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MENDOZA

Date "MENDOZA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Specialty Definition: MENDOZA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Mendoza (Daniel), the Jew. A prize-fighter who held the belt at the close of the last century, and in 1791 opened the Lyceum in the Strand to teach "the noble art of boxing." (1719-1791.)
"When Humphreys stood up to the Israelite's thumps
In kerseymere breeches and touch-me-not pumps."
Mendoza the Jew.
The Odiad (1798) is a mock heroic on the battle between Mendoza and Humphreys. The Art of Boxing (1799) was written by Mendoza. Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza (1816). See also Pugilistica, vol, i. (1880). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: MENDOZA

Specialty definitions using "MENDOZA": Lazarillo de TormesUna Serranilla. (references)

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Modern Usage: MENDOZA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Ahí vienen los Mendoza (1948)

El Compadre Mendoza (1934)

Fat Dog Mendoza (1998)

John Mendoza (1991)

De Nieuwe Mendoza (1980)

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

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Commercial Usage: MENDOZA

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Books

  • Diplomacy and Dogmatism: Bermardino de Mendoza (reference)

  • The copie of a letter sent ovt of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza, ambassadovr in France for the King of Spaine, declaring the state of England, contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin, and of all his partizans Spaniardes and others. This letter, althou (reference)

  • The Essential Codex Mendoza (reference)

  • El Olor De LA Guayaba/the Smell of the Guava Tree: Conversaciones Con Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza (reference)

  • Renaissance Book Collecting : Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: MENDOZA

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Full-length portrait of water ski champion Alfredo Mendoza skiing in witch's costume, holding broomstick, jumping in mid-air, Cypress Gardens, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Moonlight, Lake Mendoza, Minneapolis, Minn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lolo Mendoza and Chico Real, with guitars, at the home of Mrs. Sarah Kleberg Shelton, Kingsville, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: MENDOZA

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Sobel J, Mahon B, Mendoza C et al. A simple system for water purification and storage, handwashing, and beverage storage reduces fecal contamination of street-vended beverages in Guatemala. (references)

Business

The province of Mendoza is particularly interested in U.S. technology and investments. (references)

The former state interior department director Esteban Mendoza Ramos received 26-1/2 years in jail. (references)

Another 250 channels were purchased by the same entities in the cities of Rosario, Cordoba and Mendoza. (references)

Civil Liberties

Argentina

On December 14, the protests turned violent, with supermarket looting in the provinces of Mendoza and Santa Fe, which spread to other provinces. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

Other major cities--Cordoba (1.2 million); Rosario (950,000); Mar del Plata (900,000); Mendoza (400,000). (references)

Argentina

This list includes train stations in central locations in Buenos Aire, Rosario, Santa Fe, Cordoba and Mendoza. (references)

Human Rights

El Salvador

Allegedly Fernando Naves Mendoza was drunk and had a weapon. (references)

Mexico

Of these, eight police officers and one government official, the former Director of the State Government Ministry, Esteban Mendoza, remained in jail at year's end. (references)

Argentina

At least three bombs exploded in midyear and were suspected to be linked to some of the dozens of Mendoza police dismissed since 1998 because of corruption charges. (references)

Trade

Argentina

The Free Trade Zone in Mendoza, inaugurated on May 27, 1999, is strategically located in Western Argentina for distribution throughout Argentina and Chile and to the rest of MERCOSUR (Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MENDOZA

"MENDOZA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MENDOZA" is used about 33 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)100%3360,273

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

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Name Usage Frequency: MENDOZA

The following table summarizes the usage of "MENDOZA" 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
MendozaLast name43,000246
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: MENDOZA


1. Mendoza , Argentina
Location: 32.48 South, 68.52 West
Population (2000 estimate): 754470
Time Zone: -3 GMT
Country: Argentina

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MENDOZA

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mendoza

250

teresa mendoza

10

mendoza argentina

218

andes diario los mendoza

10

christine mendoza

203

christine mendoza nude

9

mendoza natalie

46

carlos mendoza

9

mendoza line

46

cabañas mendoza

9

mendoza rafael san

39

pablo hermoso de mendoza

9

hotel mendoza

33

jackson mendoza rebecca

9

erik mendoza

29

rossy mendoza

8

de mendoza rodriguez toribio

23

diario mendoza uno

8

turismo mendoza

19

javier mendoza

8

ciudad de mendoza

18

duerme mendoza no

7

hoteles mendoza

17

lydia mendoza

7

de mendoza provincia

17

de mendoza universidad

7

eric mendoza

17

roberto mendoza

7

ann mah mendoza

16

marco mendoza

7

en hoteles mendoza

14

eduardo mendoza

7

de gobierno mendoza

13

mendoza rifle

7

christina mendoza

11

cabañas en mendoza

7

mario mendoza

11

mendoza mirela

7

ramiro mendoza

10

departamentos mendoza

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: MENDOZA

Misspellings

"MENDOZA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mandaza, Mandoa, Manduca, Manouzi, Mendana, Mendona, Muendo. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: MENDOZA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-o-z"

-1 letter: daemon, moaned.

-2 letters: admen, adoze, amend, anode, demon, dozen, maned, mazed, menad, monad, monde, named, nomad, zoned.

-3 letters: adze, aeon, amen, azon, dame, damn, daze, dean, demo, dome, dona, done, doze, made, mane, mano, maze, mead, mean, mend, meno, moan, mode, name, nema, node, noma, nome, odea, omen, zoea, zone.

-4 letters: ado, adz, and.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-o-z"
 

+2 letters: randomize, romanized, womanized.

 

+3 letters: anatomized, emblazoned, gormandize, harmonized, normalized, randomized, randomizer, randomizes.

 

+4 letters: gormandized, gormandizer, gormandizes, gourmandize, randomizers, unamortized.

 

+5 letters: communalized, demonization, demoralizing, dimerization, disharmonize, gormandizers, gourmandized, gourmandizes, renormalized, romanticized, unglamorized.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MENDOZA


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

4D 45 4E 44 4F 5A 41

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)

01001101 01000101 01001110 01000100 01001111 01011010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#79 &#90 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 004E 0044 004F 005A 0041

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

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

47394838496035

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Cities
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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