Taft

Definitions: Taft

Taft

Noun

1. United States sculptor (1860-1936).

2. 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930).

Date "Taft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	TAFT, William Howard, a former fat, and last Republican, president of the United States who worshipped the trusts, the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Theodore Roosevelt. The love he bore the latter resulted in his election. The two brothers quarreled because Bill would not step aside and let Teddy run things all over again. The two brothers fought and another ran away with the election. Principal events during T.'s administration: Roosevelt's trip, The Outlook, Oyster Bay, Standard Oil, That election. Ambition: 1916. Recreation: Golf, messages to Congress. Address: Cincinnati, O. Epitaph: How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth It Is To Have A Thankless Predecessor. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Taft is the name of some places in the United States of America:

Taft, Alabama
Taft, California
Taft, Florida
Taft, Kentucky
Taft, Louisiana
Taft, Minnesota
Taft, Missouri
Taft, Montana
Taft, North Dakota
Taft, Oklahoma
Taft, Oregon
Taft, South Carolina
Taft, Tennessee
Taft, Texas
Taft, Virginia

The name may also refer to the President of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States, William Howard Taft, or to his son, Senator Robert Alphonso Taft.

Synonyms: Taft

Synonyms: Lorado Taft (n), President Taft (n), William Howard Taft (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Taft

English words defined with "Taft": Lorado Taft ♦ President Taft ♦ William Howard Taft. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Taft": 38488 ♦ 45213, 45236 ♦ 74463, 78390 ♦ 93268 ♦ Ada 95 ♦ ROOSEVELT. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Taft" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (taffeta), German (taffeta), Hungarian (taffeta), Serbo-Croatian (taffeta), Swedish (taffeta).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	He never forgave her for having that affair with President Taft. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
Movie/TV Titles	Taft Playing Golf (1915)
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Domain	Title
Books	Life and Times of William Howard Taft a Biography (reference) Public Sculptor: Lorado Taft and the Beautification of Chicago (reference) Taft (reference) Taft Strategic Atlas: U.S. Health Care Reform (reference) The American Gladiators: Taft Versus Remus (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	U. S. Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Taft" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Taft" is used about 28 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%	28	65,706

The following table summarizes the usage of "Taft" 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
Taft	Last name	4,000	3,099
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Taft, CA (city, FIPS 77574)
Location: 35.14240 N, 119.45483 W
Population (1990): 5902 (2370 housing units)
Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 93268
Country: USA

2. Taft, OH
Zip Code(s): 45213, 45236
Country: USA

3. Taft, OK (town, FIPS 72050)
Location: 35.75981 N, 95.54581 W
Population (1990): 400 (184 housing units)
Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 74463
Country: USA

4. Taft, TN
Zip Code(s): 38488
Country: USA

5. Taft, TX (city, FIPS 71684)
Location: 27.98108 N, 97.39084 W
Population (1990): 3222 (1210 housing units)
Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 78390
Country: USA

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Expressions: Taft

Expressions using "Taft": Lorado Taft ♦ president Taft ♦ South Taft ♦ Taft Heights ♦ Taft Southwest ♦ William Howard Taft. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Taft": Taft-hartley.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Taft

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
taft college	153
taft	118
taft california	104
taft high school	83
act hartley taft	78
taft hartley	74
william howard taft	64
taft school	63
furniture taft	61
william taft	31
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Modern Translations: Taft

Language		Translations for "taft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		afttay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Taft

Misspellings
	"Taft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atafu, Attf, tfta. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Taft

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-t-t"
	-1 letter: aft, att, fat, tat.
	-2 letters: at, fa, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-t-t"
	+1 letter: fatty.
	+2 letters: fatted, fatten, fatter.
	+3 letters: aftmost, antifat, daftest, fantast, fastest, fattens, fattest, fattier, fatties, fattily, fatting, fattish, fatuity, featest, flatlet, flatted, flatten, flatter, flattop, outfast, tactful, taffeta, tartufe.
	+4 letters: aflutter, aftertax, antileft, artefact, artifact, catfight, defatted, facetted, factotum, faintest, falsetto, faltboat, fantasts, farthest, fatalist, fatality, fatstock, fattened, fattener, fattiest, fetation, feterita, filtrate, fittable, flatboat, flatfeet, flatfoot, flatlets, flatmate, flattens, flatters, flattery, flattest, flatting, flattish, flattops, flautist, footbath, footpath, frittata, frottage, haftarot, haftorot, liftgate, nonfatty, outfasts, outfeast, stedfast, stratify, taffetas, talkfest, tartufes, tartuffe, tasteful, tipstaff, trifecta.
	+5 letters: aftermath, aftermost, aftertime, antidraft, antitheft, artefacts, artifacts, autograft, butterfat, candytuft, catfights, craftiest, defatting, defeatist, draftiest, facetting, facticity, factitive, factotums, falsettos, faltboats, fantasist, fantastic, fatalists, fatstocks, fatteners, fattening, fattiness, fatuities, faultiest, featliest, festinate, fetations, feteritas, filtrated, filtrates, flatboats, flatfoots, flatmates, flattened, flattener, flattered, flatterer, flatulent, flautists, floatiest, flotation, fluctuant, fluctuate, footbaths, footfault, footpaths, foretaste, formatted, formatter, fortunate, frittatas, frottages, frustrate, fustigate, haftaroth, haftoroth, heartfelt, infatuate, infestant, liftgates, lightfast, outfasted, outfeasts, postfault, soothfast, starfruit, steadfast, tactfully, talkfests, tartuffes, tipstaffs, transfect, transfixt, trifectas, ultrafast, ultraleft, ultrasoft, untactful, ventifact, waitstaff.
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