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Definition: Cresson |
CressonAdjective1. Of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CressonSynonyms: cress green (adj), watercress (adj). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cresson, Pennsylvania."
Crosswords: Cresson |
| Non-English Usage: "Cresson" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (cress, water cress). |
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 | Cresson Springs, two hundred and fifty-one miles from Philadelphia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "She pretended to eat a little of the furmity with the leaden spoon." / R. Barnes. An engagement in the oyster war on the Chesapeake / / from a sketch by F. Cresson Schell. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Elliott Cresson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Members of the Cresson and Prichett families, with three seated women in front and two men and a boy in the back, standing in front of a framed picture or mirror. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Emlen Cresson & son Willie Prichett Cresson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | William Penn Cresson, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with ornate chair and balustrade. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cresson" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cresson" is used about 69 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% | 69 | 40,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Cresson, PA (borough, FIPS 17136) 2. Cresson, TX |
Expression using "cresson": cress green cresson watercress. 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. |
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cresson pennsylvania | 49 |
cresson | 10 |
cresson tx | 8 |
edith cresson | 4 |
cresson texas | 4 |
cresson lake playhouse | 4 |
cresson sci | 3 |
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Misspellings | |
"Cresson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bressan, Cheysson, Cragson, Crenson, creson, Cressa, Cressid, Crosson, Crossons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: censors. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: censor, corses, crones, crosse, recons, scones, scores, scorns, senors, sensor, snores. | |
-2 letters: ceros, cones, cores, corns, corse, coses, cress, crone, cross, noses, onces, recon, roses, scone, score, scorn, senor, snore, sones, sores, sorns. | |
-3 letters: cero, cess, cone, cons, core, corn, cors, coss, eons, erns, eros, ness, noes, nose, once, ones, orcs, ores, oses. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: coarsens, congress, cornuses, narcoses, necroses, necrosis, scorners. | |
+2 letters: ancestors, anchoress, coinsures, confessor, conserves, considers, consolers, conspires, construes, consumers, converses, corkiness, corniness, cosigners, crossness, crownless, cynosures, enclosers, endosarcs, enscrolls, ensorcels, forensics, inclosers, incorpses, incrossed, incrosses, licensors, noncrises, recession, recisions, resorcins, rockiness, scenarios, schooners, scrounges, seconders, uncrossed, uncrosses. | |
+3 letters: absconders, anchorless, antecessor, arccosines, carbonless, censorious, censorship, coarseness, coinsurers, concourses, condensers, confessors, congressed, congresses, conscribes, consenters, conservers, consulters, contesters, conversers, copresents, cornetists, cortisones, counselors, courtesans, cousinries, covertness, crescendos, crossbones, curbstones, enclosures, encrimsons, ensorcells, excursions, inclosures, inspectors, intercross, isochrones, misreckons, necropsies, percussion, precensors, precession, precisions, processing, procession, recensions, recessions, reclusions, recognises, recrossing, recursions, rescission, resections, resonances, schnorkels, schnorrers, sclerosing, sclerotins, scoundrels, scroungers, secretions, stonecrops, sunporches, supersonic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 65 73 73 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. . ... ... --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r e s s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 0065 0073 0073 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37847185858180 |
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