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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Man in Black (The). Supposed to be Goldsmith's father. (Citizen of the World.) Washington Irving has a tale with the same title. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, in a few minutes the man in black will come running around the bend, the minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock! (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Man in Black (1949) | |
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 |
man in black | 839 |
man in black 2 | 233 |
man in black ii | 86 |
man in black the game | 28 |
will smith man in black | 8 |
man in black two | 7 |
man in black watch | 4 |
hamilton man in black watch | 3 |
man in black code | 2 |
man in black ii alien escape | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-k-l-m-n-n" | |
-2 letters: cannibal. | |
-3 letters: cambial, canakin, kalimba, lambkin, linkman, manakin. | |
-4 letters: alanin, animal, baalim, banian, cabman, caiman, calami, calkin, camail, cambia, kalian, kalmia, kanban, lamina, malkin, maniac, manila. | |
-5 letters: abaci, aback, alack, amain, amnia, amnic, anima, annal, banal, binal, black, blain, blank, blink, cabal, cabin, canal, canna, claim, clank, climb, clink, kalam, kibla, labia, lamia, lanai. | |
| 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 41 4E 49 4E 42 4C 41 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01001110 00100000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A N   I N   B L A C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 004E 0049 004E 0042 004C 0041 0043 004B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4735482434823646353745 |
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