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SWEENY

Definition: SWEENY

SWEENY

Noun

1. An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: SWEENY

English words defined with "SWEENY": Swinney. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Sweeny, Texas

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sweeny is a city located in Brazoria County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,624.

Geography


Sweeny is located at 29°2'35" North, 95°41'60" West (29.042923, -95.699956)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.8 km² (1.9 mi²). 4.8 km² (1.9 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 3,624 people, 1,338 households, and 974 families residing in the city. The population density is 752.3/km² (1,946.6/mi²). There are 1,444 housing units at an average density of 299.7/km² (775.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 75.25% White, 15.78% African American, 1.02% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 5.99% from other races, and 1.55% from two or more races. 13.71% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,338 households out of which 38.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.8% are married couples living together, 14.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.2% are non-families. 23.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.65 and the average family size is 3.14. In the city the population is spread out with 29.7% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 26.1% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 92.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $36,497, and the median income for a family is $42,128. Males have a median income of $43,854 versus $25,710 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,755. 9.9% of the population and 10.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 9.4% are under the age of 18 and 11.7% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sweeny, Texas."

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Commercial Usage: SWEENY

DomainTitle

Books

  • One man's wars: the story of Charles Sweeny, soldier of fortune (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: SWEENY

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Pete Sweeny. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: SWEENY

"SWEENY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "SWEENY" is used about 10 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)80%8124,375
Noun (common)10%1339,140
Adjective (general or positive)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: SWEENY

The following table summarizes the usage of "SWEENY" 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
SweenyLast name1,0009,766
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: SWEENY


1. Sweeny, TX (town, FIPS 71492)
Location: 29.04535 N, 95.69933 W
Population (1990): 3297 (1286 housing units)
Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 77480
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SWEENY

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sweeny texas

34

claire sweeny

4

sweeny

33

jason murder sweeny

4

sweeny todd

23

feeder sweeny

3

jason sweeny

22

lyrics sweeny todd

3

alison sweeny

19

mike sweeny

3

isd sweeny

16

jake sweeny

3

allison sweeny

11

disease sweeny

2

camp sweeny

8

sweeny real estate

2

d.b sweeny

7

murder sweeny

2

db sweeny

6

community hospital sweeny

2

district independent school sweeny

6

glynis sweeny

2

julia sweeny

5

ryan sweeny

2

sweeny high school

5

sweeny walt

2

b d sweeny

4

mark sweeny

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: SWEENY

Misspellings

"SWEENY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ewenny, Seweryn, Sweyn, Szelenyi. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "SWEENY"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SWEENY" (pronounced swē"nē)
4-w ē" n ēlinguine, weeny.
3-ē" n ēbikini, Domine, fettuccine, genie, Larine, maline, martini, Meany, teeny, zucchini.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SWEENY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: weensy.

Words within the letters "e-e-n-s-w-y"

-1 letter: newsy, weens, weeny.

-2 letters: ewes, eyen, eyes, eyne, news, seen, sene, sewn, snye, syne, ween, wees, wens, wyes, wyns, yens, yews.

-3 letters: ens, ewe, eye, nee, new, see, sen, sew, syn, wee, wen, wye, wyn, yen, yes, yew.

-4 letters: en, es, ne, we, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-s-w-y"
 

+2 letters: eyewinks.

 

+3 letters: anywheres, greenways, honeydews, newlyweds, wrynesses.

 

+4 letters: awaynesses, eyewitness, newsweekly, sweepingly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SWEENY


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

53 57 45 45 4E 59

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)

...    .--.    .    .    -.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010111 01000101 01000101 01001110 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#87 &#69 &#69 &#78 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0057 0045 0045 004E 0059

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

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

535739394859

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INDEX

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


  

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