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Definition: CIA |
CIANoun1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; under the supervision of the National Security Council. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
CIA | English | Central Intelligence Agency | N/A |
CIA | Italian | Corte permanente di arbitrato | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CIASynonym: Central Intelligence Agency (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet; senate, house of representatives, parliament; council; courts, supreme court; state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury; Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI; Central Intelligence Agency, CIA; National Institutes of Health, NIH; Postal Service, Post Office; Federal Aviation Administration, FAA. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CIA |
| English words defined with "CIA": tradecraft ♦ unearth. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CIA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (your), Scottish (how much, whence : cia meud, which? what? : cia as, who). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead (Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & David Lindell c. 1976 Zevon Music, BMI) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Xerife & Cia. Shazan (1972) A Kis Cia katonái (1922) 1st Testament CIA Vengeance (2001) Inside the CIA (1987) Badía y Cia (1987) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Die Demokratie muss gelegentlich in Blut gebadet werden : Junta-Chef Pinchot im Auftrag von ITT, CIA, Kennecott Copper Corp. u.a. : Solidaritat mit Chile. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Vote Socialist Workers : billions for jobs, not war, stop FBI and CIA crimes, desegregate the schools, defend abortion rights. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Argentina | It currently has 110 users, all first line companies, such as Minera Alumbrera Ltd., Bucyrus (U.S.), Abraservice (France), Esco (U.S.), Commercial Hill (Chile), Railcars Heavy Corp (Scania), Compania Azucarera Concepcion S.A., Citromax S.A., Citrusvil, Tensolie S.A., Bacco y Cia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andy Rooney | Well, the FBI and the CIA have been inept at an awful lot of things for a great many years, and it just took something like this to reveal it to the American public. |
Fred Thompson | I don't know, Bob, but I'll tell you this. I am very concerned about our intelligence community. Our counterintelligence capabilities, our counterterrorism capabilities are not what they should be. There needs to be major reform in the CIA and the FBI. |
John McCain | You know, I do not know, because I still don't know what the CIA did or didn't do. I am concerned, and I think most people are concerned, about the lack of coordination between agencies, the failure to work together to share information. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Chairman, it's generally agreed that the war in Afghanistan is a CIA show, run by the CIA with the military providing assets. |
Rush Limbaugh | Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director George Tenet briefed the top Congressional leaders on this information, but Tom Daschle remains unconvinced. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CIA" is used about 587 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 (proper) | 100% | 587 | 10,802 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Brazil | CBC CIA Brasileira de Cartuchos | Chile | Cia de Consumidores de Gas de Santiago |
| Colombia | Cia Colombiana de Tejidos - Coltejer | Peru | Cia Industrial Nuevo Mundo |
| Venezuela | Dominguez y Cia SA | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CIA": cia-backed, cia-based, cia-contract, cia-organised, cia-sponsored, cia-types. | |
Ending with "CIA": ex-cia, Pcm-cia. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cia | 4,505 | agency central cia intelligence | 23 |
cia world fact book | 1,438 | book cia cia.gov fact publication | 22 |
cia fact book | 936 | canada cia | 21 |
cia job | 99 | cia wallpaper | 20 |
book cia world | 70 | cia headquarters | 18 |
cia commander | 67 | cia history | 18 |
2002 book cia fact world | 46 | book cia fact index.html odci.gov publication | 18 |
cia world fact | 43 | cia noc | 18 |
cia training | 43 | cia secret | 18 |
cia agent | 39 | cia country | 17 |
cia site web | 38 | cia g.com | 17 |
cia director | 38 | cia seal | 17 |
cia fact | 35 | career cia | 16 |
cia employment | 34 | cia recruitment | 16 |
cia map | 34 | book cia fact odci.gov publication | 16 |
cia logo | 34 | book cia worldfact | 15 |
cia farm | 28 | cia exam | 15 |
cia home page | 27 | cia employment job | 14 |
cia government | 26 | 2003 book cia fact world | 14 |
cia world | 24 | cia join | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 中央情 局 (Central Intelligence Agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ザ行 (Central Intelligence Agency, Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "zu", Shia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シーアイエー (Central Intelligence Agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iacay Agência Central De Inteligência (central intelligence agency). (various references) цру. (various references) c' (ce, for co, where?). (various references) Agencia Central De Intelegencia (central intelligence agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CIA": ciao. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CIA": acacia, aecia, alopecia, androecia, apothecia, boccia, breccia, dystocia, endothecia, episcia, estancia, facia, fascia, focaccia, gynaecia, gynecia, gynoecia, indicia, osteomalacia, paramecia, perithecia, simplicia, uncia, valencia, zoecia, zooecia. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CIA": acacias, academician, academicians, acciaccatura, acciaccaturas, acciaccature, acoustician, acousticians, aecial, aesthetician, aestheticians, alopecias, altricial, amerciable, annunciate, annunciated, annunciates, annunciating, annunciation, annunciations, annunciator, annunciators, annunciatory, anticommercial, anticommercialism, anticommercialisms, antisocial, antisocialist, antisocialists, antisocially, apothecial, appreciable, appreciably, appreciate, appreciated, appreciates, appreciating, appreciation, appreciations, appreciative, appreciatively, appreciativeness, appreciativenesses, appreciator, appreciators, appreciatory, arithmetician, arithmeticians, artificial, artificialities, artificiality. (additional references) | |
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"CIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caac, Caig, Ceao, Ceea, Cega, Ceka, Chiah, Chiyah, Ciam, Ciec, Cifad, Ciga, Ciim, Ciip, Ciir, Cij, Cipa, Cisa, Csie, Cyfa, Cyg, Cyh, Iaa, Kcie, Lciii, Ociam, Qia, Rcia, Xia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i" | |
-1 letter: ai. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i" | |
+1 letter: acid, asci, cadi, caid, cain, chia, ciao, laic, mica, pica. | |
+2 letters: abaci, acari, acids, acidy, acing, acini, acmic, acrid, actin, aecia, aitch, alcid, amice, amici, amnic, antic, areic, asdic, aspic, attic, aulic, auric, azoic, baric, basic, cabin, cacti, cadis, caids, cains, caird, cairn, calif, calix, campi, canid, carpi, cavie, cavil, ceiba, ceria, chain, chair, chiao, chias, china, cigar, cilia, circa, claim, clavi, coati, cobia, coria, curia, daric, dicta, erica, facia, farci, gamic, ileac, iliac, laich, laics, lilac, linac, mafic, magic, malic, manic, micas, micra, naric, nicad, panic, pical, picas, plica, rabic, saice, salic, spica, tacit, tical, triac, umiac, uncia, vatic, vicar, vinca. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 49 41 |
| 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 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0049 0041 |
| 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)374335 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , chinês, китайский, китаец, chino |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japonés |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japonés |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, португальский, portugués |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruso |
Scottish | foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan | 苏 兰, escocês, шотландский, escocés |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, испанский, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , inglês, английский, beurla, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Abbreviations 16. Acronyms | 17. Derivations 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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