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Definition: Ironsides |
IronsidesNoun1. English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War and became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1599-1658). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Ironsides The soldiers that served under Cromwell were so called, especially after the battle of Marston Moor, where they displayed an iron resolution. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: IronsidesSynonyms: Cromwell (n), Oliver Cromwell (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ironsides |
| English words defined with "Ironsides": Old Ironsides. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'm not a mechanic, Mr. Ironsides! Mostly I just hurt people! (Alien: Resurrection; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Young Ironsides (1932) Old Ironsides (1926) | |
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 | Chromolithograph by Armstrong & Company, after an 1893 watercolor by Fred S. Cozzens, published in "Our Navy -- Its Growth and Achievements", 1897. Ships depicted are (from left to right): Monadnock class twin-turret monitor; Passaic class single-turret monitor (in foreground); USS Naugatuck; USS Keokuk USS New Ironsides and USS Nantucket. Credit: NAVY. |  | Phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa the later 19th Century. This print depicts a Civil War bombardment of Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, by U.S. Navy ships. USS Wabash is in the right foreground, with USS New Ironsides in the right distance. Two monitors are also present. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Two-page spread of line engravings, published in "Harper's Weekly", 3 February 1866. U.S. ships depicted include (at left, top to bottom): Dictator, Manayunk, Ozark, Onondaga, and Roanoke; (in center, top to bottom): Stonewall (ex CSS Stonewall), New Ironsides with Monadnock, and the interior of a monitor's Ericsson turret with two XV-inch Dahlgren guns; (at right, top to bottom): Weehawken, Atlanta (ex CSS Atlanta), Yazoo, Tennessee (ex CSS Tennessee), and Dunderberg. Credit: NAVY. |  | Photostat reproduction of a chart of the approaches to Charleston, South Carolina, detailing the locations of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic; the wreck of CSS Georgiana; where USS New Ironsides, Bibb and USS Massachusetts encountered Confederate "torpedoes" on 7 April 1863, 16 March 1865 and 19 March 1865; and the location of other "torpedoes". Credit: NAVY. |
 | Line engraving published in "The Soldier in our Civil War", Volume II, page 172, with a key to individual ships and land features shown. U.S. Navy ships present are (from left to center): Keokuk, Nahant, Nantucket, Catskill, New Ironsides, Patapsco, Montauk, Passaic and Weehawken. Credit: NAVY. |  | Watercolor by eyewitness Ensign John W. Grattan, of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's staff, depicting Porter's fleet bombarding the fort prior to the ground assault. Side-wheel steamer in the right foreground is Porter's flagship, USS Malvern. USS New Ironsides and USS Monadnock are in the right distance. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Engraving by T. Shussler, after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". It depicts ships of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron bombarding Fort Fisher, North Carolina, prior to the ground assault that captured the fortification. Identifiable ships include: USS Monadnock (twin-turret monitor in the right center); USS Vanderbilt (grey two-stack side-wheel steamer in right foreground); and USS New Ironsides (at the right end of the main battle line). Credit: NAVY. |  | Ironsides as she is. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Old Ironsides, U.S. frigate Constitution, built 1797. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. frigate Constitution---Old Ironsides. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Ironsides" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ironsides" is used about 2 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 (plural) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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Expression using "Ironsides": old Ironsides. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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old ironsides | 74 |
ironsides | 14 |
ironsides old sacramento | 7 |
constitution ironsides old uss | 3 |
ironsides md | 3 |
ironsides michael | 2 |
ironsides old poem | 2 |
holmes ironsides old oliver wendell | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Ironsides"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | koracatë (armor-clad, armour-clad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | конницата на кромуел. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vasbordájúak, angol harckocsi ezred. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ironsidesay конница кромвеля. (various references) hrabar čovek (trojan). (various references) yiğit kimse, cesur ve acımasız asker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Ironsides" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ironised, ironises. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Ironsides" (pronounced ī"ernsī'dz) |
| 5 | -n s ī' d z | downsides, mountainsides. |
| 4 | -s ī' d z | fratricides, fungicides, glucosides, herbicides, hillsides, homicides, insecticides, oxides, pesticides, roadsides, Silversides, suicides. |
| 3 | -ī' d z | azides, bromides, fluorides, iodides, landslides, overrides, peptides, polysaccharides, tellurides, triglycerides. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: derisions, resinoids. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: derision, indorses, insiders, ironside, resinoid, sordines. | |
-2 letters: dineros, dossier, indorse, insider, insides, iodines, iodises, ionised, ionises, ironies, noisier, ordines, rosined, seniors, sonders, sonsier, sordine, sordini. | |
-3 letters: diesis, dinero, diners, donsie, dories, dosers, dosser, drones, enosis, eosins, essoin, indies, indris, inside, iodine, iodins, iodise, ionise, irides, irised, irises, ironed, irones, niseis, noesis, noised, noises. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: digression, disorients, dispersion, diversions. | |
+2 letters: digressions, discretions, dispersions, iridosmines, misjoinders, readmission, redisposing, redivisions, soldierings. | |
+3 letters: arabinosides, descriptions, digressional, dilatoriness, disharmonies, disorganizes, disrelations, disseminator, dissertation, diversionist, hemosiderins, ordinariness, preadmission, predisposing, readmissions, redigestions, redissolving. | |
+4 letters: deliriousness, desiderations, digressionary, directionless, discordancies, disharmonizes, disorientates, disseminators, dissertations, diversionists, endometriosis, grandiosities, indiscretions, misdirections, nondiscursive, nondispersive, periodontists, preadmissions, predigestions, radiationless, redisposition, reductionisms, reductionists, serendipitous, serodiagnosis, traditionless. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 72 6F 6E 73 69 64 65 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-. --- -. ... .. -.. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110010 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I r o n s i d e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0072 006F 006E 0073 0069 0064 0065 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438481808575707185 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albán, албанский, albanski, albanac, Arnavut |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgaristan ile ilgili |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, macarca, macar |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, Rusça |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, angol, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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