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Definition: Torquemada |
TorquemadaNoun1. Spanish Grand Inquisitor who was responsible for the death of thousands of Jews and suspected witches during the Spanish Inquisition (1420-1498). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Torquemada" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
Synonym: TorquemadaSynonym: Tomas de Torquemada (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Letīs face it; You can't Torquemada anything! (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Torquemada (1973) | |
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| "Torquemada" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Torquemada" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Torquemada": Tomas de Torquemada. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
torquemada | 55 |
game torquemada | 22 |
de tomas torquemada | 10 |
poker strip torquemada | 3 |
poker strip torquemada video | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-m-o-q-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outdream, quadrate. | |
-3 letters: amateur, aurated, equator, matador, matured, outdare, outread, quadrat, readout, torqued. | |
-4 letters: amadou, aortae, aurate, autoed, datura, detour, dreamt, maduro, maraud, marque, marted, mature, moated, orated, quarte, quarto, quatre, quoted, quoter, radome, ramate, redout, remuda, roamed, roquet, routed, torque, toured, trauma. | |
-5 letters: adore, amort, amour, aorta, aquae, armed, armet, aroma, aurae, damar. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 72 71 75 65 6D 61 64 61 |
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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)01010100 01101111 01110010 01110001 01110101 01100101 01101101 01100001 01100100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o r q u e m a d a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0072 0071 0075 0065 006D 0061 0064 0061 |
| 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)54818483877179677067 |
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