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WHARTON

Date "WHARTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)


Specialty Definition: WHARTON

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Literature

Wharton Philip Wharton, Duke of Northumberland, described by Pope in the Moral Essays in the lines beginning-
"Wharton, the scron and wonder of our days."
A most brilliant orator, but so licentious that he wasted his patrimony in drunkenness and self-indulgence. He was outlawed for treason, and died in a wretched condition at a Bernardine convent in Catalonia. (1698-1731.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Wharton

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Wharton is the name of some places in the United States of America: There is also:

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

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Crosswords: WHARTON

English words defined with "WHARTON": Bail to the actionCommon informerheedlessrecklessunknown. (references)
Specialty definitions using "WHARTON": Fossa et FurcaLilli-Burlero. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WHARTON

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (reference)

  • The Wharton MBA Case Interview Study Guide : Volume I (reference)

  • Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy (reference)

  • Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: WHARTON

Photos:
WHARTON

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Photo Album: WHARTON

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Wharton and Jeffries taking three-point sextant fix Surveying in vicinity of Kalgin Island On SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

New Haven from the S.E. / Drawn from nature, and on stone by T.K. Wharton. Credit: Library of Congress.

An education for you Join the tanks U.S. Army / / J.P. Wharton, 1st Lt. Tank Corps. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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Familiar Quotations: WHARTON

AuthorQuotation

William Wharton

What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

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Usage Frequency: WHARTON

"WHARTON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WHARTON" is used about 150 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)100%15025,701

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

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Name Usage Frequency: WHARTON

The following table summarizes the usage of "WHARTON" 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
WhartonLast name4,0003,254
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: WHARTON


1. Wharton, NJ (borough, FIPS 80390)
Location: 40.89955 N, 74.58230 W
Population (1990): 5405 (2122 housing units)
Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 07885
Country: USA


2. Wharton, OH (village, FIPS 84574)
Location: 40.86203 N, 83.46473 W
Population (1990): 378 (151 housing units)
Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 43359
Country: USA


3. Wharton, TX (city, FIPS 78136)
Location: 29.31637 N, 96.09905 W
Population (1990): 9011 (3942 housing units)
Area: 14.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 77488
Country: USA

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Expressions: WHARTON

Expression using "WHARTON": Wharton County. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "WHARTON": Wharton-tigar.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHARTON

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

wharton

245

college county jr wharton

19

edith wharton

142

wharton county texas

18

wharton county junior college

132

isd wharton

18

wharton nj

119

college jr wharton

17

wharton business school

93

wharton mba

14

the wharton school

69

edith wharton roman fever

13

wharton junior college

66

university wharton

13

wharton tx

49

darren wharton

13

wharton journal spectator

44

william wharton

11

knowledge wharton

41

paul weiss rifkind wharton and garrison

11

taylor wharton

36

wharton university of pennsylvania

10

wharton texas

35

edith summer wharton

9

wharton center

35

smith wharton

8

college wharton

28

edith estate massachusetts wharton

7

wharton county

24

summer by edith wharton

7

college community wharton

24

edith wharton biography

7

journal wharton

23

newspaper wharton

7

wharton state forest

22

education executive wharton

6

charlene wharton

21

wharton esherick

6

wharton high school

20

wharton new jersey

5

real estate wharton

5
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Misspellings: WHARTON

Misspellings

"WHARTON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: warton, Whelton. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: WHARTON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-n-o-r-t-w"

-1 letter: thrawn, thrown.

-2 letters: north, rowan, rowth, thorn, thraw, throw, torah, trona, whort, worth, wrath, wroth.

-3 letters: hant, hart, hoar, hora, horn, hwan, nota, nowt, oath, rant, rath, rato, roan, rota, tahr, tarn, taro, than, thaw, thro, tora, torn, town, trow, want, warn, wart, what, whoa, wont, worn, wort.

-4 letters: ant, art, awn, hao, hat.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-n-o-r-t-w"
 

+1 letter: hawthorn.

 

+2 letters: handwrote, hawthorns, northward.

 

+3 letters: antigrowth, northwards.

 

+4 letters: downhearted, handwrought, thankworthy, unseaworthy, weatherworn.

 

+5 letters: flowcharting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WHARTON


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

57 48 41 52 54 4F 4E

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)

01010111 01001000 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0048 0041 0052 0054 004F 004E

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

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

57423552544948

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INDEX

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


  

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