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CONG

Definition: CONG

CONG

Noun

1. An abbreviation of Congius.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


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).

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Modern Usage: CONG

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: CONG

DomainTitle

Books

  • Blackjack-33: With Special Forces in the Viet Cong Forbidden Zone (reference)

  • Performing Arts: Music and Dance Ed by John Blacking. Papers from a Session of the 9th Intl Cong of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, (World Anthropology) (reference)

  • Phoenix and the Birds of Prey : The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong (reference)

  • Playing Basketball With the Viet Cong (Contemporary Poets Series (Curbstone Press).) (reference)

  • Waterfowl Production: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Waterfowl Production, the Satellite Conference for the XVIII World's Poultry Cong (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Photo Album: CONG

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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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CONG

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: CONG

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)81.82%9117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)18.18%2245,945
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: CONG

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CongLast name30027,848
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: CONG

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CONG": cong-held, cong-san.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CONG

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

viet cong

124

cong paternit

4

trinh cong son

42

cong dang nam san viet

4

cong

28

cong game pc viet

4

cong game viet

19

cong dong dong

4

bao cong

16

cong san

4

cong ireland

11

cong veit

4

cong parental

10

cong country donkey

4

cong nhac son trinh

9

cong pc viet

3

cong hoa nam viet

9

cong hotel

3

cong donkey

7

cong giao

3

cong demo viet

7

cong maternit

3

cong dong

6

cong tran van

3

cheat cong viet

6

cong pho thanh

3

chanh cong gia nu

6

cong execution viet

3

cong fan son trinh

6

cong phung tu

3

cong music nam net son trinh trinh viet vietnamese vietnamese vietnamese young

6

viet cong picture

3

binh chua cong truong

6

cong dung hanh ngon

3

cong hong

5

cong hoa luc nam quan viet

3

cong khi

5

cong de paternit

3

cong through viet walk

5

cong giao tam trung

3

cong pham thien

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CONG

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

Indonesian

  

mengecong (see: cong). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ongcay

   

Russian 

  

of congress, конгресс (congress). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CONG

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).

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Anagrams: CONG

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.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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