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"ADOLPHE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble wolf". |
Date "ADOLPHE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ou l'âge tendre Adolphe (1968) Adolphe (2002) | |
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 | Figure 56. Pecoul logging sounder, invented in 1849 by Master Mariner Adolphe Pecoul of Marseille. This device was used to measure measure depths while a vessel was underway or to be used as a speed logging device. It was tested in 1850. In spite of favorable reports from numerous ship captain, it was rejected by the Ministry of the Marine and Colonies. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Portraits of Great American Surgeons: Past Presidents of the American College of Surgeons : John B. Deaver, M.D. (1855-1931) / From the portrait by Adolphe Borie. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Children | Congo | RCD/Goma leader Adolphe Onusumba claimed the RCD was attempting to demobilize its child soldiers, but there were numerous credible reports that the RCD continued to conscript child soldiers and to send the unwilling recruits to military training camps in both the country and Rwanda. (references) |
Political Economy | Congo | The RCD/Goma remained dominated by members of the Tutsi ethnic minority and continued to be supported by the Government of Rwanda; in 2000 Adolphe Onosumba, a Kasaian, was named RCD President. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ADOLPHE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "ADOLPHE" is used about 10 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) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ADOLPHE" 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 |
| Adolphe | Last name | 100 | 88,730 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ADOLPHE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble wolf". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ADOLPHE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Adolph | Male | English | Adolf |
| Aatto | Male | Finnish | Adolf |
| Aatu | Male | Finnish | Adolf |
| Adolphe | Male | French | Adolf |
| Adolf | Male | German | N/A |
| Adolfo | Male | Italian | Adolf |
| Adolfo | Male | Spanish | Adolf |
| Adolphus | Male | Swedish | Adolf |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ADOLPHE": Charles-adolphe. | |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-o-p" | |
-1 letter: haloed, pedalo. | |
-2 letters: ahold, aleph, dhole, ephod, haled, haole, holed, hoped, loped, padle, paled, pedal, plead, poled. | |
-3 letters: aloe, aped, apod, dahl, dale, deal, dhal, dole, dopa, dope, epha, hade, haed, hale, halo, head, heal, heap, held, helo, help, hoed, hold, hole, holp, hope, lade, lead, leap, load, lode, lope, odea, ohed, olea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-o-p" | |
+1 letter: asphodel, plowhead. | |
+2 letters: asphodels, hexaploid, plowheads, polyhedra. | |
+3 letters: acidophile, audiophile, cephalopod, diplophase, haploidies, hexaploids, hexaploidy, hydroplane, hypodermal, methyldopa, pedophilia, phenolated, polyhedral, potlatched, preholiday, sphenoidal, spheroidal. | |
+4 letters: acidophiles, audiophiles, cephalopods, diadelphous, diplophases, drosophilae, haloperidol, holographed, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, methyldopas, pedophiliac, pedophilias, philodendra, phylloclade, placeholder. | |
+5 letters: accomplished, diencephalon, haloperidols, heliographed, hexaploidies, hospitalised, hospitalized, hydrocephaly, lithographed, monadelphous, openhandedly, perichondral, phylloclades, placeholders, procathedral, spheroidally. | |
| 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)41 44 4F 4C 50 48 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01000001 01000100 01001111 01001100 01010000 01001000 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A D O L P H E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0044 004F 004C 0050 0048 0045 |
| 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)35384946504239 |
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