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Pickford

Definition: Pickford

Pickford

Noun

1. United States film actress (born in Canada) who starred in silent films (1893-1979).

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


Synonyms: Pickford

Synonyms: Gladys Smith (n), Mary Pickford (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pickford

English words defined with "Pickford": Mary Pickford. (references)

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Modern Usage: Pickford

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. (Some Like It Hot; writing credit: Robert Thoeren; M. Logan)

Movie/TV Titles

America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story (1978)

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

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Photo Album: Pickford

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Mary Pickford; Ca. 1927; {28.026/5}.

Mary Pickford, full-length portrait, seated in motion picture studio, facing left, wearing costume for "Sparrows," knitting sweater for disabled veterans for the American Red Cross between scenes.Credit: Library of Congress.

Mary Pickford in "Little Lord Fauntleroy".Credit: Library of Congress.

Pickford, Mary, portrait photograph.Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait photograph of Mary Pickford.Credit: Library of Congress.

Mary Pickford in the movie, "The Pretender"] / 2-Stenberg-2.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Pickford

"Pickford" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pickford" is used about 26 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%2668,323

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Pickford

The following table summarizes the usage of "Pickford" 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
PickfordLast name30026,177
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Pickford


1. Pickford, MI
Zip Code(s): 49774
Country: USA

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Expressions: Pickford

Expression using "Pickford": Mary Pickford. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Containing "Pickford": fairbanks-pickford-chaplin-griffith.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pickford

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

  mary pickford

131

  pickford mi

18

  pickford

17

  mary pickford theater

10

  escrow pickford

10

  biography mary pickford

7

  mary pickford picture

5

  cinema pickford

5

  pickford michigan

4

  scott pickford

4

  allied pickford

3

  lucas pickford

3

  academy award first mary pickford win woman

2

  mary photo pickford

2

  andy pickford

2

  pickford theater

2

  jack pickford

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Pickford

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-f-i-k-o-p-r"

-3 letters: fiord, frock, prick.

-4 letters: coif, coir, cord, corf, cork, crop, dick, dirk, dock, dork, dorp, drip, drop, fico, fido, foci, ford, fork, odic, pick, pock, pork, prod, prof, rick, rock.

-5 letters: cod, cop, cor, dip, doc, dor, fid, fir, fop, for, fro, ick, irk, kid, kif, kip, kir, koi, kop, kor, orc, pic.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-f-i-k-o-p-r"
 

+3 letters: pitchforked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pickford


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

50 69 63 6B 66 6F 72 64

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)

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Bibliographic Items: "Pickford"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "Pickford"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Pickford