YORICK

"YORICK" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a farmer", "an earthworker", "the earth", "work".

Date "YORICK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Specialty Definition: YORICK

Domain	Definition
Biographical Satire	YORICK, an acquaintance of Hamlet who was recognized even in an emaciated condition. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Literature	Yorick The King of Denmark's jester, "a fellow of infinite jest and most excellent fancy." (Hamlet, v. l.) In Tristram Shandy Sterne introduces a clergyman of that name, meant for himself. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Yorick

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Yorick is the deceased court-jester whose bones are exhumed by the gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The sight of Yorick's skull evokes a monologue from Prince Hamlet on the vile effects of death. The contrast between Yorick as "a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy" and his grim remains is a variation on the theme of earthly vanity (cf Vanitas): death being unavoidable, the things of this life are inconsequential. Though this theme of Memento mori ('Remember you shall die') is common in 16th and 17th century painting (see especially Mary Magdalene), Hamlet meditating upon the skull of Yorick has become the most lasting embodiment of this idea.

Yorick is the name of a vicar in Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy. The figure of Yorick is often taken for a rueful self-portrait.

Yorick is also an interpreted programming language designed for numerics, graph plotting and steering large scientific simulation codes. It is quite fast due to array syntax, and extensible via C or Fortran routines. It was created in 1996 by David Munro.

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Crosswords: YORICK

Specialty definitions using "YORICK": Fools. (references)

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Modern Usage: YORICK

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Alas! Poor Yorick! (1913)

Yorick (2002)

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Commercial Usage: YORICK

Domain	Title
Books	Unfortunate sensibility : [or, The life of Mrs. L****, written by herself, in a series of sentimental letters, dedicated to Mr. Yorick** in the Elysian fields] (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: YORICK

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Photo Album: YORICK

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Alas, poor Yorick ... Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: YORICK

"YORICK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.08% of the time. "YORICK" is used about 51 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)	96.08%	49	48,677
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.92%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	51	N/A

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Derived & Related Names: YORICK

"YORICK" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a farmer", "an earthworker", "the earth", "work".

The following table summarizes names related to "YORICK."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Jorck	Male	Danish	George
George	Male	English	N/A
Yorick	Male	English	Jorck
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: YORICK

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
yorick	17
alas poor yorick	5
alas character does him i in knew play poor say shakespeare well yorick	4
poor yorick	3
hamlet yorick	3
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Anagrams: YORICK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-k-o-r-y"
	-1 letter: corky, rocky.
	-2 letters: coir, cork, cory, icky, rick, rock, yock.
	-3 letters: cor, coy, cry, ick, icy, irk, kir, koi, kor, orc, roc, yok.
	-4 letters: or, oy, yo.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-k-o-r-y"
	+1 letter: hickory.
	+2 letters: chickory, croakily, frolicky, rollicky.
	+4 letters: eukaryotic, karyologic, karyotypic, rockabilly.
	+5 letters: factorylike, kymographic, prokaryotic.
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