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ROCKMAN

Specialty Definition: ROCKMAN

DomainDefinition

Mining

In bituminous coal mining, a foreman who is in charge of the drilling of holes in rock or slate and the charging and tamping of explosives in the holes drilled by miners prior to blasting. See also:slateman. (references)

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

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Modern Usage: ROCKMAN

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Wiley and Light's Rockman Board Game (1993)

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

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Commercial Usage: ROCKMAN

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Photo Album: ROCKMAN

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Specialist 2nd Class Jane Rockman uses a control tower signal lamp to flash landing instructions to an incoming plane, circa 1943-45. Credit: NAVY.

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

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Usage Frequency: ROCKMAN

"ROCKMAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "ROCKMAN" is used about 12 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 (proper)75%9117,287
Noun (singular)25%3202,518
                    Total100.00%12N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: ROCKMAN

The following table summarizes the usage of "ROCKMAN" 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
RockmanLast name17042,322
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ROCKMAN

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ROCKMAN": Rockman-queens.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ROCKMAN

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

rockman

265

gba rockman rom zero

10

exe rockman

120

rockman x

10

2 rockman zero

57

episode exe rockman

10

rockman and forte

51

rockman figure

9

rockman zero

51

exe hentai rockman

9

2 rockman rom zero

37

rockman x3

9

rockman forte rom

22

exe rockman toy

9

hentai rockman

20

man mega rockman toy

8

neo rockman

18

chorus delay rockman

8

3 exe rockman

17

alexis rockman

8

3 exe rockman rom

16

download episode exe rockman

8

rockman toy

13

exe rockman rom

7

rockman x4

13

rockman rom zero

7

rockman rom

12

picture rockman

7

doujinshi rockman

12

exe gba rockman rom

7

dash rockman

12

manga rockman

7

rockman x7

11

rockman x5

7

exe online rockman

11

anime exe rockman

7

rockman wallpaper

11

adventure rockman super

7

man mega rockman

11

pic rockman

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ROCKMAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-k-m-n-o-r"

-1 letter: macron.

-2 letters: acorn, carom, crank, croak, krona, macon, macro, manor, narco, racon, roman.

-3 letters: amok, arco, cark, carn, coma, conk, cork, corm, corn, cram, kaon, karn, knar, koan, mack, mako, mano, marc, mark, moan, mock, monk, mora, morn, narc, nark, nock, noma, norm, okra, orca, rack, rank, roam, roan, rock.

-4 letters: arc, ark, arm.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-k-m-n-o-r"
 

+3 letters: cankerworm.

 

+4 letters: cankerworms, pockmarking.

 

+5 letters: backcourtman, backcourtmen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ROCKMAN


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

52 4F 43 4B 4D 41 4E

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)

01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011 01001101 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#77 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 0043 004B 004D 0041 004E

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

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

52493745473548

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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