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Definition: Blenheim |
BlenheimNoun1. The British Duke of Marlborough and the Austrian Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Blenheim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: Blenheim |
| English words defined with "Blenheim": Blenheim spaniel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Blenheim": Blenheim House, Blenheim Steps ♦ Fifteen decisive Battles ♦ INADMISSIBLE ♦ Marlborough Dog ♦ Petit Serjeantry ♦ Royal Goats ♦ Xanthos. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Blenheim" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (Blenheim), Swedish (Blenheim). |
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Business | They have also worked with the two exhibition firms involved, Blenheim and CII, to develop a schedule that provides an adequate number of shows, in varied locations, without saturating the market. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law. It cannot be proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria. But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value. |
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| "Blenheim" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blenheim" is used about 164 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) | 100% | 164 | 24,408 |
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1. Blenheim, SC (town, FIPS 6850) |
Expressions using "Blenheim": blenheim orange ♦ Blenheim spaniel ♦ North Blenheim. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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Hungarian | Blenheim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enheimblay азновидность Спаниеля. (various references) Blenheim. (various references) bir elma türü (blenheim orange, codling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-m-n" | |
-1 letter: hemline. | |
-2 letters: milneb, nimble. | |
-3 letters: belie, elemi, hemin, leben, limen. | |
-4 letters: been, bene, bile, bine, blin, elhi, hebe, heel, heil, helm, heme, lien, limb, lime, limn, line, mien, mile, mine, neem. | |
-5 letters: bee, bel, ben, bin, eel, elm, eme, hem, hen, hie, him, hin, lee, lei, lib, lie, lin, mel, men, mib, mil, neb, nee. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-i-l-m-n" | |
+3 letters: machineable, unblemished. | |
+4 letters: embellishing, mechanizable. | |
+5 letters: embellishment, establishment, methemoglobin, unembellished, unimpeachable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 65 6E 68 65 69 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. . -. .... . .. -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100101 01101110 01101000 01100101 01101001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l e n h e i m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0065 006E 0068 0065 0069 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678718074717579 |
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