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Food & Agriculture | Wire tackle used for hauling onboard and emptying the codend. Source: European Union. (references) |
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 | Figure 29. Gilson sounder, described in 1906 by Gustave Gilson of the University of Louvain. He described a perfected scoop sounder which was similar to the Stellwagen sounder but contained a number of improvements for assuring a larger quantity of sediment obtained than with the earlier instrument. It was first tested in 1899 near Ostende off the coast of Belgium. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 29 (cont.) Gilson sounder with detail of the cover plate. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 34. Gilson messenger, devised by Professor Gustave Gilson of the University of Louvain and delegate from Belgium at the Permanent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea , to intiate the operation of his plankton meter. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ||
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| "GILSON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GILSON" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GILSON" 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 |
| Gilson | Last name | 3,000 | 4,179 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Gilson, IL |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: losing, soling. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: lingo, lings, linos, lions, loins, longs, noils, sling. | |
-2 letters: gins, ions, ling, lino, lins, lion, logs, loin, long, nils, nogs, noil, oils, sign, silo, sing, slog, snog, soil, soli, song. | |
-3 letters: gin, gos, ins, ion, lin, lis, log, nil, nog, nos, oil, ons, sin, sol, son. | |
-4 letters: go, in, is, li, lo, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: closing, eloigns, globins, goblins, gosling, legions, lingoes, logions, longies, longish, loosing, losings, lousing, lowings, siloing, sloping, slowing, soiling, soloing, solving, tiglons. | |
+2 letters: antilogs, biltongs, blousing, bowlings, clonings, closings, codlings, cowlings, flossing, foulings, fowlings, gasoline, glonoins, glossina, glossing, godlings, golfings, goslings, holdings, isogonal, jostling, lassoing, ligneous, ligroins, lingcods, loadings, loanings, lodgings, loggings, loginess, longings, longship, longwise, lordings, losingly, moldings, pignolis, posingly, resoling, rollings, salvoing, scolding, scowling, shoaling, shooling, sidelong, sinology, skoaling, slogging, slopping, sloshing, slotting, snooling, solacing, solating, songlike, spoiling, spongily, spooling, stooling, toolings, tousling. | |
| 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)47 49 4C 53 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01000111 01001001 01001100 01010011 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G I L S O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0049 004C 0053 004F 004E |
| 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)414346534948 |
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