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Definition: Isherwood |
IsherwoodNoun1. United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: IsherwoodSynonyms: Christopher Isherwood (n), Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Isherwood system (engineering & technology, transportation). |
Crosswords: Isherwood |
| English words defined with "Isherwood": Christopher Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Portrait of Carl Van Vechten and Christopher Isherwood, at Taos, N. Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Isherwood" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Isherwood" is used about 34 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% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Isherwood" 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 |
| Isherwood | Last name | 400 | 22,186 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Isherwood": Christopher Isherwood ♦ Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Isherwood": Swords-isherwood. | |
| 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 |
emma isherwood taylor | 12 |
christopher isherwood | 12 |
isherwood | 10 |
emma isherwood | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-o-o-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: woodsier. | |
-2 letters: dowries, hoodier, hoodies, howdies, oroides, rowdies, showier, weirdos, woodier, woodies, wooshed. | |
-3 letters: dories, dowers, dowser, drowse, hiders, hoised, hoodie, hordes, horsed, hosier, howdie, oroide, reshod, reshow, rodeos, roosed, shooed, shored, showed, shower, shrewd, weirdo, weirds, whored, whores, wished, wisher, woodie, wooers. | |
-4 letters: dhows, doers, doors, doser, dower, dowie, dowse, dries, eidos, heirs. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-o-o-r-s-w" | |
+2 letters: hoodwinkers. | |
+3 letters: widowerhoods. | |
+4 letters: foreshadowing, overshadowing, overwithholds. | |
+5 letters: roadworthiness. | |
| 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)49 73 68 65 72 77 6F 6F 64 |
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| Semaphore (1791, 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)01001001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01110010 01110111 01101111 01101111 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I s h e r w o o d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0073 0068 0065 0072 0077 006F 006F 0064 |
| 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)438574718489818170 |
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