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Definition: AK |
AKNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Enzyme of the biosynthetic pathway. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
AK | English | Above knee | N/A |
AK | German | Antikörper | N/A |
AK | Spanish | Queratotomía astigmática | Medicine |
| P 18 AK | German | P 18 Antikörper | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AKSynonyms: Alaska (n), Last Frontier (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: AK |
| Specialty definitions using "AK": gravel plain placer ♦ ruby 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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Movie/TV Titles | Seongwa ak (1965) Ak altin (1957) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | 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. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Kreuter AK, Del Bene VE, Amstey MS. Giardiasis in pregnancy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | AK Steel Holding Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4B |
| 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 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004B |
| 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)3545 |
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