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Johns

Definition: Johns

Johns

Noun

1. United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Johns" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Synonym: Johns

Synonym: Jasper Johns (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Bass-Johns culture medium (medicine), Bass-Johns diagnosis of malaria, JOHNS-HOPKINS instruments.

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Crosswords: Johns

English words defined with "Johns": Jasper Johns, Johns Hopkinslong johnsSaint Johns River, St. John's, St. Johns River. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Johns": FREE AND EASY JOHNSJHU/APL. (references)

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Modern Usage: Johns

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Johns Hopkins Science Review (1950)

Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (2002)

L.A. Johns (1997)

Johns (1996)

The Vernon Johns Story (1994)

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

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Commercial Usage: Johns

DomainTitle

References

  • Johns Manville Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Papa Johns International Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The Guide to Living with HIV Infection Developed At the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic (reference)

  • The Johns Hopkins White Papers 2002, Volume 1: Arthritis, Coronary Heart Disease, Depression and Anxiety, Diabetes, Digestive Disorders (reference)

  • Indoor Air Pollution: A Health Perspective (The Johns Hopkins Series in Environmental Toxicology) (reference)

  • In vitro epithelia and birth defects : proceedings of the workshop "Study of human birth defects using cultured epithelium" held at the Johns Hopkins Turner Auditorium in Baltimore, Maryland (reference)

  • Johns Hopkins Manual for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Nursing (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  • Been In The Storm So Long: A Collection Of Spirituals, Folk Tales And Children's Games From Johns Island, South Carolina (reference)

    (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Johns

Photos:
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Photo Album: Johns

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Robert Walsh by rain barrels, potential mosquito breeding site, St. Johns, Virgin Islands. Credit: CDC.

H.D. Pratt and Robert Walsh find Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae in watering can, S. Johns, Virgin Islands. Credit: CDC.

C&GS Ship WESTDAHL In Glacier Bay heading up Johns Hopkins Inlet. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Hydro survey in the St. Johns River Combined operations party of Hubert A. Paton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Fall colors grace St. Johns Pond, a tidal pond off of the St. Mary's River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Jagged ice along the front of Johns Hopkins Glacier. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Clark Glacier - Johns Hopkins Inlet. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Glacier Bay - Johns Hopkins glacier calving. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Departing Johns Hopkins Glacier on JOHN N. COBB. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Johns Hopkins Glacier at Glacier Bay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Johns

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere. (references)

In addition, in 1997 scientists at NIA's Gerontology Research Center and The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, both in Baltimore, Maryland, reported on 472 women they had followed for 16 years. (references)

NHGRI-supported investigators at Johns Hopkins University are developing a survey to determine how the public, particularly those at increased risk, understand the current information regarding inheritance of AD risk and the role of other risk factors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Johns

"Johns" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.81% of the time. "Johns" is used about 247 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)83.81%20721,147
Noun (plural)15.79%3955,036
Unclassified Items0.4%1339,140
                    Total100.00%247N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Johns

The following table summarizes the usage of "Johns" 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
JohnsLast name19,000614
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Johns

CountryName
USA

Johns Manville Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Johns

Expressions using "Johns": jasper Johns Johns Hopkins Johns Island long johns North Johns Saint Johns Saint Johns River st johns st johns bread st johns eve st johns river st johns wort St. Johns St. Johns County St. Johns River. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Johns": Johns-manville, johns-wort.

Ending with "Johns": demi-johns, Seymour-johns.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Johns

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

papa johns

2,760

jasper johns

154

papa johns pizza

1,777

johns pappa

149

johns hopkins

1,270

st johns county

144

st johns wort

1,130

st johns college

126

johns hopkins university

781

taco johns

116

st johns

688

saint johns mi

112

st johns university

683

st johns county florida

105

st johns canada

515

st johns bay

97

antigua barbuda johns saint

492

coupon johns papa pizza

97

johns hopkins hospital

418

johns island sc

92

st johns hospital

321

johns

87

3167 bluff johns road st

312

saint johns university

87

jimmy johns

303

college community johns river st

87

johns manville

294

johns hopkins medical center

85

st johns wart

249

center johns medical mercy st

82

st johns newfoundland

231

st johns river

82

ambulance johns st

218

st johns virgin island

80

johns pappa pizza

210

city of st johns

74

coupon johns papa

175

county johns school st

65

hotel st johns

158

johns mercy st

65
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Johns

Language Translations for "Johns"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Johns-Hopkins'instrumenter til hjerte-karkirurgi (JOHNS-HOPKINS instruments). (various references)

   

French

  

instruments de chirurgie cardiovasculaire de l'hôpital Johns-Hopkins (JOHNS-HOPKINS instruments), caleçon (long johns). (various references)

   

German

  

Johns-Hopkins-Instrumente (JOHNS-HOPKINS instruments). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

股引 (close fitting trousers, long johns). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ももひき (close fitting trousers, long johns, long underpants, working trousers). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ohnsjay

   

Portuguese

  

almejar (ache, crave, long johns, woo). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

теплые кальсоны (long johns). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

instrumentos de cirugía cardiovascular del hospital John-Hopkins (JOHNS-HOPKINS instruments). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

paçalı don (long johns, longs, pants). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Johns

Derivations

Words beginning with "Johns": johnsongrass, johnsongrasses. (additional references)

Words ending with "Johns": demijohns. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Johns" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jehs, jhn, joan, joans, Jochens, Joensu, Johans, Johhny, johin, johna, johnish, Johnn, Johnne, johny, johs, Jonh, jons. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Johns"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Johns" (pronounced jÄ"nz)
3-Ä" n zbatons, bronze, cons, dons, Fons, Hons, Ons, Pons, salons, spawns, swans.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Johns

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-j-n-o-s"

-1 letter: hons, john, josh, nosh.

-2 letters: hon, noh, nos, ohs, ons, son.

-3 letters: ho, jo, no, oh, on, os, sh, so.

 Words containing the letters "h-j-n-o-s"
 

+2 letters: joshing.

 

+3 letters: jingoish, johannes, johnnies, mahjongs.

 

+4 letters: demijohns, jargonish, johnboats, mahjonggs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Johns


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

4A 6F 68 6E 73

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 01101111 01101000 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#111 &#104 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 006F 0068 006E 0073

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

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

4481748085

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Johns"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, dänisch, dinamarquês, датский, danés, danimarkalı, danimarka dili

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , francês, французский, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemão, немецкий, alemán, alman

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 Japonais, japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japonés, Japonca

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょJaponais, japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japonés, Japonca

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, португальский, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеrusser, Russe, russisch, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruso, Rusça

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, spanisch, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturque, türkisch, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, inglês, английский, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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