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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Abus the river Humber. "For by the river that whylome was hight The ancien Abus ... [was from] Their chieftain, Humber, named aright." And Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 28, says: - "For my princely name. From Humber, king of Huns, as anciently it came." See Geoffrey's Chronicles, Bk. ii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Date "ABUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
"ABUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: abuse, abut, abuzz. |
Crosswords: ABUS |
| Specialty definitions using "ABUS": Humber. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ABUS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (aberrant, abuse, error, falsity, grievances, mistake, misuse, overindulgence), Indonesian (of no value, smallest portion, worthless). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Abus de confiance (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | La Nation française assisteé de Mr. De la Fayette terrasse le despotisme et les abus du regne feodal qui terrassaient le peuple. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 |
abus | 52 |
abus lock | 20 |
abus sexuel | 9 |
abus confiance de | 6 |
abus informatiques | 6 |
abus padlocks | 4 |
abus movie | 3 |
russound abus | 3 |
abus crane system | 3 |
abus bang | 3 |
abus crane | 3 |
abus bicycle lock | 3 |
abus adult movie | 2 |
abus consequence sexe | 2 |
abus audio | 2 |
abus homme sexuel | 2 |
abus lås | 2 |
abus child | 2 |
abus padlock | 2 |
abus et loi sexuel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ABUS": abusable, abuse, abused, abuser, abusers, abuses, abusing, abusive, abusively, abusiveness, abusivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ABUS": babus, habus, syllabus, tabus. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ABUS": babushka, babushkas, disabuse, disabused, disabuses, disabusing, syllabuses, unabused. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: suba. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-s-u" | |
-1 letter: abs, bas, bus, sab, sau, sub. | |
-2 letters: ab, as, ba, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-s-u" | |
+1 letter: abuse, abuts, babus, bauds, beaus, buras, bursa, daubs, habus, jubas, scuba, squab, subah, subas, tabus, tsuba, tubas. | |
+2 letters: abacus, ablush, absurd, abused, abuser, abuses, airbus, albums, ambush, ausubo, babuls, basque, baulks, bayous, beauts, bubals, bugsha, bunyas, buqsha, burans, bursae, bursal, bursar, bursas, busbar, bushwa, busman, daubes, iambus, nubias, rumbas, sacbut, sagbut, sambur, scubas, squabs, suable, suably, subahs, subpar, subsea, subway, tabuns, umbras, unbans, unbars, urbias, usable, usably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 42 55 53 |
| 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)01000001 01000010 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0042 0055 0053 |
| 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)35365553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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