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COOP

Definition: COOP

COOP

Noun

1. A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

2. An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

3. A barrel or cask for liquor.

Transitive verb

1. To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

2. To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COOP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: COOP

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

COOP

English2D Coherent Optical dynamic ProcessorComputing, European Union

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

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Synonyms within Context: COOP

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Escape

Phrase: the bird has flown the coop.

Prison

Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.

Restraint

Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: COOP

English words defined with "COOP": coop in, coop up, Cooped, CoopingEmmew, EncageIncage. (references)
Specialty definitions using "COOP": COOPED UP. (references)
Etymologies containing "COOP": Swinecrue. (references)
Non-English Usage: "COOP" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (box cart).

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Modern Usage: COOP

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ha, ha, ha, ha! I feel like a fox in a chicken coop! (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz)

Lyrics

Cause I stay in these, coop rabie bees (Firm All Stars; performing artist: The Firm)

Pretty Boy Relentless, Cop the Coop thats expensive (Firm All Stars; performing artist: The Firm)

Movie/TV Titles

J.W. Coop (1972)

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

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Commercial Usage: COOP

DomainTitle

References

  • Bank Coop A.G.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Covering + Exposing : Coop Himmelblau (reference)

  • How to Prepare for the Coop Hspt Catholic High School Entrance Examinations (Barron's How to Prepare for the Coop/Hspt Catholic High School Entrance e (reference)

  • Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of German National Character Through Folklore (reference)

  • The Best Test Preparation for the Coop & (Cooperative Admissions Examination) Hspt (High School Placement Test): The Catholic & Other Private High sc (reference)

  • The Chicken Without a Coop (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: COOP

Photos:
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Photo Album: COOP

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Palau Fisheries Office and Fisheries Coop dock in center - Van Camp tuna freezing facility in lower right. Credit: Small World.

Fisheries office on upper left, Fishermen's Coop in center right. Credit: Small World.

Chris Ellis (left) and Joe Bear (right), NRCS College Coop student trainee from Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, discuss the production of Harrington barley. The barley is marketed to Anheuser Busch. [Slide 97CS3051]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

African American farmer Ben Burkette looks over some turnips at tkhe Indian Springs Coop in Perry County, MS. Burkette helped found the coop and is Executive Director of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives. Credit: USDA.

Mr Willie Little picks okra for coop he belongs to.near Macon, MS. Credit: USDA.

Close up of hands working on a sewing machine producing teddy bears at the coop on the Navajo Reservation in Ganado, AZ. Credit: USDA.

Mr. Andrew Miller picks okra on the Miller farm near Macon, MS. The Millers grow Okra for the Beat 4 Coop of which they are members. Credit: USDA.

Earl Shelby picks okra on his farm near Petal, MS. He sells his okra through the Indian Springs Coop, a member of the Mississippi Ass'n of Cooperatives. Credit: USDA.

Okra in the cooler of the Indian Springs Coop vegitable shed. Shed was built with the help of USDA. Credit: USDA.

Alaska Coop Store at Nome. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

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

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Sounds Captioned with "COOP".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Chicken coop sounds of roosters and chickens.Chicken coop; clucking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: COOP

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They remembered how they had played prison in the chicken coop and fought for the right to be prisoner.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: COOP

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Vietnam

A number of Western-style mini-markets and convenience stores (e.g., MaxiMart and Saigon Coop) are cropping up in the major urban areas. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

The two main Swiss supermarket chains COOP and MIGROS, for example, have introduced a whole range of products manufactured by means of environmentally "friendly" processes and materials. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: COOP

"COOP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.20% of the time. "COOP" is used about 51 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 (singular)90.2%4650,285
Noun (proper)5.88%3202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)3.92%2245,945
                    Total100.00%51N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: COOP

The following table summarizes the usage of "COOP" 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
CoopLast name1,00014,667
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: COOP

CountryNameCountryName
Switzerland

Bank Coop A.G.

USA

National Rural Utilities Coop Fin Corp

 (more examples...)  

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

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Expressions: COOP

Expressions using "COOP": chicken coop coop in coop up hen coop the bird has flown the coop. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "COOP": hen-coop, Media-coop.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COOP

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

chicken coop

575

coop forum

26

coop

551

coop himmelblau

26

mountain equipment coop

402

coop food

26

chicken coop plan

124

bank coop

26

harvard coop

98

chicken coop free plan

23

coop cs

78

coop group health

23

coop sven

73

coop farmer

22

build a chicken coop

69

coop joke

19

coop mini

65

twin city coop

19

coop art

64

rei coop

17

coop mountain

63

artist coop

17

chicken coop design

63

coop ut

17

coop travel

57

coop federated

15

building a chicken coop

50

coop quail

14

calgary coop

39

chicken coop picture

14

coop university

32

coop devil

14

coop southern state

29

condo coop

14

coop sticker

29

chicken coop construction

13

university of texas coop

28

coop mortgage

13

pigeon coop

27

coop delicious

13

coop power

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COOP

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

Albanian

  

mbyll në kafaz (cage, mew), mbyll brenda (immure, incase, shut in, snow in), kafaz (cage, Cote, hutch, mew, trellis), birucë (dungeon). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مكان ضيق, ‏قفص (cage, chest, crate, pen), ‏قن الدجاج, ‏الخم. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

кошница за риболов, кокошарник (hen house, hen-roost, roost), затварям в клетка (cage, encage). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(basket, cage, container). (various references)

   

Czech

  

výbìh, kurník (hen coop, hen house, hencoop, henhouse, Hennery, poultry house), kukaò, konzum (consumption), družstvo (co op, contingent, cooperative, partnership, squad, syndicate, team), dát na kurník, dát do kukanì. (various references)

   

Danish

  

opfedningsbur. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kippenren, kippenhok (hen-coop, hen-house, hennery, poultry-house), hoenderhok (hen-coop, hen-house, hennery, poultry-house). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kokejo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

høsnarhús. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

محبوس کردن(درقفس), مرغدان , قفس (Birdhouse, Cage), زندان (Calaboose, Dungeon, Gaol, Grate, Jail, Presidio, Prison), اغل گوسفند (Fold, Reeve). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

häkki (cage). (various references)

   

French

  

poulailler. (various references)

   

German

  

Konsumverein. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κλουβί (cage), κοτέτσι (chicken run, hen house, hencoop, hen-coop), φυλακή (bagnio, brig, calaboose, clink, cooler, gaol, hock, hoosegow, jail, jail house, jug, prison, quod, stir), εγκλείω (confine, corral, encapsulate, encase, enclose, enshrine, immure, impound, inclose, pen), ορνίθι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לול קטן. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ketrec (cage, crate, hutch, pen). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

keranjang ayam, jaring ikan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

stia (you are). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

伏せ (hen coop), 工 実' (internship), コー'ー豆 (call, call broker, call girl, call loan, call money, call rate, call sign, call-back, called, called game, choir exercises, chorus, chorus girl, coal tar, coffee bean, Cohen, cola, cold, cold beef, cold chain, cold chicken, cold coffee, cold cream, cold meat, cold permanent wave, cold war, cold wave, coleslaw, coral, coral island, cord, corded velveteen, corduroy, corporate identity, corporated house, corporation, corpse, Koran). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふせか" (hen coop), "うじょうじっしゅう (internship), コープ . (various references)

   

Manx

  

paal (circle, circle fold, enclave, enclosure, fold, pale, pavilion, pen, ring), cur ayns paal, croa (aperture, compound, corral, enclave, enclosure, eyehole, fold, notch, pen, ring). (various references)

   

Maya

  

so'oy (chicken coop). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oopcay

   

Portuguese

  

confinar (abut, border, bound, confine, limit, mew, neighbor, neighbour, restrict, shut), cesto (henhouse, pannier, skep), cercar (bar up, barrier in, beleaguer, besiege, cincture, close, compass, corral, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, hedge, hurdle, impound, inclose, ring, ring up, surround), capoeira (barton, caponier, pen), viveiro (corf, farm, hatchery, pond, run, seed-plot, vivarium, yard), prender (apprehend, arrest, attract, bind, bond, cage, capture, clip, confine, cop, detain, drop behind, embay, fasten, gaol, gift, grapple, handsel, hoop, immobilize, incarcerate, jail, jug, kennel, knit, lag, link, lock in, mew, nab, pin, prison, quod, run in, secure, seize, shut, snaffle-bit, take, take up), engaiolar (cage, encage). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cuşcã (cage, hutch), coteţ (Cote, hen-roost, hogsty, kennel), închisoare (cage, cooler, correction, gaol, hold, house of detention, imprisonment, jug, keep, pound, prison, station house), închis (black, cagey, close, close-mouthed, covered, dark, deep, deeply, dun, involved, pent, red-hot, sad, shut, stuffy, sullen). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

заключать курятник. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cùbadh (crouching, shrinking for fear; coop). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zatvoriti (cloister, close, close down, closeout, impound, incarcerate, lock into, occlude, put into, shut down, shut in, shut off), zatvor (calaboose, choky, clink, confinement, cooler, jail, lockup, obstipation, prison, prison house, quod, stir, stockade), kokošinjac (chicken coop, hen house, hencoop, henhouse, pen, roost), kavez (cage). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gallinero (chickencoop, chick-run, gods, hencoop, henhouse, peanut gallery, pen, poultry house, roost). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stänga in (crib, immure, pen), bur för höns, andelsförening. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เล้าไก่, เครื่องจักสานสำหรับจับปลา, กรง (cage, hutch). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tıkmak (cram, put, shove, stuff, tuck, tuck in, wedge), kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, fence in, hang up, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out), kafeslemek (bamboozle, cage, coop in, coop up, deceive, encage, rope in, spoof), kafes (bird cage, cage, grating, grill, grille, hutch, jail, lath, lattice, mew, pen, trellis), kümes (cot, Cote, fowl run, hencoop, hut, hutch, pen), hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, gaol, institution, jail, Nick, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, stockade, tank, ward). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ketek (bird-house, hen coop). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

саджати в курник, курник (hencoop, henhouse, roost), верша (backet, bow-net, creel, pod), зачиняти в клітку. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: COOP

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cavea, caveam, cupa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: COOP

LanguageDateSourceJudges Chapter 8, Verse 27
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai epoihsen auto gedewn eiV efoud kai esthsen auto en polei autou en efraqa kai exeporneusen paV israhl opisw autou ekei kai egeneto tw gedewn kai tw oikw autou eiV skandalon
Latin405VulgateFecitque ex eo Gedeon ephod et posuit illud in civitate sua Ephra fornicatusque est omnis Israhel in eo et factum est Gedeoni et omni domui eius in ruinam
Middle English1395WyclifAnd Gedeon maad of it a coop, and putte it in Effra his citee; and al Yrael dide fornycacioun in it; and it was maad to Gedeon and to alle the hows of hym into fallynge.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Gideon made of it an ephod, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither astray after it: which thing became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: COOP

LanguageJudges Chapter 8, Verse 27
CebuanoUg si Gedeon naghimo ug usa ka ephod gikan niini ug gibutang kini sa iyang ciudad sa Ophra: ug ang tibook Israel nagpakighilawas niana didto; ug kini nahimong lit-ag kang Gedeon ug sa iyang balay.
CroatianGideon naèini od toga efod i postavi ga u svome gradu Ofri. I sav Izrael udari za njim u nevjeru i bijaše to zamka Gideonu i njegovu domu.
DanishGideon lavede deraf en Efod, som han gav Plads i sin Fødeby Ofra; og alle Israelitterne bolede med den, og den blev Gideon og hans Hus en Snare.
DutchEn Gideon maakte daarvan een efod, en stelde die in zijn stad, te Ofra; en gans Israel hoereerde aldaar denzelven na; en het werd Gideon en zijn huis tot een valstrik.
FinnishJa Gideon valmisti niistä kasukan, jonka hän sijoitti kaupunkiinsa Ofraan, ja koko Israel kulki haureudessa siellä sen jäljessä. Ja se tuli ansaksi Gideonille ja hänen perheellensä.
GermanUnd Gideon machte einen Leibrock daraus und setzte ihn in seine Stadt zu Ophra. Und ganz Israel trieb damit Abgötterei daselbst, und er geriet Gideon und seinem Hause zum Fall.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariDari emas itu, Gideon membuat sebuah patung berhala, lalu menempatkannya di desanya, yaitu di Ofra. Semua orang Israel pergi ke sana untuk menyembah patung berhala itu, sehingga mereka tidak lagi memperhatikan Allah. Dan hal itu menjadi seperti jerat bagi Gideon dan keluarganya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka dari pada sekalian itu diperbuatkanlah oleh Gideon sebuah efod, lalu ditaruhnya akan dia dalam negerinya, yaitu di Ofera, maka segenap orang Israel berkendak menurut akan dia di sana, maka ia itu menjadi suatu jerat kepada Gideon dan kepada segala orang isi rumahnya.
MaoriNa ka hanga e Kiriona hei epora, a ka waiho ki tona pa ki Opora: na ka whai a Iharaira katoa ki reira puremu ai ki taua mea: a ka waiho hei rore mo Kiriona ratou ko tona whare.
NorwegianOg Gideon gjorde en livkjortel av gullet og stilte den op i sin by i Ofra; og hele Israel drev der avgudsdyrkelse med den; og den blev en snare for Gideon og hans hus.
RumanianGhedeon a fqcut din ele un efod, wi l -a pus kn cetatea lui, la Ofra, unde a ajuns o pricinq de curvie pentru tot Israelul; wi a fost o cursq pentru Ghedeon wi pentru casa lui.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: COOP

Derivations

Words beginning with "COOP": cooped, cooper, cooperage, cooperages, cooperate, cooperated, cooperates, cooperating, cooperation, cooperationist, cooperationists, cooperations, cooperative, cooperatively, cooperativeness, cooperativenesses, cooperatives, cooperator, cooperators, coopered, cooperies, coopering, coopers, coopery, cooping, coops, coopt, coopted, coopting, cooption, cooptions, coopts. (additional references)

Words ending with "COOP": hencoop, outscoop, scoop. (additional references)

Words containing "COOP": hencoops, noncooperation, noncooperationist, noncooperationists, noncooperations, noncooperative, noncooperator, noncooperators, outscooped, outscooping, outscoops, scooped, scooper, scoopers, scoopful, scoopfuls, scooping, scoops, scoopsful, uncooperative. (additional references)


Misspellings

"COOP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acop, Cepo, choop, Chooph, Ciapp, Ciip, cipo, cocorp, coob, coof, coog, cooi, cooo, coooo, coope, coopt, coopy, cooq, cooz, copo, copp, copq, cosp, couz, cowp, coxo, croop, ctp, cumop, cupo, Cupp, cupw, Fcup, icop, kroop, nccop, ncopf, oco, ocop, ocopy, ocpo, zoop. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "COOP"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "COOP" (pronounced kuw"p)
3k uw" pcoupe, recoup, scoop.
2-uw" pcroup, droop, drupe, dupe, Goop, group, hoop, intergroup, loop, Loup, Loupe, poop, regroup, sloop, snoop, soup, stoop, stoup, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: COOP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: poco.

Words within the letters "c-o-o-p"

-1 letter: coo, cop.

-2 letters: op.

 Words containing the letters "c-o-o-p"
 

+1 letter: compo, coops, coopt, pooch, scoop.

 

+2 letters: collop, compos, cooped, cooper, coopts, coplot, copout, coupon, cowpox, coypou, octopi, poncho, scoops, scroop.

 

+3 letters: apocope, carpool, collops, complot, compone, compony, comport, compose, compost, compote, cooktop, coopers, coopery, cooping, coopted, copepod, copilot, copious, coplots, copouts, copyboy, corpora, coupons, cowflop, cowplop, cowpoke, coypous, hencoop, lycopod, octopod, octopus, opsonic, outcrop, piccolo, pocosin, pollock, polycot, ponchos, pooched, pooches, popcorn, porcino, portico, postdoc, precook, precool, proctor, puccoon, scollop, scooped, scooper, scroops, soupcon, topcoat.

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: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Bible Trace
18. Abbreviations
19. Acronyms
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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