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ISOLDE

"ISOLDE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be beautiful".

Date "ISOLDE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)


Specialty Definition: ISOLDE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Isolde (2 syl.). Wife of King Mark, of Cornwall, who had an illicit affection for Sir Tristram, Mark's nephew. Isolde the White, Sir Tristram's wife. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ISOLDE

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ISOLDE

EnglishIsotopic Low Weight DeviceNuclear Energy & Physics

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Modern Usage: ISOLDE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Tristan and Isolde. (3rd Rock from the Sun; writing credit: Leslie Danon; Austin Reid)

Movie/TV Titles

Tristan & Isolde (1974)

Isolde (1989)

Tristan und Isolde (1983)

Tatort - Trimmel und Isolde (1982)

Feuer und Schwert - Die Legende von Tristan und Isolde (1982)

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

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Commercial Usage: ISOLDE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Prelude and Transfiguration from Tristan and Isolde (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Wagner - Tristan und Isolde / Mehta, West, Meier, National Theatre Munich (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: ISOLDE

Illustrations:
ISOLDE

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Photo Album: ISOLDE

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Isolde. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ausstellung : ein Rabe in unserer Stadt : Isolde Redman, Satiren ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: ISOLDE

"ISOLDE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "ISOLDE" is used about 10 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)50%5157,705
Noun (singular)50%5157,705
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: ISOLDE

"ISOLDE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be beautiful".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "ISOLDE."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
IseultFemaleCeltic MythologyIsolde
IsoldeFemaleCeltic MythologyN/A
EseldFemaleCornishIsolde
IsoldaFemaleEnglishIsolde
IsoldeFemaleEnglishN/A
YseultFemaleFrenchIsolde
IsoldeFemaleGermanN/A
IzoldaFemalePolishIsolde
EsylltFemaleWelshIsolde
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ISOLDE

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

tristan isolde

57

isolde

27

tristan und isolde

14

death isolde tristan

4

isolde synopsis tristan

3

isolde tristan wagner

2

house.com isolde

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

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Anagrams: ISOLDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oldies, siloed, soiled.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-o-s"

-1 letter: deils, delis, diols, doles, eidos, idles, idols, isled, lidos, lodes, oiled, oldie, sidle, slide, sloid, soldi, soled, solei, solid.

-2 letters: deil, deli, dels, diel, dies, diol, does, dole, dols, dose, elds, ides, idle, idol, isle, leis, lido, lids, lied, lies, lode, lose, odes, oils, olds, oles, side, sild, silo, sled, slid, sloe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-o-s"
 

+1 letter: bolides, despoil, dildoes, diploes, dipoles, doilies, dollies, doolies, doylies, idolise, indoles, isolead, keloids, meloids, midsole, oilseed, soldier, solider, spoiled.

 

+2 letters: assoiled, bloodies, bodiless, cheloids, collides, darioles, deltoids, delusion, demolish, depolish, despoils, dhoolies, diastole, diazoles, diploses, disbowel, disclose, dislodge, displode, dissolve, eidolons, emulsoid, euploids, godliest, idolised, idoliser, idolises, idolizes, implodes, inclosed, insouled, isolated, isoleads, leporids, lesioned, lionised, lopsided, melodias, melodies, melodise, melodist, midsoles, mislodge, modelist, moldiest, obelised, oilseeds, oldwives, pistoled, ploidies, polished, poolside, scleroid, sepaloid, sidelong, sodalite, soldiers, soldiery, solenoid, solidest, solitude, stolider, toluides, unsoiled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ISOLDE


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

49 53 4F 4C 44 45

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 01010011 01001111 01001100 01000100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#83 &#79 &#76 &#68 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0053 004F 004C 0044 0045

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

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

435349463839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Derived from
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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