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Definition: Kruger |
KrugerNoun1. Boer statesman (1825-1904). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Kruger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | KRUGER, Oom Paul, an Old Dutch cleanser who certainly made England scrub up. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonyms: KrugerSynonyms: Oom Paul Kruger (n), Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Gauss-Krüger coordinates (geography), Gauss-Krüger projection, transverse Mercator coordinates, transverse Mercator projection. |
Crosswords: Kruger |
| English words defined with "Kruger": Oom Paul Kruger ♦ Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Kruger": KRUGER. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hey, I work for Kruger Industrial Smoothing, we don't care and it shows. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Well, maybe Kruger wasn't for you. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | President Kruger (1898) | |
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![]() | Chief Boatswain Jim Kruger (in green hard hat) directs RAINIER Deck Department personnel as the RAINIER returns home to Seattle and its base at the Pacific Marine Center. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Berzelius, : (Chimiste.) / Peint par Kruger. Grave par Ambroise Tardieu. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | D. Ioh. Phil. Dv Roi. / Tho. Schartz pinx. F.C. Kruger sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Kruger. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | At the Olympic tryouts, Cincinnati, Ohio. Left to right: Duke F. Kahanamoku, Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, Harold "Stubby" Kruger, Johnny Weissmueler, Judge Elmer F. Hunsicker, Paul Goss, Mrs. Mabel Fitzmorris, Mrs. Ella Layne Brown, Mrs. Carolyn Wayman, and. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Transfusion bottles containing intravenous solution, are given final inspection by Grace Kruger, one of many women employees at Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois. When her brother left Baxter's to join the. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Archbishop Stephanic High School. Father Kruger and boys, at entrance. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Human Rights | South Africa | On January 15, two Mapogo members were charged with murder in connection with the killing of a man whose body allegedly was fed to crocodiles in the Kruger National Park in 2000; the case was ongoing at year's end. (references) |
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| "Kruger" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.33% of the time. "Kruger" is used about 75 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) | 89.33% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Kruger" 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 |
| Kruger | Last name | 5,000 | 2,630 |
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Expressions using "Kruger": Oom Paul Kruger ♦ Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Kruger": Kruger-daine. | |
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| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Kruger": krugerrand, krugerrands. (additional references) | |
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"Kruger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Karger, Kaufer, Kiruga, Krauer, Krauter, Kregel, kreuger, Kriger, Kuguru, Truger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-k-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: urger. | |
-2 letters: grue, ruer, urge. | |
-3 letters: erg, err, keg, kue, reg, rue, rug, uke. | |
-4 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-k-r-r-u" | |
+3 letters: drugmaker. | |
+4 letters: drugmakers, grubstaker, krugerrand. | |
+5 letters: grubstakers, krugerrands. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 72 75 67 65 72 |
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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)01001011 01110010 01110101 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K r u g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0072 0075 0067 0065 0072 |
| 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)458487737184 |
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