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Definition: SHERIF |
SHERIFNoun1. A member of an Arab princely family descended from Mohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is the governor of Mecca. |
Date "SHERIF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Crosswords: SHERIF |
| English words defined with "SHERIF": Scherif, Shereef. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SHERIF" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Albanian (sheriff). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sherif, is there not one thing in your life that is worth losing everything for? (The Wind and the Lion; writing credit: John Milius) | |
Song Titles | When I'm With You (re-issue) (performing artist: Sherif) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Egypt | On June 13, a State Security Emergency court acquitted Sherif al-Filali of charges of spying for Israel but tried and convicted a Russian intelligence officer in absentia on the same charges and sentenced him to life imprisonment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SHERIF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "SHERIF" is used about 10 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) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SHERIF" 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 |
| Sherif | Last name | 130 | 67,934 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SHERIF": Hatt-i-sherif, Hatti-sherif. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sherif | 31 |
nahed sherif | 7 |
i sherif shot | 6 |
mekkawy sherif | 5 |
el nahed sherif | 5 |
omar sherif | 4 |
beach county palm sherif | 3 |
muzafer sherif | 3 |
maria sherif | 3 |
broward sherif | 2 |
county maricopa sherif | 2 |
cook county sherif | 2 |
auction sherif | 2 |
mekawy sherif | 2 |
county diego san sherif | 2 |
county hillsborough sherif | 2 |
hillsborough sherif | 2 |
broward office sherif | 2 |
department sherif | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SHERIF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | şerif (bailiff, Marshal, shereef, sheriff). (various references) | |
Spanish | jerife (Sharif, shereef). (various references) | |
Turkish | şerif (shereef, sheriff). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шериф (shereef, sheriff). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | Sêrip (shereef), quý tộc A rập (shereef). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SHERIF": sheriff, sheriffdom, sheriffdoms, sheriffs, sherifs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SHERIF": undersheriff, undersheriffs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fisher. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-h-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: fires, fresh, fries, frise, heirs, hires, reifs, serif, shier, shire. | |
-2 letters: fehs, fire, firs, fish, heir, hers, hies, hire, ires, refs, reif, reis, resh, rife, rifs, rise, seif, serf, shri, sire. | |
-3 letters: efs, ers, feh, fer, fie, fir, her, hes, hie, his, ifs, ire, ref, rei, res, rif, sei, ser, she, sir, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-h-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: fishers, fishery, fishier, heifers, redfish, serfish, sheriff, sherifs, shifter. | |
+2 letters: bushfire, feverish, fighters, filchers, finisher, firehose, flashier, fleshier, freakish, freights, freshing, overfish, redshift, refights, refinish, rosefish, sheriffs, shifters, shiftier, whiffers. | |
+3 letters: brushfire, bushfires, fashioner, finishers, firehalls, firehoses, firehouse, fisheries, fisherman, fishermen, fleshlier, flichters, flinchers, foolisher, foresight, fortieths, franchise, frightens, frothiest, furbished, furbisher, furbishes, furnished, furnisher, furnishes, garfishes, gearshift, hangfires, headfirst, hellfires, horrifies, kerchiefs, oarfishes, ratfishes, redfishes, redshifts, refashion, refurbish, refurnish, shellfire, spearfish, thurifers, whifflers. | |
| 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)53 48 45 52 49 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010011 01001000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S H E R I F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0048 0045 0052 0049 0046 |
| 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)534239524340 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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