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Definition: Aqaba |
AqabaNoun1. Jordan's port; located in southwestern Jordan on the Gulf of Aqaba. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AqabaSynonym: Akaba (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Taba-Eilat-Aqaba Macro Area (sports & leisure). |
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Crosswords: Aqaba |
| English words defined with "Aqaba": Akaba ♦ Gulf of Aqaba. (references) |
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Screenplays | Auda will not come to Aqaba. Not for money (Lawrence of Arabia; writing credit: T.E. Lawrence; Robert Bolt) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sinai Desert shoreline on the Gulf of Aqaba. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | A crusader's outpost in the Northern Gulf of Aqaba south of Taba, Egypt. Credit: Small World. |  | The value of coral reefs is understood in Aqaba, Jordan. Credit: Small World. |
 | The international tourist beach at Aqaba, Jordan. Credit: Small World. |  | Resort hotel at Taba, Egypt in the northern Gulf of Aqaba. Credit: Small World. |
 | Native "commercial" fishermen fishing for tuna off the phosphate loading docks at Aqaba. Credit: Small World. | ||
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Business | Thus far, five airports are slated to be operated through the BOT system, and agreements have been signed for the construction of Marsa Alam, Al Alamein, Al Farafra, Al Wahat Al Bahariya, and Ras Sudr. Another BOT tender for Al Sokhna airport is expected in the near future, and a tender for Dahb airport on the Gulf of Aqaba will be reissued. (references) | |
Economic History | Jordan | Modern cargo-handling facilities exist at the port of Aqaba. (references) |
Jordan | Recently, OPIC offered financing to the project company in support of the Aqaba Railway Privatization. (references) | |
Jordan | The SEZ is administered by the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, led by an autonomous group of six Ministerial-level Commissioners. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jordan | In November 2000, the Commission sponsored two human rights awareness seminars with police and judicial officials in Amman and Aqaba. (references) |
Political Economy | JORDAN | Jordan is also developing the port of Aqaba as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), with low taxes, minimal bureaucracy, and investor-friendly policies. (references) |
Trade | Jordan | Transit goods entering the Kingdom may be stored in warehouses at the port of Aqaba for up to one month, after which goods must be moved to a free zone area. (references) |
Women | Jordan | However, one southern tribe of Egyptian origin in the small village of Rahmah near Aqaba reportedly practices FGM. One local Mufti issued a fatwa stating that FGM "safeguards women's chastity and protects them against malignant diseases by preventing fat excretions." However, the Mufti also stated that as FGM is not a requirement of Islam, women who do not undergo this procedure should not be embarrassed. (references) |
Worker Rights | Jordan | The national labor laws apply in the free trade zones in Aqaba and Zarqa. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aqaba" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aqaba" is used about 16 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) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Aqaba": gulf of Aqaba. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
aqaba | 121 |
aqaba hotel | 23 |
aqaba jordan | 23 |
aqaba gulf | 22 |
aqaba summit | 12 |
aqaba gulf map | 8 |
aqaba map | 5 |
aqaba picture | 4 |
aqaba jordan map | 3 |
aqaba main port | 3 |
aqaba jordan hotel | 2 |
aqaba crystal hotel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-q" | |
-2 letters: aba, baa. | |
-3 letters: aa, ab, ba. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 71 61 62 61 |
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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).- --.- .- -... .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110001 01100001 01100010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A q a b a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0071 0061 0062 0061 |
| 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)3583676867 |
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