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Definition: BEAL |
BEALIntransitive verb1. To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. |
Date "BEAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
Crosswords: BEAL |
| English words defined with "BEAL": Bealed, Bealing. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alias Nick Beal (1949) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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![]() | [Charles W. Drew] / P.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Beal.. | ![]() | Just prior to launching, at the J.S. Underhull Shipyard, Greenpoint, Long Island, New York, 21 March 1865. Photographed by J.H. Beal & Company, New York. Note the extremely shallow hull of this "light draft" Casco class monitor, with propeller blades extending above the deck level.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Unidentified row house (three-and-one-half stories) brick and stone. Elevation rendering] / J. Williams Beal, Archt. & Del.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Santa Fe R.R. crosses the Colorado River into California between Topock, Arizona and Beal, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | W. Hubert Beal, residence in Quarry Hill, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Entrance facade.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | W. Hubert Beal, residence in Quarry Hill, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Rear facade.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | W. Hubert Beal, residence in Quarry Hill, Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Living room.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Economic History | Guyana | An initial Beal investment is estimated at US$100M, and it is expected to yield 200 permanent jobs. (references) |
Guyana | In May 2000, the government entered into a 99-year agreement with Beal Guyana Launch Services L.L.C. based in Texas, USA, to establish a commercial satellite launch site in the Waini area of Guyana's northwest region. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BEAL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "BEAL" is used about 21 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) | 85.71% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BEAL" 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 |
| Beal | Last name | 8,000 | 1,639 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Beal Financial Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "BEAL": Beal City. 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 |
beal jessica | 68 |
beal | 66 |
bank beal | 65 |
jennifer beal | 17 |
lashun beal | 16 |
beal jessica nude | 12 |
beal college | 11 |
beal company | 8 |
beal rope | 8 |
beal street | 8 |
jeff beal | 5 |
beal gear jessica magazine | 5 |
afb beal | 5 |
beal memphis street | 5 |
beal jessica pic | 4 |
beal city | 4 |
beal conjecture | 4 |
andy beal | 4 |
beal mc | 4 |
beal jessica naked | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BEAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | gastrektomi ad modum Beal-Longmire (Beal-Longmire operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gastrectomie volgens Beal-Longmire (Beal-Longmire operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | opération de Mouchet-Camey (Beal-Longmire operation), opération de Beal-Longmire (Beal-Longmire operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Beal-Longmire Operation (Beal-Longmire operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εγχείρησις των BEAL-LONGMIRE (Beal-Longmire operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ealbay operación de Beal-Longmire (Beal-Longmire operation). (various references) Наривати, "ирло іки (Creek, Firth, Lade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BEAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baelz, Bahal, Bakal, Baykal, Bedall, Bekale, Bemal, Bheoil, Biala, Biela, Bual, Bueil, Bukalo, Ebyl, Jbeil, Mbela, Pbkal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: able, bale, blae. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l" | |
-1 letter: alb, ale, bal, bel, lab, lea. | |
-2 letters: ab, ae, al, ba, be, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l" | |
+1 letter: abele, abler, ables, amble, babel, bagel, baled, baler, bales, belay, belga, blade, blame, blare, blase, blate, blaze, bleak, blear, bleat, cable, fable, gable, gleba, label, sable, table. | |
+2 letters: abeles, abelia, ablate, ablaze, ablest, abseil, albedo, albeit, albite, alible, ambled, ambler, ambles, arable, babble, babels, baffle, bagels, bailed, bailee, bailer, bailey, bailie, balded, balder, baleen, balers, balked, balker, balled, baller, ballet, bangle, barbel, barely, barley, barrel, basely, battle, bauble, bawled, bawler, beadle, beagle, becalm, bedlam, befall, beflag, beflea, begall, beglad, behalf, belady, belaud, belays, beldam, beleap, belgas, beluga, benzal, bewail, bladed, blades, blamed, blamer, blames, blared, blares, blawed, blazed, blazer, blazes, bleach, bleaks, blears, bleary, bleats, boatel, boreal, bubale, bullae, byelaw, cabled, cables, cablet, dabble, doable, dyable, embalm, enable, fabled, fabler, fables, flambe, gabble, gabled, gables, gamble, garble, glebae, habile, herbal, keblah, labels, labile, labret, lambed, lamber, lambie, liable, librae, lobate, marble, nebula, obelia, oblate, rabble, ramble, sables, stable, suable, tabled, tables, tablet, unable, usable, verbal, viable, wabble, wamble, warble. | |
+3 letters: abalone, abaxile, abelian, abelias, abettal, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, abollae, abseils, absolve, abubble, actable, addable, addible, affable, albedos, albites, albumen, alembic, algebra, alibied, alibies, amblers, amiable, arables, astilbe, audible, babbled, babbler, babbles, baffled, baffler, baffles, bailees, bailers, baileys, bailies, balance, balases, baldest, baldies, baleens, baleful, balkers, balkier, ballade, ballers, ballets, ballies, ballute, balmier, balneal, baloney, baneful, bangles, barbell, barbels, barbule, barless, barleys, barrels, bascule, bastile, batlike, battled, battler, battles, baubles, baulked, bawlers, beadily, beadles, beagles, beamily, beastly, becalms, bechalk, beclasp, becloak, becrawl, bedlamp, bedlams, bedrail, beefalo, befalls, beflags, befleas, begalls, beglads, belabor, belaced, belated, belauds, belayed, beldame, beldams, beleaps, beleapt, bellman, beltway, belugas, benthal, bestial, bewails, bialies, bilayer, bimetal, bipedal, biplane, bitable, bivalve, blabbed, blabber, blacked, blacken, blacker, bladder, blamers, blander, blanked, blanker, blanket, blarney, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, blazers, bleaker, bleakly, bleared, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, bluecap, bluejay, boatels, bolases, brabble, brailed, braille, braless, bramble, brattle, bravely, brawled, brawler, brawlie, bubales, bulkage, bullace, bullate, buyable, byelaws, cablets, caliber, calibre, capable, cembali, cembalo, citable, clabber, clamber, codable, curable, dabbled, dabbler, dabbles, datable, debacle, disable, dowable, drabble, dryable, dupable, durable, dyeable, earlobe, eatable, effable, embalms, emblaze, enabled, enabler, enables, equable, equably, eyeable, eyeball, fablers, fadable, fibulae, finable, fixable, flambee, flambes, flatbed, fleabag, flyable, friable, gabbled, gabbler, gabbles, gabelle, gambled, gambler, gambles, gambrel, garbled, garbler, garbles, gelable, getable, globate, grabble, halberd, halbert, hatable, herbals, hewable, hidable, hirable, imblaze, jellaba, keblahs, labeled, labeler, labella, labiate, labored, laborer, labrets, lambent, lambers, lambert, lambier, lambies, lesbian, liberal, librate, likable, limbate, linable, livable, lobated, lobelia, losable, lovable, makable, marbled, marbler, marbles, minable, mixable, movable, mutable, namable, nebulae, nebular, nebulas, notable, obelias, oblates, ownable, parable, payable, piebald, placebo, pliable, potable, puberal, rabbled, rabbler, rabbles, rambled, rambler, rambles, ratable, relabel, retable, ridable, ropable, rowable, rubella, rubeola, rulable, salable, savable, sayable, scabble, seeable, sewable, shamble, sizable, skiable, slabbed, slabber, sowable, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, sublate, subsale, tableau, tablets, takable, tamable, taxable, teabowl, tenable, tenably, timbale, totable, triable, tunable, typable, useable, useably, verbals, vocable, votable, wabbled, wabbler, wabbles, wadable, wambled, wambles, warbled, warbler, warbles, wirable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 41 4C |
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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)01000010 01000101 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0041 004C |
| 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)36393546 |
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