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Definition: Stubbs |
StubbsNoun1. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Stubbs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonym: StubbsSynonym: William Stubbs (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stubbs, Wisconsin."
Crosswords: Stubbs |
| Specialty definitions using "Stubbs": Scripto res Decem. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Merely Mrs. Stubbs (1917) | |
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![]() | Being christened by Mrs. H. K. Stubbs during launching ceremonies on 13 May 1944. The ship was built by the Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Montgomery Stubbs Motors, 1200 East West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland. Exterior of Montgomery Stubbs Motors. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Cap Stubbs and Tippie. "My land! I made $41.73 in th' stock market, just wait till Mr. Budge hears this!". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Stubbs" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Stubbs" is used about 110 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) | 95.45% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Noun (plural) | 2.73% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.91% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.91% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Stubbs" 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 |
| Stubbs | Last name | 8,000 | 1,540 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Stubbs": William Stubbs. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Stubbs": Heath-stubbs. | |
| 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 "b-b-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: busts, stubs. | |
-2 letters: bubs, buss, bust, buts, stub, subs, tubs. | |
-3 letters: bub, bus, but, sub, tub, uts. | |
-4 letters: us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: stubbles. | |
+3 letters: snubbiest, stubbiest, subabbots, subtribes. | |
+4 letters: scrubbiest, shrubbiest, squabbiest, stubbliest. | |
+5 letters: stubbornest, stumblebums, subbasement. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 75 62 62 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)01010011 01110100 01110101 01100010 01100010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t u b b s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0075 0062 0062 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)538687686885 |
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