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Date "SHEPPARD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
"SHEPPARD" is a common misspelling or typo for: Shepard. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sheppard (Jack). Son of a carpenter in Smithfield, noted for his two escapes from Newgate in 1724. He was hanged at Tyburn the same year. (1701-1724.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thief | Burglar, housebreaker; cracksman, magsman; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SHEPPARD |
| Specialty definitions using "SHEPPARD": Chevalier du Brouillard ♦ Hempen Widow. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hey, Sheppard. Guess what I just found in a meat locker (Outland; writing credit: Peter Hyams) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Free Press vs. Trial by Jury: The Sheppard Case (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Entomologist Steve Sheppard prepares an agarose gel to be used in separating honey bee DNA fragments. Photo by Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News. | ![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces. Regional Hospital, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas : Aerial view. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | [Alcoholism: The Drunkard's Progress] / Drawn by W.L. Sheppard. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Selling Christmas greens--a scene in Richmond, Virginia / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. ; W.L.S. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The Christmas dinner safe. "Done cotch him!" / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Prize fight, Tom Sayers vs John C. Heenan, Farnborough, England, 1860 / Arthur Sheppard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | A political discussion / W.L. Sheppard, del. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Portrait of Pocahontas, from painting by Wm. Sheppard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Buddy Sheppard and his father, part-time agricultural workers in Bridgetown, New Jersey, raking junk pile for old metal and bottles to sell. During the off-seasons these people must find all manner of strange occupations to round out an inadequate relief. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Telegrams. 152 page telegram received by Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Dog" by Luis Alves Commentary: "This is Mike, my dog. He is a Portuguese Sheppard Dog from Serra D'Aires, a mountain in the center of the country. --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and wh" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Senator Morris Sheppard | A nation that can not preserve itself ought to die, and it will die -- die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "SHEPPARD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SHEPPARD" is used about 146 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) | 100% | 146 | 26,107 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SHEPPARD" 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 |
| Sheppard | Last name | 17,000 | 710 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "SHEPPARD": Jack Sheppard ♦ Sheppard Afb. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"SHEPPARD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Heppard, sheepard, Sheppeard, shepperd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: perhaps, phrased, sharped. | |
-2 letters: dapper, dasher, drapes, happed, harped, hasped, padres, papers, parsed, pashed, phased, phrase, raphes, rapped, rasped, sapped, sapper, seraph, shader, shaped, shaper, shared, sherpa, spader, spared, spread. | |
-3 letters: apers, apres, ashed, asper, dares, dears, deash, drape, ephas, hades, hards, hared, hares, harps, heads, heaps, heard, hears, herds, padre, paper, pards. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: preshaped. | |
+2 letters: apprehends. | |
+3 letters: copperheads, paraphrased, transhipped. | |
+4 letters: handicappers, misapprehend, prepurchased, sharecropped, transshipped. | |
+5 letters: apostrophised, apostrophized, misapprehends, paedomorphism, pseudepigraph. | |
| 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)53 48 45 50 50 41 52 44 |
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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 01001000 01000101 01010000 01010000 01000001 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S H E P P A R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0048 0045 0050 0050 0041 0052 0044 |
| 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)5342395050355238 |
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