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In Polynesian mythology (Tahiti), Rua is the god of artisans. Rua the Hun was the uncle of Bleda and Attila.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rua."
| 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 |
RUA | English | Resource-use analysis | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: RUA |
| Non-English Usage: "RUA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Irish (red), Maori (two), Portuguese (avenue, road, seafront, street, way), Portuguese Brazilian (street), Sepedi (to earn), Spanish (road, street). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Rua died without issue (Attila; writing credit: Robert Cochran) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rua Descalça (1971) O Puritano da Rua Augusta (1965) Rua Sem Sol (1954) Cantiga da Rua (1950) A Aldeia dos Rapazes da Rua (1947) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Ships moored in the Anacostia River off the Yard's waterfront, after the end of the Civil War, about 1865. The large twin-turret monitor in the center is Miantonomoh, with the smaller monitor Montauk tied up alongside her, to the left. In the left distance are the "light draft" monitor Chimo and the twin-turret monitor Tonawanda. The former Confederate ironclad Stonewall is beyond them. In the right distance is the Yard's western shiphouse. Ship at right is probably USS Resaca. The original print is mounted on a carte de visite produced by Christimo, 45 Rua de Quitanda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Fado in lisboa" by Sandro Petri Commentary: "Fado vadio in rua garret, chado, lisboa." | "Lisbon" by Luis Alves Commentary: "Rua Augusta (Augusta street) in Lisbon - Portugal." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In December 1999, the new Administration led by President Fernando de la Rua, named Dr. Henoch D. Aguiar as Secretary of Communications. (references) | |
The future course of government regulations cannot be predicted with a satisfactory degree of accuracy at this moment because the administration of President Fernando de la Rua assumed office only six months ago, in December 1999, and the economy is just emerging from a recession. (references) | ||
Economic History | Angola | The U.S. embassy is located at Luanda (E), Rua Houari Boumedienne No. 32, Miramar, Luanda, Angola. (references) |
Mozambique | USAID Mission--107 Rua Faria de Sousa; Tel: (258-1) 49-07-26, after hours (258-1) 49-16-77; Fax: (258-1) 49-20-98. (references) | |
Argentina | Argentina's current President, Fernando de la Rua, has continued the economic and foreign policy strategies begun by Menem. (references) | |
Minorities | Argentina | In 2000 President de la Rua committed the Government to implementing a Holocaust Education Project to be carried out under the auspices of the International Holocaust Education Task Force. (references) |
Political Economy | Argentina | Under President De la Rua, the highly favorable investment climate continues for U.S. firms, however there are occasional inconsistencies associated with governmental and judicial actions. (references) |
Argentina | The first months of the de la Rua administration were marked by efforts to control government spending and increase revenues in the light of a much higher than anticipated federal budget deficit. (references) | |
Political Rights | Argentina | In 1999 voters elected Fernando de la Rua, leader of the "Alianza" coalition of opposition parties, as president. (references) |
Argentina | In 1999 President de la Rua requested and received congressional permission to suspend all three branches of the Corrientes provincial government and take direct federal control of the province. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RUA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "RUA" is used about 33 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) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "RUA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rua | Last name | 170 | 49,695 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "RUA": C rua ♦ Cassis rua. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "RUA": Wainui-a-rua. | |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RUA": ruana, ruanas. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "RUA": menstrua. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RUA": accruable, accrual, accruals, construable, estrual, intermenstrual, menstrual, menstruate, menstruated, menstruates, menstruating, menstruation, menstruations, nonaccrual, premenstrual, premenstrually, truancies, truancy, truant, truanted, truanting, truantries, truantry, truants. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-u" | |
-1 letter: ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-u" | |
+1 letter: arum, aura, bura, dura, gaur, guar, jura, mura, prau, ruga, sura, urea, ursa, waur. | |
+2 letters: amour, arcus, argue, argus, arums, auger, augur, aurae, aural, aurar, auras, aurei, aures, auric, auris, aurum, azure, buran, buras, bursa, crura, curia, doura, dural, duras, durra, feuar, fraud, furan, gaurs, guard, guars, gular, jural, jurat, kauri, kaury, knaur, kraut, kurta, larum, laura, lunar, mudra, mural, muras, murra, pareu, prahu, praus, pruta, purda, quare, quark, quart, ramus, ruana, rugae, rugal, rumba, rural, saury, scaur, sugar, supra, surah, sural, suras, surra, sutra, ulnar, ultra, umbra, unarm, unary, unbar, uraei, urare, urari, urase, urate, urban, urbia, ureal, ureas, urial, ursae, varus, yurta. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 55 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)01010010 01010101 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R U A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0055 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)525535 |
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