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JEFFREYS

Date "JEFFREYS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)


Specialty Definition: JEFFREYS

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Biographical Satire

JEFFREYS, James J., formerly a prize fighter, who carried his gloves and bluff once too often to the ring. (See Johnson.). Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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Crosswords: JEFFREYS

Specialty definitions using "JEFFREYS": Bloody Assizes. (references)

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Commercial Usage: JEFFREYS

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Books

  • A History of Modern Planetary Physics Hardback set: Volume 1, The Origin of the Solar System and the Core of the Earth from Laplace to Jeffreys : Nebulous Earth (reference)

  • Unprotected Witness/a Sam Jeffreys Mystery (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: JEFFREYS

Illustrations:
JEFFREYS

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Usage Frequency: JEFFREYS

"JEFFREYS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.18% of the time. "JEFFREYS" is used about 44 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)93.18%4153,521
Noun (plural)6.82%3202,518
                    Total100.00%44N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: JEFFREYS

The following table summarizes the usage of "JEFFREYS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
JeffreysLast name1,0009,438
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: JEFFREYS

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

africa bay jeffreys south

47

jeffreys toy

4

jeffreys ledge

21

bay hotel jeffreys

4

jeffreys

17

jeffreys new york

3

bay jeffreys

15

english japanese jeffreys

3

garland jeffreys

15

jeffreys watergate

3

jeffreys keith

12

jeffreys place.com

3

bar jeffreys sports

10

george jeffreys

3

anne jeffreys

9

jeffreys resort silverline

3

jeffreys restaurant

8

jeffreys gina

3

dictionary english japanese jeffreys

6

grant jeffreys

3

austin jeffreys

6

jeffreys snl

2

jeffreys paul

5

austin jeffreys restaurant

2

bar grill jeffreys sports

5

austin jeffreys restaurant texas

2

japanese jeffreys

5

gwyn henry jeffreys moseley

2

dictionary japanese jeffreys

5

bay jeffreys surf

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

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Anagrams: JEFFREYS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-f-j-r-s-y"

-2 letters: jersey.

-3 letters: eyers, eyres, feres, feyer, frees, jeers, jefes, reefs, reefy.

-4 letters: eery, effs, eyer, eyes, eyre, fees, fere, free, jeer, jees, jefe, reef, rees, refs, ryes, seer, sere, serf.

-5 letters: eff, efs, ere, ers, eye, fee, fer, fey, fry, jee, ree, ref, res, rye, see, ser, yes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: JEFFREYS


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

4A 45 46 46 52 45 59 53

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)

01001010 01000101 01000110 01000110 01010010 01000101 01011001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#69 &#70 &#70 &#82 &#69 &#89 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0045 0046 0046 0052 0045 0059 0053

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

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

4439404052395953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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