Morse

Definition: Morse

Morse

Noun

1. A telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals).

2. United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872).

Date "Morse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Domain	Definition
Biographical Satire	MORSE, Samuel G., an inventor who might have used his talents in other lines had Marconi lived before his time. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Morse refers to many things:

Samuel Morse, the supervisor of Alfred Vail and the developer of Morse code.
Morse code or continuous wave is a method of coding messages into long and short beeps.
Inspector Morse is a British book series and television show.
Morse theory in mathematics, developed by Marston Morse.

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.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
MORSE	English	Metal-Organic Research for Semiconductor Epitaxy	Computing, European Union
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Morse

Synonym: international Morse code (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Morse

English words defined with "Morse": dah, dash, dit, dot ♦ radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy ♦ Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Samuel Morse ♦ telegraph, telegraphy ♦ wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Morse": CLERK, ROUTE, Communication Aids for Disabled, continuous wave ♦ facsimile operator ♦ Morse dash, Morse dot, mounting arbor ♦ PHOTORADIO OPERATOR, Populist, pulse code ♦ radio-photo technician ♦ telegraph dot, telephoto engineer ♦ Wheatstone automatic system. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Morse" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (walrus), German (Morse), Spanish (Morse), Swedish (Morse, this morning).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Is that Morse Code? (Panic Room; writing credit: David Koepp) Mr. Morse, what happened to your friends? (The Edge; writing credit: David Mamet) My Morse is so rusty, I could be sending him dimensions on playmate of the month. (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson)
Movie/TV Titles	Tiger Morse (1967) Presenting Barry Morse (1960) The Essential Steve Morse (1991) Inspector Morse (1987)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Morse Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Morse Theory. (AM-51) (reference) Your Introduction to Morse Code (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Inspector Morse - Absolute Conviction (reference) Inspector Morse - Greeks Bearing Gifts (reference) Inspector Morse - Cherubim & Seraphim (reference) Inspector Morse - Deceived by Flight (reference) Inspector Morse - Driven to Distraction (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Morse Code in Modern Age: Acro (reference) Morse Code of Love (reference) Inspector Morse, Volume 1 (English TV Series) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Working a boat through the ice of Glacier Bay Triangulation party of Fremont Morse. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Morse River Inlet showing tidal marsh showing prograding of the barrier spit. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Laura Morse working on the Big Eyes searching for marine mammals on Halloween. On the NOAA Ship McARTHUR conducting STAR 2000 operations in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		The Doctor Of "Ye Olden Time." 1790. / Morse del. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Morse. Credit: Library of Congress.		Two U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees wearing headsets using Morse code. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Two men seated in office, one with telephone and typewriter, the other sending a message by morse code. Credit: Library of Congress.		Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress.
	S.S. Samuel B. [sic] Morse. Credit: Library of Congress.		Sibley, Franklin and Morse Halls, Cornell University. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption
	High-pitched beeping of Morse code.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was known as "The Matter with Kansas."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Morse" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.28% of the time. "Morse" is used about 611 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)	94.28%	576	10,970
Noun (singular)	5.72%	35	58,339
Total	100.00%	611	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Morse" 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
Morse	Last name	17,000	709
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name
United Kingdom	Morse Plc
	(more examples...)

1. Morse, LA (village, FIPS 52320)
Location: 30.12090 N, 92.49796 W
Population (1990): 782 (329 housing units)
Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

2. Morse, TX
Zip Code(s): 79062
Country: USA

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Expressions: Morse

Expressions using "Morse": international Morse code ♦ Mary Morse Baker Eddy ♦ Morse alphabet ♦ Morse Bluff ♦ morse code ♦ Morse dash ♦ Morse dot ♦ Morse Shores ♦ Samuel F. B. Morse ♦ Samuel Finley Breese Morse ♦ Samuel Morse. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Morse

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
morse code	839	morse code alphabet	19
morse	269	morse taper	19
robert morse	117	clave morse	19
inspector morse	111	code morse practice	19
samuel morse	98	ed morse honda	19
david morse	89	award morse robert tony	18
fairbanks morse	85	ed morse cadillac	18
steve morse	84	international morse code	17
morse control	67	morse robert tony	17
morse role tony winning	59	morse phillips rector	16
morse teleflex	44	codigo morse	16
morse sewing machine	38	morse watchman	15
morse robert role tony winning	37	morse chevrolet	15
morse high school	36	morse code key	14
code morse translator	30	morse code software	14
code learn morse	28	samuel f.b morse	14
morse symbol	25	code history morse	14
ferry morse	25	award morse tony	14
fairbanks morse pump	24	morse reservoir	13
ed morse	23	neal morse	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Morse

Language		Translations for "Morse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Morsë (sea cow, sea horse, vice, vise), Tokës, Kopsë (button, snap, stud), Katramëz (ouch). (various references)

Bulgarian		Морж. (various references)

Chinese		莫�"斯. (various references)

Czech		Morseovka. (various references)

Danish		morsesystem (Morse code), morsestreg (Morse dash), morseprik (Morse dot, telegraph dot), morsekode (morse code). (various references)

Dutch		morsesleutel (Morse key), morseseinen (Morse code), Morsepunt (Morse dot, telegraph dot), morse-code (morse code), Morsealfabet (Morse alphabet), morse- (Morse code), streep (line, ray, streak, strip, stripe, stroke), punt (dot, element, fragment, item, particle, peak, period, point, spot, summit, tip), in morsetekens seinen (send in Morse code). (various references)

Esperanto		morsi (send in Morse code), morsa klavo (Morse key), morsa alfabeto (Morse alphabet), morsa (Morse code). (various references)

Finnish		morseviiva (Morse dash), morsepiste (Morse dot, telegraph dot), morsekoodi (morse code). (various references)

French		trait Morse (Morse dash), queue � cône morse � tenon et lumière d'une fraise (morse taper tanged with cotter slot shank of a milling cutter), queue � cône morse � tenon d'une fraise (morse taper tanged shank of a milling cutter), point Morse (Morse dot), code Morse (Morse code). (various references)

German		Morse. (various references)

Greek		όορσ, Θαλάσσιοσ ίπποσ, � όρπη. (various references)

Hebrew		ׁוס ֹם. (various references)

Hungarian		Morze. (various references)

Indonesian		kode morse. (various references)

Italian		Tricheco (walrus, walruses). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		モールス符号 (chenille, flapper, moccasin, modern girl, Moire, moisture, Morse code, mosaic, mosaic parquetry, Mossad). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		モールスふ�"う (Morse code). (various references)

Korean		모스. (various references)

Manx		Morsagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		orsemay

Portuguese		telégrafo morse, peixe-boi (cow-fish, manatee, sea-cow), hipocampo (hippocampus, seahorse), cavalo-marinho (hippocampus, seahorse, walrus). (various references)

Romanian		Emite Semnale Morse, Aparat Telegrafic Morse. (various references)

Russian		Морж, Азбука Морзе, Застежка, Система Морзе. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		morž (walrus), veliki okrugao broš. (various references)

Spanish		Morse. (various references)

Swedish		Morse (this morning). (various references)

Turkish		Mors (sea horse, walrus). (various references)

Ukrainian		Пряжка, Морж, Застібка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Morse

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Morse": morsel, morseled, morseling, morselled, morselling, morsels. (additional references)
	Words ending with "Morse": premorse, remorse. (additional references)
	Words containing "Morse": remorseful, remorsefully, remorsefulness, remorsefulnesses, remorseless, remorselessly, remorselessness, remorselessnesses, remorses, unremorseful. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Morse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Marse, Marsey, Merzey, moorse, Moorsee, Morbey, Morbs, morese, Morfe, Morle, morlse, Morrsleib, Morsa, Morses, Morsey, Morso, Morss, Morue, Morwen, Morysse, morze, morzem, mosre, Mursa, mursi, Murzi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Morse"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Morse" (pronounced mô"rs)
4	m ô" r s	remorse.
3	-ô" r s	bourse, coarse, corse, course, divorce, endorse, enforce, force, hoarse, horse, midcourse, perforce, reinforce, source.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Morse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mores, omers.
	Words within the letters "e-m-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: eros, more, mors, omer, ores, rems, roes, roms, rose, some, sore.
	-2 letters: ems, ers, mor, mos, oes, oms, ore, ors, ose, rem, res, roe, rom, ser, som.
	-3 letters: em, er, es, me, mo, oe, om, or, os, re, so.
	Words containing the letters "e-m-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: bromes, comers, formes, homers, isomer, metros, moires, momser, mopers, morels, morose, morsel, mosher, mosser, mouser, movers, mowers, ombers, ombres, ormers, proems, ramose, rimose, romeos, sermon, smoker, somber, sombre, vomers.
	+2 letters: beworms, bombers, boomers, chromes, combers, cormels, deforms, deworms, dormers, embryos, emerods, emoters, enamors, erotism, foamers, formers, grumose, heroism, hombres, imposer, irksome, isomers, maestro, memoirs, mentors, merinos, merlons, merlots, meteors, misdoer, moaners, mobbers, mobster, mockers, moderns, moilers, moister, molders, molters, momsers, momzers, mongers, monster, mooters, moppers, morales, moreens, morgens, morgues, morsels, mortise, moshers, mossers, mossier, mothers, mousers, mousier, oarsmen, oestrum, ogreism, oosperm, promise, radomes, recombs, reforms, remolds, remoras, remorse, remotes, removes, roamers, rodsmen, rompers, roomers, roomies, semipro, serfdom, sermons, smokers, smokier, smolder, smother, stomper, stormed, supremo, termors, thermos, tremors, trisome, trompes, verismo, womeras, wormers.
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