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Ivy

Definition: Ivy

Ivy

Noun

1. Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Ivy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the ivy".

Date "ivy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Ivy \I"vy\, noun; plural Ivies. [Anglo-Saxon [=i]fig; akin to Old High German ebawi, ebah, German epheu.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Ivy

DomainDefinition

Computing

IVY A language with a more pleasant syntax than Perl, tcl or Lisp. It has nice features like low punctuation count, blocks indicated by indentation, and similarity to normal procedural languages. This language started out as an idea for an extension language for the editor JOE. An experimental interpreter by Joseph H Allen was posted to alt.sources on 28 Sep 1993. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Dream Interpretation

To dream of seeing ivy growing on trees or houses, predicts excellent health and increase of fortune. Innumerable joys will succeed this dream. To a young woman, it augurs many prized distinctions. If she sees ivy clinging to the wall in the moonlight, she will have clandestine meetings with young men.
Withered ivy, denotes broken engagements and sadness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Ivy (Old English, ifig). Dedicated to Bacchus from the notion that it is a preventive of drunkenness. But whether the Dionysian ivy is the same plant as that which we call ivy is doubtful, as it was famous for its golden berries, and was termed chryso-carpos.
Ivy (in Christian art). Symbol of everlasting life, from its remaining continually green. An ivy wreath was the prize of the Isthmian games, till it was superseded by a pine garland. The plant was sacred to Bacchus and Osiris. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Carmen Sandiego

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Carmen Sandiego is a fictional character featured in a long-running series of Americann educational software and television shows originally focusing on teaching geography and history (the series later branched out into other subjects). The character later appeared in a series of books and on many licensed products.

Character Biography

Carmen was orphaned at an early age and was sent to live at GoldenGate Girls' School in San Francisco, California. This orphanage was the only home she had until Chief at the ACME Detective Agency gave her a home there.

At ACME Sandiego was a success and rose through ACME's ranks faster than any agent in ACME history. There are three people known who were once her partner; Suhara, Jules Argent and Chase Devineaux. Argent was just a rookie when Sandiego became her partner. They solved many cases together and Argent came to respect Sandiego greatly. Argent still calls Carmen Sandiego "the best partner I ever had."

One of the last cases Carmen Sandiego and Chase Devineaux worked together was the case of the Prometheus Rock. The Rock was a meteor that was discovered by an ancient civilization, which tapped into its awesome powers. Its name seems to be a reference to Prometheus, the Titan patron of human civilization in Greek mythology. When it was stolen, Sandiego and Devineaux were dispatched to Athens, Greece. They were able to find the thieves responsible, but not able to locate the whereabouts of the rock.

Solving mysteries was getting too easy for Carmen, so she decided to give herself greater intellectual challenges by outsmarting ACME. Since Devineaux had been working so closely with her, she had to go undercover and he stopped working with ACME and started working on his own.

After leaving ACME, Carmen founded V.I.L.E. and since she has a soft spot for people who are less capable than herself, she stocked the ranks of her organization with some of the most incompetent villains in the world.

Once V.I.L.E. was founded it soon became common to hear that a world landmark had been stolen. Her thefts wern't limited to the Earth, either. She has been know to steal things from outer space, such as Saturn's rings. However, Carmen wanted more. So she broke in ACME headquarter and stole the Cronoskimmer, the only time travel devise on the planet. The name Cronoskimmer comes from the Greek word Chronos, which means time and in Greek mythology is also the name of its personification.

She dropped villains off at different time periods so they could steal something from the past as part of "Project History Sweep." Carmen's ultimate plan of "Project History Sweep" was to steal her own dossier from ACME headquarters, believing she would be able to erase her "embarrassing" ACME history.

Carmen failed, but she wasn't finished with time travel, she stole a Russian project that involved time travel and built her own time machine. Though agents Zack and Ivy managed to thwart her plans to change the history of colonial America, she eventually set up a facility where she could send one of her villains back in time, with the push of button.

To counteract this, ACME built a giant Cronoskimmer, and sent the squadron leader as well as three time pilots back in time to stop Carmen's plans.

Another plan of Carmen's was to steal langauage. She would do this with new invention called the Bable-On Machine which was stored in the Tower of Bable. Its name is a pun on that of the legendary Tower of Babel. "Bable-On" is a play on Babylon, Iraq which is usualy identified with Babel. Chase Devineaux came out of his undercover job to help ACME on this case, but Carmen managed to capture all but one of ACME's 13 agents. Agent 13 somehow practically single-handedly stopped her and destoyed the Bable-On Machine.

She built a new machine, the Quantum Crystalizer, which could shrink anything into tiny crystals. Agent 13, apparently promoted to Agent 9, helpped Devineaux on this case as well, to recover 12 stolen landmarks. It was soon discovered, with further investigation, that the Prometheus Rock was being used to power the machine, the same which had disappeared all those years before. A "Power Drain" began sucking all the electrical power from the world, and even ACME shut down. Somehow Agent 9 and Chase Devineaux managed to destroy the machine.

Carmen latter decided that since "knowledge is power" she would steal knowledge. To accomplish this task she built Knowledge Robots or KnowBots to steal knowledge. ACME sent groups of agents out to fight these KnowBots, and try to get passwords to break to their hide-outs.

When Carmen isn't wearing one of her numerous disguises, she can be identified by her long brown hair, and will be wearing a red trench coat and fedora.

ACME

The ACME Detective Agency is dedicated to stopping the efforts of V.I.L.E. and keeping order in the world.

Carmen Sandiego was once an agent of the ACME Detective Agency, until she quit to pursue greater intellectual challenges. Lynne Thigpen played the Chief of ACME on the PBS Carmen Sandiego series and some of the computer products. ACME headquarters is located in San Francisco.

In the computer games, the user is always an agent of ACME, and is promoted thoughout the game.

ACME agents include:

V.I.L.E.

The Villains International League of Evil or V.I.L.E. is dedicated to causing as much chaos around the world as possible in order for Carmen to show off her intellectual abilities.

V.I.L.E. is clearly a very large organization. Well over 150 members of V.I.L.E. have been recorded. V.I.L.E. also has bases around the world (see V.I.L.E. Hideouts) and operates entirely underground due to its sinister intentions.

V.I.L.E villians include:

V.I.L.E. hideouts

See also: List of Carmen Sandiego products

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carmen Sandiego."

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Synonym: Ivy

Synonym: common ivy (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ivy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Coherence

Cling like ivy, cling like a bur; adhere like a remora, adhere like Dejanira's shirt.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ivy

English words defined with "ivy": AnacardiaceaeCat's-foot, contact dermatitis, creep, creeperDelaireaEnglish ivyfamily Anacardiaceaegenus Delairea, genus Glechoma, Gill ale, Glechoma, grow overHederaceous, Hederal, Hederic, Hederiferous, Hederose, herb of graceivied, Ivies, Ivy tod, ivy-covered, Ivy-mantledmantleovergrowpoison ivy, Poison oakRadicant, root climber, rue, Ruta graveolenssumac familyThyrsus, TunhoofVirginia creeper. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ivy": Chimney, CrownsFlowers and TreesGood Wine needs no BushIvy LaneNemean GamesOwl in an Ivy BushTLAs. (references)
Etymologies containing "ivy": Woodbine. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ivy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I remember in one flower shop there was a whole wall covered with poison ivy and people came from miles around to look at that wall and they stayed to buy. (The Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith)

Fast, early acceptance into an Ivy League school and please let it be Harvard (Heathers; writing credit: Daniel Waters)

Why? Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away? You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing! you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; Mario Puzo)

I can tell you who did it. Rebecca or Ivy or both (Passions; writing credit: Jean Chapot; Nelly Kaplan)

Ivy, see if you can get Dirk Burton on the phone (Left Behind; writing credit: John Bishop)

Lyrics

Talkin' jivey, poison ivy (Hair Of The Dog; performing artist: Nazareth)

Movie/TV Titles

For Love of Ivy (1968)

Ivy League Killers (1959)

The Halls of Ivy (1954)

Poison Ivy Picnic (1953)

The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

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

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Commercial Usage: Ivy

DomainTitle

References

  • Ivy Cosmetics Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Poison Ivy - The New Seduction (Unrated Edition) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Ivy

Photos:
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Photo Album: Ivy

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Leaves in threes characterize poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans. This plant is common in the eastern United States. Credit: CDC.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Beach grass, poison ivy, rosy mucosa, and cat-tails. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Poison Ivy next to Madison River. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Ivy Day. Credit: Library of Congress.

Adolphus Busch, Arroyo Garden. Ivy Wall, Pasadena. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Ivy Troutman. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Ivy
 

"Gargoyle & ivy" by Tara Lyn
Commentary: "This is on a wall right next to my office building. The walll belongs to a portion of a stable from the 1880's that is now covered with ivy. I would love to know how you use the image."
"Ivy" by Andreas Ken Lanig
Commentary: "A close up in a rotten interior."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Ivy

AuthorQuotation

Publilius Syrus

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Ivy

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Monastic communities are to the great social community what the ivy is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

There were holly and ivy round the pierglass and holly and ivy, green and red, twined round the chandeliers

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ivy

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

South Africa

Cell C was finally awarded the third cellular license in February 2001 by the Minister of Communications, Ms. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburi. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ivy

"Ivy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 58.52% of the time. "Ivy" is used about 527 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)58.52%30916,435
Noun (singular)41.48%21920,419
                    Total100.00%527N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Ivy

The following table summarizes the usage of "ivy" 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
IvyFirst name Female16,000697
IvyLast name6,0002,097
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Ivy

"Ivy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the ivy".
 
The following table summarizes names derived from the word "ivy".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
IvyFemaleEnglish

The ivy

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Ivy

CountryName
Japan

Ivy Cosmetics Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Ivy

Expressions using "ivy": American ivy Boston ivy common ivy English ivy German ivy ground ivy ivy arum ivy bush ivy family ivy geranium ivy league Ivy owl Ivy tod japanese ivy mexican ivy Mount Ivy poison ivy the ivy league To pipe in an ivy leaf West Indian ivy. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ivy": ivy-clad, ivy-covered, ivy-grown, ivy-infested, ivy-jack, ivy-leaf, ivy-leaved, ivy-leaved geranium, ivy-leaves, Ivy-mantled, ivy-scroll, ivy-wreath.

Ending with "ivy": switch-ivy, thorn-ivy.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ivy

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

poison ivy

7,371

poision ivy

145

ivy

1,584

glen ivy spa

142

ivy tech

635

ivy league college

135

poison ivy picture

559

ivy plant

116

poison ivy treatment

508

poison ivy plant

111

ivy league

410

ivy picture poison rash

105

operation ivy

366

poisen ivy

100

ivy queen

316

poison ivy poison oak poison sumac

96

glen ivy

308

ivy mortgage

88

ivy tech state college

305

home remedy for poison ivy

86

ivy league school

301

ivy photo poison

84

lamb and ivy

233

boston ivy

79

poison ivy cure

228

ivy league university

79

poison ivy remedy

205

poison ivy symptom

76

posion ivy

188

poison ivy oak sumac

74

poison ivy ii

184

ivy lyrics operation

70

glen ivy hot springs

178

poison ivy batman

65

poison ivy rash

163

poison oak or ivy

65

ivy restaurant

158

college ivy tech

63

english ivy

154

ivy poisin

63
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Ivy

Language Translations for "ivy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Dredhkë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نبات يتعرش, ‏جامعي (academic, universal), ‏اللبلاب (bindweed). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

saa'kssoyaa'tsis (poison ivy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Бръшлян. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

常春藤 . (various references)

   

Danish

  

vedbend. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

klimop. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

hedero. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیچک (Scroll, Tendril), لبلاب . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

muratti. (various references)

   

French

  

Lierre. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

klimmerblêd. (various references)

   

German

  

Efeu. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κισσός (alehoof, ground ivy). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קיסוס (hedera). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

repkény (creeping ivy), borostyán (creeping ivy, laurel). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Edera. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

, アイヌ族 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, eye bank, eyebrow, eyebrow pencil, eyebrow shape, IBM, ivory, ivory white, Ivy League, Ivy League style, ivy look, ivy style, the Ainu race). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

つた, アイビー (Ivy League style). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

담쟁이 (Ivies). (various references)

   

Manx

  

hibbin. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

eføy. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivyay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

hera. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

Iederã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Плющ, плющ (smilax). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

eidheann. (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

morara. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bršljan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hiedra, yedra. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

murgröna. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sarmaxik, Sarmaşık (climber, creeper, twiner, voluble). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

зyrmaюyk. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

Плющ. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

iorwg, eiddiorwg, eiddew. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ivy

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

hedera. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ivy

Derivations

Words beginning with "ivy": ivylike. (additional references)

Words ending with "ivy": chivy, privy, tantivy, tivy. (additional references)

Words containing "ivy": chivying, livyer, livyers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ivy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avey, avy, avyl, bivi, bivvi, bivvy, bivy, civvy, civy, eavy, Evvy, evy, fivy, givy, hivy, iby, idy, ify, Igy, iky, Ily, Imvo, imy, invey, invy, iny, Ioy, Irv, iry, isv, isy, Isyn, itv, ity, i'v, Ivb, ivd, ivf, Ivi, ivic, ivie, iview, ivn, ivo, ivp, Ivry, ivt, ivu, ivybri, ivyd, ivyl, ivyn, ivys, ixy, iy, iys, izy, jivy, Kivy, mivy, nivy, Oi-vey, pivy, rivy, sivy, Tivvy, Tivy, uv, uvc, viby, vidy, viey, vih, vij, vimy, visy, vivy, viy, viyo, vy, wivi, wivy, ziv. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Ivy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ivy" (pronounced ī"vē)
2-v ēanchovy, bevy, Chevy, Covey, curvy, Davy, larvae, Leavy, divvy, envy, Garvey, gravy, groovy, heavy, levee, levy, movie, navy, nervy, Peavey, Peavy, privy, savvy, wavy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ivy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "i-v-y"
 

+1 letter: tivy, viny.

 

+2 letters: chivy, civvy, divvy, ivory, jivey, privy, veiny, vichy, viewy, vinyl, vying.

 

+3 letters: aviary, avidly, cavity, chivvy, evilly, gyving, levity, lively, livery, livyer, mayvin, skivvy, sylvin, vainly, vanity, verify, verily, verity, viably, vilely, vilify, vinery, vinify, vinyls, vivary, vivify, wavily.

 

+4 letters: avidity, bivinyl, brevity, civilly, devilry, envying, gravity, heavily, ivylike, levying, lividly, livyers, mayvins, naively, naivety, nervily, olivary, ovality, privacy, privily, privity, quivery, rivalry, shivery, silvery, skydive, suavity, sylvine, sylvins, sylvite, synovia, tantivy, vacuity, validly, vapidly, variety, varsity, varying, vastity, verbify, versify, vicarly, viceroy, victory, viduity, vilayet, vinylic, virally, virelay, visibly, vitally, vitrify, vividly, vixenly, vyingly, weevily, yeshiva.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Frequency
14. Names: Derived from
15. Names: Company Usage
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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