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Definition: Wilkins |
WilkinsNoun1. United States civil rights leader (1901-1981). 2. Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958). 3. English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (born in 1916). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Wilkins" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: WilkinsSynonyms: George Hubert Wilkins (n), Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (n), Maurice Wilkins (n), Roy Wilkins (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: free-gas model (nuclear energy & physics, meteorology & standards), Wigner-Wilkins method (nuclear energy & physics, meteorology & standards). |
Crosswords: Wilkins |
| English words defined with "Wilkins": In respect of. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Wilkins": Gawrey ♦ Peter Wilkins. (references) |
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Screenplays | Wilkins! Wilkins (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A meander in the Sacramento River just above Wilkins Slough. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Entrance to Wilkins Slough from the Sacramento River, in background. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Frontispiece of: "A Discovery of A New World ...." by John Wilkins, 1684. A book espousing travel to the moon and agreement with the concept that the Earth is one of the planets. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Title page of: "A Discovery of A New World ...." by John Wilkins, 1684. A book espousing travel to the moon and agreement with the concept that the Earth is one of the planets. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Colored lithograph, published by N. Currier, New York, 1844. It depicts the explosion of a heavy gun on board USS Princeton, in the Potomac River, which killed or mortally wounded seven and injured about twenty people. Some of those present are identified below the image, including (from left): Mr. Wilkins; Mr. Perrine; Lieutenant Hunt; Representative Virgil Maxcy, of Maryland; Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur; Captain Beverly Kennon, Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repair; Thomas Gilmer, Secretary of the Navy; Captain Robert F. Stockton; Sailors; Senator Phelps and Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Maxcy, Upshur, Kennon and Gilmer were among those killed. Stockton and Benton were among the injured. Credit: NAVY. |  | Military and civilian personnel of the Supplies and Accounts office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa 1918. According to Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkins, who was assigned to this office and examined this photograph circa the early 1980s, the location is the middle part of the 3rd Floor, 7th Wing. She identified the following people in the photo: Yeoman 1st Class (F) Martha Whitcomb (seated, lower right); Yeoman (F) Margaret Flambeau (standing by pillar, 5th from right along the windows, wearing white blouse & bow tie); and Yeoman (F) Alta Moore (seated, about halfway back in room, with dark hair, wearing blue coat with a dark collar). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Jackie Robinson (left), Roy Wilkins (center), and Duke Ellington (right), talking during the Spingarn Medal Awards ceremony. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Roger Wilkins, at about 5 years old, full-length portrait, standing with wagon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Men of the Wilkins clan eating dinner on cornshucking day at home of Mrs. Fred Wilkins. Tallyho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wooden peg used in corn shucking. Fred Wilkins farm. Tally Ho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Wilkins ave" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "Photo taken on a bus ride through baltimore city in the snow." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Health | Tsang VCW, Wilkins PP. Immunodiagnosis of schistosomiasis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wilkins" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Wilkins" is used about 210 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) | 95.24% | 200 | 21,580 |
| Noun (plural) | 4.76% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 210 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Wilkins" 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 |
| Wilkins | Last name | 24,000 | 485 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Wilkins": George Hubert Wilkins ♦ Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins ♦ Maurice Wilkins ♦ Roy Wilkins ♦ Wilkins Micawber ♦ Wilkins Township. 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Wilkins" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Filkins, Ilkin, pilkins, Wilken, Wilkens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-k-l-n-s-w" | |
-2 letters: kilns, kiwis, links, slink, swink, winks. | |
-3 letters: ilks, inks, iwis, kiln, kins, kiwi, link, lins, nils, nisi, silk, sink, skin, wink, wins. | |
-4 letters: ilk, ink, ins, kin, lin, lis, nil, sin, ski, win, wis. | |
-5 letters: in, is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-k-l-n-s-w" | |
+3 letters: twinklings, wrinkliest. | |
+4 letters: periwinkles, tiddlywinks, winterkills. | |
+5 letters: walkingstick. | |
| 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 69 6E 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).--. .. .-.. -.- .. -. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101001 01101100 01101011 01101001 01101110 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W i l k i n s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0069 006C 006B 0069 006E 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)57757877758085 |
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