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Definitions: Keaton |
KeatonNoun1. United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Keaton" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a shed town". |
Synonyms: KeatonSynonyms: Buster Keaton (n), Joseph Francis Keaton (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Keaton |
| English words defined with "Keaton": Buster Keaton ♦ Joseph Francis Keaton. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But I can't prove the best part either Dean Keaton was dead. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) This Keaton fellow appears to be the whole show! (The Playhouse; writing credit: Edward F. Cline; Buster Keaton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) The Buster Keaton Story (1957) Life with Buster Keaton (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Buster Keaton, #22. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Conan O'Brien | I like Buster Keaton a lot more than Chaplin. And the Marx Brothers were probably my favorite of the older era. |
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| "Keaton" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Keaton" is used about 48 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% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Keaton" 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 |
| Keaton | Last name | 4,000 | 2,961 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Keaton, KY |
Expressions using "Keaton": Buster Keaton ♦ Joseph Francis Keaton. 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: atone, oaken, oaten, taken, token. | |
-2 letters: aeon, ante, etna, kane, kaon, keno, kent, keto, knot, koan, neat, nota, note, take, tank, teak, toea, toke, tone. | |
-3 letters: ane, ant, ate, eat, eon, eta, kae, kat, kea, ken, koa, nae, net, not, oak, oat, oka, oke, one, tae, tan, tao, tea, ten, toe, ton. | |
-4 letters: ae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-n-o-t" | |
+2 letters: banknote, takedown. | |
+3 letters: antismoke, banknotes, kaolinite, lakefront, nonmarket, nonskater, outranked, overtaken, snakeroot, takedowns. | |
+4 letters: alpenstock, antismoker, breakfront, kaolinites, keratinous, lakefronts, mountebank, nonskaters, outflanked, outthanked, overtaking, snakeroots. | |
+5 letters: alpenstocks, antismokers, breakfronts, cabinetwork, cartoonlike, debarkation, embarkation, heartbroken, kinetoplast, kleptomania, knotgrasses, mountebanks, nonskeletal, outspeaking, overtalking, overtasking, phantomlike, zooplankter. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 65 61 74 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K e a t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0065 0061 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)457167868180 |
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