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IRONMAN

Specialty Definition: IRONMAN

DomainDefinition

Computing

Ironman HOLWG, DoD, Jan 1977, revised Jul 1977. Fourth of the series of DoD requirements that led to Ada. "Department of Defense Requirements for High Order Computer Programming Languages", SIGPLAN Notices 12(12):39-54 (Dec 1977). "Revised Ironman Requirements for High Order Computer Programming Languages", US Dept of Defense, Jul 1977. (See Strawman, Woodenman, Tinman, Steelman). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Crosswords: IRONMAN

Specialty definitions using "IRONMAN": Woodenman. (references)

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Modern Usage: IRONMAN

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road (1988)

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

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Commercial Usage: IRONMAN

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ironman (reference)

  • Ironman: Life Stories from the Ironman Triathlon (reference)

  • Ironman's Ultimate Guide to Bodybuilding Nutrition (Ironman Series!) (reference)

  • The Alabama Ironman (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Usage Frequency: IRONMAN

"IRONMAN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "IRONMAN" is used about 3 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 (singular)66.67%2245,945
Noun (proper)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Anagrams: IRONMAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-m-n-n-o-r"

-1 letter: amnion, nomina.

-2 letters: amino, amnio, anion, inarm, manor, minor, moira, noria, roman.

-3 letters: airn, amin, amir, anon, inro, iron, main, mair, mano, mina, moan, mora, morn, naoi, noir, noma, nona, nori, norm, rain, rami, rani, roam, roan.

-4 letters: aim, ain, air, ami, ani, arm, inn, ion, man, mar, mir, moa, mon, mor, nam, nan.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-m-n-n-o-r"
 

+2 letters: enamoring, informant, inharmony, marooning, nominator, omnirange, prenomina, ransoming, romancing.

 

+3 letters: antimodern, confirmand, enamouring, enantiomer, enharmonic, informants, inharmonic, marination, monandries, mordanting, nominators, nonadmirer, nonmarital, nonmigrant, numeration, omniranges, ordainment, praenomina, pronominal, renominate, romanising, romanizing, rumination, unromantic, workingman.

 

+4 letters: aminopterin, aminopyrine, anachronism, antimoderns, brominating, bromination, centimorgan, chrominance, coenamoring, confirmands, crimination, denominator, enamoration, enantiomers, enumeration, germination, harmonising, harmonizing, information, inharmonies, inseminator, manoeuvring, marathoning, margination, marinations, mensuration, monograming, mountaineer, necromantic, nitrosamine, nonadmirers, nonaromatic, noncriminal, nondramatic, nonharmonic, nonmaterial, nonmetrical, nonmigrants, nonmilitary, nonorgasmic, nonruminant, nonterminal, normalising, normalizing, numerations, oneiromancy, ordainments, ornamenting, overmanning, predominant, prenominate, promenading, randomizing, reanimation, recombinant, renominated, renominates, ruminations, termination, unimportant.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IRONMAN


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

49 52 4F 4E 4D 41 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)

01001001 01010010 01001111 01001110 01001101 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#77 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0052 004F 004E 004D 0041 004E

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

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

43524948473548

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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