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Definitions: Heller |
HellerNoun1. 100 halers equal 1 koruna. 2. United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999). 3. A rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heller" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Synonyms: HellerSynonyms: devil (n), haler (n), hellion (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Heller |
| English words defined with "heller": Joseph Heller. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Heller" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (brighter, clearer, heller, mite), Swedish (either). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heller in Pink Tights (1960) | |
Song Titles | Loves Comes in Secret (performing artist: The Skip Heller Generation) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Included are Carl Voegtlin (1938-1943), Roscoe Spencer (1943-1947), Leonard Scheele (1947-1948), John Heller (1948-1960), Kenneth Endicott (1960-1969) and Carl Baker (1970-1972). See individuals in portrait file.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Shows photo of formal portrait, realistic artist rendering of John Roderick Heller, Jr., National Cancer Institute director from May 1948 to July 1960. The orginal piece of art hangs in the 11th floor hallway in Building 31 on the National Institutes of Health campus. Painting dated Washington, DC 1949.Credit: Walmsley Lenhard (Artist). |
 | Heller Bar take outDory and raftingCottonwood Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District.Credit: LuVerne Grussing. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Joseph Heller | He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. |
| I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. | |
| Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. | |
| Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I was a heller, you might say. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Heller" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Heller" is used about 10 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) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "heller" 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 |
| Heller | Last name | 9,000 | 1,445 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Heller Financial Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "heller": Joseph Heller. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
heller | 147 |
heller ehrman | 92 |
joseph heller | 64 |
heller financial | 38 |
elizabeth heller | 23 |
heller model | 23 |
ford heller | 22 |
erhman heller | 16 |
heller diet | 14 |
heller ehrman white mcauliffe | 13 |
michael heller | 12 |
richard heller | 12 |
heller jalil shustak | 12 |
steven heller | 11 |
ruth heller | 10 |
jane heller | 10 |
dan heller | 10 |
agnes heller | 10 |
heller reid | 9 |
pete heller | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heller"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | heler, tip i prapë (hellion), shejtan kalama (hellion), dreq (daemon, demon, Deuce, devil, Dickens, fiend, heck, hellion, imp, Satan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شخص مزعج (menace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | starogermánská mince. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hypogonadotrop eunuchoidisme (Heller-Nelson syndrome), Hellers tang (Heller clamp), Hellers reaktion (Heller reaction), Hellers proeve (Heller plexus), Hellers operation (Heller operation), Hellers farvemetode (Heller method), syfilitisk aortit (Heller-Doehle luetic aortitis, syphilitic aortitis), kardiomyotomi ad modum Heller (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), dementia infantilis Heller (Heller infantile dementia), dementia infantilis (Heller infantile dementia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hemagglutinatieproef van Heller (Heller reaction), ziekte van Heller-Doehle (Heller-Doehle luetic aortitis), syndroom van Heller-Nelson (Heller-Nelson syndrome), plexus van Heller (Heller plexus), operatie van Heller (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), oesophago-cardiotomie (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), extramukeuse cardiomyotomie (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), cardiomyotomie volgens Heller (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), cardiomyotomie (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), aortitis syphilitica (Heller-Doehle luetic aortitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Hellerin esofagokardiotomia (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vrai démon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | heller (brighter, clearer, mite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συφιλιδική αορτίτις των Heller-Dohle (Heller-Doehle luetic aortitis), βρεφική άνοια του Heller (Heller infantile dementia), μέθοδος Heller (Heller method), εγχείρηση Heller (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), εξωβλεννογόνιος οισοφαγοκαρδιοτομή (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), λαβίδα Heller (Heller clamp), αντίδραση Heller (Heller reaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sindrome di HELLER-NELSON (Heller-Nelson syndrome), reazione di HELLER (Heller reaction), plesso di HELLER (Heller plexus), operazione di Heller (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), malattia di HELLER-DOEHLE (Heller-Doehle luetic aortitis), grappetta di HELLER (Heller clamp), dementia infantilis Heller (Heller infantile dementia), colorazione di HELLER (Heller method). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ellerhay síndrome de Heller-Nelson (Heller-Nelson syndrome), reacção de Heller (Heller reaction), plexo de Heller (Heller plexus), operação de Heller (Heller operation), método de Heller (Heller method), demência de Heller (Heller infantile dementia), clamp de Heller (Heller clamp), aortite sifilítica de Heller-Doehle (Heller-Doehle luetic aortitis). (various references) геллер. (various references) nekadašnji nemački i austrijski novac. (various references) tinción de Heller (Heller method), síndrome de Heller-Nelson (Heller-Nelson syndrome), reacción de Heller (Heller reaction), plexo de Heller (Heller plexus), operación de Heller (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), grapa de Heller (Heller clamp), esofagocardiomiotomía extramucosa (Heller operation, Heller procedure, Heller's operation), demencia infantil de Heller (Heller infantile dementia), clamp de Heller (Heller clamp), aortitis luética de Heller-Doehle (Heller-Doehle luetic aortitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heller": helleri, helleries, helleris, hellers, hellery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "heller": sheller. (additional references) | |
Words containing "heller": shellers. (additional references) | |
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"Heller" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ghelle, Hellberg, helleri, hellner, Hellte, Hiltler, Hoeller. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heller" (pronounced he"ler) |
| 3 | -e" l er | bestseller, cellar, dweller, feller, interstellar, lamellar, propeller, reseller, seller, sheller, sneller, speller, stellar, teller. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-l-l-r" | |
-2 letters: heel, hell, here, herl, leer, lehr, reel. | |
-3 letters: eel, ell, ere, her, lee, ree. | |
-4 letters: eh, el, er, he, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: helleri, hellers, hellery, sheller. | |
+2 letters: harebell, helleris, hellfire, hollered, rakehell, shellers, shellier. | |
+3 letters: chiseller, fleshlier, harebells, hellebore, helleries, hellfires, hirselled, hosteller, rakehells, rakehelly, shellfire, shoveller. | |
+4 letters: bellwether, bellyacher, challenger, cheerfully, cheliceral, chisellers, enthralled, ethereally, hellbender, hellebores, hostellers, perihelial, phelloderm, prechilled, relishable, shellfires, shovellers, shrivelled, tetherball, wholesaler. | |
+5 letters: bellwethers, bellyachers, challengers, chancellery, chanterelle, cheerfuller, cheerlessly, cholesterol, embellisher, ephemerally, fluegelhorn, heartlessly, hellbenders, heretically, leaseholder, leatherleaf, leatherlike, lecherously, leukorrheal, overchilled, phelloderms, phylloxerae, placeholder, rathskeller, rechallenge, shelterbelt, shelterless, slaveholder, tetherballs, titleholder, wholesalers. | |
| 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)48 65 6C 6C 65 72 |
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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)01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e l l e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006C 006C 0065 0072 |
| 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)427178787184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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