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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CNN Cellular Neural Network. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
CNN | English | Composite network node | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CNN |
| Specialty definitions using "CNN": Cellular Neural Network. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CNN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Cable News Network), Portuguese (cable news network). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | CNN Saturday (1998) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Korea | CNN television broadcasts are available in a Pyongyang hotel frequented by foreigners. (references) |
Azerbaijan | ABA was the country's CNN distributor and held rebroadcasting rights for a number of Russian channels as well. (references) | |
Bhutan | A large variety of programming is available, including CNN, and BBC. The Government does not censor cable content. (references) | |
Economic History | Chile | U.S. offerings include CNN International, HBO Ole, MTV, TNT, Worldnet, ESPN, Cartoon Network and MSTV. (references) |
Switzerland | Generally, CNN International and BBC Prime are available, in English, on most cable systems in the major cities. (references) | |
Kenya | Kenya Television Network (KTN), run by the Standard Ltd., runs a 24-hour channel with considerable CNN programming. (references) | |
Travel | Belgium | CNN is also available on cable. (references) |
Mexico | CNN and other programs popular with business travelers are routinely available in hotel rooms. (references) | |
Thailand | Thailand is served by the major international cable television channels including CNN, BBC, CNBC, ABN, Star TV, HBO, etc. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Robert Novak | Twenty years is a long time for any television program, and I am grateful to CNN for permitting it to happen, particularly because this has been an old-fashioned kind of program. |
Sarah Ferguson | I was watching and saw CNN film Little Red. I went, That's Little Red. I can't believe she survived. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CNN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.52% of the time. "CNN" is used about 61 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) | 88.52% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.92% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 3.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CNN": time-cnn. | |
| 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 |
cnn | 66,363 | cnn radio | 104 |
cnn news | 8,413 | cnn headline | 98 |
cnn world news | 5,407 | cnn center | 92 |
cnn headline news | 2,549 | cnn financial | 89 |
cnn weather | 2,469 | cnn wolf | 75 |
cnn financial network | 1,289 | cnn home page | 67 |
cnn money | 1,271 | cnn new | 64 |
cnn sports | 507 | anchor cnn | 62 |
cnn com | 476 | cnn crossfire | 62 |
cnn si | 451 | cnn frank | 57 |
cnn.com wolf | 375 | cnn tour | 56 |
cnn en espanol | 318 | cnn news us | 52 |
cnn world | 229 | español cnn | 49 |
cnn news.com | 193 | cnn live | 49 |
espanol cnn | 170 | cnn si.com | 49 |
cnn en español | 164 | cnn.com lou | 48 |
breaking cnn news | 144 | cnn en espaãol | 47 |
arabic cnn | 136 | cnn money.com | 46 |
cnn david | 131 | cnn fn | 46 |
asia cnn | 108 | cnn health | 45 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CNN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | си-эн-эн аг. новостей. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-n-n" | |
+1 letter: conn. | |
+2 letters: ancon, canna, canny, canon, conin, conns, nance, nancy, nonce. | |
+3 letters: ancone, cancan, canine, caning, cannas, canned, cannel, canner, cannie, cannon, cannot, canons, canton, canyon, conine, coning, conins, conned, conner, cranny, cunner, cyanin, encina, fennec, incant, incony, nances, nancys, niacin, nocent, nonces, noncom, nuance, nuncio, nuncle, tannic, uncini. | |
+4 letters: actinon, alencon, ancient, anconal, ancones, anionic, bannock, bonnock, canakin, cancans, candent, canikin, canines, cannels, canners, cannery, cannier, cannily, canning, cannoli, cannons, cannula, canonic, canonry, canteen, cantina, canting, cantons, canyons, canzona, canzone, canzoni, cayenne, censing, centner, channel, chanson, chignon, chining, chinned, chinone, chronon, cinerin, cloning, coannex, coining, concent, concern, condemn, condign, condone, confine, coniine, conines, conjoin, conking, connate, connect, conners, conning, connive, connote, consent, consign, contain, contemn, contend, content, convene, convent, cooncan, corning, craning, crannog, cunners, cunning, cyanine, cyanins, dancing, enchain, enchant, encinal, encinas, enhance, enounce, fencing, fennecs, finance, incants, incense, inching, incline, inconnu, indican, infancy, lancing, lyncean, mincing, nancies, narcein, nascent, necking, niacins, niching, nicking, nicotin, nocking, nocturn, nonacid, noncash, noncola, noncoms, nonfact, nonsuch, nuanced, nuances, nuclein, nucleon, nudnick, nuncios, nuncles, penance, pinnace, poncing, scanned, scanner, scunner, sonance, stannic, syncing, tenancy, uncanny, unchain, uncinal, uncinus, unclean, uncrown, unction, unfancy, unfence, unicorn, unsoncy, wincing, winnock, zincing. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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