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Lory

Definition: Lory

Lory

Noun

1. Small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)


Crosswords: Lory

English words defined with "lory": Lori, Lories, Louri. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Lory

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Lory is a character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a reference to Lorina Liddell, Alice's sister.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to everyone present on the original boating expedition of July 4, 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and the Duck was Rev. Robinson Duckworth.

A lory is also any of about 30 species of small, fast-moving parrot from southern Asia and New Guinea. See lorikeet.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lory."

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Modern Usage: Lory

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Pines of Lory (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lory

DomainTitle

Books

  • Wie's früher war im Schweizerland : Erzählungen und Erinnerungen aus zwei Jahrhunderten mit vielen alten Illustrationen von Anker, Lory, Toepffer und anderen (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lory

Illustrations:
Lory

More pictures...

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Use in Literature: Lory

TitleAuthorQuote

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Lory

"Lory" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lory" is used about 7 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Lory

The following table summarizes the usage of "lory" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LoryFirst name Female2,0002,860
LoryLast name20033,366
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lory

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lory

45

ghidini lory

3

del lory santo

11

black capped lory

3

lory park state

10

blue lory streaked

3

brockenbrough ken lory

9

black lory

3

donna de lory

8

del foto lory santo

3

rainbow lory

8

bianco lory

3

lory parrot

7

lory picture

2

bird lory

7

green lory

2

red lory

6

lory theater

2

howe lory

5

dusky lory

2

chattering lory

4

breeders lory

2

doug lory

4

bibbed lory yellow

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lory

Language Translations for "lory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

papagall i vogël i australisë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

лори. (various references)

   

Czech

  

australský papoušek. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

papagáj (parrot). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orylay

   

Portuguese

  

vagoneta (truck), arara (clothes rack, macaw, parrot). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

попугай лори. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

lori. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

loripapegoja. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kırmızı papağan, güney afrika'ya özgü bir kuş. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Lory

Derivations

Words ending with "lory": calory, chancellory, glory, pillory, vainglory. (additional references)

Words containing "lory": glorying, pillorying. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lory"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "lory" (pronounced lô"rē)
4l ô" r ēglory, lorry, pylori.
3-ô" r ēcacciatore, Corrie, Cory, Dory, gory, hoary, inventory, quarry, Signori, storey, story, Tori, tory.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Lory

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "l-o-r-y"

-2 letters: lo, or, oy, yo.

 Words containing the letters "l-o-r-y"
 

+1 letter: glory, lorry, loury, roily, royal.

 

+2 letters: brolly, calory, dourly, drolly, drylot, floury, formyl, gorily, growly, hourly, lordly, lowery, orally, overly, poorly, portly, propyl, protyl, pylori, pyrola, pyrrol, ropily, rosily, royals, sorely, sourly, trolly, trotyl, volery, yodler, yowler.

 

+3 letters: almonry, broadly, caloyer, chromyl, cornily, coryzal, courtly, crayola, crossly, drylots, elusory, elytron, erosely, felonry, flavory, flowery, flyover, foolery, formyls, glorify, grossly, helotry, hoarily, hornily, horsily, layover, leprosy, lobbyer, lottery, loverly, loyaler, majorly, mayoral, morally, olivary, orality, orderly, orology, overfly, overlay, overply, overtly, ovulary, payroll, pillory, polymer, poultry, priorly, pronely, propyla, propyls, prosily, protyle, protyls, proudly, pyloric, pylorus, pyrolas, pyrrole, pyrrols, rollway, roomily, roughly, roundly, roupily, rowdily, royally, royalty, shortly, soberly, sorrily, trilogy, trolley, trotyls, urology, wordily, worldly, wrongly, yodeler, yodlers, yolkier, yowlers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lory


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 6F 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ---    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101111 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#111 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 006F 0072 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46818491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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