AHS

  

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AHS

Date "AHS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)


Specialty Definition: AHS

DomainDefinition

Census

(American Housing Survey) A source of information for frequent and up-to-date information on the Nation's housing supply. Collected for the Department of Housing and Urban Development by the Housing and Household Economics Statistics Division. (Formerly the Annual Housing Survey). (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: AHS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

AHS

EnglishPasteur horse......N/A

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

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Crosswords: AHS

Non-English Usage: "AHS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Maya (to awaken someone).

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Non-Fiction Usage: AHS

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

This ahs resulted in prices which are 10-15 percent lower than prices in Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: AHS

"AHS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "AHS" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)73.33%11106,044
Noun (proper)20%3202,518
Interjection6.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%15N/A

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

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Derivations: AHS

Derivations

Words ending with "AHS": aahs, aliyahs, almahs, amahs, ayahs, ayatollahs, bimahs, blahs, bushwahs, cabbalahs, casbahs, chalahs, challahs, cheetahs, chetahs, chuddahs, chutzpahs, copperahs, coprahs, dahabeahs, dahabiahs, dahs, djellabahs, dourahs, ephahs, fellahs, galahs, ganjahs, gerahs, goombahs, habdalahs, haftarahs, haftorahs, haggadahs, hahs, halakahs, halalahs, halavahs, hallahs, hallelujahs, halvahs, hamzahs, havdalahs, hookahs, hoorahs, horahs, hosannahs, houdahs, howdahs, hurrahs, hutzpahs. (additional references)

Words containing "AHS": messiahship, messiahships, tahsil, tahsils. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: AHS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ash, has, sha.

Words within the letters "a-h-s"

-1 letter: ah, as, ha, sh.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-s"
 

+1 letter: aahs, ashy, bash, cash, dahs, dash, fash, gash, haes, hags, hahs, hams, haps, hash, hasp, hast, hats, haws, hays, lash, mash, pash, rash, sash, shad, shag, shah, sham, shat, shaw, shay, shea, wash.

 

+2 letters: abash, aches, aghas, amahs, ankhs, aphis, apish, ashed, ashen, ashes, awash, ayahs, bahts, baths, blahs, brash, caphs, chads, chams, chaos, chaps, chars, chase, chasm, chats, chaws, chays, chias, clash, crash, dahls, dashi, dashy, deash, dhaks, dhals, ephas, flash, ghast, ghats, gnash, haafs, haars, habus, hacks, hades, hadst, haems, haets, hafis, hafts, hahas, haiks, hails, hairs, hajes, hajis, hakes, hales, halls, halms, halos, halts, hames, hands, hangs, hanks, hansa, hanse, hants, hards, hares, harks, harls, harms, harps, harsh, harts, hasps, haste, hasty, hates, hauls, haves, hawks, hawse, hazes, heads, heals, heaps, hears, heats, hoars, horas, hosta, hoyas, hulas, hylas, kaphs, kasha, khafs, khans, khats, lakhs, laths, leash, machs, marsh, mashy, maths, oaths, ohias, opahs, pasha, paths, phase, plash, pshaw, quash, rheas, sadhe, sadhu, sahib, saith, sangh, sauch, saugh, schav, schwa, selah, shack, shade, shads, shady, shaft, shags, shahs, shake, shako, shaky, shale, shall, shalt, shaly, shame, shams, shank, shape, shard, share, shark, sharn, sharp, shaul, shave, shawl, shawm, shawn, shaws, shays, sheaf, sheal, shear, sheas, shiva, shoal, shoat, slash, smash, snash, snath, spahi, staph, stash, subah, surah, swash, swath, tachs, tahrs, thaws, trash, washy, whams, whaps, whats, wisha.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AHS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 48 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ....    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001000 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#72 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0048 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

354253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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