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Definition: Orwell |
OrwellNoun1. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Orwell" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Computing | Orwell Lazy functional language, Miranda-like. List comprehensions and pattern matching. "Introduction to Orwell 5.00", P.L. Wadler et al, Programming Research Group, Oxford U, 1988. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Orwell is a town located in Oswego County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,254.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Orwell is a village located in Ashtabula County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 1,519.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Orwell is a town located in Addison County, Vermont. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,185.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Orwell (disambiguation)."
Synonyms: OrwellSynonyms: Eric Arthur Blair (n), George Orwell (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Orwell |
| English words defined with "Orwell": George Orwell ♦ Orwellian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Orwell": Ipswich ♦ Miranda. (references) |
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Screenplays | George Orwell said that 'Myths which are believed in, tend to become true'. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mrs. Melvin Rivers, some of her children and her father-in-law in their new New York relocation corporation farm to which they have moved just recently, near Orwell, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Orwell" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.32% of the time. "Orwell" is used about 238 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) | 98.32% | 234 | 19,621 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.84% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.84% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 238 | N/A |
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1. Orwell, OH (village, FIPS 58856) 2. Orwell, VT |
Expressions using "Orwell": East Orwell ♦ George Orwell. Additional references. | |
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| 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 | |
"Orwell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Horswell, Horwell, Morwell, Orell, Ornelli, orwel, Orwells, Romell, Roxwell. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: lower, rowel. | |
-2 letters: lore, lowe, orle, role, roll, well, wore. | |
-3 letters: ell, low, ole, ore, owe, owl, roe, row, woe. | |
-4 letters: el, er, lo, oe, or, ow, re, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: lowlier. | |
+2 letters: bellower, bellwort, callower, follower, gromwell, hallower, hollower, lowlifer, mellower, rowelled, sallower, walloper, wallower, wellborn, welldoer, willower, woollier, yellower. | |
+3 letters: bellowers, bellworts, billowier, flowerful, flowerily, followers, gromwells, hallowers, holloware, lowlander, lowlifers, rowelling, shallower, shellwork, swallower, trowelled, wallopers, wallowers, welldoers, willowers, willowier, willpower, woefuller, worldlier. | |
+4 letters: bellflower, downhiller, flowerless, flowerlike, hollowares, hollowware, lowlanders, powerfully, shellworks, swallowers, trowelling, wallflower, wholesaler, wildflower, wildfowler, willowware, willpowers, wordlessly, worldliest, yellowware. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 72 77 65 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- .-. .--. . .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110010 01110111 01100101 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O r w e l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0072 0077 0065 006C 006C |
| 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)498489717878 |
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