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USO

"USO" is a common misspelling or typo for: so, sue, us, use, used, user.


Specialty Definition: USO

DomainDefinition

Space

Ultra Stable Oscillator, in a spacecraft telecommunications subsystem. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: USO

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

USO is a TLA that may stand for:

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: 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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

uso

EnglishUnmanned seismological observatoryN/A

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

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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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Modern Usage: USO

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: USO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Actividades de aprendizaje para los infantes y los ninos hasta los tres anos: Una guia para uso cotidiano (reference)

  • Extrema ratio : note per un buon uso delle rovine (reference)

  • Il galateo delle scuse : prontuario ad uso dei bugiardi (reference)

  • LA Magia De LA Aromaterapia: El Uso De Las Esencias Para LA Mente, El Cuerpo, Y El Espiritu (reference)

  • Padroni della parola : fonetica, voce, gestualità, respirazione, pronuncia, dizione, sintassi, oratoria, retorica, sinonimi, rimario fonetico, locuzioni latine di uso frequente (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: USO

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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.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: USO

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: USO

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

uso

384

caso de uso

8

tour uso

54

2003 tour uso

7

paris uso

23

del multimetro uso

7

show uso

23

naples uso

7

rome uso

23

de internet uso

7

car club uso

20

de suelo uso

7

di piscina pubblico uso

17

diego san uso

7

cosmetico in plastica uso vasi

16

germany uso

6

de drogas uso

13

de drogadicción drogas uso

6

casos de uso

13

outfitters uso

6

de drogadiccion drogas uso

12

coma de la uso

5

horario uso

10

del diccionario uso

5

computer de la uso

10

de la pc prolongado uso

5

liberty uso

10

del teclado uso

5

condon del uso

9

b de la uso

5

consumo ou uso

9

korea uso

5

mexico pago por uso

9

new uso york

5

kid rock uso

9

bienes de uso

5

bob hope uso

9

cofia de uso

5

italy uso

9

concert uso

5

c de la uso

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: USO

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).

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Anagrams: USO

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: USO


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

55 53 4F

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01010011 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0053 004F

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

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

555349

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INDEX

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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