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| 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 |
CTA | English | Cystine-trypticase semisolid agar | N/A |
CTA | Portuguese | Concentrado tipo alcoólico | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CTA |
| Specialty definitions using "CTA": Conservation Technical Assistance. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Cta train" by Conrad C. Commentary: "Cta train on the station." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "CTA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CTA" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| France | CTA Holding |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "CTA": rea-cta-nts. | |
| 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 |
chicago cta | 563 |
acoustic cta | 19 |
blue cta line | 15 |
cta line red | 12 |
cta metra | 6 |
cta rta | 6 |
cta rosemont station | 3 |
cta green line | 2 |
blue chicago cta line | 2 |
cta news.bbc.co.uk newsnight olmedia palast.ram progs | 2 |
505 copland cta | 2 |
copland cta | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CTA": acta, analecta, dejecta, dicta, ejecta, exacta, perfecta, recta, sancta, tecta, trifecta. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CTA": abstractable, actabilities, actability, actable, affectabilities, affectability, affectable, affectation, affectations, arctangent, arctangents, atelectases, atelectasis, attractance, attractances, attractancies, attractancy, attractant, attractants, bespectacled, bidialectal, bidialectalism, bidialectalisms, bronchiectases, bronchiectasis, caprolactam, caprolactams, coarctation, coarctations, collectable, collectables, collectanea, colorectal, conductance, conductances, connectable, contradictable, contraoctave, contraoctaves, correctable, cosurfactant, cosurfactants, cryoprotectant, cryoprotectants, cunctation, cunctations, cunctative, deflectable, delectabilities, delectability, delectable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: act, cat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-t" | |
-1 letter: at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-t" | |
+1 letter: acta, acts, cant, cart, cast, cate, cats, chat, coat, fact, pact, scat, tace, tach, tack, taco, tact, talc. | |
+2 letters: aceta, acted, actin, actor, acute, aitch, antic, ascot, attic, batch, bract, cacti, cadet, canst, canto, cants, canty, caput, carat, caret, carte, carts, caste, casts, catch, cater, cates, catty, cesta, chant, chapt, chart, chats, cheat, clapt, clast, cleat, coact, coapt, coast, coati, coats, costa, cotan, cotta, craft, crate, dicta, ducat, eclat, enact, epact, exact, facet, facts, hatch, latch, match, natch, octad, octal, octan, pacts, patch, ratch, react, recta, scant, scart, scats, scatt, scuta, stack, taces, tacet, tache, tachs, tacit, tacks, tacky, tacos, tacts, talcs, taroc, teach, tecta, thack, theca, tical, trace, track, tract, triac, vatic, watch, yacht. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 54 41 |
| 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 01010100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C T A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0054 0041 |
| 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)375435 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Digital Art | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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