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Definition: ALCO |
ALCONoun1. A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines. |
| 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 |
ALCO | English | American Locomotive Company | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alco Down Under (1972) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A.F. Jorss Iron Works Inc. Entrance doors to Alco (Aluminum Company of America) offices.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "ALCO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ALCO" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Greece | Alco Hellas SA | Hong Kong | Alco Holdings Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Alco, AR |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ALCO": Rimer-alco. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
alco | 302 | alco sport | 5 |
alco control | 36 | alco manufacturing | 5 |
alco industry | 30 | alco product | 4 |
duckwall alco | 21 | alco refrigeration | 4 |
alco store | 21 | alco lighting | 4 |
alco sensor | 20 | alco sales | 4 |
alco switch | 18 | alco realty | 3 |
alco valve | 16 | 3334 alco | 3 |
alco discount store | 12 | alco iv sensor | 3 |
alco inc industry | 11 | alco engine | 3 |
alco parking | 11 | alco key switch | 3 |
alco locomotive | 11 | 1 alco rs | 3 |
alco ar | 10 | alco management | 3 |
alco electronics | 9 | alco sales service | 3 |
alco chemical | 8 | alco duckwalls | 3 |
alco expansion valve | 8 | alco lite | 3 |
alco pa | 7 | alco wheels | 3 |
alco department store | 6 | alco screen | 3 |
duckwall alco store | 6 | alco credit union | 3 |
alco cadillac | 6 | alco properties | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ALCO": alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholically, alcoholics, alcoholism, alcoholisms, alcohols, alcove, alcoved, alcoves. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ALCO": antialcohol, antialcoholism, antialcoholisms, balconied, balconies, balcony, chalcocite, chalcocites, chalcogen, chalcogenide, chalcogenides, chalcogens, chalcopyrite, chalcopyrites, decalcomania, decalcomanias, falcon, falconer, falconers, falconet, falconets, falconine, falconries, falconry, falcons, gerfalcon, gerfalcons, gyrfalcon, gyrfalcons, malcontent, malcontented, malcontentedly, malcontentedness, malcontentednesses, malcontents, nonalcoholic, nonalcoholics, polyalcohol, polyalcohols, talcose, talcous. (additional references) | |
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"ALCO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acla, Aclu, Aico, Alacio, Alca, Alcar, Alceu, alcon, Alcoy, Alecko, Alho, Alko, Alkon, Allc, aloc, aluco, Amlcd, Avco, Eelco, Elco, Falcao, Halcro, Ilko, Lacco, Laco, Lecco. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ALCO" (pronounced 'Al"co'): Alfresco, Bajocco, Banco, Barocco, Bejuco, Bronco, Calamanco, Catafalco, Chebacco, Chico, Cisco, draco, fiasco, Fico, Goracco, Guaco, guanaco, Hocco, junco, Macaco, Macauco, Macco, Mameluco, Matico, Maucaco, Melluco, Mico, Moco, Morocco, Nero-antico, Poco, Puerco, Ronco, Saltimbanco, Secco, Squacco, Tabacco, Tasco, Tedesco, tobacco, Toco, Troco, Ulluco, Zacco. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: calo, coal, cola, loca. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-o" | |
-1 letter: col, lac, oca. | |
-2 letters: al, la, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-o" | |
+1 letter: acold, calos, carol, claro, cloak, coala, coals, coaly, colas, colza, comal, copal, coral, coxal, focal, loach, local, octal, vocal. | |
+2 letters: alcove, alnico, cajole, calico, callow, calory, canola, caroli, carols, catalo, chalot, cholla, choral, citola, clamor, claros, claxon, cloaca, cloaks, clonal, coalas, coaled, coaler, coaxal, cobalt, coccal, coeval, coital, colead, collar, colzas, copalm, copals, copula, corals, corral, costal, cupola, falcon, flacon, locale, locals, locate, lochan, lochia, lorica, ocular, oilcan, oracle, oscula, oxalic, recoal, social, solace, vocals. | |
| 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)41 4C 43 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)01000001 01001100 01000011 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L C O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 0043 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)35463749 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Cities 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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