Tabasco

  

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Tabasco

Definitions: Tabasco

Tabasco

Noun

1. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.

2. Very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Tabasco" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Tabasco

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

TABASCO

EnglishTelematics applications in Bavaria,Scotland and othersN/A

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

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Specialty Definition: Tabasco

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This is an article about the state of Tabasco in Mexico. For the hot sauce produced in Louisiana, see: Tabasco sauce.

Tabasco (sometimes historically spelled Tobasco) is a state in Mexico.

Location:

Tabasco is bordered by the Mexican states of Veracruz to the west, Chiapas to the south, and Campeche to the north east. To the west Tabasco borders with the Peten Department of Guatemala, to the north is the Gulf of Mexico. Tabasco is in the northern half of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Basic facts:

Cities in Tabasco include: Ciudad Pemex, Emiliano Zapata, San Miguel, Tenosique, Tortuguero, the Olmec ruins of La Venta, and the Maya ruins of Comalcalco.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tabasco."

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Synonym: Tabasco

Synonym: red pepper (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tabasco

English words defined with "Tabasco": tabasco pepper, tabasco plant, Tabasco sauce. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tabasco

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tabasco Road (1957)

The Tabasco Kid (1932)

Aunt Jane's Experience with Tabasco Sauce (1900)

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

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Commercial Usage: Tabasco

DomainTitle

Books

  • Comalcalco Tabasco, Mexico: Maya Art and Architecture: With Boxed Maps (reference)

  • Go On, Take The Shot! -- Tabasco Sauce, Woody Allen, Wayne Gretzky And Business Innovation [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Tabasco México (reference)

  • Tabasco Mexico: The Olmec Route (Editorial Veras Travel Guides) (reference)

  • Tabasco State (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Tabasco

Photos:
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Non-Fiction Usage: Tabasco

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

According to the Mexican Constitution (Art. 27), Pemex, has the rights for the production of natural gas. Pemex, also, operates the National Gas Pipeline System that has 8,704.0 kilometers of various diameters of pipe, and operates 9 Natural Gas Processing Centers located in Reynosa, State of Tamaulipas, Poza Rica, State of Veraruz, and Cactus, La Venta, Ciudad Pemex, la Cangrejera, Matapioche, Nuevo Pemex, and Pajaritos all in the State of Tabasco. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

The nine Mexican states (Puebla, Veracruz, Guerrero, Tabasco, Oaxaca, Campeche, Chiapas, Merida and Quintana Roo) have 27 percent of Mexico's total population. (references)

Mexico

Other states that will need to implement the construction of municipal wastewater treatment plants and desalination plants during the next two years are Guerrero, Puebla, Veracruz, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Campeche and Tabasco. (references)

Political Rights

Mexico

In December 2000, the TEPJF annulled the results of the Tabasco state disputed October 2000 gubernatorial election (in which the PRI bested the PRD candidate by 1 percent) and directed the Tabasco state legislature to name an interim governor and prepare for a new election. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Tabasco

"Tabasco" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Tabasco" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)92%2372,767
Noun (singular)8%2245,945
                    Total100.00%25N/A

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

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Expressions: Tabasco

Expressions using "Tabasco": tabasco pepper tabasco plant tabasco sauce. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tabasco

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tabasco

460

de estado tabasco

44

mexico tabasco

42

tabasco villahermosa

36

tabasco sauce

35

tabasco golf shirt

30

hoy tabasco

26

universidad juarez autonoma de tabasco

21

tabasco shirt

17

de mapa tabasco

12
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Modern Translations: Tabasco

Language Translations for "Tabasco"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

Σάλτσα όε ολύ ιπέρι. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abascotay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

Acı Kırmızı Biber, Acı Biber Sosu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Tabasco

Misspellings

"Tabasco" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abasto, Babuscio, Tabacco, tabacum, Tiburcio, tobasco. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Tabasco

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-o-s-t"

-2 letters: ascot, boast, boats, botas, coast, coats, costa, sabot, tacos.

-3 letters: abas, abos, acta, acts, baas, bast, bats, boas, boat, bota, bots, cabs, casa, cast, cats, coat, cobs, cost, cots, oast, oats, ocas, scab, scat, scot, stab, stoa, stob, tabs, taco, taos.

-4 letters: aas, aba, abo, abs, act, baa, bas, bat, boa, bos, bot, cab, cat, cob, cos, cot, oat, oca, sab, sac, sat, sob, sot, tab, tao, tas.

-5 letters: aa, ab, as, at, ba, bo, os, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: acrobats, catboats.

 

+2 letters: ascorbate, bicoastal, botanicas, broadcast, cabotages, catacombs, sauceboat.

 

+3 letters: abdicators, abstractor, acrobatics, aerobatics, ascorbates, botanicals, broadcasts, carbonates, catabolism, combatants, contrabass, sauceboats, tackboards.

 

+4 letters: abdications, abreactions, absorptance, abstraction, abstractors, barracoutas, brachiators, broadcasted, broadcaster, calibrators, catabolisms, catabolites, catabolizes, cohabitants, contrabands, fabricators, jaboticabas, matchboards, nonabstract, outbalances, patchboards, rebroadcast, saltimbocca.

 

+5 letters: absorptances, abstractions, azotobacters, bacteriostat, basification, bicarbonates, brachiations, broadcasters, broadcasting, calibrations, carbonations, carboxylates, collaborates, confabulates, constabulary, contrabasses, contrastable, decarbonates, fabrications, forecastable, nonabstracts, nonbroadcast, overabstract, rebroadcasts, saltimboccas, sanctionable, scratchboard, secobarbital.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tabasco


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

54 61 62 61 73 63 6F

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

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

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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)

01010100 01100001 01100010 01100001 01110011 01100011 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#98 &#97 &#115 &#99 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0062 0061 0073 0063 006F

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

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

54676867856981

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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