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Date "AST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
"AST" is a common misspelling or typo for: act, aft, ant, apt, art, as, at, cast, sat. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | AST |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AST."
| 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 |
AST | English | Airbus Super Transporter | N/A |
AST | French | Activités scientifiques et techniques | N/A |
AST | German | Antistreptolysin-Test | Medicine |
AST | Greek | δένδρο αφηρημένης σύνταξης | Computing |
AST | Italian | Aspartatoaminotransferasi | N/A |
AST | Latin | RM:Associaziun Svizra da Tennis;Swiss Tennis | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: AST |
| Specialty definitions using "AST": abstract syntax tree, ARI Service, AST Computers, LLC, AST Research, Inc. ♦ Expanded Memory Specification ♦ Trackpoint. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "AST" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (arm, back, bough, branch, knot, limb), Latin (Swiss Tennis Association;Swiss Tennis), Turkish (bye, inferior, junior, sub-, subaltern, subordinate, underling, understrapper), Turkmen (below, bottom). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Khaneh siah ast (1963) Leily Ba Man Ast (1996) | |
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| Domain | Title |
References | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, Commander Task Force 17, alongside USS Astoria (CA-34) in the cruiser's Number Two Motor Whaleboat, at about 1300 hrs, 4 June 1942. Fletcher was transferring his flag from the bombed and immobilized USS Yorktown (CV-5). Captain Spencer S. Lewis, CTF-17 Chief of Staff, is just starting up the ladder to board Astoria. Fletcher is behind him, just to the right of the boat's centerline, wearing binoculars with white straps. Commander Chauncey Crutcher, Astoria's Executive Officer, is watching in the upper left. Note letters "AST" on the boat's bow. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ast him that. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | There are more than 30 brands of personal computers available in the Saudi market including: IBM, HP, Digital, AST, Acer, Mitac, Siemens Nixdorf, Gateway 2000, Compaq, Dell, Apple, Twinhead, Leo, among others. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AST" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 43.42% of the time. "AST" is used about 76 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) | 43.42% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.68% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (singular) | 19.74% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (common) | 11.84% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AST" 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 |
| Ast | Last name | 200 | 38,655 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | AST Promotion | South Africa | AST Group Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ast | 593 | alt ast elevated | 8 |
ast computer | 76 | ast plan stock | 7 |
ast ss.com | 71 | ast supplement | 7 |
ast ss | 48 | ast ascentia | 7 |
ast sports science | 33 | ast monitor | 7 |
ast sgot | 28 | ast elevated | 6 |
ast sports | 23 | ast bios | 6 |
ast research | 23 | ast advantage | 6 |
alt ast | 17 | ast bravo | 6 |
ast copper | 14 | ast ascentia m series | 6 |
apbt ast blue roadhouse | 13 | ast product | 6 |
ast blood test | 11 | ast stock | 6 |
ast sport science | 10 | ast level | 5 |
ast bearing | 10 | ast ascentia p series | 5 |
ast laptop | 9 | ast ascentia a series | 5 |
ast design installation | 9 | ast vision | 5 |
ast driver monitor | 9 | alt ast liver | 5 |
ast speaker | 8 | ast research inc | 4 |
1500 ast x2 | 8 | ast nutrition | 4 |
liver ast | 8 | ast got | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "AST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Czech | Atlantický Standardní Èas. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | astay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AST": astarboard, astasia, astasias, astatic, astatine, astatines, aster, asteria, asterias, asteriated, asterisk, asterisked, asterisking, asteriskless, asterisks, asterism, asterisms, astern, asternal, asteroid, asteroidal, asteroids, asters, asthenia, asthenias, asthenic, asthenics, asthenies, asthenosphere, asthenospheres, asthenospheric, astheny, asthma, asthmas, asthmatic, asthmatically, asthmatics, astigmatic, astigmatics, astigmatism, astigmatisms, astigmia, astigmias, astilbe, astilbes, astir, astomous, astonied, astonies, astonish, astonished. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "AST": abreast, aghast, ameloblast, amyloplast, antepast, avast, backcast, ballast, bast, beast, bedfast, blast, blepharoplast, boast, bombast, breakfast, breast, broadcast, bypast, cast, chiliast, chloroplast, chromoplast, cineast, clast, coast, colorfast, contrast, counterblast, demast, dicast, dismast, downcast, durmast, dynast, east, ecdysiast, encomiast, endocast, enthusiast, epiblast, erythroblast, fantast, fast, feast, fibroblast, flabbergast, flypast, forecast, foremast, forepast. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AST": achondroplastic, aeroelastic, aeroelasticities, aeroelasticity, aftertaste, aftertastes, alabaster, alabasters, alabastrine, alastor, alastors, ameloblasts, amyloplasts, anaplastic, anastigmat, anastigmatic, anastigmats, anastomose, anastomosed, anastomoses, anastomosing, anastomosis, anastomotic, anastrophe, anastrophes, anelastic, anelasticities, anelasticity, angioplasties, angioplasty, antepasts, antiasthma, antineoplastic, antipasti, antipasto, antipastos, aplastic, archaeoastronomies, archaeoastronomy, backcasts, ballasted, ballasting, ballasts, bandmaster, bandmasters, bastard, bastardies, bastardise, bastardised, bastardises, bastardising. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sat, tas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-s-t" | |
-1 letter: as, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-s-t" | |
+1 letter: acts, aits, alts, ants, arts, ates, bast, bats, cast, cats, east, eats, etas, fast, fats, gast, gats, hast, hats, kats, last, lats, mast, mats, oast, oats, past, pats, qats, rats, salt, sate, sati, scat, seat, seta, shat, skat, slat, spat, stab, stag, star, stat, staw, stay, stoa, swat, tabs, tads, tags, tams, tans, taos, taps, tars, task, tass, tats, taus, tavs, taws, teas, tsar, twas, utas, vast, vats, wast, wats. | |
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