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Kruger

Definition: Kruger

Kruger

Noun

1. 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)


Specialty Definitions: Kruger

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

KRUGER, Oom Paul, an Old Dutch cleanser who certainly made England scrub up. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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Synonyms: Kruger

Synonyms: 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.

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Crosswords: Kruger

English words defined with "Kruger": Oom Paul KrugerStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Kruger": KRUGER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Kruger

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Kruger

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Books

  • The frogs of the Kruger National Park : a guide to a group of vertebrate animals known as Amphibia-order Anura (Salientia) of the Kruger National Park (reference)

  • Barbara Kruger (reference)

  • Love for Sale: The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger (reference)

  • Waffen-Ss Commanders: The Army, Corps and Divisional Leaders of a Legend: Kruger to Zimmermann (Schiffer Military History) (reference)

  • Advances in neuropterology : (Insecta: Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Raphidioptera) : proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Neuropterology : Berg en Dal, Kruger National Park, Republic of South Africa, 3-4 February 1988 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Kruger

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Photo Album: Kruger

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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.

  

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Kruger

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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)

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

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Usage Frequency: Kruger

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)89.33%6740,952
Noun (singular)6.67%5157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)2.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%75N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Kruger

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
KrugerLast name5,0002,630
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Kruger

Expressions using "Kruger": Oom Paul Kruger Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Kruger": Kruger-daine.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Kruger

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

diane kruger

218

kruger map national park

10

freddy kruger

166

lon kruger

9

kruger national park

163

sebastian kruger

8

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133

kruger park lodge

7

barbara kruger

91

gauss kruger

6

kruger park

73

baxter kruger

6

kelly kruger

72

kandace kruger

6

freddie kruger

47

kruger national park south africa

6

gallien kruger

28

guide kruger travel

6

adrian kruger

22

freddy gloves kruger

5

freddy jason kruger vs

18

freedy kruger

5

diane kruger picture

16

freddy kruger movie

5

freddy kruger picture

15

galien kruger

5

hotel kruger national park

15

diane kruger photo

5

paul kruger

15

kruger park safari

5

brother kruger

12

kruger park south africa

5

hardy kruger

12

fred kruger

5

inc kruger

11

freddie jason kruger vs

4

chad kruger

10

freddy kruger tattoo

4

freddy kruger pic

10

kruger paper

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Kruger

Derivations

Words beginning with "Kruger": krugerrand, krugerrands. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Kruger

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Kruger


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

4B 72 75 67 65 72

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 01110010 01110101 01100111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#114 &#117 &#103 &#101 &#114

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)

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

458487737184

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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. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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