington (Harrington-Helmholz syndrome). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

síndrome de Harrington-Helmholz (Harrington-Helmholz syndrome). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: HARRINGTON

Misspellings

"HARRINGTON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cherrington, Darrington, Hardington, Harpington, Harragon, Hringstan, Parrington, Shervington, Shurdington, Tarrington. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: HARRINGTON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-n-o-r-r-t"

-2 letters: gnathion, ignorant, northing, thorning, throning.

-3 letters: atoning, grantor, hanting, horning, nothing, orating, ranting, roaring, tarring, tinhorn.

-4 letters: anoint, anting, aright, aroint, garron, gharri, gitano, gratin, haring, hating, honing, intron, nation, natron, nonart, noting, oaring, onagri, origan, raring, rating, ration, righto, taring, thoria, throng, toning, trigon.

-5 letters: airth, anion, argon, argot, garni, garth, gator, giant.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-n-o-r-r-t"
 

+5 letters: antipornography, countercharging, countermarching.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HARRINGTON


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

48 41 52 52 49 4E 47 54 4F 4E

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)

01001000 01000001 01010010 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 01010100 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#82 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#84 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0052 0052 0049 004E 0047 0054 004F 004E

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

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

42355252434841544948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Usage Frequency 		9. Names: Frequency
10. Names: Company Usage
11. Cities
12. Expressions 		13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Anagrams 		17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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