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"LINDA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "beautiful", "a serpent", "a dragon", "soft", "tender". |
Date "LINDA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Linda |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Computer Science, Linda is a coordination language initially developed by David Gelernter and Nicolas Carriero. Other researches are e.g. Thomas Kolarik
In the television series Sesame Street, Linda is a deaf character played by actress Linda Bove.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Linda."
Crosswords: LINDA |
| Specialty definitions using "LINDA": client/server, client-server, C-Linda ♦ ELLIS ♦ LindaLISP ♦ Melinda ♦ POSYBL, Prolog-D-Linda, Prolog-Linda ♦ Scheme-Linda. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LINDA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (pretty), Portuguese Brazilian (pretty), Swedish (bandage, lap, swaddle, twine, twist, wind, wrap up). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If you don't get rid of Linda, I'm gonna throw her out the winda. (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn) I had to, you were doing the Linda Blair bit! (Extreme Ghostbusters; writing credit: Brooks Wachtel) Oh Linda, butt out or get pretty! (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme; writing credit: Jonathan Harvey) And you do a phenomenal Linda Ronstadt imitation. (Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place; writing credit: Pat Bullard) Linda, stop! (Magnolia; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Linda (1973) A Linda Águeda (1953) Linda Be Good (1947) Mariquita linda Adiós (1944) La Linda Beatriz (1939) | |
Song Titles | Linda (performing artist: Jan and Dean) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured (L-R) are Linda Han, Leslie Tengelsen, Roy Campbell, Theodore Tsai, Costin Cernescu, and Simona Ruta analyzing human sera at the Bucharest Virology Institute. Credit: CDC. |  | Hurricane Linda. Credit: NASA. |
 | Overhead ViewsHurricane Linda approaching Baja California on 1997 September 12 at 18:00UT (10:00 PST). Data are from the NOAA GOES-9 satellite. Images andrendering by Marit Jentoft-Nilsen. Credit: NASA. |  | Dave Hardy, NODC scientist on collecting expedition, followed by biologist Linda Parish. Hardy leading a herpetological collecting expedition on the slopes of the active volcano, La Soufriere. Credit: Small World. |
 | Near Pullman, Washington, (left to right) Kurtis Schroeder, Linda Thomashow, Jim Cook, and David Weller examine healthy wheat thriving in a filed infected by the fungus that causes wheat take-all. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |  | Palmer and Linda Sekora on Bering Sea Beach, Kudiakof Islands. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
 | Linda Richards. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | TB - AIDS Diary / by Linda Troeller. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Waterline in trench in construction of a housing project, Linda Vista, San Diego, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Deep Bottom, Va., vicinity. Transport Linda of Philadelphia and a monitor (Onondaga?) on the James. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Green Mama, Svoboda, Nevskaya Kosmetika, Kalina, Linda and Uralskiye Samotsvety dominate the market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ellen Levin | Yeah, because it looked like it was going into deadlock, and Linda sat with us, too. She confided in us every step of the way with the plea bargain. |
Linda Thompson | My phone rang, and it was Lisa Marie, who was only nine years old at the time, and she used to call me from time to time because we were very close. As I said, I loved her a lot then. I love her a lot now. And she said, Linda, it's Lisa. |
Rush Limbaugh | I have been talking about Tom Daschle's wife, Linda, and all of her lobbying of Congress and all of the money that the Daschle family earns from it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "LINDA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.60% of the time. "LINDA" is used about 1,009 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) | 99.6% | 1,005 | 7,330 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.4% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,009 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LINDA" 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 |
| Linda | First name Female | 1,035,000 | 3 |
| Linda | Last name | 300 | 24,475 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "LINDA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "beautiful", "a serpent", "a dragon", "soft", "tender". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "LINDA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Belinda | Female | English | N/A |
| Bindy | Female | English | Belinda |
| Linda | Female | English | Belinda |
| Linden | Female | English | Linda |
| Lindy | Female | English | Linda |
| Linnie | Female | English | Linda |
| Lynda | Female | English | Linda |
| Lyndi | Female | English | Linda |
| Lynn | Female, Male | English | Linda |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Linda, CA (CDP, FIPS 41572) |
Expressions using "LINDA": Loma Linda ♦ rio linda ♦ Yorba Linda. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LINDA": C-Linda, Fortran-Linda, Lisp-Linda, ML-Linda, Pascal-Linda, Prolog-D-Linda, Prolog-Linda, Scheme-Linda. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
linda | 1,363 | loma linda | 217 |
linda lovelace | 1,097 | eder linda | 209 |
linda o neil | 954 | loma linda ca | 192 |
linda blair | 796 | linda park | 186 |
linda goodman | 682 | linda rosing | 173 |
yorba linda ca | 669 | linda thoren | 155 |
linda ronstadt | 512 | linda rafar | 138 |
linda oneil | 457 | linda harrison | 132 |
linda cardellini | 456 | linda lamme | 129 |
linda hamilton | 443 | linda mccartney | 126 |
loma linda university | 438 | linda blair nude | 125 |
linda carter | 417 | linda brava | 125 |
linda tran | 405 | linda sobek | 118 |
lampenius linda | 330 | linda kozlowski | 117 |
linda fiorentino | 328 | linda perry | 107 |
linda evans | 324 | yorba linda | 104 |
linda vester | 315 | linda black | 103 |
linda evangelista | 312 | linda gray | 103 |
linda howard | 276 | loma linda hospital | 100 |
la linda mas | 271 | linda price | 98 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "LINDA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | линда. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LINDA": lindane, lindanes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LINDA": blindage, blindages. (additional references) | |
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"LINDA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cinda, Ginda, Lazda, Lendas, lendvay, Lindal, Lindard, Linday, Lindel, Lindh, Lindia, lindo, Lindt, Lindum, Linga, Linha, Linham, Linpack, Londra, lynda, Lyndah, Lyndo, Lyngdal, Qingdao, Ulundi, Xlendi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nidal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: anil, dial, laid, lain, land, nail. | |
-2 letters: aid, ail, ain, and, ani, dal, din, lad, lid, lin, nil. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, al, an, id, in, la, li, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: aldrin, alined, denial, inlaid, inland, island, lading, ladino, ligand, nailed, unlaid. | |
+2 letters: addling, aldrins, aliened, aligned, aliunde, annelid, anviled, balding, dandily, darling, dealing, delaine, denials, dialing, diurnal, gliadin, handily, incudal, inhaled, inlaced, inlands, invalid, islands, ladings, ladinos, ladling, ladykin, landing, languid, laniard, larding, lauding, leading, lianoid, ligands, lindane, loading, mandril, maudlin, midland, nadiral, nodical, ordinal, paladin, plained, rimland, snailed, sundial, unideal. | |
| 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. | |
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