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Definition: Kuhn |
KuhnNoun1. Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Kuhn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Synonym: KuhnSynonym: Richard Kuhn (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Kuhn intubation narcosis (medicine), Kuhn orotracheal tube. |
Crosswords: Kuhn |
| English words defined with "Kuhn": Richard Kuhn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Kuhn": TCK smut. (references) |
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Consumer Goods |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Figure 39. Knudsen thermometer constructed by the firm of Siebert and Kuhn. Little is known about this instrument. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Dr. J. Doellinger. / J. Kuhn. Rosmäsler. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Doctor Fleschrier(?) / gedr. S.B. Kuhn. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Kuhn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Red Kuhn. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Maggie Kuhn | There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal! |
| The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The project was led by Daniel Kuhn, MSW, and Anna Ortigara, MS, RN, with technical support provided by David Lindeman, PhD. The overall goal of this project was to train staff of retirement communities, assisted living facilities, senior housing developments, and case coordination agencies in the local area in order to identify and meet the needs of elderly residents with AD and related dementias. (references) | |
Business | Centradis combines its purchasing office and sales network to represent such companies as Berthoud and Kuhn. Another major wholesaler in France is Promodis, which often combines forces with Centradis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Kuhn" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Kuhn" is used about 152 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% | 152 | 25,494 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Kuhn" 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 |
| Kuhn | Last name | 10,000 | 1,269 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Kuhn": Richard Kuhn. 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Kuhn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akhund, Kahin, Keh, khu, Khul, Khulna, Khum, Kizhin, Kohen, Kohm, kohn, Konh, Kuah, Kuchino, Kufncd, Kuh, Kuhnle, Kuhns, Kumho, K'un, Kupho, Uhhh, Ukj. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hunk. | |
| Words within the letters "h-k-n-u" | |
-1 letter: hun. | |
-2 letters: nu, uh, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-k-n-u" | |
+1 letter: chunk, hunks, hunky, thunk. | |
+2 letters: ankush, bohunk, chunks, chunky, hunker, kahuna, kuchen, punkah, shrunk, thunks, unhook, unhusk. | |
+3 letters: bohunks, chunked, hulking, hunkers, hunkier, hunkies, husking, kahunas, punkahs, punkish, thunked, unchoke, unhooks, unhusks, unthink. | |
+4 letters: ankushes, chipmunk, chucking, chunkier, chunkily, chunking, cornhusk, elkhound, gunkhole, hunkered, hunkiest, huskings, keypunch, krumhorn, lunkhead, munchkin, mutchkin, nunchaku, outthank, outthink, shrunken, shucking, shunpike, sunchoke, thankful, thumbkin, thunking, unchoked, unchokes, unhooked, unhusked, unkosher, unshaken, unshrunk, unthinks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 75 68 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 01110101 01101000 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K u h n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0075 0068 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)45877480 |
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