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WITHAM

Date "WITHAM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

"WITHAM" is a common misspelling or typo for: withal, withed, wither, within.


Specialty Definition: WITHAM

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Literature

Witham You were born, I suppose, at Little Witham. A reproof to a noodle. The pun, of course, is on little wit. Witham is in Lincolnshire.
"I will be sworn she was not born at Wittham, for Gaffer Gibbs says she could not turn up a single lesson like a Christian"- Sir Walter Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian, chap. xxxii.
Puns of this sort are very common. (See Bedfordshire, Nod, Dunce, Cripplegate, Shanks' Nag etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Witham

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Witham (pronounced Wit-ham) is a town in the county of Essex, in the south east of England. Witham is twinned with the town of Waldbrol, Germany. The parish of Witham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.

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

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Crosswords: WITHAM

Specialty definitions using "WITHAM": GoatsPublic-house Signs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WITHAM

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Books

  • Integrability: The Seiberg-Witten and Witham Equations (reference)

  • Northeast waterways : a cruising guide to the rivers Witham, Trent, Yorkshire, Ouse, and associated waterways (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: WITHAM

"WITHAM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.11% of the time. "WITHAM" is used about 106 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)98.11%10431,955
Unclassified Items1.89%2245,945
                    Total100.00%106N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: WITHAM

The following table summarizes the usage of "WITHAM" 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
WithamLast name2,0006,886
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WITHAM

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

dawn witham

23

witham

15

kingdom united witham

14

dick ford witham

11

dick witham

11

hospital witham

8

hospital memorial witham

4

ford witham

3

sv.com witham

3

co.uk contact essex witham

3

braintree times witham

3

b barry witham

3

marissa witham

3

joey witham

2

barry witham

2

larry witham

2

cafe coffee sandwich shop witham

2

buffet catering witham

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

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Anagrams: WITHAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-m-t-w"

-2 letters: math, thaw, wait, wham, what, whim, whit, with.

-3 letters: aim, ait, ami, ham, hat, haw, him, hit, mat, maw, tam, taw, twa, wat, wha, wit.

-4 letters: ah, ai, am, at, aw, ha, hi, hm, it, ma, mi, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-m-t-w"
 

+2 letters: midwatch.

 

+3 letters: switchman.

 

+4 letters: makeweight, midwatches, pitchwoman.

 

+5 letters: makeweights, tomahawking, watchmaking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WITHAM


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

57 49 54 48 41 4D

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)

01010111 01001001 01010100 01001000 01000001 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#73 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 0054 0048 0041 004D

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

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

574354423547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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