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LELY

Date "LELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)


Specialty Definition: LELY

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Literature

Lely (Sir Peter), the painter, was the son of Vander Vaas or Faes, of Westphalia, whose house had a lily for its sign. Both father and son went by the nickname of Le-lys (the Lily), a sobriquet which Peter afterwards adopted as his cognomen. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Lely, Florida

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lely is a town located in Collier County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 3,857.

Geography


Lely is located at 26°6'10" North, 81°43'59" West (26.102802, -81.733125)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.8 km² (1.5 mi²). 3.8 km² (1.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.68% is water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 3,857 people, 2,037 households, and 1,179 families residing in the town. The population density is 1,020.0/km² (2,638.9/mi²). There are 2,641 housing units at an average density of 698.4/km² (1,806.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.41% White, 0.70% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.91% from other races, and 0.39% from two or more races. 3.71% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 2,037 households out of which 8.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.7% are married couples living together, 3.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 42.1% are non-families. 37.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 26.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.82 and the average family size is 2.33. In the town the population is spread out with 8.1% under the age of 18, 2.8% from 18 to 24, 13.1% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 50.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 65 years. For every 100 females there are 82.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 80.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $45,170, and the median income for a family is $57,361. Males have a median income of $40,719 versus $31,139 for females. The per capita income for the town is $32,430. 6.3% of the population and 5.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 6.2% are under the age of 18 and 8.9% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lely, Florida."

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Commercial Usage: LELY

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Books

  • Cambridge Portraits from Lely to Hockney (reference)

  • Lelie in zilver : Van der Lely, meesterzilversmeden te Leeuwarden 1574-1788 (reference)

  • Naples, Florida, Streetmap: Including Bonita Bay, Bonita Beach, Bonita Shores, Bonita Springs, East Naples, Golden Gate, Lely, North Naples, Pelic (reference)

  • Sir Peter Lely (reference)

  • Sir Peter Lely, 1618-80 : [catalogue of the] exhibition at 15 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 [from 17 November 1978 to 18 March 1979] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: LELY

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: LELY

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Abrahamus Cowleius / P. Lely p. G. Vertue Sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, ob. 1674 / engraved by J. Thomson ; from the original of Sir P. Lely. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Usage Frequency: LELY

"LELY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "LELY" is used about 13 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)92.31%12101,599
Adverb (general)7.69%1339,140
                    Total100.00%13N/A

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

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Cities: LELY


1. Lely, FL (CDP, FIPS 39987)
Location: 26.10014 N, 81.72871 W
Population (1990): 3014 (2145 housing units)
Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LELY

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

lely

30

lely resort

13

lely high school

12

lely spreader

5

lely naples resort

2
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Derivations: LELY

Derivations

Words ending with "LELY": agilely, brittlely, docilely, facilely, fertilely, futilely, hostilely, palely, puerilely, senilely, servilely, solely, stalely, sterilely, subtilely, supplely, tactilely, versatilely, vilely, virilely. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: LELY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: yell.

Words within the letters "e-l-l-y"

-1 letter: ell, ley, lye.

-2 letters: el, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-l-y"
 

+1 letter: alley, belly, delly, felly, jelly, kelly, nelly, telly, welly, yells.

 

+2 letters: alleys, bluely, evilly, galley, glegly, gulley, lamely, lanely, lately, leally, lealty, leanly, lewdly, liefly, likely, lively, lonely, lovely, mulley, palely, pulley, rallye, really, shelly, smelly, solely, tellys, valley, vilely, volley, yelled, yeller, yellow.

 

+3 letters: agilely, alertly, alienly, allayed, allayer, allergy, alloyed, areally, bellboy, bleakly, calycle, cecally, cleanly, clearly, clerkly, closely, clypeal, cruelly, elderly, equally, eyeball, falsely, fleetly, fleshly, flyable, flybelt, flyblew, flyleaf, flyless, fullery, gallery, galleys, gelidly, gulleys, hazelly, hellery, ideally, jellify, langley, largely, leakily, leerily, legally, legibly, levelly, lithely, loosely, loverly, loyaler, mesally, mulleys, novelly, outyell, penally, playlet, pulleys, rallyes, ravelly, regally, sleekly, stalely, trolley, valleys, venally, volleys, walleye, yellers, yelling, yellows, yellowy.

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Alternative Orthography: LELY


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

4C 45 4C 59

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 01000101 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 004C 0059

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

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

46394659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album 		5. Usage Frequency
6. Cities
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Derivations 		9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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