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Definition: Arca |
ArcaNoun1. Type genus of the family Arcidae: ark shells and blood clams. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Arca" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"Arca" is a common misspelling or typo for: Acre, Arc, Arch, Arcs, Area, Areca, Aria. |
| 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 |
ARCA | English | Access to Remote CAtalogues by implementing SR-target functions | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ArcaSynonym: genus Arca (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Arca |
| English words defined with "Arca": Blood clam ♦ genus Arca ♦ Noah's ark. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Arca": Arcanum, Ark. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Arca" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (image, statue), Italian (ark), Latin (ark, Ark of the Covenant, bier, box, bushes, cage, cell, chest, coffer, coffin, large box, money, quadrangular landmark for surveyors, shrubs, strong-box, trees, wealth), Malay (statue), Portuguese (ark, ash bin, bin, box, chest, coffer, hutch, trunk), Spanish (ark, bin, box, chest). |
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Movie/TV Titles | El Arca varada (1943) O Trapalhão na Arca de Noé (1983) | |
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Worker Rights | Cape Verde | However, in July and August 1999, the workers of the shipping company Arca Verde made two attempts to strike. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Arca" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Arca" 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Arca" 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 |
| Arca | Last name | 200 | 36,379 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Arca": Arca Noae ♦ genus Arca. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Arca"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 蚶 (arca inflata, small clam). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | arcaay | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Exelqe ek thV kibwtou su kai h gunh sou kai oi uioi sou kai ai gunaikeV twn uiwn sou meta sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Egredere de arca tu et uxor tua filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | God ða spræc to Noe, ðus cweðende, "Gang ut of ðam arce, ðu ond þin wif ond ðine suna ond heora wif. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Seiynge, Go out of the arke, thow, and thi wijf, thi children, and the wyues of thi children with thee; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Come out of the arcke both thou and thy wyfe ad thy sonnes and thy sonnes wyues with the. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Kumawas ka sa arca, ikaw, ug ang imong asawa, ug ang imong mga anak nga lalake, ug ang mga asawa sa imong mga anak nga kuyog kanimo. |
| Croatian | "Iziði iz korablje, ti, tvoja žena, tvoji sinovi i žene tvojih sinova s tobom. |
| Danish | "Gå ud af Arken med din Hustru, dine Sønner og dine Sønnekoner |
| Dutch | Ga uit de ark, gij, en uw huisvrouw, en uw zonen, en de vrouwen uwer zonen met u. |
| Finnish | "Lähde arkista, sinä ja vaimosi, poikasi ja miniäsi sinun kanssasi. |
| French | Sors de l`arche, toi et ta femme, tes fils et les femmes de tes fils avec toi. |
| German | Gehe aus dem Kasten, du und dein Weib, deine Söhne und deiner Söhne Weiber mit dir. |
| Haitian Creole | -Soti nan batiman an, ou menm, madanm ou, pitit ou yo ansanm ak madanm pitit ou yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Keluarlah dari kapal itu bersama-sama dengan istrimu, anak-anakmu dan istri-istri mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Keluarlah dari dalam bahtera itu, baik engkau baik anak binimu, dan bini anak-anakmu itu sertamu, |
| Italian | «Esci dall'arca tu e tua moglie, i tuoi figli e le mogli dei tuoi figli con te. |
| Maori | Puta mai koe i te aaka, koutou tahi ko tau wahine, ko au tama, me nga wahine a au tama. |
| Norwegian | Gå ut av arken, du og din hustru og dine sønner og dine sønners hustruer med dig. |
| Portuguese | Sai da arca, tu, e juntamente contigo tua mulher, teus filhos e as mulheres de teus filhos. |
| Rumanian | ,,Iewi din corabie, tu wi nevastq-ta, fiii tqi wi nevestele fiilor tqi cu tine! |
| Russian | ЧЩК"Й ЙЪ ЛПЧЮЕЗБ ФЩ Й ЦЕОБ ФЧПС, Й УЩОПЧШС ФЧПЙ, Й ЦЕОЩ УЩОПЧ ФЧПЙИ У ФП'ПА; |
| Spanish | "Sal del arca tú, tu mujer, tus hijos y las mujeres de tus hijos contigo. |
| Swedish | "Gå ut ur arken med din hustru och dina söner och dina söners hustrur. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Arca": arcade, arcaded, arcades, arcadia, arcadian, arcadians, arcadias, arcading, arcadings, arcana, arcane, arcanum, arcanums, arcature, arcatures. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Arca": anasarca. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Arca": anasarcas, barcarole, barcaroles, barcarolle, barcarolles, bearcat, bearcats, carcajou, carcajous, carcanet, carcanets, carcase, carcases, carcass, carcasses, demarcate, demarcated, demarcates, demarcating, demarcation, demarcations, embarcadero, embarcaderos, gearcase, gearcases, marcasite, marcasites, marcato, sarcasm, sarcasms, sarcastic, sarcastically, smearcase, smearcases, sugarcane, sugarcanes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-r" | |
-1 letter: arc, car. | |
-2 letters: aa, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-r" | |
+1 letter: acari, areca, carat, craal, sacra. | |
+2 letters: acarid, acarus, acinar, agaric, amtrac, anarch, arabic, arcade, arcana, arcane, arecas, arnica, arrack, caesar, calcar, camera, canard, canary, carack, carafe, carate, carats, cardia, carina, carman, carnal, carpal, caviar, chadar, chakra, charas, charka, craals, crania, cravat, curara, fracas, lascar, maraca, picara, racial, rascal, sacral, scalar, scarab, tarmac. | |
| 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 72 63 61 |
| 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 01110010 01100011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r c a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0063 0061 |
| 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)35846967 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Bible Trace | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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