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Merl

Definition: Merl

Merl

Noun

1. Common black European thrush.

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


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Merl

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

MERL

EnglishMaterials Engineering Research LaboratoryN/A

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

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Synonyms: Merl

Synonyms: blackbird (n), merle (n), ousel (n), ouzel (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Merl

DomainTitle

Books

  • Merl and Jasper's Supper Caper (reference)

  • Merl Reagle's Sunday Crosswords (The Award Winning Series) (reference)

  • Merl Reagles's Sunday Crosswords (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Merl Saunders - Blues From the Rainforest: A Musical Suite (reference)

  • Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia: Blues from the Rainforest (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Merl

The following table summarizes the usage of "merl" 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
MerlLast name10081,092
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Merl

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

haggard merl

25

merl saunders

12

merl norman

9

merl

8

merl reagle

4

grove high merl school

2

lynch merl

2

haggart merl

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

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Derivations: Merl

Derivations

Words beginning with "merl": merle, merles, merlin, merlins, merlon, merlons, merlot, merlots, merls. (additional references)

Words containing "merl": camerlengo, camerlengos, formerly, hammerless, hammerlock, hammerlocks, summerlike, summerlong, summerly. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Merl"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "merl" (pronounced mer"l)
3m er" lMerle.
2-er" lbirle, Burl, curl, earl, girl, herl, hurl, Pearl, swirl, twirl, unfurl, whirl, whorl.

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

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Anagrams: Merl

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-m-r"

-1 letter: elm, mel, rem.

-2 letters: el, em, er, me, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-m-r"
 

+1 letter: lamer, lemur, merle, merls, miler, morel, realm.

 

+2 letters: almner, ambler, ampler, armlet, blamer, calmer, cormel, dermal, elmier, filmer, flamer, lamber, lemurs, limber, limier, limmer, limner, limper, lumber, lumper, mailer, malgre, marble, marcel, marled, marvel, mauler, medlar, melder, melter, merely, merles, merlin, merlon, merlot, mewler, milder, milers, milker, miller, milter, moiler, molder, molter, morale, morels, morsel, muller, myrtle, palmer, prelim, ramble, realms, refilm, relume, remail, remelt, remold, rimple, rumble, rumple, smiler, termly, tramel.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Merl


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

4D 65 72 6C

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

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

=

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)

01001101 01100101 01110010 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#101 &#114 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0065 0072 006C

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

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

47718478

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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