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Definition: KEENER |
KEENERNoun1. A professional mourner who wails at a funeral. |
Date "KEENER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cunning | Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard; Scotchman; Jew, Yankee; intriguer, intrigant; floater, Indian giver, keener, repeater. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Keener, North Carolina."
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Keener. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Marcus T. Cicero | Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. |
Washington Irving | Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. |
| A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. | |
Wendell Phillips | The keener the want the lustier the growth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "KEENER" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "KEENER" is used about 119 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 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 85.71% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.45% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.84% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KEENER" 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 |
| Keener | Last name | 4,000 | 3,085 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "KEENER": keener-eyed. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
catherine keener | 213 | catherine keener photo | 3 |
nude catherine keener | 36 | james keener | 3 |
keener | 26 | naked catherine keener | 3 |
kira keener | 23 | baker keener nahra | 3 |
catherine keener picture | 10 | keener park | 3 |
catherine keener pic | 8 | keener sebastian | 3 |
keener management | 5 | catherine free keener nude | 3 |
katherine keener | 5 | keener kitchen | 2 |
catherine image keener | 4 | craig keener | 2 |
keener leslie | 4 | dc keener management washington | 2 |
chavis keener paula | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "KEENER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | "较敏". (various references) | ||||
German | Streber (careerist, pusher, striver, strivers, swot). (various references) | ||||
Greek | οξύτερος (more pungent). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | מקו ת (mourning woman). (various references) | ||||
Korean | " 치열한. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eenerkay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "KEENER": keeners. (additional references) | |
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"KEENER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cener, deener, heebner, Katner, kee-er, keeker, keenair, Keihei, Keker, Kelner, kenar, kenen, keneo, kenor, Keone, kerner, kesner, keyer, Keyzer, kezer, kiner, kkeerr, Kolner, Krenner, teener, Zeuner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "KEENER" (pronounced kē"ner) |
| 3 | -ē" n er | cleaner, demeanor, greener, intervenor, leaner, meaner, misdemeanor, screener, wiener. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: kerne. | |
-2 letters: erne, keen, kern, knee, reek. | |
-3 letters: eke, ere, ern, ken, nee, ree. | |
-4 letters: en, er, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: keeners, kneeler. | |
+2 letters: kerneled, kerosene, kneelers, overkeen, weakener. | |
+3 letters: breakeven, fenugreek, hearkened, innkeeper, junketeer, kernelled, kerosenes, nebenkern, rednecked, reseeking, rewakened, sneakered, sunseeker, weakeners, weekender. | |
+4 letters: bedarkened, breakevens, fenugreeks, innkeepers, junketeers, nebenkerns, needlework, reawakened, sunseekers, weekenders. | |
+5 letters: foretokened, freethinker, greenbacker, greenkeeper, greenockite, jerkinesses, leatherneck, leukotriene, neckerchief, needleworks, perkinesses, smokescreen, snickersnee. | |
| 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)4B 45 45 4E 45 52 |
| 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)01001011 01000101 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K E E N E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0045 0045 004E 0045 0052 |
| 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)453939483952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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