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Date "MENDOZA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. |
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Crosswords: MENDOZA |
| Specialty definitions using "MENDOZA": Lazarillo de Tormes ♦ Una Serranilla. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ahà vienen los Mendoza (1948) El Compadre Mendoza (1934) Fat Dog Mendoza (1998) John Mendoza (1991) De Nieuwe Mendoza (1980) | |
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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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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 33 | 60,273 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mendoza | Last name | 43,000 | 246 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 45 4E 44 4F 5A 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01000101 01001110 01000100 01001111 01011010 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M E N D O Z A |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47394838496035 |
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