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Definition: CONG |
CONGNoun1. An abbreviation of Congius. |
Crosswords: CONG |
| Non-English Usage: "CONG" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (brew tea), Vietnamese (arched, crooked, curved, curviform). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) | |
Lyrics | Fighting off the Viet Cong (BORN IN THE U.S.A.; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cong ming tai tai ben zhang fu (1969) Mulan cong jun (1939) Si zi cong jun (1938) Xiang xia po cong jun (1937) Hua Mulan cong jun (1927) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Under fire from shore batteries, while bombarding the Cong Phy railroad yard, 25 Miles south of Thanu Hoa, North Vietnam, on 4 August 1967. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Fires her forward turret's 6"/47 guns at the Viet Cong, while steaming slowly in the South China Sea on an in-shore fire support mission, April 1966. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Viet Cong snake hiding behind Cambodian sanctuary rock. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Trying to suppress Viet Cong terrorism. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The Viet Cong casts a vote for democracy. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | U.S. helicopters arriving to air lift Vietnamese government Rangers of the 43rd battalion into battle against Viet Cong guerrillas, Saigon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Victory over the campus Cong. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Vietnam | In January 1969, the United States, governments of South and North Vietnam, and the Viet Cong met for the first plenary session of peace talks in Paris, France. (references) |
Vietnam | In December 1961, at the request of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, President Kennedy sent U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to help the government there deal with the Viet Cong campaign. (references) | |
Vietnam | They finally concluded with the signing of a peace agreement, the Paris Accords, on January 27, 1973. As a result, the south was divided into a patchwork of zones controlled by the South Vietnamese Government and the Viet Cong. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CONG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "CONG" is used about 11 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) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CONG" 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 |
| Cong | Last name | 300 | 27,848 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CONG": cong-held, cong-san. | |
| 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 "CONG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Indonesian | mengecong (see: cong). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongcay of congress, конгресс (congress). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CONG": conga, congaed, congaing, congas, conge, congeal, congealed, congealing, congealment, congealments, congeals, congee, congeed, congeeing, congees, congelation, congelations, congener, congeneric, congenerous, congeners, congenial, congenialities, congeniality, congenially, congenital, congenitally, conger, congeries, congers, conges, congest, congested, congesting, congestion, congestions, congestive, congests, congii, congius, conglobate, conglobated, conglobates, conglobating, conglobation, conglobations, conglobe, conglobed, conglobes, conglobing, conglomerate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CONG": anticonglomerate, decongest, decongestant, decongestants, decongested, decongesting, decongestion, decongestions, decongestive, decongests, incongruence, incongruences, incongruent, incongruently, incongruities, incongruity, incongruous, incongruously, incongruousness, incongruousnesses, noncongruent, superconglomerate, superconglomerates, uncongenial, uncongenialities, uncongeniality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-n-o" | |
-1 letter: cog, con, nog. | |
-2 letters: go, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-n-o" | |
+1 letter: cogon, coign, conga, conge, congo, incog. | |
+2 letters: agonic, coding, cogent, cognac, cogons, coigne, coigns, coking, coming, congas, congee, conger, conges, congii, congos, congou, coning, cooing, coping, coring, cosign, coting, coving, cowing, coxing, coying, garcon, gascon, gnomic, incogs, unclog. | |
+3 letters: acrogen, aglycon, campong, cantdog, chignon, choking, choring, chowing, clangor, cloning, closing, cloying, coagent, coaling, coaming, coating, coaxing, cocking, codding, codling, coffing, cogency, cogging, cognacs, cognate, cognise, cognize, coifing, coigned, coignes, coiling, coinage, coining, cologne, combing, comings, comping, condign, congaed, congeal, congeed, congees, congers, congest, congius, congoes, congous, conking, conning, consign, cooking, cooling, cooping, copings, copping, copying, cording, coreign, corking, corning, coshing, cosigns, costing, cosying, couping, covings, cowling, cozying, crannog, crowing, cryogen, decagon, docking, echoing, forcing, garcons, gascons, genomic, gnocchi, gnostic, gonadic, gonidic, guanaco, gunlock, hocking, lingcod, locking, locoing, mocking, nocking, ochring, octagon, organic, ouching, pocking, poncing, rocking, scoping, scoring, scowing, socking, unclogs, voicing, yocking. | |
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