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Karloff

Definition: Karloff

Karloff

Noun

1. United States film actor (born in England) noted for his performances in horror films (1887-1969).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Karloff

Synonyms: Boris Karloff (n), William Henry Pratt (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Karloff

DomainUsage

Screenplays

For the third timeBoris Karloff as 'The Mummy (Porky's II: The Next Day; writing credit: Roger Swaybill; Alan Ormsby)

Movie/TV Titles

Starring Boris Karloff (1949)

Boris Karloff Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer (1949)

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

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Commercial Usage: Karloff

DomainTitle

Books

  • Sinister Serials of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, Jr. (reference)

  • Boris Karloff presents more tales of the frightened (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Karloff

"Karloff" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Karloff" is used about 4 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%4175,879

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

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Expression: Karloff

Expression using "Karloff": Boris Karloff. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Karloff

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

boris karloff

85

karloff

15

karloff sara

4

boris karloff picture

4

boris karloff photo sexy

4

boris karloff frankenstein

3

boris karloff thriller

2

karloff orchestra

2

boris karloff photo

2

biography boris karloff

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

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Anagrams: Karloff

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-f-k-l-o-r"

-2 letters: flora, offal.

-3 letters: farl, faro, flak, foal, folk, fora, fork, kola, lark, loaf, okra, oral, raff, rolf.

-4 letters: aff, arf, ark, far, for, fro, kaf, koa, kor, lar, oaf, oak, oar, off, oka, ora.

-5 letters: al, ar, fa, ka, la, lo, of, or.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Karloff


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

4B 61 72 6C 6F 66 66

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 01100001 01110010 01101100 01101111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#97 &#114 &#108 &#111 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0061 0072 006C 006F 0066 0066

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

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

45678478817272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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