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Definition: Kidd |
KiddNoun1. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Kidd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
"Kidd" is a common misspelling or typo for: kid, kiddy, kind. |
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Biographical Satire | KIDD, Captain, the man who spent his life burying the treasure which several people have been sure they could locate. Was said to have been one of the finest men who ever scuttled a ship. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonyms: KiddSynonyms: Captain Kidd (n), William Kidd (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Kidd |
| English words defined with "Kidd": Captain Kidd ♦ William Kidd. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Kidd": Bridgewater Treatises ♦ KIDD, Kidd Blood-Group System ♦ SYNDICATE. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Joe Kidd (1972) Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954) The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd (1953) Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) Captain Kidd (1945) | |
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 | Figure 7. Isaacs-Kidd trawling net for intermediate depths. Devised by John D. Isaacs and Lewis W. Kidd from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1950. above shows the net at the point of immersion. This net was meant to capture very large animals of very great speed. This net was successfully tested at more than 1000 meters water depth off California in 1950. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | On board USS Kidd (DDG-993) in April 1982. They are (seated, left to right): Jesse W. Arbor; Dalton L. Baugh; William S. White; Samuel E. Barnes; (standing, left to right): George C. Cooper; James E. Hare; John W. Reagan; Graham E. Martin; Wesley A. Brown; Frank E. Sublett. Brown was the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. The others were members of "the Golden Thirteen", the first African-American Navy officers, who were commissioned in 1944. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Portrait in oils by Heiter. It was received from USS Kidd (DD-661) after she was decommissioned in 1964. Credit: NAVY. |  | With officers of his staff, on board USS Argonne (AS-10), circa 1932. Seated in the front row are (left to right): Commander Leo L. Lindley, Aide & Force Material Officer; Captain Issac C. Kidd, Chief of Staff; Rear Admiral H.H. Hough, ComBaseFor; Captain Ellsworth H. Van Patten, (SC), Aide & Force Supply Officer; and Lieutenant Commander Jacob H. Jacobson, in charge of Battle Force Camera Party. Among those in the rear row are (in no particular order): Lieutenant Thomas F. Darden, Jr., Aide & Flag Secretary; Lieutenant Walter E. Moore, Aide & Force Personnel Officer; and Lieutenant Llewellyn J. Johns, Aide and Flag Lieutenant. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed circa 1939. Present are (from left to right): Major General Louis McC. Little, USMC; Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN; Captain Isaac C. Kidd, USN; Brigadier General John C. Beaumont, USMC; and Colonel Thomas S. Clarke, USMC. Credit: NAVY. |  | Judge Juanita Kidd Stout, seated, facing slightly left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Kidd" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Kidd" is used about 97 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) | 100% | 97 | 33,269 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Kidd" 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 |
| Kidd | Last name | 13,000 | 954 |
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Expressions using "Kidd": captain Kidd ♦ Kidd Blood-Group System ♦ William Kidd. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
jason kidd | 2,236 | jason kidd wallpaper | 46 |
joumana kidd | 1,516 | jason kidd jersey | 46 |
joumana kidd picture | 255 | kidd t.j | 45 |
jason kidd picture | 179 | uss kidd | 38 |
kidd | 160 | jason kidd photo | 38 |
jason kidd wife | 141 | jason joumana kidd | 38 |
kidd rock | 139 | davis kidd | 33 |
kidd tj | 112 | family jason kidd | 33 |
biography jason kidd | 107 | kidd phil | 31 |
jodie kidd | 106 | alex kidd | 30 |
joumana kidd photo | 106 | chris kidd | 25 |
joumana kidd pic | 79 | jason kidd son | 23 |
sue monk kidd | 66 | jason kidd shoes | 21 |
jumana kidd | 66 | jason kidd news | 21 |
captain kidd | 64 | kidd mount | 20 |
bio jason kidd | 57 | jason kidd picture wife | 20 |
joumanna kidd | 55 | jason kidd race | 18 |
joe kidd | 55 | trevor kidd | 18 |
jemma kidd | 54 | kidd lawford | 18 |
jason kidd pic | 52 | ethnicity jason kidd | 18 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Kidd": kidded, kidder, kidders, kiddie, kiddies, kidding, kiddingly, kiddish, kiddo, kiddoes, kiddos, kiddush, kiddushes, kiddushim, kiddy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Kidd": skidded, skidder, skidders, skiddier, skiddiest, skidding, skiddoo, skiddooed, skiddooing, skiddoos, skiddy. (additional references) | |
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"Kidd" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kdip, Kiddi, kidt, Pidd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-i-k" | |
-1 letter: did, kid. | |
-2 letters: id. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-i-k" | |
+1 letter: diked, kiddo, kiddy. | |
+2 letters: dicked, dikdik, dinked, dirked, disked, kidded, kidder, kiddie, kiddos, kidvid, skiddy, zaddik. | |
+3 letters: dikdiks, kaddish, katydid, kidders, kiddies, kidding, kiddish, kiddoes, kiddush, kidvids, kindled, kindred, piddock, skidded, skidder, skiddoo, tzaddik, zaddick. | |
+4 letters: daikered, deticked, dickered, disliked, disyoked, dockside, grandkid, katydids, kidnaped, kindreds, piddocks, skidders, skiddier, skidding, skiddoos, skidooed, skydived, zaddikim. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 69 64 64 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .. -.. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101001 01100100 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K i d d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0069 0064 0064 |
| 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)45757070 |
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