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Horowitz

Definition: Horowitz

Horowitz

Noun

1. 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: Horowitz

Synonym: Vladimir Horowitz (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: Johnson/Lark-Horowitz effect (electrical engineering).

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Crosswords: Horowitz

Specialty definitions using "Horowitz": SPARKS. (references)

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Modern Usage: Horowitz

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Horowitz Plays Mozart (1987)

Fight Back with David Horowitz (1976)

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

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Commercial Usage: Horowitz

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Bostoner Rebbetzin Remembers: Rebbetzin Raichel Horowitz of Boston/Har Nof Recalls Jewish Life in Poland, America and Israel (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  • The Celebrated Scarlatti Recordings: Vladimir Horowitz, Volume II Of IX (reference)

  • Vladimir Horowitz, Volume 3: The Historic Return: Carnegie Hall 1965/1966 Concerts (reference)

  • Original Jacket Collection: Vladimir Horowitz (reference)

  • Horowitz in Moscow (reference)

    (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

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Photo Album: Horowitz

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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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Horowitz

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Horowitz

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)92%6940,280
Lexical Verb (infinitive)4%3202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)4%3202,518
                    Total100.00%75N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Horowitz

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HorowitzLast name3,0004,049
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Horowitz

Expression using "Horowitz": Vladimir Horowitz. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Horowitz": Johnson/Lark-Horowitz.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Horowitz

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

david horowitz

145

front horowitz page

4

horowitz

60

horowitz international

4

vladimir horowitz

56

anthony horowitz novel

4

anthony horowitz

53

horowitz linda

4

gedale horowitz

52

anthony by horowitz novel

3

c horowitz russell

13

associate horowitz

3

horowitz ryszard

13

horowitz kenneth

3

2002 anthony horowitz novel

12

larry horowitz

3

2002 anthony by horowitz novel

11

mark horowitz

3

leonard horowitz

11

horowitz realty usa

3

len horowitz

9

cooper horowitz

3

barry horowitz

8

ellen horowitz w

3

adam horowitz

6

horowitz shay

3

dr horowitz

6

back david fight horowitz

3

horowitz kuleshov liszt march mendelssohn wedding

5

sarah horowitz

2

dr horowitz len

4

cindy horowitz michael

2

alex horowitz

4

horowitz howard

2

2002 anthony horowitz

4

horowitz in moscow

2

horowitz weinstein

4

richard horowitz

2

david front horowitz page

4

dr horowitz leonard

2

michael horowitz

4

israel horowitz

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Horowitz

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Horowitz


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

48 6F 72 6F 77 69 74 7A

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 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110111 01101001 01110100 01111010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#114 &#111 &#119 &#105 &#116 &#122

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)

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

4281848189758692

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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. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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