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LURRY

Definition: LURRY

LURRY

Noun

1. A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Lurry \Lur"ry\, noun. [W. llwry precipitant, provision.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: LURRY

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. York. A weighted tram to which an endless rope is attached, fixed at the inby end of the plane, forming part of an appliance for taking up the slack rope b. A movable platform on wheels, the top of which is level with the bank or surface. It is run over the mouth of a shaft to receive the bucket whenit reaches the top. A variation of lorry. (references)

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

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Name Usage Frequency: LURRY

The following table summarizes the usage of "LURRY" 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
LurryLast name40019,072
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LURRY

Language Translations for "LURRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vagon mallrash (freight car, lorry, truck, Van, waggon, wagon), kamion (autotruck, camion, lorry, truck, waggon, wagon). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

камион (autotruck, camion, lorry, truck), вагонетка (corf, lorry, tram, tram-road, trolley, truck, waggon, wagon), платформа (dais, deck, decking, dray, flatcar, lorry, platform, pulpit, truck). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hangzavar (babel, cacophony, discord, discordance, hubble bubble, hubbub, jangle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urrylay

   

Russian 

  

вагонетка (car, lorry, tram, trolley, truck, waggon, wagon). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lastbil (autotruck, camion, lorry, truck), flakvagn (dray, lorry, open-sided waggon), öppen godsvagn (lorry, truck). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LURRY

Derivations

Words ending with "LURRY": blurry, flurry, slurry. (additional references)

Words containing "LURRY": flurrying, slurrying. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "LURRY"

Words rhyming with "LURRY" (pronounced 'Lur"ry'): Almry, Avowry, Aweary, Balloonry, Barry, Bawdry, Blurry, Chantry, Charry, Cheerry, Chowry, Commandry, Comminatory, Consuetudinary, Consulary, Coquetry, Cymry, Dairy, Firry, foundry, Frory, furry, Gharry, hagberry, Henry, intermarry, Jerry, Jewry, Lepry, lory, Lowry, merry, miscarry, Murry, Outweary, Overcarry, Overwary, overweary, Peltry, Querry, Recarry, remarry, Rory, Saltatory, saury, Serry, sherry, Skerry, Skurry, sorry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LURRY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "l-r-r-u-y"

-1 letter: ruly.

 Words containing the letters "l-r-r-u-y"
 

+1 letter: blurry, flurry, slurry.

 

+2 letters: furrily, rurally.

 

+3 letters: blurrily, burglary, mulberry, rurality, surroyal, ultradry.

 

+4 letters: blueberry, cartulary, corruptly, currently, currishly, cursorily, flurrying, formulary, garrulity, hurriedly, prayerful, prolusory, purringly, quarterly, regularly, reliquary, slurrying, surreally, surroyals, vulnerary.

 

+5 letters: blurringly, chartulary, circularly, cloudberry, creaturely, lumberyard, oracularly, perdurably, pruriently, regularity, regulatory, rigorously, rubrically, scurrility, squirrelly, superiorly, ulteriorly, unerringly, unliterary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LURRY


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

4C 55 52 52 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 01010101 01010010 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#85 &#82 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0055 0052 0052 0059

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

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

4655525259

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Non-English Dictionaries with "LURRY"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albán, албанский, alban

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bulgar

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, magyar, венгр, венгерский, ungrare

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, orosz, русский, ryss

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningsuedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, svéd, шведский, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, angol, английский, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Names: Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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