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Date "SULZER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | SULZER, William, the kettle who called Murphy black. Also the governor of New York who enjoyed the unprecedented honor of retiring from office in order that he might be considered a progressive. Motto: Be sure your sins will get you out. Ambition: To be a martyr to the claws. Diet: Tigers. Epitaph: You May Air, You May Perfume Your Clothes As You Will, But The Smell Of Impeachment Will Cling To You Still. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The rude descending on Sulzer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hans A. Sulzer, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | They include Instrioment Ultrasonic Technologies, Magne Flo, Panametrics, Inc. bauer Compressors, Prior Gaskets Inc., Sulzer, and Asea Brown Boveri. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahrain | ABB Untilities of Switzerland, Swiss-based Sulzer Elbar, and two German companies - Deutsche Babcock and Siemens - have submitted offers for the rehabilitation of phase one of the Riffa power station, for which the U.S. firm Kuljian Corporation is acting as consultant. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SULZER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "SULZER" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SULZER" 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 |
| Sulzer | Last name | 400 | 19,939 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Switzerland | Sulzer AG |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SULZER": sulzer-engined. | |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-r-s-u-z" | |
-1 letter: lures, rules. | |
-2 letters: lues, lure, rues, rule, ruse, slue, slur, suer, sure, user. | |
-3 letters: els, ers, leu, lez, res, rue, sel, ser, sue, use. | |
-4 letters: el, er, es, re, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-r-s-u-z" | |
+1 letter: wurzels. | |
+2 letters: brulzies, guzzlers, muzzlers, nuzzlers, puzzlers. | |
+3 letters: lazurites, ruralizes, sulfurize, utilizers, zarzuelas. | |
+4 letters: brutalizes, bulldozers, equalizers, eulogizers, fluidizers, formulizes, nebulizers, pluralizes, pulverizes, reutilizes, ritualizes, secularize, sulfurized, sulfurizes, visualizer, vulgarizes. | |
+5 letters: burglarizes, desulfurize, glamourizes, journalizes, naturalizes, neutralizes, overzealous, popularizes, prologuizes, pulverizers, regularizes, secularized, secularizer, secularizes, singularize, underglazes, visualizers, vulcanizers, vulgarizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 55 4C 5A 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010011 01010101 01001100 01011010 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S U L Z E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0055 004C 005A 0045 0052 |
| 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)535546603952 |
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