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Definition: Sandburg |
SandburgNoun1. United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: SandburgSynonym: Carl Sandburg (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sandburg |
| English words defined with "Sandburg": Carl Sandburg. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sandburg" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (sandcastle, wall of sand). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Carl Sandburg | A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. |
| Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Sandburg" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sandburg" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Sandburg" 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 |
| Sandburg | Last name | 200 | 32,924 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Sandburg": Carl Sandburg. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
carl sandburg | 213 |
sandburg | 22 |
sandburg village | 21 |
chicago carl sandburg | 16 |
sandburg high school | 14 |
biography carl sandburg | 13 |
poet sandburg | 13 |
ryne sandburg | 12 |
chicago by carl sandburg | 10 |
by carl fog sandburg | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sandburg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | andburgsay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sandburg" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aynburg, Eadburg, Isenburg, Osnaburgh, Randburg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: sandbur. | |
-2 letters: absurd, brands, burans, gradus, grands, guards, unbars. | |
-3 letters: argus, bands, bangs, bards, barns, bauds, brads, brags, brand, brans, bunds, bungs, buran, buras, burds, burgs, burns, bursa, dangs, darbs, darns, daubs, drabs, drags, drubs, drugs, dungs, duras, durns, garbs, gauds, gaurs, gnars, grabs, grads, grand, grans, grubs, guans, guard, guars, nards, nurds, rands, rungs, sugar, unbar, urban. | |
-4 letters: ands, anus, arbs, bads, bags, band, bang, bans, bard, barn, bars, baud, brad, brag, bran, bras, buds, bugs, bund, bung, buns, bura, burd, burg, burn, burs, dabs, dags, dang, darb, darn, daub, drab, drag, drub, drug, dubs, dugs, dung, duns, dura, durn, gabs, gads, garb, gars, gaud, gaun, gaur, gnar, gnus, grab, grad, gran, grub, guan, guar, guns, nabs, nags, nard, nubs, nurd, rads, rags, rand, rang, rubs, ruga, rugs, rung, runs, sand, sang, sard, snag, snub, snug, suba, sung, sura, surd, urbs, urds, urns, ursa. | |
-5 letters: abs, ads, and, arb, ars, bad, bag, ban, bar, bas, bra, bud, bug, bun, bur, bus, dab, dag, dub, dug, dun, gab, gad, gan, gar, gas, gnu, gun, nab, nag, nub, nus, rad, rag, ran, ras, rub, rug, run, sab, sad, sag, sau, sub, sun, uns, urb, urd, urn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-g-n-r-s-u" | |
+3 letters: backgrounds. | |
+4 letters: beardtongues, drumbeatings, surfboarding. | |
+5 letters: backgrounders, battlegrounds, bildungsroman, boardinghouse, subordinating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 64 62 75 72 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.. -... ..- .-. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100010 01110101 01110010 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n d b u r g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0064 0062 0075 0072 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367807068878473 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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