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Definition: Heyerdahl |
HeyerdahlNoun1. Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies of cultural diffusion (born in 1914). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: HeyerdahlSynonym: Thor Hyerdahl (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Great! We'll have to sail a raft to Fiji like Thor Heyerdahl! (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) | |
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| "Heyerdahl" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heyerdahl" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
thor heyerdahl | 62 |
heyerdahl | 20 |
explorer heyerdahl | 14 |
christopher heyerdahl | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-h-l-r-y" | |
-2 letters: delayer, layered, relayed. | |
-3 letters: adhere, dealer, dearly, hardly, header, healed, healer, herald, hydrae, leader. | |
-4 letters: alder, deary, delay, deray, eared, early, elder, haled, haler, hardy, hared, hayed, hayer, heady, heard, heder, hydra, lader, lardy, laree, layed, layer, leady, leary, leery, lyard, rayed, ready, redly, redye, reedy, relay. | |
-5 letters: aery, alee, aryl, dahl, dale, dare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-h-l-r-y" | |
+3 letters: hardheadedly. | |
+4 letters: halfheartedly, hardheartedly. | |
+5 letters: heavyheartedly, hydrocephalies, lightheartedly, wholeheartedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 79 65 72 64 61 68 6C |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -.--. . .-. -.. .- .... .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01111001 01100101 01110010 01100100 01100001 01101000 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e y e r d a h l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0079 0065 0072 0064 0061 0068 006C |
| 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)427191718470677478 |
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