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Cebu

Definitions: Cebu

Cebu

Noun

1. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.

2. One of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines; important for its fine harbor.

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


Synonym: Cebu

Synonym: Cebu City (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cebu

English words defined with "Cebu": Cebu City, Cebu maguey, Cebuan, Cebuano. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Cebu

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References

  • Cebu Holdings Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Cebu Property Ventures & Development Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Cebu (reference)

  • CEBU PROPERTY VENTURES & DEV'T. CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series) (reference)

  • CEBU SHIPYARD & ENGINEERING WORKS, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • Cebu Under the Spanish Flag, 1521-1896: An Economic-Social History (San Carlos Publications. Series A, Humanities, No 14) (reference)

  • Globetrotter Travel Map Philippines: Includes Baguio, Banaue, Boracay, Calabarzon, Cebu, Davao, El Nido, MacTan, Manila, Panglao, Puerto Galera and p (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Cebu

Photos:
Cebu

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Photo Album: Cebu

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The "Club" at Cebu.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Hubert A. Paton and Bloomberg in a Cebu cart Liberty from the PATHFINDER.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Wreck of the Spanish armed transport Cebu, photographed sometime after the battle.Credit: NAVY.

Underway in Philippine waters, en route to Cebu, circa 1914-1916.Credit: NAVY.

A Class in basketry at Mandane, Cebu, Philippine Islands.Credit: Library of Congress.

First troops of the 3rd Battalion, 132nd Infantry American Division, wade ashore, across heavily mined beaches, during invasion of Cebu Island, P.I., at a point just south of Cebu City--The invasion was preceded by heavy naval and aerial bombardment.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cebu

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Philippines

Iloilo shares with Cebu the servicing of the country's central area. (references)

Philippines

In addition to Manila, the other major interregional centers are Cebu City, Iloilo, Davao, and Zamboanga. (references)

Philippines

Cebu City, the third largest city in the Philippines, is the prime trading center in the southern part of the archipelago. (references)

Travel

Philippines

An additional 64 accredited hotels are outside Metro Manila -- in Baguio City, Tagaytay City, Cebu, Davao, La Union, Subic, Cavite, Angeles City, etc. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

Some recruiters reportedly bring girls between the ages of 13 and 17 to work in Manila or Cebu under terms that involve a "loan" advanced to their parents that the children are obliged to repay through their work. (references)

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

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Usage in Company Names: Cebu

CountryName
Philippines

Cebu Holdings Inc.

 (more examples...)

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

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Cities: Cebu


1. Cebu , Philippines
Location: 10.17 North,123.56 East
Population (2000 estimate): 776880
Time Zone: 8 GMT
Country: Philippines

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Expressions: Cebu

Expressions using "Cebu": cebu City Cebu Investment Promotion Center cebu maguey. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cebu

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

  cebu

921

  cebu city map

19

  cebu city philippine

429

  cebu news philippine

19

  cebu philippine

127

  cebu daily sunstar

18

  cebu city

94

  cebu freeman

17

  cebu hotel

87

  cebu star sun

17

  cebu pacific

74

  cebu island

15

  cebu news

70

  cebu news philippine sunstar

15

  cebu daily news

62

  aboitiz cebu land

14

  cebu sunstar

49

  cebu house lot

14

  cebu real estate

48

  hotel in cebu philippine

14

  cebu philippine hotel

34

  cebu ganado

13

  cebu newspaper

30

  hotel cebu city philippine

12

  cebu map

28

  waterfront hotel cebu

11

  cebu size

28

  cebu picture

11

  university of cebu

26

  cebu pacific air

11

  cebu city hotel

26

  hotel in cebu

11

  cebu resort

26

  cebu estate real sale

11

  cebu girl

24

  cebu newspaper philippine star sun

10

  airline cebu pacific

24

  real estate cebu philippine

9

  cebu furniture

22

  cebu supply water

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cebu

Language Translations for "Cebu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

宿务. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ebucay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Cebu

Derivations

Words containing "Cebu": spicebush, spicebushes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Cebu

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cube.

Words within the letters "b-c-e-u"

-1 letter: cub, cue, ecu.

-2 letters: be.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-u"
 

+1 letter: cubeb, cubed, cuber, cubes.

 

+2 letters: abduce, boucle, bounce, bucked, bucker, bucket, buckle, cherub, cubage, cubebs, cubers, cumber, curbed, curber, rubace.

 

+3 letters: abduced, abduces, bascule, because, becloud, becrust, becurse, becurst, bedunce, bescour, blucher, bluecap, bouchee, boucles, bounced, bouncer, bounces, brucine, buckeen, buckers, buckets, buckeye, buckled, buckler, buckles, buckoes, bullace, bunched, bunches, buncoed, buncoes, butcher, butches, cherubs, ciboule, clubbed, clubber, clubmen, clumber, crumbed, crumber, crumble, cubages, cubbies, cubicle, cudbear, cumbers, curable, curbers, debauch, debouch, kebbuck, obscure, roebuck, rubaces, scumble, subcell, subcode, subduce, subecho, suberic, subject, subrace, subsect, unbrace.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cebu


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

43 65 62 75

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 01100101 01100010 01110101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#101 &#98 &#117

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0065 0062 0075

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

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

37716887

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Cities
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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