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Definition: Auk |
AukNoun1. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "auk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Auk \Auk\, noun. [Prov. English alk; akin to Danish alke, Icelandic Swedish alka.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Auk |
| English words defined with "auk": Alca torda, Arctic penguin ♦ coastal diving bird ♦ dovekie ♦ Garefowl, genus Pinguinus, great auk ♦ King auk ♦ little auk ♦ Marrot ♦ Paroquet auk, Pinguinus, Pinguinus impennis, Plautus alle ♦ razorbill, razor-billed auk, Rhinoceros auk, Rotche ♦ Sea dove, Sea fowl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "auk": Extinct Species. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "auk": Garefowl ♦ Marrot. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Auk" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Inuktitut (blood). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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In contrast to penguins, auks are able to fly (with the exception of the Great Auk). They are good swimmers and divers, but their way of walking appears clumsy. Due to their short wingspan auks have to flap their wings very fast in order to fly.
Auks live on the open sea. Only for breeding do they go ashore. Most species breed at steep cliffs, often together with gulls, petrels and gannets.
The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) is now extinct.
Species are:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Auk."
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Night of the Auk (1960) | |
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| "Auk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.00% of the time. "Auk" is used about 25 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 (singular) | 84% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| South Korea | AUK Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "auk": great auk ♦ King auk ♦ little auk ♦ Paroquet auk ♦ perroquet auk ♦ rhinoceros auk. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
auk | 62 |
the great auk | 25 |
auk genus | 3 |
auk nu tour | 2 |
auk journal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Albanian | pinguin (penguin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الأوك طائر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | alk (razorbill, Usa: razor-billed auk), soekonge (little auk, Usa: dovekie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | alk (razorbill, Usa: razor-billed auk), kleine alk (little auk, Usa: dovekie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pingouin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | alk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θαλάσσιο πτηνό του βορρά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alkamadár. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alca. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | awk, alk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aukay mergulhão (dipper, diver, goosander, loon, merganser). (various references) гагарка (razor-bill). (various references) falcag (common auk). (various references) patka (duck, quack-quack), njorka. (various references) alca (razorbill). (various references) alka. (various references) bir tür deniz kuşu. (various references) гагарка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Alca torda, Charadriiformes, Plautus alle, Plotus alle. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "auk": auklet, auklets, auks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "auk": jauk, padauk, wauk. (additional references) | |
Words containing "auk": jauked, jauking, jauks, padauks, wauked, wauking, wauks. (additional references) | |
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"Auk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aac, aak, Abk, abuke, Abuko, Aduku, Aeuc, Aeuw, afu, Afuu, Ahu, aik, aiuk, aju, ak, akg, Akko, aku, Akue, Akun, Akuoko, alk, Amk, amuk, Anuak, anuk, aok, apk, asu, Asuka, Aua, auc, Auca, auch, Auck, aud, auh, aui, auj, auki, aukk, auky, aul, aun, aunk, auo, Aup, aur, aus, auug, auv, auw, auz, Avk, awk, Axkxt, ayuck, ayup, bauc, dauc, eku, Ekua, eok, euc, euk, Gauck, gauk, iu, Iuk, jauk, Kuk, Lauko, ouk, Pauk, quk, rauk, ua, uai, uark, uask, Ukj, uu, wauk, Yayuk, zau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-u" | |
-1 letter: ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-u" | |
+1 letter: auks, jauk, kagu, kuna, skua, wauk. | |
+2 letters: amuck, ankus, baulk, caulk, dumka, haiku, jauks, kagus, kaput, kauri, kaury, knaur, kraut, kulak, kurta, oakum, pucka, pukka, punka, quack, quake, quaky, quark, skuas, taluk, ukase, umiak, wauks. | |
+3 letters: adzuki, amucks, ankush, auklet, backup, baulks, baulky, buckra, caulks, chabuk, chukar, chukka, eureka, funkia, gagaku, haikus, jauked, judoka, kabuki, kahuna, kalium, kaputt, kauris, kiaugh, knaurs, koruna, krauts, kulaki, kulaks, kurgan, kurtas, kuvasz, likuta, makeup, makuta, mamluk, markup, oakums, outask, padauk, padouk, punkah, punkas, quacks, quaked, quaker, quakes, quarks, quokka, rumaki, saluki, squawk, squeak, sukkah, takeup, taluka, taluks, tanuki, ukases, umiack, umiaks, unakin, uncake, unmake, unmask, unpack, untack, uptake, walkup, wauked. | |
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