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LANIER

Definitions: LANIER

LANIER

Noun

1. A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like.

2. A thong of leather; a whip lash.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LANIER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Etymology: Lanier \Lan"ier\, noun. [French expression lani[`e]re. See Lanyard.]. (Websters 1913)

 

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Crosswords: LANIER

English words defined with "LANIER": Lainere, LanyerThomas Lanier Williams. (references)
Etymologies containing "LANIER": Lainere, lanyard, Layner. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LANIER

DomainTitle

References

  • Lanier Bankshares, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Lanier Worldwide, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Artificial Stupidity : Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier says computers are too dumb to take over the world. A Salon.com Feature story. [HTML] (reference)

  • Democratic Voices and Vistas: American Literature from Emerson to Lanier (reference)

  • Poems of Sidney Lanier (reference)

  • Secrets of Fishing Lake Lanier (reference)

  • Sidney Lanier (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: LANIER

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Okbin Oglesby and Sidney Lanier both NRCS employees inspect a a field of Vidalia Onions. Georgia.Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Orbin Oglesby and Sidney Lanier inspecting terraces and contour farming on vidalia onions. Georgia.Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Burk-Waggoner Pool, panographed from opposite King 8 well and Waggoner farm house on southwest corner of block 84, showing all blocks northwest & northeast featuring blocks 84-83-85-86-87-88-73-74-75, Lanier tract etc.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: LANIER

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Stehr-Green JK, Stehr-Green PA, Schantz PM, Wilson JF, Lanier A. Risk factors for infection with Echinococcus multilocularis in Alaska. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

In addition, IBM, Lanier, NCR, GTE, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Liz Claiborne, May Department Stores, Federated Department Stores, London Fog, Tommy Hilfiger, J.C. Penney, the Gap, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Bates Strategic Alliance, McCann-Erickson, J. Walter Thompson, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG all have branches, affiliated offices or local distributors/representatives. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: LANIER

"LANIER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "LANIER" is used about 11 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)90.91%10111,207
Noun (singular)9.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: LANIER

The following table summarizes the usage of "LANIER" 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
LanierLast name7,0001,696
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: LANIER

CountryName
USA

Lanier Bankshares, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: LANIER

Expressions using "LANIER": Lanier County Thomas Lanier Williams. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LANIER

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

lake lanier

884

lanier

360

lanier tech

117

georgia lake lanier

101

lanier copier

49

lanier worldwide

47

camping lake lanier

43

lake sidney lanier

31

lanier honda

29

history lake lanier

24

lanier speedway

23

campground lake lanier

21

lanier middle school

21

virginia lanier

20

lanier high school

18

island lanier

18

house boat on lake lanier

17

bob lanier

17

beach lake lanier

16

care health lanier

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: LANIER

Misspellings

"LANIER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alnie, Lagnier, laniers, Lanser, Leiner, Llanaber. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LANIER"

Words rhyming with "LANIER" (pronounced 'Lan"ier'): Clothier, Courtier, Havier, Panier, Vizier. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LANIER

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aliner, larine, linear, nailer, renail.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r"

-1 letter: alien, aline, anile, ariel, elain, learn, liane, liner, renal.

-2 letters: airn, anil, aril, earl, earn, elan, ilea, lain, lair, lane, lari, lean, lear, liar, lien, lier, line, lira, lire, nail, near, rail, rain, rale, rani, real, rein, rial, riel, rile.

-3 letters: ail, ain, air, ale, ane, ani, are, ear, era, ern, ire, lar, lea, lei, lie, lin, nae, nil, ran, rei, ria, rin.

-4 letters: ae, ai, al, an, ar, el, en, er, in, la, li, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r"
 

+1 letter: aileron, airline, aliener, alienor, aligner, aliners, carline, engrail, hernial, inhaler, inlayer, lankier, latrine, manlier, marline, mineral, nailers, nargile, plainer, praline, ralline, ratline, ravelin, realign, reginal, relaxin, reliant, renails, retinal, trenail.

 

+2 letters: acrolein, ailerons, airliner, airlines, airplane, alerting, algerine, alieners, alienors, aligners, allergin, altering, auntlier, barnlike, bilander, bilinear, blearing, carlines, clarinet, clearing, colinear, dragline, elaterin, engrails, entailer, entrails, finagler, flanerie, fraulein, gainlier, ganglier, geranial, geraniol, germinal, gnarlier, grapline, hairline, hardline, hibernal, inarable, inertial, infernal, inflamer, inflater, inhalers, inhauler, inlander, inlayers, integral, interlap, interlay, internal, interval, irenical, islander, janglier, lagering, lanciers, latrines, layering, learning, linearly, maligner, malinger, marlines, minerals, mislearn, narghile, nargileh, nargiles, nearlier, oriental, overlain, pearling, pelorian, perineal, pralines, rainless, ratlines, raveling, ravelins, realigns, regaling, regional, relacing, relating, relation, relaxing, relaxins, relaying, reliance, renailed, retinals, retinula, rifleman, rinsable, ruinable, signaler, slangier, snarlier, tanglier, tenurial, terminal, tramline, trapline, treenail, trenails, triangle, triplane, valerian, yearling.

 

+3 letters: acroleins, airliners, airplanes, algerines, alienator, allergins, allethrin, almonries, animalier, antiglare, antiulcer, arecoline, arsenical, ashlering, aureoling, avirulent, bairnlier, ballerina, bandolier, barreling, baseliner, bilanders, brainless, breadline, bromelain, calendric, carnelian, cellaring, censorial, certainly, cisternal, clarinets, clarioned, clavering, cleanlier, clearings, clearwing, collinear, coralline, cornelian, declaring, derailing, draglines, drinkable, earliness, earthling, elaterins, engrailed, enlarging, entailers, erosional, explainer, faltering, finaglers, flaneries, flatliner, flauntier, frailness, frangible, frauleins, geranials, geraniols, girandole, gnarliest, granulite, graplines, graveling, greenmail, hairlines, haltering, harlequin, headliner, heralding, ignorable, implanter, incurable, inferable, inflamers, inflaters, inhaulers, inlanders, installer, insurable, integrals, interclan, interlace, interlaid, interlaps, interlard, interlays, intermale, internals, interplay, intervale, intervals, islanders, laagering, lackering, laddering, lamebrain, laniaries, lappering, larcenies, larcenist, larkiness, lathering, laundries, laureling, laveering, lawyering, layerings, learnings, legionary, linearise, linearity, linearize, liveryman, luminaire, madrilene, maligners, malingers, marveling, millenary, minelayer, mislearns, mislearnt, narghiles, nargilehs, natrolite, nearliest, neuralgia, neuralgic, neuroglia, nonlinear, nonpareil, normalise, normalize, numerical, orientals, painterly, paltering, parceling, pargyline, parhelion, parleying, pellagrin, percaline, perennial, perinatal, philander, piperonal, planisher, porcelain, printable, prolamine, rappeling, rationale, ravelings, ravelling, realigned, realising, realizing, recalling, recoaling, redialing, refalling, reflating, reflation, regionals, reglazing, reimplant, reinflate, reinstall, relapsing, relations, releasing, reliances, reliantly, reloading, reloaning, remailing, renailing, repealing, replacing, replating, replaying, reptilian, resailing, rescaling, resealing, reslating, retailing, retinulae, retinular, retinulas, revaluing, revealing, saintlier, searingly, semilunar, sensorial, serotinal, shearling, signalers, signaller, slavering, snarliest, spanglier, sterilant, superlain, tailender, tellurian, terminals, tillerman, trainable, trameling, tramlines, traplines, traveling, treadling, treenails, triangles, triennial, trilinear, triplanes, trivalent, ultrafine, underlaid, underlain, unilinear, universal, unmanlier, unreality, unridable, unrivaled, unwarlike, uredinial, valerians, vernalize, versional, waterline, wearingly, womanlier, yearlings.

 

+4 letters: adenoviral, adrenaline, adulterine, aldermanic, alienators, alimentary, allergenic, allethrins, alteration, anglerfish, animaliers, anteriorly, antilitter, appareling, arecolines, arsenicals, bairnliest, ballerinas, banderilla, bandoliers, barrelling, baseliners, becrawling, belaboring, biparental, blabbering, blandisher, blarneying, blathering, blattering, blazonries, bleariness, branchline, breadlines, brilliance, bromelains, calipering, cantilever, carnallite, carnelians, centralise, centralism, centralist, centrality, centralize, ceremonial, chandelier, chloramine, chlorinate, citronella, clabbering, clambering, clattering, clearwings, complainer, corallines, corelating, cornelians, cranesbill, credential, debonairly, delineator, derailment, disenthral, drinkables, earthlings, eliminator, engrailing, ensnarling, epicentral, eternalize, euryhaline, explainers, falconries, fingernail, flatliners, flattering, fluorinate, fraxinella, gallerying, galvanizer, generalise, generalist, generality, generalize, germinally, girandoles, grainfield, granulites, gravelling, greenmails, harlequins, headliners, heavenlier, highlander, hinterland, impearling, impersonal, implanters, inarguable, incurables, inertially, inexorable, inexorably, infernally, infiltrate, inoperable, installers, integrable, integrally, interclass, interlaced, interlaces, interlards, interlayer, interleave, interlocal, interlunar, intermodal, intermural, internally, internodal, interplant, interplays, interplead, interrenal, intertidal, intertrial, intervales, interzonal, inthralled, intolerant, intraplate, invariable, irenically, irrelevant, journalize, kallikrein, lacerating, laceration, lacquering, lacustrine, ladyfinger, lambrequin, lamebrains, languisher, larcenists, lateraling, laterizing, laundering, laureating, laureation, laurelling, lawrencium, lawyerings, leaguering, leathering, lectionary, lenticular, leveraging, liberating, liberation, linearised, linearises, linearized, linearizes, linebacker, linecaster, linerboard, lipreading, literation, longhaired, luminaires, luminaries, luxuriance, madrilenes, mainlander, malingered, malingerer, managerial, marcelling, martingale, marvelling, mercantile, meridional, minelayers, mineralise, mineralize, mineralogy, mislearned, monetarily, multirange, nalorphine, natrolites, naturalise, naturalize, neoliberal, neorealism, neorealist, nephridial, neuralgias, neurilemma, neuroglial, neuroglias, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, neutrality, neutralize, nonliteral, nonpareils, normalcies, normalised, normalises, normalized, normalizer, normalizes, orientally, overlading, overlaying, painfuller, painkiller, palavering, palindrome, paltriness, panbroiled, parcelling, pargylines, parliament, pellagrins, penetralia, peninsular, percalines, perennials, peritoneal, philanders, piperonals, planetaria, planimeter, planishers, plastering, pleasuring, porcelains, pratincole, pregenital, prenuptial, preplacing, prevailing, prolamines, prudential, quarreling, rappelling, rationales, ravellings, realigning, realtering, reanalysis, reapplying, reavailing, recanalize, reclaiming, reclasping, recleaning, redialling, reflations, refloating, regelating, regimental, regionally, regulating, regulation, rehandling, reimplants, reinflated, reinflates, reinstalls, relabeling, relational, relaxation, relearning, relegating, relegation, relocating, relocation, repaneling, replanning, replanting, repleading, reptilians, republican, resaddling, resaluting, resampling, retackling, retailings, retinacula, revelation, rhizoplane, ringhalses, ringleader, rosemaling, rudimental, sailplaner, sanderling, seignorial, senatorial, shearlings, shrinkable, signallers, slabbering, slandering, slathering, starveling, sterilants, strandline, streamline, tailenders, tantalizer, tenurially, terminable, terminably, terminally, timberland, tolerating, toleration, torrential, tourmaline, trailering, tramelling, trammeling, trampoline, trancelike, tranquiler, travelling, triennials, trigeminal, ulcerating, ulceration, ungainlier, unicameral, unilateral, universals, unlearning, unliterary, unraveling, unrealized, unreliable, unrivalled, unsalaried, urinalyses, urogenital, velarizing, ventilator, vernalized, vernalizes, vulcanizer, waterlines, waveringly, yearningly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LANIER


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

4C 41 4E 49 45 52

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)

01001100 01000001 01001110 01001001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#78 &#73 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 004E 0049 0045 0052

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

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

463548433952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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