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Meaning of McKinley | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
məˈkɪn.li

Definitions

  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  2. A United States five-hundred-dollar bill.
    US, rare, slang
  3. A female given name transferred from the surname.
  4. A male given name transferred from the surname, briefly popular in the US when William McKinley was President (1897-1901).
  5. A processor of Intel’s first Itanium 2 brand, code-named McKinley.
  6. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  7. An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States.
  8. An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Washington County, Indiana, United States.
  9. A tiny city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
  10. An unorganized territory in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.
  11. A neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
  12. An unincorporated community in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  13. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  14. A former unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States.
  15. A town and unincorporated community in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.
  16. A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.

Equivalents

العربية مكينلي

Examples

“The ceremony was performed at the commodious old Saxton homestead, formerly the home of the McKinleys, now occupied by the Barbers, and was witnessed by Mrs. McKinley.”
“Presidents: Cash money, folding bills, the green stuff, cabbage, lettuce, bucks, dough, i.e., Washingtons ($1), Jeffersons ($2), Lincolns ($5), Jacksons ($20), Grants ($50), McKinleys ($500), Clevelands ($1,000), Madisons ($5,000), and Wilsons ($100,000).”
“Write an equation for each relevant clue. Solve by substitution. […] h. 10 Grants make a McKinley (M_c).”
“Every time I go into a bank I put down a Jackson and I ask for 10 $2 bills. Sometimes I get them, most often not. We don't need a $1 bill, I welcome the $1 coin. Print more $2 bills. What we really need are McKinleys and Clevelands - $500 and $1,000 bills.”
“Cheapskates! USE DEUCES! The girls love them. (They love Lincolns, Hamiltons, Jacksons, Grants, Franklins, McKinleys, Clevelands, Madisons, and Chases, too. Too bad you couldn't give them Wilsons.)”
“nice that folks name children after Muddy....very blues relevant.... "jus' keepin' the blues alive"......!!!! myself?...I'd just as soon have a coupla "McKinleys" in my wallet at this time..... anybody else? thanx you very much.......”
“This may or may not be true, but the masses are going to believe it and buy Merceds ( or hold off buying anything ) on the promise that in a year or two they'll be able to upgrade to McKinleys that will blow away anything the competition has.”
“The cost of the Alpha processors in a current mid-range or better AlphaServer is a *small* percentage of the whole. Replace them with 'McKinleys and the box price won't change significantly (unless you try to recoup the cost of developing the McKinley version, in which case the price will go *up*) - even if you *give the McKinleys away*.”
“We'll see, INTEL are playing their cards very close to their chest, but $1500 'low-end' McKinleys don't sounds like they are going to compete in any meaningful way with the P4 line to me.”
“That comment was refering^([sic]) to the systems with 1.5 GHz Itanium 2 6M CPUs (aka Madison), not the older McKinleys.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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