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Definition: Horowitz |
HorowitzNoun1. Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: HorowitzSynonym: Vladimir Horowitz (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Johnson/Lark-Horowitz effect (electrical engineering). |
Crosswords: Horowitz |
| Specialty definitions using "Horowitz": SPARKS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Horowitz Plays Mozart (1987) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Arturo Toscanini playing with his granddaughter, Sonia Horowitz, by tree on lawn of his home in Riverdale, a suburb of New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Horowitz, residence at 8206 256th St., Floral Park, Long Island. Living room from entrance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Horowitz, H.W., Aguero-Rosenfield, M., Dumler, J.S., McKenna, D.F., Hsieh, T., Wu, J., Schwartz, I., Wormser, G.P. (1998). Reinfection with the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Horowitz" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Horowitz" is used about 75 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) | 92% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Horowitz" 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 |
| Horowitz | Last name | 3,000 | 4,049 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Horowitz": Vladimir Horowitz. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Horowitz": Johnson/Lark-Horowitz. | |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-o-o-r-t-w-z" | |
-3 letters: ortho, rowth, thoro, throw, trooz, whort, worth, wroth. | |
-4 letters: hoot, orzo, riot, ritz, root, roti, roto, thio, thir, thro, tiro, tori, toro, trio, trow, whir, whit, whiz, with, wort, writ, zori. | |
-5 letters: hit, hot, how, oho, ooh, oot, ort, rho, rot, row, tho, too, tor, tow, two, who, wit, wiz, woo, wot, zit. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 72 6F 77 69 74 7A |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- .-. --- .--. .. - --.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110111 01101001 01110100 01111010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o r o w i t z |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 0072 006F 0077 0069 0074 007A |
| 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)4281848189758692 |
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