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Definition: Priestley |
PriestleyNoun1. English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Priestley" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1785. (references) |
"Priestley" is a common misspelling or typo for: priestly. |
Synonym: PriestleySynonym: Joseph Priestley (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Haldane-Priestley method (medicine), Priestley heterophoria test, Priestley mass, Priestley operation, Priestley-Smith pupillometer. |
Crosswords: Priestley |
| English words defined with "Priestley": Karl Scheele, Karl Wilhelm Scheele ♦ Scheele. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Priestley": Arms of England ♦ Priestley heterophoria test, Priestley test. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Campbell and Priestley afloat on pancake ice." In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume II. Page 66. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Priestley" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.37% of the time. "Priestley" is used about 123 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) | 98.37% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.81% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.81% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Priestley" 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 |
| Priestley | Last name | 1,000 | 10,316 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Priestley": Joseph Priestley ♦ Priestley heterophoria test. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Priestley": Priestley-Smith. | |
Ending with "Priestley": Haldane-priestley. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
joseph priestley | 33 |
priestley | 14 |
justine priestley | 8 |
david priestley | 6 |
jason priestley picture | 6 |
j.b priestley | 6 |
jamie priestley | 4 |
j b priestley | 4 |
kellie priestley | 3 |
jason priestley photo | 2 |
biography joseph priestley | 2 |
11 august jason priestley | 2 |
jaime priestley | 2 |
crash jason priestley | 2 |
90210 beverly hills jason priestley | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: peristyle. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: epistler, epistyle, peltries, perlites, peytrels, priestly, reptiles, yperites. | |
-2 letters: epistle, leister, pelites, pelters, perlite, pestier, petrels, peytrel, pyrites, replies, reptile, respelt, respite, resplit, restyle, retiles, retypes, spelter, spieler, steeply, sterile, tersely, triples, yelpers, yperite. | |
-3 letters: eerily, elites, esprit, eyries, lepers, lisper, listee, lister, liters, litres, lyrist, pelite, pelter, peltry, perils, pertly, pester, pestle. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: peristyles, sperrylite. | |
+2 letters: presciently, proselytise, proselytize, sperrylites. | |
+3 letters: hyperrealist, persistently, phylacteries, postdelivery, prehensility, presbyterial, proselytised, proselytises, proselytized, proselytizer, proselytizes, protensively, respectively, serpentinely. | |
+4 letters: descriptively, perspectively, pestiferously, picturesquely, prepositively, presbyterials, presumptively, pretentiously, proselytizers, prospectively, repetitiously, sempiternally, stereotypical, superlatively. | |
+5 letters: exasperatingly, heterophyllies, hypercatalexis, hyperrealistic, hypersexuality, hyperstimulate, polyneuritides, polyneuritises, presbyterially, prescriptively, presentability, preservability, presidentially, pyelonephritis, pyrheliometers, repressibility, respectability, supereminently, supersexuality. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 65 73 74 6C 65 79 |
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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)01010000 01110010 01101001 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101100 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i e s t l e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0065 0073 0074 006C 0065 0079 |
| 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)508475718586787191 |
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