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Definitions: Wilkes |
WilkesNoun1. English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797). 2. United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Wilkes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: WilkesSynonyms: Charles Wilkes (n), John Wilkes (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Wilkes |
| English words defined with "Wilkes": Charles Wilkes ♦ John Wilkes, John Wilkes Booth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Wilkes": Oil on Troubled Waters. (references) |
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Screenplays | Do you want to play John Wilkes Booth, or do you want to act like a maniac? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You're not really trying to get Ms. Wilkes, are you? (Hard Ball; writing credit: John Gatins) John Wilkes Booth. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) Ashley Wilkes says he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite. (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Flash and sound ranging survey as practiced by Charles Wilkes Shoot cannon - see flash - measure time till hear sound - determine distance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Charles Wilkes Close friend of Ferdinand Hassler Controversial naval officer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Sign over the cell that housed Dr. Samuel Mudd, controversial doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Mudd was convicted of helping Booth and served three years of his sentence at Fort Jefferson. He helped treat many Union soldiers during a yellow fever epidemic and was subsequently paroled. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Wilkes Station, Antarctica. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |
 | Burning after being hit by a "Kamikaze" attack while operating off Okinawa on 11 May 1945. Photographed from USS Wilkes Barre (CL-103), which appears to have received fire damage herself helping to fight the blaze from alongside the carrier. A destroyer is off Bunker Hill's port side. Credit: NAVY. |  | Portrait montage engraved by H.B. Hall, New York, and published during the Civil War era, featuring (clockwise from top): Charles Wilkes, John L. Worden, Charles Ellet, Percival Drayton, Hiram Paulding, and Theodorus Bailey. In the center is John A. Winslow. The picture identified on the original as Charles Ellet is actually of his brother, Alfred W. Ellet. See Photo # NH 49621. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the year 1770 / Bute & Wilkes invent. ; Mercurius & Appeles fect. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wilkes, and Liberty--A New Song. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, officer of the Federal Navy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wilkes Barre, Pa. from Hotel Redington. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
John Wilkes Booth | I have too great a soul to die like a criminal. |
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| "Wilkes" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.06% of the time. "Wilkes" is used about 81 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) | 95.06% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (plural) | 3.7% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 81 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Wilkes" 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 |
| Wilkes | Last name | 7,000 | 1,687 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Wilkes": Charles Wilkes ♦ John Wilkes ♦ John Wilkes Booth ♦ Wilkes Barre ♦ Wilkes County. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Wilkes": Wilkes-Barre, Wilkes-Barre Township. | |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Wilkes" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Wilches, Wilczek, Wilke, Wilken, Wilkens, Wilkey, Wylies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-k-l-s-w" | |
-1 letter: lewis, likes, lweis, wiles. | |
-2 letters: elks, ilks, isle, leis, leks, lies, like, lwei, sike, silk, skew, slew, wile, wise. | |
-3 letters: elk, els, ilk, lei, lek, lie, lis, sei, sel, sew, ski, wis. | |
-4 letters: el, es, is, li, si, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-k-l-s-w" | |
+1 letter: sawlike, welkins, winkles. | |
+2 letters: inkwells, likewise, sidewalk, silkweed, snowlike, swanlike, twinkles, wasplike, weeklies, wisplike, wrinkles. | |
+3 letters: clockwise, kalewives, lifeworks, milkweeds, screwlike, shrewlike, sidewalks, silkweeds, swordlike, twinklers, walkyries, weakliest, weaklings, whelkiest. | |
+4 letters: biweeklies, fieldworks, semiweekly, shadowlike, weakliness, wrinkliest. | |
+5 letters: candlewicks, periwinkles, sparrowlike, trelliswork, triweeklies, winterkills. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 69 6C 6B 65 73 |
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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).--. .. .-.. -.- . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101001 01101100 01101011 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W i l k e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0069 006C 006B 0065 0073 |
| 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)577578777185 |
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