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Definition: CULVER |
CULVERNoun1. A culverin. 2. A dove. |
Date "CULVER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
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Literature | Culver Pigeon. (Old English, colver; Latin, columba; hence culver-house, a dove-cote.) "On liquid wing, The sounding culver shoots." Thomson: Spring 452. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: CULVER |
| Specialty definitions using "CULVER": Culverkeys. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Spirit of Culver (1939) Tom Brown of Culver (1932) | |
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 | Hauled out of the water, circa 1916-1918. She was acquired by the Navy on 2 September 1918 and served during World War I and in the early post-war era as USS Ahdeek (SP-2589). Loaned to the Culver Military Academy on 23 June 1919, this craft was stricken from the Navy list on 25 October 1933. Credit: NAVY. |  | Culver Hall, Dartmouth College. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Culver Hollyday & Co., 745 5th Ave., New York City. Model apartment bathroom. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Business | Quite a few are owned by American companies such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate Palmolive and Cederroth International (Alberto Culver). (references) | |
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| "CULVER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.14% of the time. "CULVER" is used about 35 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) | 97.14% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CULVER" 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 |
| Culver | Last name | 7,000 | 1,823 |
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| United Kingdom | Culver Holdings Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Culver, IN (town, FIPS 16300) 2. Culver, KS (city, FIPS 16700) 3. Culver, MN 4. Culver, OR (city, FIPS 17300) |
Expressions using "CULVER": Culver City ♦ Culver Military ♦ wood culver. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "CULVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Pëllumb I Egër (ringdove, stock dove). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Ð"ълъб. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ringeltaube (ringdove). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Vadgalamb (turtle, turtle dove, turtle-dove). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulvercay pombo-bravo. (various references) Ð"икий Ð"олубь. (various references) golub (dove, pigeon). (various references) Paloma Silvestre. (various references) Beyaz Boyunlu Güvercin. (various references) Ð"икий Ð"олуб. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CULVER": culverin, culverins, culvers, culvert, culverts. (additional references) | |
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"CULVER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calvers, Chuzlev, colfer, Colvern, Coulavie, culer, culf, culier, Culmer, culvet, cxlvii, fulva, klukva, sulver. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CULVER" (pronounced ku"lver) |
| 3 | -l v er | dissolver, quicksilver, revolver, silver, solver. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-r-u-v" | |
-1 letter: cruel, curve, lucre, ulcer. | |
-2 letters: clue, cure, curl, ecru, luce, lure, rule. | |
-3 letters: cel, cue, cur, ecu, leu, lev, luv, rec, rev, rue. | |
-4 letters: el, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-r-u-v" | |
+1 letter: culvers, culvert. | |
+2 letters: acervuli, culverin, culverts, curvedly. | |
+3 letters: acervulus, chevelure, culverins, cursively, curveball, involucre, lucrative, overcloud, reclusive, revictual, vehicular, vesicular, victualer, virulence, virulency. | |
+4 letters: aviculture, chevelures, curatively, curveballs, involucres, overclouds, preclusive, revictuals, ulcerative, vallecular, ventriculi, vermicular, vernacular, versicular, victualers, victualler, virulences, volumetric, vulcanizer. | |
+5 letters: avicultures, cavernously, circulative, countervail, curveballed, curvilinear, diverticula, excursively, involucrate, lubricative, lucratively, overcareful, overclouded, overmuscled, quacksalver, quicksilver, reclusively, recultivate, recursively, reductively, revictualed, vasculature, ventricular, ventriculus, veraciously, vermiculate, vermiculite, vernaculars, victuallers, viniculture, virulencies, viticulture, vulcanizers. | |
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