YASSER

  

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YASSER

"YASSER" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "rich", "make easy".


Specialty Definition: YASSER

DomainDefinition

Slang

A penile erection. (references)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: YASSER

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Jordan

On May 11, police in Amman arrested journalists Jamal Alawi, Tareq Ayyoub, and Yasser Zaatreh. (references)

Egypt

Haidar's book had been the subject of student demonstrations in May 2000. On January 6, the Prime Minister dismissed several Ministry of Culture officials following protests by Islamist members of the People's Assembly regarding three allegedly pornographic books ("Sons of Romantic Sins," by Yasser Sha'aban, "Forbidden Dreams," by Mahmoud Hamed, and "Before and After," by Tawfik Abdel Rahman) published by the Ministry. (references)

Economic History

Lebanon

Among the latter were Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). (references)

Political Economy

West Bank

The Palestinian Authority is headed by Yasser Arafat, who exercises executive power. (references)

Israel

On January 20, 1996, the Palestinians held their first democratic elections, choosing Yasser Arafat as Ra'ees of the Executive Authority along with 88 PA Council members. (references)

Israel

On September 13, 1993, the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Declaration of Principles, which outlined a timetable for achieving permanent and comprehensive peace between Israel and the Palestinians. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: YASSER

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dan Rather

There are two questions there. Certainly, I'm available to interview Prime Minister Sharon or Yasser Arafat at any time. And if they happen to be listening or viewing, call me collect, I'll be there in a second.

Dennis Miller

You know, I don't understand Yasser Arafat's game.

Robert Novak

Mr. Minister, the mayor of Jerusalem, Mr. Olmert, was quoted this week as saying that Yasser Arafat lusts for Jewish blood. If that's true, it's very difficult to have any kind of negotiations with him.

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

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Usage Frequency: YASSER

"YASSER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "YASSER" is used about 45 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)95.56%4352,181
Noun (singular)4.44%2245,945
                    Total100.00%45N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: YASSER

"YASSER" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "rich", "make easy".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "YASSER."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
YasirMaleArabicN/A
YasserMaleArabicYasir
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: YASSER

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

yasser arafat

408

taha yasser

88

yasser

17

yasser arafat biography

9

picture of yasser arafat

8

yasser seirawan

4

abed rabbo yasser

4

yasser arafat photo

4

arafat biografia yasser

3

yasser arafat bio

3

who is yasser arafat

3

arafat history yasser

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

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Anagrams: YASSER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: resays, sayers.

Words within the letters "a-e-r-s-s-y"

-1 letter: arses, essay, eyras, rases, resay, sayer, sears, years.

-2 letters: aery, ares, arse, ayes, ears, easy, eras, eyas, eyra, rase, rays, ryas, ryes, says, sear, seas, sera, sers, yare, year, yeas.

-3 letters: are, ars, ass, aye, ays, ear, era, ers, ess, ras, ray, res, rya, rye, sae, say, sea, ser, yar, yea, yes.

-4 letters: ae.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-r-s-s-y"
 

+1 letter: assayer, essayer, estrays, gyrases, pessary, rayless, sawyers, slayers, stayers, swayers.

 

+2 letters: actressy, apyrases, assayers, dasyures, emissary, essayers, grayness, hearsays, hydrases, mayoress, parsleys, passerby, resprays, rosebays, ryegrass, sparsely, sprayers, strayers, styraxes.

 

+3 letters: accessary, accessory, analysers, aneurysms, artlessly, assuredly, caryopses, cytasters, dialysers, forestays, gossamery, hysterias, mislayers, mydriases, naysayers, necessary, overstays, papyruses, paralyses, passersby, pyranoses, spymaster, sternways, sybarites, sycamores, synergias, yeasayers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: YASSER


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

59 41 53 53 45 52

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)

01011001 01000001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#89 &#65 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0059 0041 0053 0053 0045 0052

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

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

593553533952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Quotations: Spoken
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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