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Steichen

Definition: Steichen

Steichen

Noun

1. United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973).

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


Synonym: Steichen

Synonym: Edward Jean Steichen (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Steichen

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Edward J. Steichen (1995)

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

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Image Slideshow: Steichen

Illustrations:
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More pictures...

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Photo Album: Steichen

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Commissioning ceremonies at the New London submarine base, Groton, Connecticut, 23 July 1943. The submarine's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Joseph F. Enright (second from right) is reading his orders. Civilian standing second from left is Mr. L.Y. Spear, President of the Electric Boat Company, which built Dace. Note Marine bugler at left. Photographer was probably Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Credit: NAVY.

Troops march up the beach at Adak, during pre-invasion loading for the Kiska Operation, 13 August 1943. Photographed by Lt. Horace Bristol, USNR, of the Steichen photographic unit. LCM behind the soldiers is from USS Zeilin (APA-3). USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) is in the far right distance. Note the troops' packs and M1 rifles. Credit: NAVY.

Fighting Squadron Sixteen (VF-16) Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Paul D. Buie, (center) briefs his pilots for an upcoming mission, during the Gilberts operation, November-December 1943. A F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighter is behind them. Photographed by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Note flight gear, markings on helmets and life vests. Pilot at left wears a .45 caliber pistol. Credit: NAVY.

Aircraft return to the carrier during the Gilberts operation, November 1943. Crewmen in the foreground are sitting on the wing of an SBD-5, as an F6F-3 lands and a TBF-1 taxiies to a parking place on the forward flight deck. Photographed by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Credit: NAVY.

Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighters on the flight deck, as a TBM torpedo plane approaches to land, circa 1943-44. Photographed by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Note open elevator well in the foreground and flight deck crewmen chocking wheels of the F6Fs. Credit: NAVY.

Commander David C. White, the submarine's Commanding Officer, on the bridge during her shakedown period, August 1943. Photographed in the New London, Connecticut, area by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Credit: NAVY.

At the New London submarine base, Groton, Connecticut, on 23 July 1943, the day she was placed in commission. Note women visitors on board Dace, and hull details on the submarine at right. Photographer was probably Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Credit: NAVY.

Sunday papers, West 86th Street, New York] / Steichen. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Steichen

"Steichen" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Steichen" is used about 8 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)100%8124,375

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Steichen

The following table summarizes the usage of "Steichen" 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
SteichenLast name30027,054
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Steichen

Expression using "Steichen": Edward Jean Steichen. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Steichen

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

edward steichen

23

steichen

8

johnson kinnard miller steichen

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Steichen

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sithence.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-s-t"

-1 letter: entices, ethnics, sthenic, techies, tenches, theines.

-2 letters: chines, chints, entice, etches, ethics, ethnic, incest, inches, insect, itches, nicest, niches, nieces, seiche, snitch, stench, techie, theine, theins, thence.

-3 letters: cense, cents, cesti, cetes, chest, chine, chins, chits, cines, cites, eches, ethic, heist, hence, hents, hints, inset, neist, niche, niece, nites, scene, scent, seine, sente.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: dehiscent, euthenics, hesitance, phenetics, stenchier.

 

+2 letters: anesthetic, anthelices, christened, escheating, hesitances, intrenches, phenacites, rechristen, stenchiest, techniques, tetchiness, thickeners, unesthetic.

 

+3 letters: anaesthetic, anesthetics, chatelaines, clothesline, enrichments, entelechies, esthetician, ethicalness, ethnicities, hesitancies, indehiscent, itchinesses, kinesthetic, lecithinase, pentarchies, phenacetins, pheneticist, rechristens, resketching, sketchiness, synesthetic, technetiums, thicknesses, unaesthetic.

 

+4 letters: achievements, aesthetician, anaesthetics, bewitchments, bitchinesses, chanticleers, chastisement, chattinesses, clotheslined, clotheslines, disenchanted, disenchanter, encephalitis, enchainments, estheticians, ethnoscience, gemeinschaft, henotheistic, hermeneutics, histogenetic, hypersthenic, impeachments, inchoateness, inheritances, inheritrices, interchanges, kinetochores, kitchenettes, kitchenwares, lecithinases, neurasthenic, neurochemist, nonaesthetic, patchinesses, pheneticists, pitchblendes, rechristened, sceneshifter, stepchildren, stereophonic, technologies, technophiles, tetchinesses, theocentrism, thermoclines, touchinesses, trenchancies, unchristened.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Steichen


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

53 74 65 69 63 68 65 6E

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)

01010011 01110100 01100101 01101001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#116 &#101 &#105 &#99 &#104 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0074 0065 0069 0063 0068 0065 006E

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

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

5386717569747180

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INDEX

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


  

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