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"ROCH" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "at rest". |
Date "ROCH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
"ROCH" is a common misspelling or typo for: retch, rich, roach, Roche, rock, rot, ruche. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Roch (St.). Patron of those afflicted with the plague, because he devoted his life to their service, and is said to intercede for them in his exaltation. He is depicted in a pilgrim's habit, lifting his dress to display a plague-spot on his thigh, which an angel is touching that he may cure it. Sometimes he is accompanied by a dog bringing bread in his month, in allusion to the legend that a hound brought him bread daily while he was perishing in a forest of pestilence. St. Roch's Day (August 16th), formerly celebrated in England as a general harvest-home, and styled "the great August festival." The Anglo-Saxon name of it was harfest (herb-feast), the word herb meaning autumn (German herbst), and having no relation to what we call herbs. St. Roch et son chien. Inseparables; Darby and Joan. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: ROCH |
| Specialty definitions using "ROCH": Darby and Joan. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ROCH": Roach. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ROCH" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (smelled). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine (1972) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Angel applying healing salve to wounded leg of St. Roch.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "ROCH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROCH" is used about 20 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% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ROCH" 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 |
| Roch | Last name | 300 | 27,204 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ROCH" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "at rest". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ROCH." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Roc | Male | Catalan | Rocco |
| Rocky | Male | English | Rocco |
| Roch | Male | French | Rocco |
| Rochelle | Female | French | Rocco |
| Rocco | Male | Italian | N/A |
| Roque | Male | Portuguese | Rocco |
| Roque | Male | Spanish | Rocco |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "ROCH": Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ROCH": rochet, rochets. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ROCH": caroch, carroch, pibroch. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ROCH": agrochemical, agrochemicals, aurochs, aurochses, broche, brochette, brochettes, brochure, brochures, caroche, caroches, carroches, crochet, crocheted, crocheter, crocheters, crocheting, crochets, dehydrochlorinase, dehydrochlorinases, dehydrochlorinate, dehydrochlorinated, dehydrochlorinates, dehydrochlorinating, dehydrochlorination, dehydrochlorinations, dendrochronological, dendrochronologically, dendrochronologies, dendrochronologist, dendrochronologists, dendrochronology, electrochemical, electrochemically, electrochemistries, electrochemistry, enterochromaffin, fluorochrome, fluorochromes, heterochromatic, heterochromatin, heterochromatins, hydrochloride, hydrochlorides, hydrochlorothiazide, hydrochlorothiazides, interparochial, microchip, microchips, neurochemical, neurochemicals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cor, orc, rho, roc. | |
-2 letters: ho, oh, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-o-r" | |
+1 letter: chiro, choir, chord, chore, ichor, ocher, ochre, ochry, orach, porch, roach, rotch, torch, zorch. | |
+2 letters: anchor, archon, borsch, broach, broche, brooch, carhop, caroch, chador, charro, cheero, chiros, choirs, choker, choler, choral, chords, chorea, chored, chores, choric, chorus, chroma, chrome, chromo, coheir, cohere, cohort, coprah, cosher, crotch, crouch, echoer, grouch, hector, heroic, hocker, ichors, ochers, ochery, ochrea, ochred, ochres, orache, orchid, orchil, orchis, orphic, rancho, reecho, rhodic, rochet, rotche, rouche, schorl, schrod, scorch, thoric, tocher, torchy, troche. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 43 48 |
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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)01010010 01001111 01000011 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O C H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0043 0048 |
| 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)52493742 |
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