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Date "CALS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CALS Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support: a DoD standard for electronic exchange of data with commercial suppliers. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CALS | English | Committee of Auxiliary Language Study | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "CALS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "CALS" is used about 19 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 (plural) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cals | 80 | cals caws legend wrestling | 3 |
cals gallery plus | 40 | cals corner | 3 |
cals gallery | 33 | cals pizza | 3 |
cals camera | 26 | cals server terminal | 3 |
cals legend wrestling | 20 | cals camera costa mesa | 3 |
armory cals sporting | 12 | cals game wrestling | 2 |
brother cals east eden | 10 | cals table | 2 |
2 cals legend wrestling | 6 | boat cals rv | 2 |
cals computer | 5 | cals sporting | 2 |
cals computer warehouse | 5 | cals group iv | 2 |
cals pharmacy | 5 | armory cals | 2 |
cals viewer | 5 | cals wallpaper | 2 |
cals student loan | 4 | cals raster | 2 |
cals gallery.com | 4 | ||
cals raster | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CALS": agrichemicals, agrochemicals, anticlericals, apicals, arsenicals, berascals, bifocals, biochemicals, biogeochemicals, biologicals, botanicals, canonicals, caracals, chemicals, clericals, cyclicals, decals, ellipticals, encyclicals, ethicals, evangelicals, faucals, fiscals, galenicals, indexicals, jacals, kilopascals, locals, mechanicals, medicals, mescals, meticals, mezcals, musicals, neurochemicals, nonchemicals, nonclericals, nonlocals, nonnumericals, nonreciprocals, paramedicals, pascals, pedocals, periodicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, physicals, pontificals, practicals, psychochemicals, radicals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lacs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-s" | |
-1 letter: als, lac, las, sac, sal. | |
-2 letters: al, as, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-s" | |
+1 letter: acyls, alecs, calfs, calks, calls, calms, calos, carls, cauls, clads, clags, clams, clans, claps, clash, clasp, class, clast, claws, clays, coals, colas, laces, lacks, laics, salic, scald, scale, scall, scalp, scaly, slack, talcs. | |
+2 letters: alcids, blacks, cabals, cables, calash, calces, calesa, califs, callas, callus, calves, calxes, camels, canals, carles, carols, castle, casual, caulds, caules, caulis, caulks, causal, cavils, chalks, chelas, clachs, clacks, clades, claims, clamps, clangs, clanks, claros, clasps, claspt, classy, clasts, clause, claves, clavus, cleans, clears, cleats, cloaks, coalas, colzas, copals, corals, costal, craals, crawls, cutlas, decals, eclats, falces, fiscal, flacks, glaces, glacis, jacals, lacers, laches, laichs, lances, lascar, lilacs, linacs, locals, macles, mescal, oscula, pascal, places, placks, rascal, sacral, scalar, scalds, scaled, scaler, scales, scalls, scalps, scilla, sclaff, sclera, scrawl, sialic, silica, slacks, slatch, social, solace, sulcal, ticals, vocals. | |
| 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)43 41 4C 53 |
| 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)01000011 01000001 01001100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A L S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 004C 0053 |
| 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)37354653 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Abbreviations 6. Acronyms 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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