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Scripps

Definitions: Scripps

Scripps

Noun

1. United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926).

2. United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908).

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

"Scripps" is a common misspelling or typo for: scripts.



Synonyms: Scripps

Synonyms: Edward Wyllis Scripps (n), James Edmund Scripps (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Scripps Institute of Oceanography (geography), Scripps Research Institute (engineering & technology), Scripps Tuna Oceanographic Research (geography).

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Crosswords: Scripps

English words defined with "Scripps": Edward Wyllis ScrippsJames Edmund Scripps. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Scripps": Isaacs Wave Pump. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Scripps

DomainTitle

References

  • Scripps (E.W.) Company (The): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Scripps Financial Corp: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • A Systematic Revision of the Deep-Sea Subfamily Lipomerinae of the Isopod Crustacean Family Munnopsidae (Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Ocean) (reference)

  • American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 from the Collection of Pomona College and Scripps College (reference)

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Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Scripps

Photos:
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Photo Album: Scripps

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Precision depth recorder record of small seamount on side of Easter Island Acquired by Scripps Institution of Oceanography Record from ship THOMAS G. WASHINGTON.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

C&GS Ship PIONEER under Golden Gate Bridge Magnetometer invented at Scripps deployed on this ship in late 1950's Surveys from Pt. Conception to Cape Flattery discovered magnetic striping Magnetic striping led to Theory of Seafloor Spreading H. W. Menard called "among most significant geophysical surveys ever made".Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The entrance to Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking down from the hill towards the Scripps Research Pier.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Lieutenant Mark Boland taking air samples for Dr. Charles Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Using an evacuated glass flask to collect air sample to be analyzed for carbon dioxide. This information will be added to the historic Scripps (Charles Keeling) long-term CO2 record.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Deep Tow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Chief Scientists Dick Hey and Bob Tyce. Cruise to the propagating rift on the Galapagos Ridge. On R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Dr. Robert Dietz of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography discussing scientifi c findings of the International Indian Ocean Expedition on board the USC&GS Ship PIONEER at Colombo, Ceylon. Dr. Dietz coined the term "sea-floor spreading" a few years earlier to describe the process of seafloor accretion at active oceanic ridges.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography study seafloor material acquired off the Aleutian Islands. It is believed that Harris B. Stewart, future Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and founder of NOAA' s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories is the individual on the left. In: August Gribbin, 1968, "Sea Horizons," p. 65.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 14. A Hydro Products water sampling bottle. This type of water sampling bottle was first designed by Dr. William B. Van Dorn of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1956.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

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Usage Frequency: Scripps

"Scripps" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scripps" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Scripps

The following table summarizes the usage of "Scripps" 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
ScrippsLast name10078,449
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Scripps

CountryName
USA

Scripps (E.W.) Company (The)

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Scripps

Expressions using "Scripps": Edward Wyllis Scripps James Edmund Scripps. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scripps

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

scripps

237

hospital scripps

124

scripps clinic

93

howard scripps

71

scripps research institute

70

scripps college

60

hospital memorial scripps

42

scripps aquarium

40

scripps ranch high school

39

anne douglas scripps

38

network scripps

38

scripps ranch

36

health scripps

36

scripps mercy hospital

31

institute oceanography scripps

25

scripps la jolla

21

care health scripps

21

hospital jolla la scripps

20

diego hospital san scripps

20

scripps inn

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Scripps

Misspellings

"Scripps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scippa. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Scripps

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-p-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: crisps, scrips.

-2 letters: crisp, priss, scrip, spics.

-3 letters: cris, pics, pips, piss, psis, rips, sics, sips, sirs, spic, sris.

-4 letters: cis, pic, pip, pis, psi, rip, sic, sip, sir, sis, sri.

-5 letters: is, pi, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-p-p-r-s-s"
 

+3 letters: periscopes, postscript, prescripts, scrappiest.

 

+4 letters: hippocrases, perspicuous, postscripts, presbyopics, princeships, schipperkes, scrappiness, sniperscope, superscript, typescripts.

 

+5 letters: coppersmiths, perspectives, polariscopes, prespecifies, proctorships, sniperscopes, superplastic, superscripts, superspecial.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Scripps


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

53 63 72 69 70 70 73

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)

01010011 01100011 01110010 01101001 01110000 01110000 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#114 &#105 &#112 &#112 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0072 0069 0070 0070 0073

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

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

53698475828285

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INDEX

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


  

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