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Definition: Macleod |
MacleodNoun1. Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Macleod" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
Synonyms: MacleodSynonyms: John James Rickard Macleod (n), John Macleod (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Macleod |
| English words defined with "Macleod": John James Rickard Macleod, John Macleod. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Macleod, it's good to see you again. (Highlander; writing credit: Gregory Widen) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bubbler tide gauge at MacLeod Harbor Installed by crew of HODGSON.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Macleod" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Macleod" is used about 228 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% | 228 | 19,909 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Macleod" 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 |
| Macleod | Last name | 3,000 | 4,749 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Macleod": John James Rickard Macleod ♦ John Macleod. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Macleod": Macleod-clark. | |
Ending with "Macleod": Robertson-macleod. | |
| 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 |
macleod | 36 |
dixon macleod | 20 |
fort macleod | 17 |
clan macleod | 16 |
duncan macleod | 16 |
alistair macleod | 15 |
connor macleod | 10 |
macleod scotia | 9 |
charlotte macleod | 8 |
gavin macleod | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "macleod"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | acleodmay.(various references) | |
Scottish | macleòid. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: calmed, coaled, colead, comade, loamed, macled. | |
-2 letters: acold, amole, camel, cameo, celom, clade, coled, comae, comal, decal, dolce, dolma, domal, laced, lamed, maced, macle, medal, modal, model. | |
-3 letters: aced, acme, alec, alme, aloe, cade, calm, calo, came, clad, clam, clod, coal, coda, code, coed, cola, cold, cole, coma, come, dace, dale, dame, deal, deco, demo, dole, dome, lace, lade, lame, lead, load, loam, loca, lode, mace, made, male, mead, meal, meld, mode, mola, mold, mole, odea, olea. | |
-4 letters: ace, ado, ale, cad, cam, cel, cod, col, dal, dam, del, doc, doe, dol, dom, eld, elm, lac, lad, lam, lea, led, mac, mad, mae, med, mel, moa, moc, mod, mol, oca, ode, old, ole. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, al, am, de, do, ed, el, em, la, lo, ma, me, mo, od, oe, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: clamored, melodica. | |
+2 letters: clamoured, comradely, demonical, melodicas. | |
+3 letters: beclamored, biomedical, camelopard, collimated, complained, coromandel, demoniacal, documental, duodecimal, ectodermal, methodical, mislocated, nonmedical, proclaimed. | |
+4 letters: aeromedical, bachelordom, camelopards, camouflaged, comedically, commandable, commendable, commendably, complicated, condemnable, condimental, coromandels, declamation, declamatory, demonically, dimercaprol, diplomacies, domiciliate, duodecimals, endoplasmic, malediction, maledictory, medicolegal, melodically, multicoated, nematocidal, overclaimed, scleroderma. | |
+5 letters: accomplished, anecdotalism, bachelordoms, communalized, compoundable, contemplated, decalcomania, declamations, decomposable, demoniacally, dermatologic, dilatometric, dimercaprols, documentable, domestically, domiciliated, domiciliates, immethodical, machicolated, malcontented, maledictions, melodramatic, mendaciously, methodically, misallocated, miscataloged, oleandomycin, sclerodermas. | |
| 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)4D 61 63 6C 65 6F 64 |
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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)01001101 01100001 01100011 01101100 01100101 01101111 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c l e o d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 006C 0065 006F 0064 |
| 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)47676978718170 |
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