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| Domain | Definition |
Space | Ultra Stable Oscillator, in a spacecraft telecommunications subsystem. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "USO."
| 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 |
uso | English | Unmanned seismological observatory | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: USO |
| Non-English Usage: "USO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Basque (dove, pigeon), Italian (adhibition, custom, exercise, habit, usage, use, wear), Papiamen (use), Portuguese (adhibition, application, choky, custom, exertion, good, habit, manner, mores, praxis, rule, usage, use, using, wear), Samoan (sister), Spanish (employment, fashion, purpose, service, usage, use, using, utilization, wear), Swahili (face). |
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Lyrics | Met our mothers in the USO (Allentown; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Uso (1963) 24 jikan dake no uso (1999) Verna: USO Girl (1978) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Edgar Bergin and Ophelia at Sand Point USO show. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Las Consecuencias Del Uso Y Venta De Las Drogas Ahora Son Aun Mas Serias. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Arriving in San Francisco Bay, California, circa early 1958, after a four and one-half month overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington. The "Lady Lex" has the letters "USO" spelled out on her flight deck by members of her crew, in observance of the United Services Organization fundraising drive then being conducted. Note automobiles parked aft, and a wingless UF "Albatross" behind the island. The original print has the date 8 May 1958 stamped on its reverse. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Library and music room in the Benedict Club, a USO sponsored by the N.C.C.S., 157 North 15th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Neosho, Missouri. USO (United Service Organizations) building. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Pete the pooch. A smiling dog heads toward the entrance of the local USO. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Denmark | An USO provider can be compensated for deficits only if the deficits are documented and a public tendering procedure is initiated to appoint one or more alternative USO providers. (references) |
Denmark | The Danish National Telecom Authority has designated the former incumbent TDC as the universal service obligation (USO) provider from January 1998 to December 2007. Other providers that have a nationwide market share of 50% or more in the provision of services included in the universal service obligation could also be appointed USO providers, but that is not expected for a number of years. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Colombia | In December 2000, the Prosecutor General's office arraigned three hired killers alleged to have killed CUT vice president Jorge Ortega in 1998. There is still no information in the 1999 bombings of both the Association of Rural Land Users in Sincelejo, Sucre Department, and the Medellin office of the USO, where a bomb was defused. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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. |
Derivations | |
Words containing "USO": bausond, blouson, blousons, bousouki, bousoukia, bousoukis, conclusory, delusory, diffusor, diffusors, elusory, illusorily, illusoriness, illusorinesses, illusory, infusorian, infusorians, mausolea, mausoleum, mausoleums, medusoid, medusoids, prolusory, sinusoid, sinusoidal, sinusoidally, sinusoids. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sou. | |
| Words within the letters "o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: os, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: duos, nous, onus, opus, ouds, ours, oust, outs, souk, soul, soup, sour, sous, sumo, udos. | |
+2 letters: autos, bogus, bolus, bonus, bosun, bouse, bousy, bouts, buoys, conus, coups, cusso, doums, douse, duros, euros, focus, fouls, fours, gouts, gusto, hocus, hours, house, jouks, joust, judos, kudos, kusso, locus, lotus, louis, loups, lours, louse, lousy, louts, meous, modus, momus, moues, mouse, mousy, muons, nodus, nouns, ouphs, ousel, ousts, ouzos, pious, poufs, pours, pouts, quods, roues, roups, rouse, roust, routs, sajou, scour, scout, scudo, shout, shoyu, snout, solum, solus, sorus, sough, souks, souls, sound, soups, soupy, sours, souse, south, soyuz, spout, stoup, stour, stout, sudor, sulfo, sumos, swoun, thous, tofus, tolus, tonus, torus, tours, touse, touts, umbos, uncos, updos, yours, youse. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 53 4F |
| 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)01010101 01010011 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U S O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0053 004F |
| 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)555349 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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