Emery

Definition: Emery

Emery

Noun

1. A hard gary-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper).

"Emery" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a work rule".

Date "emery" was first used: 1481. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Geography	Dense rock formed of small hard aluminium oxide crystals mixed with iron oxide and particles of mica. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	An impure mineral of the corundum or aluminum oxide type used extensively as an abrasive before the development of electric-furnace products.See also:emery rock. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sharpness	Sharpener, hone, strop; grindstone, whetstone; novaculite; steel, emery.
Smoothness	Roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish, shoe polish.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Dick Emery Show (1963)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Pumice Stone, Emery, and Natural Corundum, Natural Garnet, Crushed Pumice, or Other Natural Abrasives in Crude or Irregular Pieces: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A History of Emery County (reference) Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practices of Medical Genetics (3-Volume Set) (reference) Emery Vincent Design (reference) Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth (reference) Rich in Good Works: Mary M. Emery of Cincinnati (Ohio History and Culture) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Emery Enterprise (reference) (more periodical examples)

Consumer Goods	Oneida Emery 20-Piece Stainless Steel Flatware Set, Service for 4 (reference) Oneida Emery 53-Piece Stainless Steel Flatware Set, Service for 8 (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Station Emery near Muddy River Triangulation party of Frank G. Johnson.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Senior Airman Emery Blanchard and Senior Airman Andrew Haywood.
	Samuel Anderson Emery as Robin Roughhead in Fortunes frolics, full-length portrait, standing, holding flail, in front of backdrop with mountain and tree.Credit: Library of Congress.		Connie B. Gay, FSA (Farm Security Administration) county supervisor talking to Emery Hooper about his tractor and disc plow purchased with a FSA cooperative community service loan. Near Prospect Hill, Caswell County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Storing barns and woodpiles on Emery Hooper's farm near Prospect Hill. Caswell County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.		Grading and stripping tobacco in the pack house on Emery M. Hooper's farm in Corbett Ridge section. Caswell County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Plows in front of tobacco barn on Emery Hopper's farm in Corbett Ridge section. Caswell County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.		Sticks used in stripping tobacco in front of strip house on Emery Hooper's farm in Corbett Ridge section near Prospect Hill. Caswell County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Spreading lime to increase productivity of soil, before planting winter wheat on Emery M. Hooper's tobacco farm in Corbett Ridge section. Caswell County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.		Harbour Green, Massapequa, Long Island. H.I. Emery.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Use an emery board or pumice stone to file away dead skin, but do not remove calluses, which act as protective padding. (references)
Economic History	El Salvador	UPS, Florida West, Emery Transcontinental, and all passenger airlines offer frequent cargo service to and from the U.S. A smaller airport, Ilopango, on the eastern edge of San Salvador, currently reserved for military and general aviation use, is being considered for development as a regional cargo-handling center. (references)
Human Rights	Central African Republic	On May 29, USP guards tortured and killed Sergeant Emery Konguende, a Yakoma who was returning to his military unit after being on leave during the coup. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Emery" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.41% of the time. "Emery" is used about 54 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)	57.41%	31	62,296
Noun (singular)	42.59%	23	72,767
Total	100.00%	54	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "emery" 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
Emery	First name Male	10,000	686
Emery	Last name	10,000	1,202
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"Emery" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a work rule".

The following table summarizes names related to "Emery."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Emeric	Male	N/A	N/A
Emerson	Male	English	Emery
Emery	Male	English	Emeric
Emory	Male	English	Emery
Emmerich	Male	German	Emeric
Imre	Male	Hungarian	Emeric
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

1. Emery, SD (city, FIPS 19420)
Location: 43.60266 N, 97.62021 W
Population (1990): 417 (210 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 57332
Country: USA

2. Emery, UT (town, FIPS 22870)
Location: 38.92527 N, 111.25056 W
Population (1990): 300 (162 housing units)
Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expressions: Emery

Expressions using "emery": Emery board ♦ Emery cloth ♦ Emery County ♦ emery paper ♦ emery rock ♦ emery stone ♦ Emery wheel ♦ rub with emery. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "emery": emery-papering, Emery-wallis.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Emery

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
emery	644
emery worldwide	291
emery marc	174
mcdermott will and emery	119
emery yoshikawa	90
emery air	85
emery air freight	80
emery freight	70
emery shipping	51
mark emery	49
emery tracking	39
emery seed	37
emery riddle	37
emery forwarding	32
emery lee r	27
emery marc seed	23
emery boards	19
emery university	18
emery express	17
emery world wide	15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Emery

Language		Translations for "emery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zumpara (sandpaper), zmeril (corundum). (various references)

Arabic		‏سنبادج, ‏صنفرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		шмиргел. (various references)

Chinese		刚玉粉. (various references)

Czech		smirek. (various references)

Danish		smergel (polishing stone). (various references)

Dutch		polijststeen (bloodstone, bloodstone burnisher blood, burnisher), amaril (polishing stone). (various references)

Farsi		سنگ سنباده (Corundum), سنباده زدن (Sand), سنباده ای . (various references)

Finnish		smirgeli. (various references)

French		émeri. (various references)

German		schmirgel (emeries, polishing stone). (various references)

Greek		σμύριδα (polishing stone), σμυριδόπετρα. (various references)

Hebrew		ב�" שמיר (emery cloth), � יר לטש (emery paper). (various references)

Hungarian		csiszolópor. (various references)

Indonesian		gerinda (emery wheel, grindstone), amril (emery board or paper, sandpaper). (various references)

Italian		smeriglio (mackerel shark, Merlin, polishing stone, porbeagle, porbeagle shark, Usa: pigeon hawk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		金剛� � . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"�"�"うしゃ. (various references)

Korean		에머리. (various references)

Manx		emree. (various references)

Pig Latin		emeryay

Portuguese		esmeril (burr, cheektooth, emery cloth, grinder, grinding machine, polishing stone), emersão (emergence). (various references)

Romanian		şmirghel (sand paper). (various references)

Russian		корунд (emery 1), наждак (emery 1, glass-dust). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		šmirgla (emery paper, sandpaper). (various references)

Spanish		esmeril (polishing stone). (various references)

Swedish		smärgla, smärgel. (various references)

Thai		ผงแร่ที่ใช้สำหรับขั�"พื้นผิวสิ่งต่างๆ. (various references)

Turkish		zımpara (carborundum, glass cloth, rubber, sandpaper). (various references)

Ukranian		натирати наждаком, наждак (flintpaper, sandpaper). (various references)

Vietnamese		bột m� i. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Emery

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	smyris. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Emery

Derivations
	Words containing "emery": hemerythrin, hemerythrins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Emery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eamy, ecery, Edery, eeri, eerry, Eimer, emar, emari, emay, Embrey, Emcer, emder, emegry, emely, emere, emerg, emeried, emerit, emiri, emmerg, emmert, empri, Emreb, emrey, Emrh, emry, Emser, emur, ener, Enery, engery, Enry, entery, Epehy, Ermera, ermerm, esmer, eueri, euery, Eymard, Eymeric, Hemery, Imreie, Leymarie, meery, meey, merey, Mery, Nemery, omery, Pembery, Pembrey, smery, Uemera, yemery. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Emery"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "emery" (pronounced e"merē)
4	e" m er ē	memory.
3	-m er ē	armory, creamery, Infirmary, mammary, summary.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Emery

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-m-r-y"
	-1 letter: eery, eyer, eyre, mere.
	-2 letters: eme, ere, eye, ree, rem, rye.
	-3 letters: em, er, me, my, re, ye.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-m-r-y"
	+1 letter: empery, merely, remedy.
	+2 letters: berhyme, mercery, moneyer, mynheer.
	+3 letters: berhymed, berhymes, cemetery, ceremony, creamery, demurely, employer, empyreal, empyrean, erythema, everyman, everymen, ferrymen, geometry, meagerly, meagrely, moneyers, motleyer, mynheers, reembody, reemploy, remotely, smeltery, stemmery, temerity, yammered, yammerer, yarmelke, yawmeter.
	+4 letters: archenemy, clergymen, embracery, emergency, employers, empyreans, erythemas, exemplary, extremely, extremity, germanely, hemelytra, heteronym, hyperemia, hyperemic, liverymen, lysimeter, makeready, mercenary, mesentery, minelayer, mysteries, oystermen, perfumery, proenzyme, pyrometer, readymade, reemploys, remedying, repayment, rhymeless, rhymester, supremely, telemetry, vestrymen, yammerers, yarmelkes, yawmeters.
	+5 letters: aerenchyma, anemometry, cyclometer, daydreamed, daydreamer, elementary, embroidery, embryogeny, endothermy, erythremia, eurythmies, everywoman, everywomen, fearsomely, gendarmery, gruesomely, hemelytron, heterogamy, heteronomy, heteronyms, hydrometer, hygrometer, hyperemias, hypermedia, hypermeter, hypsometer, journeymen, kerseymere, lysimeters, mayoresses, measuredly, merrymaker, minelayers, moderately, moneymaker, nurserymen, peremptory, permanency, polymerase, polymerise, polymerize, preemptory, prepayment, presumedly, proenzymes, pycnometer, pyrometers, readymades, reassembly, recumbency, redemptory, reemployed, remedially, repayments, rhymesters, segmentary, semiyearly, symmetries, symmetrize, terpolymer, tiresomely, yeomanries.
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