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KEELEY

Specialty Definition: KEELEY

DomainDefinition

Biographical Satire

KEELEY, Doctor, water-wagon manufacturer. Claimed fame solely on account of the invention which prevented men from going home to a scolding without the assistance of lamp posts. Declared his cure was as good as gold. Was strongly opposed by John Barleycorn and his friends. Never cared for New York, London, or Paris. K.'s end never has been made public. Historians are endeavoring to ascertain whether he practiced what he preached. Ambition: Large breweries. Recreation: Getting away from business. Address: All large cities. Clubs: W. C. T. U. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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"KEELEY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Caollaidhe's descendent", "slender".

Date "KEELEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

"KEELEY" is a common misspelling or typo for: keeled, keenly, kneeled.


Photo Album: KEELEY

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[John L. Keeley, M.D.] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Fabian Bachrach..

Doorway of the Keeley Institute, Dwight, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: KEELEY

"KEELEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "KEELEY" is used about 29 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)100%2964,444

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

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Name Usage Frequency: KEELEY

The following table summarizes the usage of "KEELEY" 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
KeeleyFirst name Female1,0003,959
KeeleyLast name2,0006,961
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: KEELEY

"KEELEY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Caollaidhe's descendent", "slender".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "KEELEY."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
KailaFemaleN/AKayley
CaelieFemaleEnglishKayley
CaileighFemaleEnglishKayley
CaleighFemaleEnglishKayley
CayleyFemaleEnglishKayley
KaeleaFemaleEnglishKayley
KaeleeFemaleEnglishKayley
KaileeFemaleEnglishKayley
KaileyFemaleEnglishKayley
KaleighFemaleEnglishKayley
KaleyFemaleEnglishKayley
KaylaFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleahFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleeFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleenFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleighFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleyFemaleEnglishN/A
KaylieFemaleEnglishKayley
KaylyFemaleEnglishKayley
KaylynFemaleEnglishKayley
KeeleighFemaleEnglishKayley
KeeleyFemaleEnglishKayley
KeelyFemaleEnglishKayley
KeighleyFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleyFemaleIrishN/A
KeeleyFemaleIrishKayley
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: KEELEY

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

keeley hawes

64

katerer keeley

3

keeley

32

keeley watson

3

ken keeley

11

electronics keeley

3

band dave keeley

10

keeley mike

3

hawes keeley picture

8

breast hawes keeley

3

bob keeley

6

blues dave keeley

2

keeley hawes nude

5

keeley lake lodge

2

keeley smith

5

keeley lake

2

keeley robert

4

keeley mike production

2

compressor keeley

4

keeley production

2

blue book keeley

4

keeley skip

2

steve keeley

3

2003 keeley kendra

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

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Anagrams: KEELEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-k-l-y"

-2 letters: eely, keel, leek, leke, yelk.

-3 letters: eel, eke, elk, eye, key, lee, lek, ley, lye.

-4 letters: el, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-k-l-y"
 

+1 letter: eyelike.

 

+4 letters: newsweekly, semiweekly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: KEELEY


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

4B 45 45 4C 45 59

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)

01001011 01000101 01000101 01001100 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#69 &#69 &#76 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0045 0045 004C 0045 0059

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

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

453939463959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Usage Frequency
4. Names: Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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