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"ROGER" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous spear". |
Date "ROGER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Roger \Rog"er\, noun. [From proper name Roger.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Roger The cook in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. "He cowde roste, sethe, broille, and frie. Make mortreux, and wel bake a pye;" but Herry Bailif, the host, said to him- "Now telle on, Roger, and loke it be good; For many a Jakk of Dover hastew sold. That hath be twyës hoot and twyës cold." Verse 4343. Roger Bontemps. (See Bontemps.) The Jolly Roger. The black flag, the favourite ensign of pirates. "Set all sail, clear the deck, stand to quarters, up with the Jolly Roger!"- Sir Walter Scott: The Pirate, chap. xxxi. Roger of Bruges. Roger van der Weyde, painter. (1455-1529.) Roger de Coverley. A dance invented by the great-grandfather of Roger de Coverley, or Roger of Cowley, near Oxford. Named after the squire described in Addison's Spectator. Roger of Hoveden or Howden, in Yorkshire, continued Bede's History from 732 to 1202. The reigns of Henry II. and Richard I. are very fully given. The most matter-of-fact of all our old chroniclers; he indulges in no epithets or reflections. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Post & Telecom | In aviation radio phraseology, an expression indicating that the last transmission has been received and understood. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Unknown. Source: A high school Varsity Basketball team in Vancouver Washington. Definition: While the word Roger has many meanings, and is a name of a mna even, this is referring to having sex. Context: This is used to talk about having sex with a girl that you don't care about. She would mean nothing to you if you used this word to talk about her. Social Source: Varsity Basketball Players from a high school in Vancouver Washington. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | ROGER. A portmanteau; also a man's yard. Cant. ROGER, or TIB OF THE BUTTERY. A goose. Cant. Jolly Roger; a flag hoisted by pirates. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Roger Nicholas Angleton (1942 - April 1948) was the man who confessed to murdering his sister-in law Doris Angleton in her River Oaks home in Houston, Texas. On April 16, 1997, the very day Doris died, Roger missed a court date on drug-related charges.Roger always got into trouble. He had been booted out of several schools and had even been sent to a military academy. Roger was never as successful as his brother was, even while he was in Houston.
Roger's comical nature -- he dressed up as a rabbit at a Halloween party -- seems at odds with his crimes and with his failures relative to his younger brother Robert Nicholas Angleton. His problems started when Robert deemed Roger unfit to help him with his bookmaking scheme, and fired him. Roger shot up Robert's condominium in 1991, and sent him numerous messages attempting extortion on different occasions prior to the murder of Robert's wife Doris.
Roger Angleton was 55 years old at the time of the murder. The Texas prosecutor charged that the murder fulfilled a contract between Roger and Robert, intended to prevent exposure of Robert's illegal bookmaking. That lesser crime was exposed anyway, but Robert was acquitted of killing Doris in the state trial, but had been arrested for similar charges by the Department of Justice.
Roger Angleton committed suicide in a Houston prison cell in April 1998 by cutting himself fifty times with several razor blades. He admitted, in his suicide note, to killing Doris as part of an extortion plot. He may have lied about Robert's role, however.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Roger Angleton."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Roger (d. 1139), bishop of Salisbury, was originally priest of a small chapel near Caen. The future King Henry I, who happened to hear mass there one day, was impressed by the speed with which Roger read the service and enrolled him in his own service.Roger, though uneducated, showed great talent for business. On coming to the throne, Henry almost immediately made him chancellor (1101). Soon after Roger received the bishopric of Salisbury. In the Investitures controversy he skilfully managed to keep the favour of both the king and Anselm. Roger devoted himself to administrative business, and remodelled it completely. He created the exchequer system, which was managed by him and his family for more than a century, and he used his position to heap up power and riches. He became the first man in England after the king, and was in office, if not in title, justiciar.
He ruled England while Henry was in Normandy, and succeeded in obtaining the see of Canterbury for his nominee, William de Corbeil. Duke Robert seems to have been put into his custody after Tinchebrai. Though Roger had sworn allegiance to Matilda, he disliked the Angevin connexion, and went over to Stephen, carrying with him the royal treasure and administrative system (1135). Stephen placed great reliance on him, on his nephews, the bishops of Ely and Lincoln, and on his son Roger, who was treasurer.
The king declared that if Roger demanded half of the kingdom he should have it, but chafed against the overwhelming influence of the official clique whom Roger represented. Roger himself had built at Devizes the most splendid castle in Christendom. He and his nephews seem to have secured a number of castles outside their own dioceses, and the old bishop behaved as if he were an equal of the king. At a council held in June 1139, Stephen found a pretext for demanding a surrender of their castles, and on their refusal they were arrested. After a short struggle all Roger's great castles were sequestrated. But Henry of Winchester demanded the restoration of the bishop.
The king was considered to have committed an almost unpardonable crime in offering violence to members of the church, in defiance of the scriptural command, "Touch not mine anointed." Stephen took up a defiant attitude, and the question remained unsettled. This quarrel with the church, which immediately preceded the landing of the empress, had a serious effect on Stephen's fortunes. The moment that the fortune of war declared against him, the clergy acknowledged Matilda. Bishop Roger, however, did not live to see himself avenged. He died at Salisbury in December 1139. He was a great bureaucrat, and a builder whose taste was in advance of his age. But his contemporaries were probably justified in regarding him as the type of the bishop immersed in worldly affairs, ambitious, avaricious, unfettered by any high standard of personal morality.
Roger's nephew Alexander (d. 1148), who became bishop of Lincoln in 1123, was a typical secular ecclesiastic of the middle ages, wealthy, proud, ambitious and ostentatious. He founded monasteries, built castles at Newark, Sleaford and Banbury, and restored his cathedral at Lincoln after the fire of 1145. He followed the policy of Roger, whose imprisonment he shared, and died after a visit to Pope Eugenius III at Auxerre, early in 1148.
See Sir J Ramsay's Foundations of England, vol. ii., and JH Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Roger of Salisbury."
| 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 |
roger | English | Your message received and understood | Public Administration, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore. |
Warfare | Raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ROGER |
| English words defined with "ROGER": great mind ♦ performance ♦ The five wits, To have a mind. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ROGER": Admirable Doctor ♦ Bontemps ♦ Coverley, Cyclo ♦ Doctor Mirabilis ♦ F-code, Franciscans ♦ Hodge ♦ Kenelm ♦ Opus Majus ♦ QUIFFING ♦ Scripto res Decem, Sheva. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ROGER": Ascham. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ROGER" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Roger), Turkish (Roger). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | For crying out loud, Roger! How the hell many times do we have to do this damn scene (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) My name is Roger the Shrubber (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) Roger O. Thornhill (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman) Do you read me Roger Ramjet (The Abyss; writing credit: James Cameron) Roger, over (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Roger Ramjet (1965) Cinéma de notre temps: Roger Leenhardt ou Le dernier humaniste (1965) La Revanche de Roger la Honte (1946) Roger la Honte (1945) Gangster Roger Touhy (1944) | |
Song Titles | Dang Me (performing artist: Roger Miller) I Want To Be Your Man (performing artist: Roger) England Swings (performing artist: Roger Miller) King Of The Road (performing artist: Roger Miller) Get Used to It (performing artist: Roger Voudouris) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Astronaut Roger Chaffee. Credit: NASA. |  | Roger Rowse On the maiden voyage of the WESTDAHL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Roger Griffis of NOAA assists in the clean-up at Ft. McHenry, MD. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Red fox - Vulpes vulpes. This animal was noted in Rhode Island by the first settlers as it was mentioned by Roger Williams in 1643 in his work "A Key into the Language of America.". Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | District Conservationist Roger Flint reviews conservation plan and the installation of a water trough for a rotational grazing system. Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | African American farmer, Earl Shelby and County Agent Roger Jones check Shelby's tomatoes in Perry County, MS. Credit: USDA. |
 | Herd bull with mixed herd on the farm of Perry County Agent Roger Jones. Credit: USDA. |  | Roger Rosentreter displaying Diffuse KnapweedIdaho vegetationPlants in BLM. Credit: Roger Rosentreter. |
 | Black and white wash drawing of American Goldeneyes (now known as Common Goldeneye) by Roger E. Preuss, F.I.A., c/o Wildlife of America, 2224 Grand Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55405, a freelance artist and decoy designer. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | Malaysian poster explaining the use of the pill. / UNFPA/WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Roger.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Subversive Clubbing" by Nikto Projekt Commentary: "Moon Light Nights september 03 - dj nikto - dj roger m - dj little kris." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Roger Bacon | Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. |
| He therefore who wishes to rejoice without doubt in regard to the truths underlying phenomena must know how to devote himself to experiment. | |
Roger de Bussy-rabutin | God is usually on the side of the big squadrons and against the small ones. |
Roger Williams | The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Roger Chillingworth had by this time approached the window, and smiled grimly down |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Honduras | In May Manuel Torres Calderon was dismissed as editorial page editor of the same newspaper, as was Roger Argueta, both ostensibly for differences of opinion with the newspaper owner. (references) |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | The officer fell and her weapon fired, hitting the two boys, Roger and Joel, who were watching from their house. (references) |
Bolivia | In 2000 a military court found a sergeant accused of allegedly beating conscript Roger Candia Vallejos in September and November 1999 not guilty for lack of evidence. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ROGER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "ROGER" is used about 2,573 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) | 99.84% | 2,569 | 3,549 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,573 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ROGER" 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 |
| Roger | First name Male | 322,000 | 50 |
| Roger | Last name | 3,000 | 4,622 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ROGER" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous spear". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ROGER." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Hrothgar | Male | Anglo-Saxon | Roger |
| Rutger | Male | Dutch | Roger |
| Rodger | Male | English | Roger |
| Roger | Male | English | N/A |
| Roger | Male | French | N/A |
| Rüdiger | Male | German | Roger |
| Ruggero | Male | Italian | Roger |
| Ruggiero | Male | Italian | Roger |
| Rogerio | Male | Portuguese | Roger |
| Roar | Male | Scandinavian | Roger |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| France | Marie Brizard & Roger International S.A. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "ROGER": jolly roger ♦ raise the jolly roger ♦ Roger and Wells ♦ Roger Bacon ♦ Roger Bannister ♦ Roger Brooke Taney ♦ Roger de Mortimer ♦ Roger Eliot Fry ♦ Roger Fry ♦ Roger Huntington Sessions ♦ Roger Mills County ♦ Roger Sessions ♦ Roger Sherman ♦ Roger Taney ♦ Roger Williams ♦ run up the jolly roger ♦ Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister ♦ the jolly roger. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ROGER": Roger-bernard, Roger-patrice. | |
Ending with "ROGER": Jacques-roger, Jean-roger. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
roger ebert | 3,673 | jolly roger cook book | 132 |
roger wilco | 1,288 | roger whittaker | 123 |
roger clemens | 1,032 | roger ebert movie review | 123 |
roger maris | 556 | roger williams park zoo | 121 |
water roger | 468 | roger ebert review | 108 |
jolly roger | 400 | roger creager | 104 |
roger rabbit | 344 | roger and gallet | 102 |
karlen pratt roger | 334 | zapp roger | 97 |
roger me | 325 | roger howarth | 95 |
roger williams zoo | 279 | roger dean | 92 |
roger moore | 252 | roger daltrey | 84 |
neilson roger | 249 | roger taylor | 78 |
williams roger | 230 | roger celeb | 76 |
roger williams university | 224 | roger t | 75 |
roger dunn | 198 | hedgecock roger | 75 |
who framed roger rabbit | 186 | roger nelson | 74 |
roger dunn golf | 186 | roger troutman | 71 |
bourget roger | 163 | roger sanchez | 71 |
roger miller | 148 | roger bacon | 70 |
alan roger wade | 135 | roger williams park | 69 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ROGER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në rregull (all right, alright, in order, in turn, ok, okay, okey, on an even keel, properly, safely, straight). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прието, дадено (agreed, granted, okay, okie dokey, righto). (various references) | |
Danish | roger, meddelelse forstået. (various references) | |
Dutch | roger. (various references) | |
Finnish | selvä (clear, distinct, lucid, obvious, plain, sober, unmistakable). (various references) | |
French | reçu. (various references) | |
German | Roger, verstanden (understood). (various references) | |
Greek | Ελήφθη Ασύρματου, ελήφθη, Ρόγηροσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Rogerius, nyugtáztam, Megbasz (to screw), közleményt vettem (wilco), Helyes (appropriate, apt, compt, correct, fitting, legitimate, nice, nice-looking, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, Ortho, pertinent, proper, quite so, right, seemly, true, well), értettem. (various references) | |
Indonesian | baiklah (bravo). (various references) | |
Italian | ricevuto. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 了解 (comprehension, consent, understanding). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りょうかい (agreement, comprehension, consent, territorial waters, understanding). (various references) | |
Manx | Ruaree (Roderick). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogerray.(various references) | |
Russian | роджер, вас понял. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razumeo sam, sve je u redu (everything is ok). (various references) | |
Spanish | roger, mensaje recibido, de acuerdo (agreed, all right, alright, at one, in accordance, in agreement, it is agreed, okay). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppfattat. (various references) | |
Thai | ร่วมเพศ (george, jig, knock-off). (various references) | |
Turkish | Roger, tamam (according to hoyle, agreed, all right, alright, complete, done, exactly, finished, it's a deal, mature, o.k., ok, okay, precisely, righto, rightoh, yeah), anlaşıldı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ясно (brightly, clear, clearly, evidently, explicitly, fair, finely, neatly, obviously, plain, serenely), вас зрозумів. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ROGER": rogers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ROGER": progeria, progerias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ROGER" (pronounced rÄ"jer) |
| 3 | -Ä" j er | dodger. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: ergo, goer, gore, ogre. | |
-2 letters: ego, erg, err, gor, ore, reg, roe. | |
-3 letters: er, go, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: forger, gorger, gorier, grocer, groper, grower, regrow, rogers. | |
+2 letters: begorra, forager, forgers, forgery, forgoer, garrote, gorgers, gorsier, groaner, grocers, grocery, grodier, groomer, groover, gropers, grosser, grouper, grouser, grouter, growers, growler, ignorer, progger, reforge, regorge, regroom, regroup, regrown, regrows, roguery, rougher, wronger. | |
+3 letters: aerogram, armigero, arrogate, begorrah, broguery, dogberry, dragrope, erigeron, foragers, foregoer, forgiver, forgoers, froggier, garotter, garroted, garroter, garrotes, garrotte, gorgerin, governor, groaners, groggery, groggier, groomers, groovers, groovier, grossers, grottier, grounder, groupers, grousers, grouters, groutier, groveler, growlers, growlier, ignorers, orangery, orangier, ordering, overgird, overgirt, overgrew, overgrow, overurge, parergon, porridge, progeria, proggers, prograde, progress, prorogue, reboring, reforged, reforges, regorged, regorges, regrooms, regroove, reground, regroups, regrowth, renogram, roughers, scourger, stronger, wrongers. | |
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