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Definitions: Rogers |
RogersNoun1. United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935). 2. United States dancer and film actress who partnered with Fred Astaire (born 1911). 3. United States psychologist who developed client-centered therapy (1902-1987). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Rogers" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1702. (references) |
Synonyms: RogersSynonyms: Carl Rogers (n), Ginger Rogers (n), Virginia McMath (n), Will Rogers (n), William Penn Adair Rogers (n). (additional references) |
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Rogers is also a surname.
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Rogers is a city located in Benton County, Arkansas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 38,829.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rogers is a city located in Hennepin County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,588.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rogers is a village located in Colfax County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 95.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rogers is a city located in Barnes County, North Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 61.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rogers is a village located in Columbiana County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 266.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rogers is a town located in Bell County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,117.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rogers."
Crosswords: Rogers |
| English words defined with "Rogers": Carl Rogers, client-centered therapy ♦ Ginger Rogers ♦ Will Rogers, William Penn Adair Rogers. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Rogers": Bards, Basic Encoding Rules ♦ Lord Lovel ♦ Mæcenas, Marriage Knot, Matthews' Bible, Mistletoe Bough, Models, Nursing. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have every reason to believe that Jimmy Rogers means to propose to Mary before the summer is over. (Curly Top; writing credit: Arthur J. Beckhard; Patterson McNutt) What's the difference between Roy Rogers and Will Rogers? (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime Garca Estrada) Captain Buck Rogers, meet Captain Buck Rogers. (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; writing credit: Trond Kirkvaag; Knut Lystad) | |
Lyrics | Ginger Rogers, dance on air (Vogue; performing artist: Madonna) | |
Clever | The good are better made by ill, as odors crushed are sweeter still. (references; author: Rogers) Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: Rollin' on the River (1971) A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1965) The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show (1962) Buck Rogers (1950) Meet Roy Rogers (1941) | |
Song Titles | Coward Of The County (performing artist: Kenny Rogers) I Don't Need You (performing artist: Kenny Rogers) Lady (performing artist: Kenny Rogers) Love Will Turn You Around (performing artist: Kenny Rogers) Lucille (performing artist: Kenny Rogers) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Rep. Paul G. Rogers, chairman of the subcommittee, summed up the hearings at RPMI (Roswell Park Memorial Institute), to pass the National Cancer Act of 1971. Hearings were held on October 11, 1971. He felt that it was symbolic to hold hearings for the National Cancer Act at the oldest cancer research institute in the world. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ![]() | M2-F2 Crash on Rogers Dry Lake. Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | HL-10 On Rogers Dry Lake Bed With Pilots. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | L to R Tommy Roger, Larry Adams, William Jones and Adrian Celestino load tobacco into a drying barn on the Rogers Farm in the Danville, VA area. Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Tommy Rogers pushes a load of tobacco into a drying barn on his fathers farm in the Danville, VA area. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | George Rogers Clark National Historical Park. Credit: NPS. |
![]() | [U.S. War of 1898: Quarantine station at Montauk Point, N.Y.] / William Rogers. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | [Col. Frank Rogers at the Friends reception]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Etheridge Grant, USN, (center), checks charts with a Japanese Navy pilot and Lieutenant Rogers, USN, (at right), as the seaplane tender prepares to enter Tokyo Bay, 28 August 1945. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Drawing by George H. Rogers, depicting the ship "on blockading service off the coast of Florida, winter of 1863". The artist served on board Adela as a Pharmacist's Mate. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
H. Rogers | When a new book comes out I read an old one. |
Roy Rogers | Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. |
Will Rogers | God Bless America for a sense of humor. |
| Never let yesterday use up too much of today. | |
| A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. | |
| Plans get you into things but you got to work your way out. | |
| If you want a line on a man, ask somebody that works with him. | |
| Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. | |
Will Rogers. | Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Mainly European architects such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Jan Nouvelle, Ove Arup, Paul Andrew, and Renzo Piano are competing with U.S. architects. (references) | |
Economic History | Comoros | The address of the United States embassy in Mauritius is Rogers House, John F. Kennedy Street, Port Louis. (references) |
Yemen | Relations were restored following a visit to Sanaa by Secretary of State William P. Rogers in July 1972, and a new USAID agreement was concluded in 1973. (references) | |
Egypt | They include such popular chains as A & W, Big Boy, Chili's, Fuddruckers, Hard Rock Café, KFC, Kenny Rogers, Little Caesars Pizza, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and TGIF. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nigeria | Yakubu, Ishaya Bamaiyi, James Danbaba, and Rogers Mshiella were detained and charged during the year with the 1996 attempted murder of Guardian newspaper publisher Alex Ibru; however, the case was postponed in October. (references) |
Nigeria | The prosecution of Hamza al-Mustapha, Mohammed Abacha, Mohammed Rabo Lawal, Lateef Shofalan, Mohammed Aminu, and Sergeant Rogers Mshiella for the 1996 murder of Kudirat Abiola, a prominent prodemocracy activist and the wife of Moshood Abiola, was adjourned repeatedly during the year; defense lawyers for each individual had filed numerous motions for adjournment in the Lagos High Court. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Lucius Wright and Jennifer Rogers are special Americans. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Rogers" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "Rogers" is used about 690 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) | 97.97% | 676 | 9,770 |
| Noun (plural) | 2.03% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 690 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Rogers" 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 |
| Rogers | Last name | 123,000 | 54 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Rogers Communications Inc | USA | Rogers Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Rogers, AR (city, FIPS 60410) 2. Rogers, KY 3. Rogers, MN (city, FIPS 55186) 4. Rogers, ND (city, FIPS 67620) 5. Rogers, NE (village, FIPS 42145) 6. Rogers, NM 7. Rogers, OH (village, FIPS 68084) 8. Rogers, TX (town, FIPS 62924) |
Expressions using "Rogers": Carl Rogers ♦ ginger Rogers ♦ Glen Rogers ♦ Rogers City ♦ Rogers County ♦ Will Rogers ♦ William Penn Adair Rogers. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Rogers": Steventon-rogers. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rogers | 2,331 | rogers wireless | 188 |
mimi rogers | 1,926 | kenny rogers lyrics | 169 |
kenny rogers | 1,142 | ginger rogers | 150 |
rogers at t | 1,111 | gwen rogers | 138 |
rogers video | 771 | adrian rogers | 131 |
rogers cable | 651 | neil rogers | 128 |
rogers arkansas | 577 | mister rogers | 127 |
roy rogers | 545 | jim rogers | 123 |
mr rogers | 448 | jack rogers sandal | 122 |
mail rogers web | 370 | rogers and hollands | 119 |
mimi rogers nude | 304 | rogers state university | 112 |
carl rogers | 268 | hi internet rogers speed | 112 |
rogers att | 264 | high rogers speed | 103 |
buck rogers | 253 | rogers at home | 96 |
rogers t wireless | 241 | rogers minnesota | 94 |
rogers communication | 225 | stan rogers | 91 |
fred rogers | 222 | will rogers airport | 90 |
hi rogers speed | 221 | mr rogers neighborhood | 89 |
rogers jeweler | 212 | danielle rogers | 89 |
will rogers | 203 | rogers white | 86 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Rogers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | роджерс. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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"Rogers" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: krogers, Roders, Rogart, Rogerus, Roggero, Roters, Roygar, Troger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Rogers" (pronounced rÄ"jerz) |
| 4 | -Ä" j er z | dodgers. |
| 3 | -j er z | agers, astrologers, badgers, challengers, changers, chargers, conjures, dangers, endangers, exchangers, forgers, grangers, harbingers, hedgers, injures, integers, ledgers, majors, managers, mergers, messengers, onagers, packagers, pagers, passengers, pillagers, procedures, Rangers, salvagers, scavengers, soldiers, strangers, teenagers, villagers, voyagers, wagers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: goers, gores, gorse, ogres, roger, sorer. | |
-2 letters: egos, ergo, ergs, eros, errs, goer, goes, gore, ogre, ores, regs, roes, rose, sego, sore. | |
-3 letters: ego, erg, err, ers, gor, gos, oes, ore, ors, ose, reg, res, roe, seg, ser. | |
-4 letters: er, es, go, oe, or, os, re, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: forgers, gorgers, gorsier, grocers, gropers, grosser, grouser, growers, regrows. | |
+2 letters: foragers, forgoers, garrotes, groaners, groomers, groovers, grossers, groupers, grousers, grouters, growlers, ignorers, proggers, progress, reforges, regorges, regrooms, regroups, roughers, scourger, stronger, wrongers. | |
+3 letters: aerograms, aggressor, armigeros, arrogates, dragropes, drugstore, engrosser, erigerons, farragoes, foregoers, forgeries, forgivers, garotters, garroters, garrottes, gorgerins, governors, grewsomer, groceries, grounders, grovelers, gruesomer, organiser, overgirds, overgrows, overurges, porridges, progerias, prorogues, regressor, regrooves, regrowths, renograms, rescoring, resorbing, resorting, restoring, rogueries, scourgers, scroggier, scrounger, surrogate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 6F 67 65 72 73 |
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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)01010010 01101111 01100111 01100101 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o g e r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 0067 0065 0072 0073 |
| 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)528173718485 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Names: Company Usage 14. Cities 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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