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Definition: Jr. |
Jr.Adjective1. Used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father; "John Junior"; "John Smith, Jr.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Jr.Synonym: younger (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Speaking in normal tones: (Robards Jr.,Jason@Murray)to Nick: Hi, Alex, how're you doing? (A Thousand Clowns; writing credit: Herb Gardner) | |
Lyrics | I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon) Her name was Lonnie, she went to Jr. High wit me, (What Would You Do; performing artist: City High) I'm the flyest thing walking through jr. high school (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bør Børson Jr. (1974) Jr. Martin Luther King (1971) João Juca Jr. (1969) | |
Song Titles | Birth of the Blues, The (performing artist: Sammy Davis Jr.) Mr. Bojangles (performing artist: Sammy Davis Jr.) Be-bop the Beguine (performing artist: Sammy Jr. Davis) Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (performing artist: Sammy Jr. Davis) Just The Two Of Us (performing artist: Jr. Grover Washington) | |
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 | 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). |  | Shows portrait photo of Frank Joseph Rauscher, Jr., National Cancer Institute director from May 1972 to November 1976. The orginal piece of art hangs in the 11th floor hallway in Building 31 on the National Institutes of Health campus. Credit: Brooks (Photographer). |
 | Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr.. Credit: NASA. |  | James R. Thompson Jr.. Credit: NASA. |
 | Richard Wainwright, Jr. 1849-1926 Nephew of Alexander Dallas Bache Had run of Coast Survey offices during Civil War Helped modernize U.S. Navy prior to WWI Served on the Coast Survey in the 1870's. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | San Francisco waterfront as seen in: "Wheat Ports of the Pacific Coast" by Edwin S. Holmes, Jr. Published in: Yearbook of the United States Department of Agric ulture 1901. Plate LXXXII, p. 568. Library Call Number S21 .A2 . Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Portland, Oregon, waterfront. In: "Wheat Ports of the Pacific Coast" by Edwin S. Holmes, Jr. Published in: Yearbook of the United States Department of Agric ulture 1901. Plate LXXXIII, p. 570. Library Call Number S21 .A2 . Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | John L. Levitow Jr., son of the late Medal of Honor recipient John L. Levitow, received the American flag on behalf of a grateful nation from Carol DiBattiste, undersecretary of the Air Force. Levitow died Nov. 8 at his home in Connecticut after a lengthy. |
 | Army National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. John Leonard Jr. and Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Christina Blithe slice the birthday cake with a sword on behalf of all enlisted Guardsmen during the National Guard's 364th birthday celebration in Arlington, Va., on. |  | Felch, I.K. Poultry Culture. Chicago: W.H. Harrison, Jr., 1887. Credit: USDA. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. |
| We are not makers of history. We are made by history. | |
| All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. | |
| There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. | |
| The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. | |
General George S. Patton, Jr. | Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | We are what we imagine ourselves to be. |
| There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him. | |
| We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | This is our hope. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1943) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Straus WL, Plouffe JF, File TM Jr., et al. Risk factors for domestic acquisition of legionnaires' disease. (references) | |
Richards FO, Jr., Kovacs JA, Luft BJ. Preventing toxoplasmic encephalitis in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus. (references) | ||
William Owen Jr., M.D. Duke University Medical Center Richard D. Swartz, M.D. University of Michigan Health System The individuals listed here facilitated field testing for this publication. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brazil | Ambassador to the UN--Gelson Fonseca, Jr. (references) |
Philippines | Vice President--Teofisto T. Guingona, Jr. (references) | |
Norway | Administrative Officer--Leo J. Hessian, Jr. (references) | |
Human Rights | Slovak Republic | In January 12 persons, most of whom were formerly members of the SIS, were charged with the violent abduction and torture in 1995 of the former president's son, Michal Kovac, Jr. Former SIS head Ivan Lexa was the primary person accused; however, the Constitutional Court concluded that amnesties granted to Gustav Krajci and a second official involved in the case, Jaroslav Svechota, by former Prime Minister Meciar, shielded them from prosecution. (references) |
Political Economy | Palau | In the November 2000 general elections, Vice President Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr., won the presidential race and Senator Sandra S. Peratozzi became the first woman vice president. (references) |
Trade | Panama | General Manager: Jose Chung, Jr. (references) |
Travel | Singapore | January 21, Monday - Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | Little too mechanical. I compare him to his dad. His dad, you know, would walk into a room and would dominate it by his talent and his showmanship. Albert Jr., I think, is a little too mechanical, not as spontaneous as he ought to be. |
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| "Jr." is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Jr." is used about 20 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) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (common) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "jr.": Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. ♦ Albert Gore Jr. ♦ Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. ♦ Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ♦ Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. ♦ Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ♦ Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ♦ James Earl Carter Jr. ♦ John Herschel Glenn Jr. ♦ Martin Luther King Jr. ♦ miles Dewey Davis Jr. ♦ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ♦ Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr. ♦ Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. ♦ Whitney Moore Young Jr. ♦ William John Clifton Haley Jr. ♦ William Nunn Lipscom Jr. ♦ William Tatem Tilden Jr. ♦ Willie Howard Mays Jr.. 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 |
jr..com nick | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "jr."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | jr 。. (various references) | |
Russian | младший (junior, low-order, puisne, younger). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 72 2E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01110010 00101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J r . |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0072 002E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)448416 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , китайский, китаец |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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