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"CURTIN" is a common misspelling or typo for: curtain. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Smallpox : Keep Out Of This House / Buckley & Curtin. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Difterite : State Fuori di Questa Casa / Buckley & Curtin. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Scarlet Fever : Keep out of this house / Buckley & Curtin. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Australia | In June a West Australian court sentenced a detainee at the Curtin Detention Center to 4 years in jail for inciting a riot that caused property damage and risk to detainees. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CURTIN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CURTIN" is used about 15 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) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CURTIN" 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 |
| Curtin | Last name | 3,000 | 4,029 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
Misspellings | |
"CURTIN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Certen, Churdjin, Circinn, cortin, Courtin, Cufton, Curtana, Curton, Gurtin, Mccurbin, Mcgurkin, Mcmurtie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cutin, incur, runic, rutin, tunic. | |
-2 letters: curn, curt, ruin, runt, turn, unci, unit, uric. | |
-3 letters: cur, cut, nit, nut, rin, run, rut, tic, tin, tui, tun, urn. | |
-4 letters: in, it, nu, ti, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: curtain, incrust, ruction, trucing. | |
+2 letters: anuretic, ceinture, cincture, cothurni, courting, crusting, curating, curtains, enuretic, eructing, incrusts, inductor, instruct, intercut, neuritic, neurotic, reinduct, ructions, ruthenic, scrutiny, taciturn, tincture, trucking, unerotic, uranitic, urticant. | |
+3 letters: antiulcer, capturing, ceintures, centuries, centurion, cinctured, cinctures, cloturing, confiture, congruity, continuer, countries, cretinous, crutching, culturing, curetting, curtained, curtsying, curveting, enuretics, furcating, furcation, grutching, incorrupt, incrusted, incubator, incurrent, incurvate, inductors, instructs, interclub, intercuts, introduce, lecturing, lubricant, neuritics, neurotics, neutronic, outcrying, outracing, picturing, quercetin, recutting, reduction, reinducts, relucting, runcinate, suctorian, tinctured, tinctures, traducing, trouncing, truancies, truckings, truckline, truckling, tuckering, uncertain, unclarity, uncrating, urticants. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 55 52 54 49 4E |
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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)01000011 01010101 01010010 01010100 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C U R T I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0055 0052 0054 0049 004E |
| 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)375552544348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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