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-OR

Definitions: -OR

-OR

1. A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er.

2. A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: -OR

DomainDefinitions

Computing

OR The Boolean function which is true if any of its arguments are true. Its truth table is: A | B | A OR B --+---+--------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | T (1996-11-04). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: -OR

English words defined with "-OR": Baroscope-ee, -our. (references)
Etymologies containing "-OR": Nominor. (references)

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Usage Frequency: -OR

"-OR" is generally used as a conjunction (coordinating) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "-OR" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Conjunction (coordinating)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: -OR

Language Translations for "-OR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

-iste. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: -OR

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: or.

 Words containing the letters "o-r"
 

+1 letter: bro, cor, dor, for, fro, gor, kor, mor, nor, oar, ora, orb, orc, ore, ors, ort, our, pro, rho, rob, roc, rod, roe, rom, rot, row, tor.

 

+2 letters: aero, arco, arvo, boar, boor, bora, bore, born, bort, brio, broo, bros, brow, cero, coir, cord, core, corf, cork, corm, corn, cors, cory, croc, crop, crow, doer, door, dore, dork, dorm, dorp, dorr, dors, dory, dour, drop, duro, ergo, eros, euro, faro, fora, forb, ford, fore, fork, form, fort, four, froe, frog, from, frow, giro, goer, gore, gorp, gory, grog, grot, grow, gyro, hero, hoar, hoer, hora, horn, hour, inro, iron, kore, kors, lord, lore, lorn, lory, lour, moor, mora, more, morn, mors, mort, noir, nori, norm, oars, odor, ogre, okra, omer, orad, oral, orbs, orby, orca, orcs, ordo, ores, orgy, orle, orra, orts, oryx, orzo, osar, ours, over, oyer, poor, pore, pork, porn, port, pour, prao, proa, prod, prof, prog, prom, prop, pros, prow, rato, redo, repo, rhos, riot, road, roam, roan, roar, robe, robs, rock, rocs, rode, rods, roes, roil, role, rolf, roll, romp, roms, rood, roof, rook, room, root, rope, ropy, rose, rosy, rota, rote, roti, rotl, roto, rots, roue, roup, rout, roux, rove, rows, ryot, soar, sora, sorb, sord, sore, sori, sorn, sort, sour, taro, thro, tiro, tora, torc, tore, tori, torn, toro, torr, tors, tort, tory, tour, trio, trod, trop, trot, trow, troy, tyro, vrow, word, wore, work, worm, worn, wort, yore, your, zero, zori.

 

+3 letters: abhor, abort, acorn, actor, adore, adorn, afore, aggro, agora, algor, amort, amour, aorta, aport, apron, arbor, ardor, argol, argon, argot, armor, aroid, aroma, arose, arrow, arson, arvos, baron, bevor, board, boars, boart, bolar, boner, boors, boral, boras, borax, bored, borer, bores, boric, borne, boron, borts, borty, bortz, bourg, bourn, bower, boxer, boyar, bravo, brios, broad, brock, broil, broke, brome, bromo, bronc, brood, brook, broom, broos, brose, brosy, broth, brown, brows, burro, carbo, cargo, carob, carol, carom, ceorl, ceros, chiro, choir, chord, chore, claro, clour, cobra, coder, coirs, color, comer, cooer, coper, copra, coral, corby, cords, cored, corer, cores, corgi, coria, corks, corky, corms, corns, cornu, corny, corps, corse, court, cover, cower, cowry, coyer, credo, croak, croci, crock, crocs, croft, crone, crony, crook, croon, crops, crore, cross, croup, crowd, crown, crows, croze, cruor, curio, decor, dobra, dobro, doers, dolor, donor, doors, doper, dorks, dorky, dorms, dormy, dorps, dorrs, dorsa, dorty, doser, doter, doura, dower, dowry, dozer, droid, droit, droll, drone, drool, droop, drops, dropt, dross, drouk, drove, drown, duroc, duros, enorm, enrol, ephor, ergot, erode, erose, error, erugo, euros, faros, favor, fetor, fiord, fjord, floor, flora, flour, fluor, foram, foray, forbs, forby, force, fordo, fords, fores, forge, forgo, forks, forky, forme, forms, forte, forth, forts, forty, forum, fours, foyer, frock, froes, frogs, frond, frons, front, frore, frosh, frost, froth, frown, frows, froze, furor, gator, genro, giron, giros, glory, goers, gofer, goner, goral, gored, gores, gorge, gorps, gorse, gorsy, gourd, grego, griot, groan, groat, grody, grogs, groin, groom, grope, gross, grosz, grots, group, grout, grove, growl, grown, grows, guiro, gyron, gyros, heron, heros, hoard, hoars, hoary, hoers, homer, honer, honor, hoper, horah, horal, horas, horde, horns, horny, horse, horst, horsy, houri, hours, hover, humor, hydro, ichor, intro, iroko, irone, irons, irony, ivory, ixora, joker, joram, jorum, jowar, juror, karoo, korai, korat, korun, krona, krone, kroon, labor, largo, lirot, lobar, loner, loper, loral, loran, lords, lores, loris, lorry, loser, lours, loury, lover, lower, macro, major, manor, mayor, metro, micro, minor, mohur, moira, moire, molar, moors, moory, moper, morae, moral, moras, moray, morel, mores, morns, moron, morph, morro, morse, morts, motor, mourn, mover, mower, mucor, mucro, narco, nerol, nitro, noirs, noria, noris, norms, north, noter, oared, oater, occur, ocher, ochre, ochry, ocker, ocrea, odder, odors, odour, offer, ofter, ogler, ogres, oiler, okras, older, omber, ombre, omers, onery, oorie, opera, orach, orals, orang, orate, orbed, orbit, orcas, orcin, order, ordos, oread, organ, orgic, oribi, oriel, orles, orlop, ormer, ornis, orpin, orris, ortho, orzos, osier, other, ottar, otter, ourie, outer, outre, ovary, overs, overt, owner, oxter, oyers, pareo, pargo, parol, parvo, payor, pedro, pirog, poker, polar, poler, poori, porch, pored, pores, porgy, porks, porky, porno, porns, porny, ports, poser, pours, power, praos, primo, prion, prior, proas, probe, prods, proem, profs, progs, prole, promo, proms, prone, prong, proof, props, prose, proso, pross, prost, prosy, proud, prove, prowl, prows, proxy, racon, radio, radon, ratio, ratos, rayon, razor, rebop, recon, recto, redon, redos, redox, reoil, repos, repot, repro, resod, resow, retro, rewon, rhino, rhomb, rigor, rioja, riots, roach, roads, roams, roans, roars, roast, robed, robes, robin, roble, robot, rocks, rocky, rodeo, roger, rogue, roils, roily, roles, rolfs, rolls, roman, romeo, romps, rondo, roods, roofs, rooks, rooky, rooms, roomy, roose, roost, roots, rooty, roped, roper, ropes, ropey, roque, rosed, roses, roset, rosin, rotas, rotch, rotes, rotis, rotls, rotor, rotos, rotte, rouen, roues, rouge, rough, round, roups, roupy, rouse, roust, route, routh, routs, roved, roven, rover, roves, rowan, rowdy, rowed, rowel, rowen, rower, rowth, royal, rumor, ryots, sapor, sarod, saros, savor, score, scorn, scour, scrod, senor, serow, servo, shoer, shore, shorl, shorn, short, snore, snort, soars, sober, sofar, solar, sonar, sopor, soras, sorbs, sords, sorel, sorer, sores, sorgo, sorns, sorry, sorts, sorus, sours, sowar, sower, spoor, spore, sport, store, stork, storm, story, stour, strop, strow, stroy, sudor, sword, swore, sworn, tabor, tardo, taroc, tarok, taros, tarot, tenor, thorn, thoro, thorp, throb, throe, throw, tiros, toker, tolar, toner, toper, torah, toras, torch, torcs, tores, toric, torii, toros, torot, torse, torsi, torsk, torso, torte, torts, torus, toter, tours, tower, toyer, trigo, triol, trios, troak, trock, trode, trois, troke, troll, tromp, trona, trone, troop, trooz, trope, troth, trots, trout, trove, trows, troys, tumor, turbo, tutor, tyros, uredo, valor, vapor, verso, vigor, vireo, visor, vizor, volar, vomer, voter, vower, vroom, vrouw, vrows, whore, whorl, whort, wooer, words, wordy, works, world, worms, wormy, worry, worse, worst, worth, worts, wrong, wrote, wroth, xerox, yores, yourn, yours, zeros, zoner, zorch, zoril, zoris.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: -OR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

2D 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

00101101 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

154952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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