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BYRNE

Date "BYRNE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references)

"BYRNE" is a common misspelling or typo for: borne, byre.


Crosswords: BYRNE

Specialty definitions using "BYRNE": GNU Smalltalk. (references)

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Modern Usage: BYRNE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Film Vodvil: Bobby Byrne and Orchestra (1946)

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

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Commercial Usage: BYRNE

DomainTitle

Books

  • At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) (reference)

  • The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) (reference)

  • The Triumph of Katie Byrne (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Byrne (reference)

  • David Byrne (American Originals) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Photo Album: BYRNE

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Sylvester J. Byrne, M.D. : Assistant to the Chair of Chemistry. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Robert M. Byrne. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bobby Byrne. Credit: Library of Congress.

Robert Byrne. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fred Clarke/R. Byrne. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rose petals / Byrne. Credit: Library of Congress.

An Aerial honeymoon invented and patented by John F. Byrne : funniest show in the world - the huge pantomimic musical comedy. Credit: Library of Congress.

The new 8 bells the famous Brothers Byrne in the everlasting success : the world's greatest acrobatic actors. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Use in Literature: BYRNE

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The calling of the roll began and the responses to the names were given out in all tones until the name of Peter Byrne was reached.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: BYRNE

"BYRNE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BYRNE" is used about 406 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%40613,854

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

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Name Usage Frequency: BYRNE

The following table summarizes the usage of "BYRNE" 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
ByrneLast name10,0001,224
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BYRNE

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "BYRNE": Byrne-sutton.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BYRNE

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gabriel byrne

321

josh byrne

8

david byrne

156

byrne terri

8

john byrne

118

byrne ford jack

8

byrne rose

99

byrne grant

8

byrne jane

60

jack byrne

8

james byrne

56

patrick byrne

7

teri byrne

56

kehli o byrne

7

byrne

52

byrne david lyrics

7

byrne nicky

43

gerry byrne

7

martha byrne

32

byrne jerri

7

byrne dairy

18

bobby byrne

7

byrne fan john site

17

byrne o ryan

7

jenna byrne

17

1888 byrne o william

6

byrne chicago jane

16

byrne george

6

byrne chicagos jane

16

peter byrne

6

michael byrne

15

gabriel byrne picture

6

byrne nicky photo

15

byrne emma

5

francis byrne golf course

11

amanda byrne

5

robert byrne

9

byrne nude teri

5

board byrne surf

9

byrne electrical

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: BYRNE

Misspellings

"BYRNE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beyrie, Beyyene, Bierce, Blyne, Brkne, Bryna, bryne, Byrge, byrnes, Byrney, byrnie, Byrte, Nyren. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BYRNE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-n-r-y"

-1 letter: bren, byre.

-2 letters: ben, bey, bye, ern, neb, reb, rye, yen.

-3 letters: be, by, en, er, ne, re, ye.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-n-r-y"
 

+1 letter: byrnie, nearby.

 

+2 letters: abhenry, beanery, bindery, blarney, byliner, byrnies, embryon.

 

+3 letters: abhenrys, bankerly, barrenly, barytone, berrying, beryline, blarneys, boneyard, brazenly, brokenly, bryonies, byliners, embryons, inkberry, nabobery, rebuying, skyborne, snobbery, subentry, underbuy, urbanely.

 

+4 letters: aberrancy, baneberry, baronetcy, barytones, berhyming, betraying, bewraying, blarneyed, boneyards, boyfriend, bystander, cabinetry, cranberry, cyberpunk, embryonal, embryonic, endurably, inebriety, rebodying, reburying, renewably, snowberry, twinberry, underbody, underbuys, venerably, yabbering.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BYRNE


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

42 59 52 4E 45

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)

01000010 01011001 01010010 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#89 &#82 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0059 0052 004E 0045

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

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

3659524839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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