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Shirer

Definition: Shirer

Shirer

Noun

1. United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (born in 1904).

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


Synonym: Shirer

Synonym: William Lawrence Shirer (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Shirer

English words defined with "Shirer": William Lawrence Shirer. (references)

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Photo Album: Shirer

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Mrs. Theresa Shirer, half-length portrait, facing left, holding daughter, Eileen. Credit: Library of Congress.

The first line of defense needs you - enlist in the Navy / H. Shirer. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Shirer

AuthorQuotation

William L. Shirer

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Shirer

"Shirer" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Shirer" is used about 6 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%6143,867

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Shirer

The following table summarizes the usage of "Shirer" 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
ShirerLast name20031,131
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Shirer

Expression using "Shirer": William Lawrence Shirer. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shirer

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

william shirer

12

william l shirer

9

evans priscilla shirer

8

priscilla shirer

3

group shirer

2

shirer

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

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Anagrams: Shirer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hirers.

Words within the letters "e-h-i-r-r-s"

-1 letter: heirs, hirer, hires, riser, shier, shire, shirr.

-2 letters: errs, heir, hers, hies, hire, ires, reis, resh, rise, shri, sire.

-3 letters: err, ers, her, hes, hie, his, ire, rei, res, sei, ser, she, sir, sri.

-4 letters: eh, er, es, he, hi, is, re, sh, si.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: chirres, harries, herries, horsier, hurries, rehires, rushier, sherris, shirker, shirred, shriver.

 

+2 letters: brashier, brushier, cherries, chirpers, dhurries, errhines, gharries, harriers, heritors, herrings, hurriers, marshier, ravisher, rebirths, redshirt, righters, sherries, shirkers, shirtier, shiverer, shrieker, shriller, shrimper, shrinker, shrivers, spherier, thirster, thrivers, trashier, wherries, whirlers, whirries, writhers.

 

+3 letters: archeries, brushfire, burnisher, charriest, cherisher, chorister, cirrhoses, diarrheas, ditherers, earthrise, enrichers, erythrism, furbisher, furnisher, hardwires, heronries, hierarchs, hinderers, horribles, horrifies, horsehair, nourisher, overshirt, phratries, preshrink, ravishers, redshirts, refurbish, refurnish, rhetorics, ridership, rulership, serigraph, sherrises, shikarred, shiverers, shorebird, shriekers, shriekier, shrimpers, shrimpier, shrinkers, shrubbier, starchier, superrich, swarthier, thirsters, thirstier, thrillers, thurifers, torchiers, varnisher, whisperer, wirehairs, witherers, worshiper.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Shirer


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

53 68 69 72 65 72

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 01101000 01101001 01110010 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0069 0072 0065 0072

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

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

537475847184

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INDEX

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


  

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