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Definition: Joyce |
JoyceNoun1. Influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Joyce" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lord". |
Date "Joyce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
"Joyce" is a common misspelling or typo for: juice. |
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Computing | Joyce A distributed language based on Pascal and CSP, by Per Brinch Hansen. ["Joyce - A Programming Language for Distributed Systems", Per Brinch Hansen, Soft Prac & Exp 17(1):29-50 (Jan 1987)]. (1994-12-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: JoyceSynonyms: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (n), James Joyce (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Joyce |
| English words defined with "Joyce": James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, James Joyce, Joyce Carol Oates ♦ seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Joyce": Hugin and Munin ♦ success. (references) |
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Screenplays | And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) It took James Joyce 17 years to write 'Ulysses. (Legmen; writing credit: Ivo Andric; Nebojsa Komadina) ! There's a lot of footloose women in there! Do you know Joyce Ferguson? (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Hands of Cormac Joyce (1972) Joyce of the North Woods (1913) The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce (2001) Joyce Meyer (1987) Edith Clever liest Joyce (1985) | |
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![]() | "Donut" by Joyce Glynn. | ![]() | "Cup in Saddle" by Joyce Glynn. |
![]() | Joyce Watkins loads quail eggs onto a rack after cleaning and checking them. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Chemist Joyce Foster extracts chemicals to determine which plants are safe, palatable, and nutritious for livestock. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
![]() | [Hillsborough County Health Department's Joyce Ely Health Center] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E.E. Frey.. | ![]() | [Dwight Joyce Ingle]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Dorothy Dix vs. Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Joyce MacDuffey in her home at Irwinville Farms, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his two granddaughters, Joyce and Evelyn, outside the Peterson home. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Joyce Yuki Nakamura, (eldest daughter) / photograph by Ansel Adams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Joyce Brothers | The best proof of love is trust. |
Nadine Gordimer | Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | |
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Economic History | Ireland | Anglo-Irish writers, including Swift, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Burke, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett, have made a major contribution to world literature over the past 300 years. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | In 1999 the Chitungwiza police arrested, detained for 6 months, and allegedly tortured a married couple, Joyce and Shupikai Karimazondo, and another person, John Mita, in response to allegations by a neighbor that they had killed their young domestic worker for ritual purposes. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious reason, "John A. Joyce." The bard who would prosper must carry a book, Do his thinking in prose and wear A crimson cravat, a far-away look And a head of hexameter hair. Be thin in your thought and your body'll be fat; If you wear your hair long you needn't your hat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Joyce" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Joyce" is used about 1,301 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) | 99.92% | 1,300 | 6,087 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,301 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Joyce" 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 |
| Joyce | First name Female | 364,000 | 49 |
| Joyce | Last name | 16,000 | 748 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Joyce" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lord". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Joyce." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Joisse | Female | N/A | Joyce |
| Gosse | Male | English | Joyce |
| Jocosa | Female | English | Joyce |
| Joyce | Female, Male | English | N/A |
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| Hong Kong | Joyce Boutique Holdings Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Joyce": James Augustine Aloysius Joyce ♦ James Joyce ♦ Joyce Carol Oates. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Joyce": Joyce-leon, Joyce-loebl, joyce-worshippers. | |
Ending with "Joyce": Hayman-joyce. | |
Containing "Joyce": and-swann-meets-joyce-grenfell-old-fashioned. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
joyce meyer | 1,767 | joyce myer | 55 |
joyce jillson | 491 | brenda joyce | 53 |
james joyce | 432 | joyce realty | 52 |
joyce dewitt | 397 | elizabeth joyce | 49 |
joyce meyers | 379 | joyce hyser | 49 |
joyce jimenez | 363 | araby james joyce | 47 |
joyce meyer ministry | 359 | joyce dewitt nude | 46 |
joyce | 248 | joyce myers ministry | 45 |
joyce myers | 172 | joyce tang | 44 |
joyce leslie | 169 | joyce gibson | 38 |
joyce carol oates | 157 | foundation joyce | 36 |
joyce jillson horoscope | 117 | joyce chen | 34 |
joyce kilmer | 98 | joyce ulysses | 34 |
joyce vedral | 92 | eveline james joyce | 32 |
joyce lex | 81 | giraud joyce | 32 |
joyce meyers ministry | 73 | dubliners james joyce | 32 |
joyce theater | 65 | james joyce ulysses | 31 |
elaine joyce | 62 | joyce carol oates where are you going where have you been | 31 |
joyce meyer.org | 56 | biography james joyce | 31 |
james joyce dead | 55 | joyce reardon | 30 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Joyce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | scrutin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | elezione (election, poll, vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | Shoynagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oycejay "жойс. (various references) electivo (election, elective, vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Joyce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Doyce, Jeykell, Jiye, Jocem, joica, joye, joyse, Joysey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-j-o-y" | |
-1 letter: joey. | |
-2 letters: coy, joe, joy. | |
-3 letters: jo, oe, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-j-o-y" | |
+1 letter: jockey. | |
+2 letters: jockeys, joyance. | |
+3 letters: cajolery, jockeyed, jocosely, joyances. | |
+4 letters: jockeying, objectify. | |
+5 letters: johnnycake, trajectory. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 79 63 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, 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)01001010 01101111 01111001 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o y c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 0079 0063 0065 |
| 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)4481916971 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, французский, francés |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italien, italiano, Iddaalish, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruso |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | espagnol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, испанский, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Derivations 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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