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Date "CERRO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A term used in the Southwestern United States for a hill, esp. a craggy orrocky eminence of moderate height. Etymol: Spanish. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CERRO |
| Non-English Usage: "CERRO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (height, hill, mountain, mt). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Cerro de oro (1973) Pictografías del Cerro Colorado (1965) Botadura del Cerro Pelado (1965) Cerro Paine - vittoria italiana (1961) El Cerro de los locos (1960) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cerro Sombrero, Chile. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |  | Cerro Beach. Credit: Small World. |
 | Footsteps and crab burrows at Cerro Beach. Credit: Small World. |  | Arlene Tugl, NRCS, Soil Scientist checking for hydrophobic soils in the Santa Fe NF, NM, after the Cerro Grande Fire. Credit: USDA. |
 | Ken Scheffey, NRCS, Soil Scientist checks for hydrophobic soils in the Santa Fe NF, NM afterthe Cerro Grande Fire. Credit: USDA. |  | Bags of grass seed created specifically for the burned area of the Cerro Grande Fire, Santa Fe NF, NM. Credit: USDA. |
 | Many neighborhoods in Los Alamos, NM were devastated by the Cerro Grande Fire. Credit: USDA. |  | Cerro Grande Fire, Santa Fe NF, Los Alamos, NM. The exfoliated rock is an indication of the temperatures of the fire. Credit: USDA. |
 | Santa Fe, NF, NM after the Cerro Grande Fire. Credit: USDA. |  | A panoramic vista marred by smoke from the Cerro Grande Fire in the Santa Fe NF, NM. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Cerro de la silla" by Rene Martinez Commentary: "Cerro de la Silla." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Business | Mincorp, Perez Companc, and Fomicruz own Cerro Vanguardia. (references) | |
Cerro Vanguardia, a gold/silver operation in Santa Cruz that came into operation in 1998, also contributed significantly to the increase in demand. (references) | ||
More than USD 2 billion will be invested in the development of the refining complexes of the ongoing "strategic alliances" (Hamaca, Sincor, Cerro Negro and Petrozuata). (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Fines are $38.50 (1,000 pesos) for those who reside illegally in the neighborhoods of Old Havana and Cerro. (references) |
Economic History | Panama | Terrain: Mountainous (highest elevation Cerro Volcan, 3,475 m.--11,468 ft.); coastline 2,857 km. (1,786 mi.). (references) |
Bolivia | Bolivian silver mines produced much of the Spanish empire's wealth, and Potosi, site of the famed Cerro Rico--"Rich Mountain"--was, for many years, the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. (references) | |
Human Rights | Argentina | In April Federal Judge Gabriel Cavallo charged former police agent Julio Simon with the torture and kidnaping of Jose Poblete and Gertrudis Hlaczik, who disappeared after being detained in 1978. Simon was put under house arrest; the case against Simon and his partner Juan Antonio del Cerro continued at year's end. (references) |
Travel | Ecuador | In Guayaquil, extra caution should be taken in the downtown area, on the waterfront (El Malecon), in the street market area of La Bahia, at the Christ Statue (Sagrado Corazon de Jesus) on Cerro del Carmen, in the airport area, and in the southern part of the city. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CERRO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CERRO" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CERRO": Cerro Gordo ♦ Cerro Gordo County. 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. |
Misspellings | |
"CERRO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acerero, Acerra, Carroz, Ceirog, Cepror, Cerdo, Cerj, cerr, Cerrej, Certo, Cetraro, cirro, Corro, Crer, Crerar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corer, crore. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: cero, core. | |
-2 letters: cor, err, orc, ore, rec, roc, roe. | |
-3 letters: er, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: corder, corers, corker, corner, corrie, crores, crower, crozer, forcer, grocer, orrice, record, recork, rector, rocker, scorer. | |
+2 letters: bracero, caroler, cirrose, coarser, coercer, coherer, colorer, corders, corkers, corkier, corners, cornier, coroner, corrade, correct, corries, corrode, coruler, courier, courser, courter, coverer, creator, croaker, crofter, crooner, cropper, crosier, crosser, crowder, crowers, crowner, crozers, crozier, erector, forcers, grocers, grocery, orrices, porrect, prerock, procure, reactor, recolor, records, recorks, recover, recross, recrown, rectors, rectory, reoccur, rescore, rockers, rockery, rockier, scorers, scorner, scourer, sorcery. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 45 52 52 4F |
| 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)01000011 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C E R R O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0045 0052 0052 004F |
| 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)3739525249 |
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