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Definitions: OVA |
OVANoun plural1. See Ovum. Plural1. Of Ovum |
Date "OVA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| 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 |
OVA | English | Organic vapour analyzer | Chemistry, Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: OVA |
| English words defined with "OVA": Alecithal, Amphiblastic ♦ biovular ♦ Colleterium ♦ Dorsiferous ♦ Ectolecithal, Ectomere, Egg cleavage, Entomere ♦ Fallopian, fraternal ♦ Germarium, Germogen, Graafian follicles ♦ In berry ♦ Meroblastic, Meroistic ♦ Ooecium, oogenesis, Ootype, ovary, Ovicell, Oviparity, Ovisac, Ovotesttis ♦ Panoistic ♦ Segmentation of the ovum, superfecundation ♦ test-tube baby ♦ Vitelligenous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "OVA": anti-malaria oils ♦ Egg Proteins ♦ Fallopian Tubes ♦ gene therapy ♦ pro-nuclear micro-injection ♦ Superovulation ♦ Twins, Dizygotic, Tylenchoidea. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "OVA": Ovum. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "OVA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (egg, rejoice), Sicilian (eggs), Turkish (Coomb, Coombe, lowland, meadow, plain). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Saber Marionette J Again OVA (1999) | |
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Health | Brainerd diarrhea should be suspected in any patient who presents with the acute onset of nonbloody diarrhea lasting for more than 4 weeks, and for whom stool cultures and examinations for ova and parasites have been negative. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "OVA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OVA" is used about 36 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) | 100% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "OVA": ova-enthusiastic. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "OVA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | eizellen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ώα (Macaroon, Roe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tojássor, tojásdísz, tojás (egg, ovum, stone), pete (egg, ovule, ovum, yolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ovaay množina od ovum. (various references) óvulo (ovule, ovum). (various references) คำนามพหูพจน์ของ ovum. (various references) ovumlar, yumurtalar, yumurtacıklar. (various references) яйце (egg, ovum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 39, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti afhsei eiV ghn ta wa authV kai epi coun qalyei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quando derelinquit in terra ova sua tu forsitan in pulvere calefacis ea |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That leueth hir eiren in the erthe, thou perauenture in pouder shalt make them hot. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care? |
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| Language | Job Chapter 39, Verse 14 |
| Albanian | Ai në fakt i braktis vezët e tij për tokë dhe i lë të ngrohen në pluhur. |
| Cebuano | Tungod kay iya man nga biyaan ang iyang mga itlog sa yuta, Ug painitan sila diha sa balas, |
| Chinese | 他 把 蛋 留 在 地 上 、 在 塵 土 中 、 使 得 溫 暖 ． |
| Croatian | On svoja jaja na zemlji ostavlja, povjerava ih pijesku da ih grije, |
| Danish | Stoler du på dens store Kræfter; overlader du den din Høst? |
| Finnish | Voitko siihen luottaa, siksi että sen voima on suuri, voitko jättää sen haltuun työsi hedelmät? |
| German | Doch läßt er seine Eier auf der Erde und läßt sie die heiße Erde ausbrüten. |
| Haitian Creole | Otrich la ponn ze l' yo atè konsa. Se chalè tè a ki fè yo kale. |
| Hungarian | Bízhatol-é benne, mivelhogy nagy az ereje, és munkádat hagyhatod-é reá? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Burung unta bertelur di tanah, lalu ditinggalkannya; maka pasirlah yang akan memanaskan telurnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Beranikah engkau mempergunakan kuatnya yang amat besar itu dan menyerahkan kepadanya pekerjaanmu? |
| Italian | Abbandona infatti alla terra le uova e sulla polvere le lascia riscaldare. |
| Maori | E whakarerea ana e ia ona hua ki te whenua, whakamahanatia iho e ia ki te puehu, |
| Norwegian | Kan du stole på den, fordi dens kraft er så stor, og kan du overlate den ditt arbeid? |
| Rumanian | Dar struyoaica kwi kncredinyeazq pqmkntului ouqle, wi le lasq sq se kncqlzeascq kn nisip. |
| Russian | пО ПУФБЧМСЕФ СК"Б УЧПЙ ОБ ЪЕНМЕ, Й ОБ ЕУЛЕ УПЗТЕЧБЕФ ЙИ, |
| Spanish | Porque ella abandona sus huevos en la tierra, y sobre el polvo los deja calentarse. |
| Swedish | Kan du lita på honom, då ju hans kraft är så stor, kan du betro åt honom ditt arbetes frukt? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "OVA": oval, ovalbumin, ovalbumins, ovalities, ovality, ovally, ovalness, ovalnesses, ovals, ovarial, ovarian, ovariectomies, ovariectomized, ovariectomy, ovaries, ovariole, ovarioles, ovariotomies, ovariotomy, ovaritides, ovaritis, ovary, ovate, ovately, ovation, ovations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "OVA": nova, pavlova, supernova, zelkova. (additional references) | |
Words containing "OVA": approvable, approvably, approval, approvals, cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, cordovan, cordovans, covalence, covalences, covalencies, covalency, covalent, covalently, covariance, covariances, covariant, covariation, covariations, disapproval, disapprovals, disprovable, fibrovascular, gastrovascular, immovabilities, immovability, immovable, immovableness, immovablenesses, immovables, immovably, improvabilities, improvability, improvable, innovate, innovated, innovates, innovating, innovation, innovational, innovations, innovative, innovatively, innovativeness, innovativenesses, innovator, innovators, innovatory, irremovabilities, irremovability, irremovable. (additional references) | |
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"OVA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bova, bva, cva, dova, dva, eov, evvah, evvahh, fova, gvcac, iova, jova, kova, kva, lova, lvfa, mova, oa, Oaa, oau, oaz, oba, obvi, ocao, oda, oea, oev, ofa, oga, oha, Ohv, oia, oiv, oiva, oja, omv, omva, Omvg, ooam, oove, Opa, oqa, oraa, orv, ota, ov, ovac, ovad, ovae, ovah, ovam, ovan, ovao, ovar, ovas, ovat, ovay, ovd, ove, ovea, ovee, ovet, ovey, ovi, ovia, ovian, ovie, ovio, ovit, ovm, ovn, ovo, ovoe, Ovs, ovu, ovua, ovva, owa, Oxa, oya, oza, Povah, Pvba, rova, Rva, sova, sva, tova, tva, Uovo, uv, Uvaq, uvc, uve, va, vo, voa, vof, voh, voi, voia, vok, voo, voq, vov, Vova, voz, yov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: avo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-v" | |
+1 letter: arvo, avos, avow, nova, oval. | |
+2 letters: above, arvos, avion, aviso, avoid, avows, bravo, favor, fovea, gavot, havoc, laevo, lovat, novae, novas, oaves, ovals, ovary, ovate, parvo, salvo, savor, savoy, soave, valor, vapor, viola, vocal, vodka, voila, volar, volta, volva. | |
+3 letters: aboves, abvolt, alcove, avions, avisos, avocet, avoids, avoset, avouch, avowal, avowed, avower, bravos, cavort, coeval, favors, favour, flavor, foveae, foveal, foveas, gavots, havior, havocs, jovial, lavabo, loaves, lovage, lovats, moshav, novena, octave, octavo, ogival, ottava, ovally, ovisac, ovular, parvos, pavior, reavow, salvor, salvos, savior, savors, savory, savour, savoys, soaves, sovran, vadose, vagrom, valors, valour, vamose, vapors, vapory, vapour, varoom, viator, violas, virago, vocals, vodkas, volant, volvas, vomica, votary, voyage, zouave. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 56 41 |
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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)01001111 01010110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O V A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0056 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)495635 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, germanski, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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