Marly

  

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Marly

Definition: Marly

Marly

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or resembling or abounding in marl.

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

"Marly" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a pleasant wood".

Date "marly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Note: Marly \Marl"y\, adjective. [Comparative Marlier; superlative Marliest.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: Marly

DomainDefinitions

Mining

Pertaining to, containing, or resembling marl; e.g., marly limestone containing 5% to 15% clay and 85% to 95% carbonate, or marly soil containing at least 15% calcium carbonate and no more than 75% clay (inaddition to other constituents). (references)

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

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Modern Usage: Marly

DomainUsage

Lyrics

We keep a Marly cheap ("Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman"; performing artist: D'Angelo)

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

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Commercial Usage: Marly

DomainTitle

References

  • Clinica de Marly: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Habitat et marginalité : Institut national d'éducation populaire, Marly Le Roi, 26-27 octobre 1976 (reference)

  • La machine de Marly : Aspekten des Zeitgeistwandels (reference)

  • Le château de Marly sous le règne de Louis XVI : étude du décor et de l'ameublement des appartements du Pavillon royal sous le règne de Louis XVI (reference)

  • Les carreaux de Marly, ou, De l'ornementation céramique des bassins dans les jardins de Marly sous Louis XIV (reference)

  • Les Nuisances et la ville : [colloque], Institut national d'éducation populaire, Marly le Roi, 22 au 25 septembre 1975 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Use in Literature: Marly

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were curveting in a golden cloud.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Marly

"Marly" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Marly" 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 (proper)57.14%4175,879
Adverb (general)42.86%3202,518
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: Marly

"Marly" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a pleasant wood".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Marly."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
MarleeFemaleEnglishMarley
MarleyMale, FemaleEnglishN/A
MarlyMaleEnglishMarley
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Marly

CountryName
Colombia

Clinica de Marly

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Marly

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "marly": Marly-le-roi.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marly

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

bob marly

127

marly

8

bob lyrics marly

6

bob marly picture

4

manson marly

4

marly ziggy

4

chance marly

3

marly rusoff

3

marly le roi

3

marly shelton

2

marly renaud

2

industrie marly

2

cafe marly

2

bob marly pic

2
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Modern Translations: Marly

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

Arabic 

  

‏مسمد بالمرل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Мергелен. (various references)

   

Danish

  

mergeljord (marl, marly soil). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

mergelgrond (marl, marly soil). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

merkelimaa (marl, marly soil), merkeli (bog line, loam, marl, marly soil). (various references)

   

French

  

Marneux, marne (marl). (various references)

   

German

  

Mergelboden (marl, marly soil). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Λιπαντικόσ, Ασβεστώδησ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Márgás. (various references)

   

Italian

  

terreno marnoso (marl, marly soil). (various references)

   

Manx

  

marlagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arlymay

   

Portuguese

  

Merlim (buckram, marline). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Мергельный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

laporast. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Margoso. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

märgeljord (marl, marly soil). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Kireçli Toprak Gibi. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

Мергельний. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Marly

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-m-r-y"

-1 letter: amyl, army, aryl, marl.

-2 letters: arm, lam, lar, lay, mar, may, ram, ray, rya, yam, yar.

-3 letters: al, am, ar, ay, la, ma, my, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-m-r-y"
 

+1 letter: marbly, warmly.

 

+2 letters: almonry, brambly, lamprey, majorly, malarky, mayoral, miliary, morally, palmary, palmyra, smartly.

 

+3 letters: amorally, calamary, carbamyl, claymore, creamily, cymbaler, dreamily, empyreal, formally, graymail, lamasery, laminary, lampreys, lampyrid, limitary, luminary, malarkey, mannerly, markedly, martyrly, masterly, matronly, maturely, meagerly, meagrely, military, milliary, mislayer, molarity, morality, mortally, normalcy, normally, palmyras, playroom, ramosely, randomly, royalism, smarmily, yarmelke, yarmulke.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Marly


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

4D 61 72 6C 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)

01001101 01100001 01110010 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 006C 0079

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

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

4767847891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Derived from
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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