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Peary

Definition: Peary

Peary

Noun

1. Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Peary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)

"Peary" is a common misspelling or typo for: Peaky, Pear, Pearl, Pearly, Peaty, Perry.

 

Specialty Definitions: Peary

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

PEARY, Captain Robert E., explorer who said he reached the north pole and convinced a few people. Was also forced to write a book and lecture. Publications: How Dr. Cook Almost Got Ahead of Me. Ambition: That a certain man had not made him get all the way there the last time. Grave: The Cook incident. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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Synonyms: Peary

Synonyms: Robert E. Peary (n), Robert Edwin Peary (n), Robert Peary (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Peary

English words defined with "Peary": Robert E. Peary, Robert Edwin Peary, Robert Peary. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Peary": COOKPEARY. (references)

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Modern Usage: Peary

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Departure of Peary and the Roosevelt from New York (1905)

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Commercial Usage: Peary

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Books

  • Boreal Ties: Photographs and Two Diaries of the 1901 Peary Relief Expedition (reference)

  • Bryozoa from Jērgen Brēnlund Fjord, North Greenland De danske Peary Land ekspeditioner (reference)

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Image Slideshow: Peary

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Peary

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Robert Peary in the Arctic Under order to observe tides for C&GS during North Pole expedition Also observed bathymetry Peary served as a draftsman with the C&GS early in his career.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Robert Peary As a Navy officer surveying in Nicaragua Peary served as a draftsman with the C&GS early in his career.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Robert Peary North Pole Expedition Sounding with piano wire through the ice Profile of soundings tends to corroborate that Peary made the pole.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lake Survey Vessel PEARY. This vessel was originally built as a minesweeper for for the French Navy.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

At Darwin, Australia, probably on 15 or 18 February 1942. The destroyer astern of Houston may be USS Peary (DD-226). Among the ships in the background, to the left, are HMAS Terka and the SS Zealandia. The donor was on board HMAS Tolga, then used as a water carrier for ships in Darwin harbor.Credit: NAVY.

Dinner to Commander Robert E. Peary, U.S.N., Hotel Astor, March 5, 1910.Credit: Library of Congress.

Dinner to Commander Robert E. Peary, U.S.N., Hotel Astor, March 5, 1910.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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Usage Frequency: Peary

"Peary" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peary" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Peary

The following table summarizes the usage of "Peary" 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
PearyLast name20035,035
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Expressions: Peary

Expressions using "Peary": Robert E. Peary Robert Edwin Peary Robert Peary. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peary

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

camp peary

21

robert peary

16

robert e peary

11

e high peary robert school

7

peary

6

peary rader

6

middle peary school

5

robert edwin peary

4

admiral peary

4

high peary

3

harold peary

3

camp peary virginia

3

camp peary va

3

caribou peary

3

high peary school

2
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Anagrams: Peary

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: apery, payer, repay.

Words within the letters "a-e-p-r-y"

-1 letter: aery, aper, eyra, pare, pear, pray, prey, pyre, rape, reap, yare, year.

-2 letters: ape, are, aye, ear, era, par, pay, pea, per, pry, pya, pye, rap, ray, rep, rya, rye, yap, yar, yea, yep.

-3 letters: ae, ar, ay, er, pa, pe, re, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-p-r-y"
 

+1 letter: drapey, grapey, japery, napery, papery, parley, payers, pearly, player, prayed, prayer, prepay, repays, replay, yapper, yauper, yawper.

 

+2 letters: apteryx, apyrase, drapery, eparchy, grapery, jaspery, lamprey, overpay, palfrey, parleys, parsley, partyer, peartly, peccary, pedlary, pessary, peytral, players, plenary, prayers, preachy, prelacy, prepays, pteryla, pyrexia, reapply, replays, respray, ropeway, sparely, sprayed, sprayer, therapy, typebar, yappers, yaupers, yawpers.

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Alternative Orthography: Peary


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

50 65 61 72 79

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0061 0072 0079

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

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

5071678491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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