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Vaux

Definition: Vaux

Vaux

Noun

1. United States landscape architect (born in England) who designed Central Park (1824-1895).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Vaux" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Vaux

Synonym: Calvert Vaux (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vaux

English words defined with "Vaux": Calvert Vaux. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Vaux": GynethRoland de VauxVauxhall. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Vaux

DomainTitle

Books

  • Women Explorers of the Mountains: Nina Mazuchelli, Fanny Bullock Workman, Mary Vaux Walcott, Gertrude Benham, Junko Tabei (Capstone Short biographies (reference)

  • Marc Vaux : from pigment to light (reference)

  • Par Mont Parnasse et Vaux de Vire; recueil de poèmes (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Vaux

Illustrations:
Vaux

More images...

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Photo Album: Vaux

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U.S. Army Field Hospital No. 13, Vaux, France. : View of church used as Red Cross Headquarters.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army Field Hospital No. 13, Vaux, France. : View of church used as Red Cross Headquarters.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Famous French Renault tanks going through Vaux.Credit: Library of Congress.

The Town of Vaux, reduced by American artillery fire, 600 prisoners captured, Hill 204 on left.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Vaux

"Vaux" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Vaux" is used about 26 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)84.62%2274,468
Lexical Verb (base form)7.69%2245,945
Noun (singular)7.69%2245,945
                    Total100.00%26N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Vaux

The following table summarizes the usage of "Vaux" 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
VauxLast name17053,605
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Vaux

Expression using "Vaux": Calvert Vaux. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Vaux": Vaux-balbirnie, Vaux-le-vicomte, vaux-owned.

Ending with "Vaux": Voronov-vaux.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vaux

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

vaux

51

lyrics vaux

5

de pont vaux

3

band vaux

3

mer sur vaux

3

chantegrue et vaux

2

calvert vaux

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

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Anagrams: Vaux

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-u-v-x"

-1 letter: vau.

-2 letters: ax, xu.

 Words containing the letters "a-u-v-x"
 

+2 letters: exuvia.

 

+3 letters: exuviae, exuvial.

 

+4 letters: exuviate.

 

+5 letters: exudative, exuviated, exuviates, vexatious.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vaux


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

56 61 75 78

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01010110 01100001 01110101 01111000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#117 &#120

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0075 0078

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

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

56678790

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INDEX

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


  

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