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AK

Definition: AK

AK

Noun

1. A state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union; "Alaska is the largest state in the United States".

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

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

"AK" is a common misspelling or typo for: a, ace, act, am, ark, ask, auk.

 

Specialty Definitions: AK

DomainDefinitions

Health

Enzyme of the biosynthetic pathway. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: AK

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

AK

EnglishAbove kneeN/A

AK

GermanAntikörperN/A

AK

SpanishQueratotomía astigmáticaMedicine
P 18 AKGermanP 18 AntikörperMedicine

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

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Synonyms: AK

Synonyms: Alaska (n), Last Frontier (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: AK

Specialty definitions using "AK": gravel plain placerruby sand. (references)
Non-English Usage: "AK" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Haitian Creole (and, of, with), Turkish (clean, Hoar, leuco-, white), Turkmen (white), Wolof (and, with).

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Modern Usage: AK

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Seongwa ak (1965)

Ak altin (1957)

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

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Commercial Usage: AK

DomainTitle

References

  • AK Steel Holding Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • AK (Laurel-Leaf Books) (reference)

  • AK STEEL HOLDING CORP.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for AK Steel Holding Corp. - AKS [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Mon Nle et Moi/Zile M Ak Mwen: La nature de Haoti/Nati Ayiti A (reference)

  • To the Summit (Max North's Ak Comics: No. 2) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Photo Album: AK

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Hubbard Glacier, AK.Credit: NASA.

Alaska landowner and District Conservationist Phil Naegele discuss weed control and irrigation on a sustainable agriculture system of lingenberries near Palmer, AK. Landowners uses waste from a local fish cannery as fertilizer. Also uses drip irrigation.Credit: Ron Nichols.

Crystal Poindexter and Mike Gracz identify plant species for an inventory on Native Alaska lands near Homer, AK. [Slide 97CS2946].Credit: Ron Nichols.

Mark Kinney and Conrad Field constructing soil profile on Alaska Native lands near Homer, AK. [Slide 97CS3174].Credit: Ron Nichols.

Scott Stewart and Mike Gracz inventory plant and soils on Alaska Native lands near Homer, AK. [Slide 97CS3173].Credit: Ron Nichols.

Phil Naegele and Lori Richter discuss engineering plans to protect a stream near Wasilla, AK. [Slide 97CS3172.Credit: Ron Nichols.

Joanne Kuykendall and Kristine Harper test soil moisture near Palmer, AK. [Slide 97CS3170].Credit: Ron Nichols.

Crystal Poindexter and Mike Gracz identify plant species for an inventory on Native Alaska lands near Homer, AK.Credit: USDA.

Joanne Kuykendall and Kristine Harper test soil moisture near Palmer, AK.Credit: USDA.

Kristine Harper surveys pond site near Palmer, AK.Credit: USDA.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: AK

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Kreuter AK, Del Bene VE, Amstey MS. Giardiasis in pregnancy. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: AK

"AK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "AK" is used about 12 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)66.67%8124,375
Noun (singular)16.67%2245,945
Noun (common)16.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%12N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: AK

CountryName
USA

AK Steel Holding Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: AK

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "AK": ak-ak-ak, Ak-Chin Village, AK-Dex, AK-Spore, ak-wat-ica, ak-wa-ti-ka.

Ending with "AK": ak-ak-ak.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AK

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

juneau ak

2,061

afb ak eielson fairbanks

86

ketchikan ak

984

wrangell ak

84

ak

373

eagle river ak

83

homer ak

300

king salmon ak

79

kodiak ak

266

yakutat ak

79

denali natl park ak

255

47.net ak

78

afb ak anchorage elmendorf

247

whittier ak

75

kenai ak

227

kotzebue ak

73

valdez ak

208

deadhorse ak

67

wasilla ak

179

dutch harbor ak

62

ak steel

177

ak bank

62

talkeetna ak

136

willow ak

54

haines ak

126

elmendorf afb ak

54

ak anchorage base hood lake seaplane

122

glennallen ak

53

point lay ak

121

fort wainwright ak

53

prudhoe bay ak

115

hot springs ak

51

arctic village ak

105

eielson afb ak

51

ak anchorage field merrill

98

adak ak island

50

ak 74

97

girdwood ak

47

adak ak

86

auke bay ak

46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: AK

Derivations

Words beginning with "AK": akee, akees, akela, akelas, akene, akenes, akimbo, akin, akvavit, akvavits. (additional references)

Words ending with "AK": anorak, antileak, apeak, arak, beak, becloak, beefsteak, bespeak, bleak, break, champak, cloak, creak, croak, dak, daybreak, debeak, dhak, doublespeak, ecofreak, electroweak, firebreak, flak, forepeak, forespeak, freak, galyak, grosbeak, hairstreak, halfbeak, halterbreak, heartbreak, housebreak, jailbreak, kaiak, kalpak, kayak, kulak, kyak, leak, misspeak, muntjak, newsbreak, newspeak, nonpeak, nunatak, oak, oomiak, outbreak, outspeak, oversoak. (additional references)

Words containing "AK": abaka, abakas, aerobrake, aerobraked, aerobrakes, aerobraking, alfaki, alfakis, angakok, angakoks, anoraks, anticaking, antitakeover, araks, astrakhan, astrakhans, automaker, automakers, awake, awaked, awaken, awakened, awakener, awakeners, awakening, awakens, awakes, awaking, backbreaker, backbreakers, backbreaking, bake, baked, bakemeat, bakemeats, baker, bakeries, bakers, bakery, bakes, bakeshop, bakeshops, baking, bakings, baklava, baklavas, baklawa, baklawas, baksheesh, baksheeshes, bakshish. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: AK

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ka.

 Words containing the letters "a-k"
 

+1 letter: ark, ask, auk, dak, kab, kae, kaf, kas, kat, kay, kea, koa, oak, oka, ska, yak.

 

+2 letters: akee, akin, alky, amok, ankh, arak, arks, asks, auks, back, bake, balk, bank, bark, bask, beak, cake, caky, calk, cark, cask, daks, dank, dark, dawk, dhak, fake, flak, gawk, hack, haik, hake, hank, hark, hawk, ikat, ilka, jack, jake, jauk, kaas, kabs, kadi, kaes, kafs, kagu, kaif, kail, kain, kaka, kaki, kale, kame, kami, kana, kane, kaon, kapa, kaph, karn, kart, kata, kats, kava, kayo, kays, kbar, keas, khaf, khan, khat, kina, kiva, knap, knar, koan, koas, kola, kuna, kvas, kyak, kyar, kyat, lack, lake, lakh, laky, lank, lark, leak, mack, make, mako, mark, mask, nark, oaks, okas, okay, okra, pack, paik, park, peak, pika, rack, rake, raki, rank, sack, sake, saki, sank, sark, skag, skas, skat, skua, soak, tack, taka, take, talk, tank, task, teak, wack, wake, walk, wark, wauk, weak, weka, yack, yaks, yank.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AK


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

41 4B

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

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

=

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)

01000001 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004B

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

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

3545

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INDEX

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


  

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