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Orville Wright

Definition: Orville Wright

Orville Wright

Noun

1. United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948).

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


Synonym: Orville Wright

Synonym: Wright (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Orville Wright

English words defined with "Orville Wright": Wilbur Wright, Wright. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Orville Wright": WRIGHT. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Orville Wright

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Books

  • The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (reference)

  • The Papers of Wilbur & Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Papers (reference)

  • Wilbur and Orville Wright : The Flight to Adventure (Easy Biographies) (reference)

  • The papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the Chanute-Wright letters and other papers of Octave Chanute (reference)

  • Pendulum : the story of America's three aviation pioneers--Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Glenn Curtiss, the Henry Ford of aviation (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Orville Wright

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Wilber and Orville Wright with Flyer II at Huffman Prairie. Credit: NASA.

Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright [walking in] Pau, France, 1909. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charles Rolls in his Rolls-Royce with Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright and chauffeur, Shellbeach, England. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kill Devil Hill, where the first gliding experiments were conducted by the Wright brothers in 1900; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright, accompanied by his brother Lorin, his nephew Horace, and his friend Alexander Ogilvie, of England, arrived for. Credit: Library of Congress.

Orville Wright, age 34, head and shoulders, with mustache. Credit: Library of Congress.

Group picture of Orville Wright, Bishop Milton Wright, Katharine Wright, Earl N. Findley, nephew Horace Wright, John R. McMahon, and Pliny Williamson, all seated on the lawn of Orville's home, Hawthorn Hill; Dayton, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Start of the first flight of 1905, Orville Wright at controls of the machine, near the hangar at Huffman Prairie. The two figures in the center are probably Wilbur Wright and Charles E. Taylor. The catapult launching device appears for the first time in a. Credit: Library of Congress.

Orville Wright and A.B. Lambert flying; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Group portrait in front of glider at Kill Devil Hill. Sitting: Horace Wright, Orville Wright, and Alexander Ogilvie; standing: Lorin Wright, and group of journalists, including Van Ness Harwood of the New York World, Berges of the American News Service, A. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Orville Wright

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

orville wright

58

biography orville wright

3

brother orville wright

2

biography wilbur orville wright

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Orville Wright

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-l-l-o-r-r-t-v-w"

-4 letters: growthier, liverwort, overlight.

-5 letters: growlier, lowlight, overgilt, overgirt, regolith, regrowth, thriller, twirlier, whirlier, worthier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Orville Wright


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

4F 72 76 69 6C 6C 65      57 72 69 67 68 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01110010 01110110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010111 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#114 &#118 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#87 &#114 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0072 0076 0069 006C 006C 0065      0057 0072 0069 0067 0068 0074

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

498488757878712578475737486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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