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Definition: Huston |
HustonNoun1. United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Huston" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Synonym: HustonSynonym: John Huston (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Huston |
| English words defined with "Huston": John Huston. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What if-what if we just tell Huston that there is no life on Mars? (Red Planet; writing credit: Chuck Pfarrer) Huston, we have a problem! (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Caption: Portrait of Wilber B. Huston of Seattle, Washington, Winner of the 1929 Edison Scholarship Contest; New York, NY; August, 1929; {13.100/4} (jpg). |  | Caption: Wilber B. Huston at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA; October, 1929; {13.110/22} (jpg). |
 | Caption: S.A. Huston, Father of Wilber Huston; Detroit, MI; 1910; {13.110/29} (jpg). |  | Caption: Contestants in 1930 Edison Scholarship Contest Gathered on Roof of the Hotel Suburban, {Wilber B. Huston, Winner of the 1929 Competition?}, Standing at Right; East Orange, NJ; Unknown Date; {13.200/60} (jpg). |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Willie craned his neck and saw Huston and called him over. |
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| "Huston" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Huston" is used about 50 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% | 50 | 48,117 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Huston" 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 |
| Huston | Last name | 6,000 | 2,060 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Huston": John Huston. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Huston": Huston-miyamoto. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
whitney huston | 188 | huston marcus | 17 |
anjelica huston | 164 | huston university | 17 |
huston | 131 | huston steve | 14 |
porn star huston | 98 | bank huston wood | 12 |
huston street | 85 | nancy huston | 10 |
huston tillotson college | 59 | withney huston | 10 |
brent huston | 56 | huston piano scott | 7 |
angelica huston | 42 | chronicle huston | 7 |
huston scott | 39 | fort huston sam | 6 |
huston marques | 36 | guy huston piano scott | 6 |
witney huston | 30 | anjelica huston interview | 6 |
huston lyrics whitney | 29 | walter huston | 6 |
john huston | 29 | huston sam | 5 |
huston tillotson | 25 | danny huston | 5 |
huston smith | 22 | jimmy huston | 5 |
huston id | 21 | huston picture street | 5 |
huston wood | 20 | huston james w | 5 |
huston 500 | 20 | camp huston | 5 |
huston tx | 19 | drum huston | 5 |
huston astros | 17 | flash huston in piano play scott | 4 |
airport huston | 4 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Misspellings | |
"Huston" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hadston, Holston, Hotston, Hueston, Hustons, Hutin, Huton, Hutone, Khestov, Muston, Shaston, Shurston, Whashton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: hunts, shout, shunt, snout, south, thous, tonus. | |
-2 letters: hons, host, hots, huns, hunt, huts, nosh, nous, nuts, onus, oust, outs, shot, shun, shut, snot, soth, stun, thou, thus, tons, tosh, tuns, tush, unto. | |
-3 letters: hon, hot, hun, hut, noh, nos, not, nth, nus, nut, ohs, ons, out, son, sot, sou, sun, tho, ton. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gunshot, hognuts, noughts, shotgun. | |
+2 letters: cothurns, foxhunts, gunshots, handouts, hangouts, nuthouse, outhunts, outshine, outshone, shotguns, shouting, shutdown, snoutish, southern, southing, southron, thousand, toughens, unsought, xanthous, youthens. | |
+3 letters: aunthoods, autobahns, buhrstone, ceanothus, chitinous, cothurnus, doughnuts, hornpouts, nontruths, nuthouses, onslaught, outshined, outshines, outthanks, outthinks, overhunts, penthouse, scutcheon, shogunate, shutdowns, slungshot, southerns, southings, southland, southrons, staghound, thornbush, thousands, toughness, townhouse, unclothes, undershot, unholiest, unthrones, whodunits. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 75 73 74 6F 6E |
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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 01110101 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H u s t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0075 0073 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)428785868180 |
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