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CPR

Definition: CPR

CPR

Noun

1. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"CPR" is a common misspelling or typo for: caper, car, copra, cry, cur.


Specialty Definition: CPR

DomainDefinition

Census

(Commerce Performance Review) A program designed to identify and implement better ways to perform the work of the Department of Commerce. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: CPR

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

CPR can refer to:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CPR."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CPR

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CPR

DutchReanimatieN/A

CPR

EnglishCanadian Pacific RailwayN/A

CPR

FrenchComité de politique régionalePolitics & International Affaires

CPR

Greekεγγραφή κατατομής κλήσηςPost & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: CPR

Synonyms: cardiac resuscitation (n), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (n), kiss of life (n), mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: CPR

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

David Crosby: CPR Through the Music (1998)

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

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Commercial Usage: CPR

DomainTitle

References

  • CPR Societe Anonyme: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • CPR for Nonprofits: Creating Strategies for Successful Fundraising, Marketing, Communications and Management (reference)

  • Cpr for the Professional Rescuer (reference)

  • First Aid and Cpr (reference)

  • Hard Choices for Loving People : CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness (reference)

  • Infant and Child Cpr (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Infant Emergencies and CPR...When You Least Expect It (reference)

  • Canine CPR -- Know How To Respond Quickly (reference)

  • The CPR Review for Infants and Children (reference)

  • Life Breath & CPR (reference)

  • First Aid & CPR (2 VHS Tape Set) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: CPR

Photos:
CPR

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Illustrations:
CPR

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Computer Images:
CPR

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Non-Fiction Usage: CPR

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Tunisia

Outlawed--An-Nahda (Renaissance) the Islamic fundamentalist party (Rached El Ghanouchi); National Council for Liberties in Tunisia or CNLT (Sihem Ben Sedrine); Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberties or FDTL (Mustapha Ben Jaafar); Congress for the Republic or CPR (Moncef Marzouki); Tunisian Communist Labor Party or POCT (Hamma Hammami). (references)

Trade

Philippines

Subsequent renewal of CPR shall be valid for a period of three (3) years. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CPR

"CPR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "CPR" is used about 48 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
Noun (proper)50%2471,196
Noun (singular)27.08%1397,576
Noun (common)22.92%11106,044
                    Total100.00%48N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: CPR

CountryName
France

CPR Societe Anonyme

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: CPR

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CPR": cpr-number.

Ending with "CPR": ex-cpr.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CPR

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cpr

1,867

class cpr cross red

24

cpr class

259

cpr test

24

cpr training

233

learn cpr

23

cpr certification

191

cpr supply

23

cpr and first aid

98

cpr picture

23

infant cpr

91

cpr 2816

22

cpr course

61

cpr empress

20

american red cross cpr

60

cpr certification class

18

american heart association cpr

57

cpr steps

18

cpr mask

56

cpr railroad

17

red cross cpr

51

perform cpr

17

cpr instructions

40

adult cpr

17

cpr manikins

40

americanheart.org cpr

16

child cpr

35

cpr instructor

16

cpr mannequin

30

online cpr certification

16

first aid cpr training

29

cpr video

16

cpr nike

27

american class cpr cross red

15

class cpr free

27

cpr recertification

15

cpr online

25

cpr card

15

cpr first aid class

24

cpr procedure

15

cpr technology

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CPR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-p-r"
 

+1 letter: carp, crap, crop.

 

+2 letters: caper, carpi, carps, chirp, coper, copra, corps, cramp, crape, craps, creep, crepe, crept, crepy, crimp, cripe, crisp, crops, croup, crump, crypt, pacer, parch, perch, porch, price, prick, pricy, pyric, recap, scarp, scrap, scrip.

 

+3 letters: apercu, camper, capers, capper, capric, capris, captor, carhop, carpal, carped, carpel, carper, carpet, carpus, cartop, ceriph, chirps, chirpy, cipher, cooper, copers, copier, copper, coppra, coprah, copras, copter, corpse, corpus, cramps, craped, crapes, crappy, creeps, creepy, creped, crepes, crepey, crepon, crimps, crimpy, cripes, crisps, crispy, croupe, croups, croupy, crumps, crypto, crypts, cupper, cupric, cuprum, cypher, cypres, cyprus, eparch, escarp, orphic, pacers, packer, parcel, parsec, pecker, picara, picaro, picker, picric, piecer, pierce, pincer, piracy, placer, prance, preach, preact, precis, precut, priced, pricer, prices, pricey, pricks, pricky, prince, pucker, recaps, recept, recipe, recopy, recoup, redcap, repack, scarph, scarps, scrape, scraps, scrimp, scrips, script, scroop, secpar, spacer, spicer, spruce, sprucy, tropic, upcurl.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CPR


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

43 50 52

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .--.    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01010000 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#80 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0050 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

375052

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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