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Definitions: Eu |
EuNoun1. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group. 2. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he took Britain into Europe". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Eu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EU | English | Equipment Units | Public Administration, Computing |
Eu | French | Champ utilisable | Electrical Engineering |
EU | German | Europäische Union | European Union |
EU | Latin | Unio Europaea | European Union |
Eu | Spanish | Intensidad de campo utilizable | Electrical Engineering |
| Canalisation EU | French | Canalisation d'eau usée | Building & Civil Engineering, Environment |
| EURAB | English | EU Research Advisory Board | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EuSynonyms: atomic number 63 (n), europium (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eu |
| Specialty definitions using "Eu": 15+15 framework ♦ Common Agricultural Policy, concertation procedure, continental United States ♦ Dariolet, Dariolette, Designing Inorganic-Organic DEvices ♦ EU 15 aggregate, EU Sea Sediment database ♦ Headline Task Force, High Production Volume Chemicals, household budget survey ♦ Preferential trade agreements ♦ Recycling of Automobile Fuel Tanks ♦ Transatlantic Forum ♦ Variable import levy, Visegrad Countries. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Eu" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (had), French Canadian (had), Galician (I), Latin (European Union, good! well done! good job!), Manx (at you, your), Norwegian (EC), Portuguese (egocentric, I am, self), Romanian (i, myself), Welsh (their). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | O Que Nós Veremos O Que Eu Vi (1974) Os Homens Que Eu Tive (1973) Ela Transa Eu Transo (1972) Eu E a Moto (1972) Eu!!! (1966) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Eu sou o comunismo, esta n cara.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The EU has also introduced several standards. (references) | |
All products imported must meet EU specifications. (references) | ||
These agencies completely adhere to EU regulations. (references) | ||
Children | Greece | With EU funding, special care is available for juvenile offenders, Romani children, children from remote mountain and island areas, and children with disabilities. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Italy | Many of these immigrants enter the country with the intent to transit to other European Union (EU) countries. (references) |
Korea | A Russian news agency interviewed Kim Jong Il in July, and a large international press group accompanied a European Union (EU) delegation that visited in May. (references) | |
Economic History | Lesotho | Partners--South Africa, Asia, EU. (references) |
Brunei Darussalam | Major suppliers--ASEAN, Japan, U.S., EU. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Major partners--Russia, EU, U.S., China. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macedonia | Both the OSCE and EU missions remained concerned about human rights problems, among other issues. (references) |
Turkey | Regional bar associations and the EU held training seminars with the police and judges and prosecutors in several provinces and in Ankara headquarters, focusing on EU human rights standards. (references) | |
Austria | In 2000 a group of 3 human rights experts, accepted by the other 14 European Union (EU) member states, conducted a review of the rights of minorities, refugees, and immigrants in the country. (references) | |
Minorities | Estonia | An EU program reimburses language training costs for those who pass the examination. (references) |
Poland | The march culminated in a rally at which demonstrators burned the Israeli and EU flags. (references) | |
Slovak Republic | On October 2, the Government gave 88 flats, which were built in Presov by the local council with the help of the EU, to primarily Romani families. (references) | |
Political Economy | ITALY | The ban appears to violate EU regulations. (references) |
SPAIN | The figure for the entire EU would be somewhat higher. (references) | |
FRANCE | France strongly supports continued EU export subsidies. (references) | |
Trade | Greece | Trade between EU members is duty-free. (references) |
Lebanon | EU norms are widely acceptable in Lebanon. (references) | |
Sweden | EU Customs Union System applies to all imports. (references) | |
Travel | Finland | Finland invests more in education that the EU countries on average. (references) |
France | It should be noted that other EU suppliers are accustomed to dealing in the French language. (references) | |
Ireland | While Ireland has more paved road on a per capita basis than any other country in the EU, it lacks an efficient network of highways. (references) | |
Women | Italy | The code, which follows an EU recommendation, is attached to national sectoral labor contracts as they are negotiated. (references) |
Italy | In 1999 the EU directive regulating night work for women was incorporated into the law; with some exceptions, women may work at night. (references) | |
Austria | In 1994 the European Court of Justice ruled that the country's law prohibiting women from working nights was not permissible and gave the Government until the end of the year to adapt its legislation to gender-neutral EU regulations. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Italy | For most practical purposes, EU directives on health and safety also have been incorporated into the law. (references) |
Hungary | Men trafficked for forced labor through Hungary to the EU and the United States come from Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. (references) | |
Hungary | The International Organization of Migration (IOM) continued a program funded by the EU to raise awareness of the problem of trafficking and to educate potential victims. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eu" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.93% of the time. "Eu" is used about 41 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) | 82.93% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.2% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 4.88% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Eu": EU 15 aggregate ♦ EU Sea Sediment database. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Eu": eu-fuse-ia, EU-SEASED. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
eu | 709 | eu news | 14 |
eu farm statistics subsidy | 153 | eu turkey | 13 |
eu presidency | 72 | eu in travel | 12 |
eu amateur | 49 | eu passport | 12 |
eu flag | 45 | the eu and russia | 12 |
eu country | 40 | bidrag eu | 12 |
eu member | 35 | aid eu grant | 12 |
eu directive | 34 | eu commission | 11 |
eu moped | 25 | eu o | 11 |
beep eu | 24 | eu yan sang | 11 |
eu poland | 24 | eu italy vs | 11 |
eu enlargement | 23 | carlos eu falar lhe pra roberto tanto tenho | 11 |
eu te amo | 23 | country eu member | 11 |
eu mopeder | 19 | eu domain | 11 |
eu map | 18 | constitution draft eu | 10 |
eu sei que vou te amar | 17 | 2003 eu russia summit | 10 |
eu neuwagen | 15 | eu european union | 10 |
eu region | 14 | eu import | 10 |
constitution eu | 14 | eu subvention | 9 |
eu history | 14 | eu parliament | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Eu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 歐洲聯盟 (European Union), 欧共". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | EU-Phare Credo-programmet for grænseoverskridende samarbejde mellem centraleuropæiske lande (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries), Program for økonomisk og kulturel udveksling mellem EU og Indien (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Europese Verordening Overbrenging Afvalstoffen (Council Regulation(EEC)on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, EU Waste Shipment Regulation, into and out of the European Community), EU-Phare Credo-programma - Grensoverschrijdende samenwerking tussen de landen van Midden-Europa (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries), Programma voor transculturele economische samenwerking EU-India (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme), Nieuwe accenten in een groter Europa (New accents in an enlarged EU, New horizons within a larger Europe: shifting the emphasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Euroopan unionin Phare-ohjelmaan kuuluva Credo-ohjelma - Keski- ja Itä-Euroopan maiden välinen raja-alueyhteistyö (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries), Euroopan unionin ja Intian taloutta ja kultuuria koskeva ohjelma (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Programme Phare Credo - Union européenne - Coopération transfrontalière entre les pays d'Europe centrale (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries), Programme économique et transculturel Union européenne - Inde (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme), Livre vert sur l'établissement d'un système d'échange des droits d'émission de gaz effet de serre dans l'Union européenne (Green Paper on Establishment of a Greenhouse Gas Emission Exchange in the EU), Comité consultatif de la recherche de l'UE (EU Research Advisory Board, EURAB), Centre UE-Japon pour la coopération industrielle (EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation), base de données EU-SEASED (EU Sea Sediment database, EU-SEASED database), base de données de l'UE sur les sédiments marins (EU Sea Sediment database, EU-SEASED database). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | EU-Phare Credo-Programme für grenzübergreifende Zusammenarbeit zwischen mitteleuropäischen Ländern (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries), Verordnung zur Überwachung und Kontrolle der Verbringung von Abfällen in der,in die und aus der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (Council Regulation(EEC)on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, EU Waste Shipment Regulation, into and out of the European Community), Interkulturelles Wirtschaftsprogramm EU-Indien (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme), Grünbuch über die Errichtung eines Austauschsystems für Emissionsrechte für Treibhausgase in der Union (Green Paper on Establishment of a Greenhouse Gas Emission Exchange in the EU). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ΕΕ (end effector, European Union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Programma UE-Phare Credo - Cooperazione transfrontaliera tra i paesi dell'Europa centrale (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries), Programma economico e culturale UE-India (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme), Libro verde sulla creazione di un sistema di scambi dei diritti di emissione di gas ad effetto serra nell'Ue (Green Paper on Establishment of a Greenhouse Gas Emission Exchange in the EU), Centro UE-Giappone per la cooperazione industriale (EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation), banca di dati EU-SEASED (EU Sea Sediment database, EU-SEASED database), banca di dati dell'UE sui sedimenti marini (EU Sea Sediment database, EU-SEASED database). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | イースター島 (ear-ring, easel, east, East Coast, East End, East Side, Easter Island, eastern grip, Eastern League, European Union, even, even par, evil, Goteborg, Gothenburg, Iran-Iraq, Jesus, Jesus Christ, yeast, yellow, yes, yes-man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | イーユー (European Union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 로". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | euay Programa Phare-Credo-UE - Cooperação transfronteiriça entre os países da Europa Central (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries), Programa Económico e Cultural UE-India (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme). (various references) Programa económico y cultural Unión Europea - India (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme), Programa Credo UE-Phare - Cooperación transfronteriza entre los países de Europa Central (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries). (various references) EU-Phares Credoprogram - Gränsöverskridande samarbete mellan centraleuropeiska länder (EU-Phare Credo, EU-Phare Credo programme - Cross-border cooperation between Central European countries), Ekonomiskt tvärkulturellt program mellan EU och Indien (EU-India economic cross-cultural programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Európai Unió, Unio Europaea. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 3, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mh aposch eu poiein endeh hnika an ech h ceir sou bohqein |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Noli prohibere benefacere eum qui potest si vales et ipse benefac |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Wile thou not forfenden hym that mai wel don; if thou maist, and thiself wel do. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 3, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ayaw pag ihikaw ang kaayohan gikan kanila diin kini gikinahanglan, Sa diha nga kini anaa sa gahum sa imong kamot ang pagbuhat niini. |
| Chinese | 手 若 有 行 善 的 力 量 、 不 可 推 辭 、 就 當 向 那 應 得 的 人 施 行 。 |
| Croatian | Ne uskrati dobroèinstva potrebitim kad god to možeš uèiniti. |
| Danish | Nægt ikke den trængende Hjælp, når det står i din Magt at hjælpe; |
| Dutch | Onthoud het goed van zijn meesters niet, als het in het vermogen uwer hand is te doen. |
| Finnish | Älä kiellä tarvitsevalta hyvää, milloin sitä tehdä voit. |
| French | Ne refuse pas un bienfait celui qui y a droit, Quand tu as le pouvoir de l`accorder. |
| German | Weigere dich nicht, dem Dürftigen Gutes zu tun, so deine Hand von Gott hat, solches zu tun. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Pa refize fè byen pou moun ki nan nesesite, chak fwa ou santi ou ka fè sa. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jika kau mempunyai kemampuan untuk berbuat baik kepada orang yang memerlukan kebaikanmu, janganlah menolak untuk melakukan hal itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Janganlah engkau menahani barang dari pada orang yang empunya dia, jikalau dalam kuasa tanganmu sekalipun akan berbuat demikian. |
| Italian | Non negare un beneficio a chi ne ha bisogno, se è in tuo potere il farlo. |
| Maori | ¶ Kaua e kaiponuhia te pai ki te hunga i tika nei ma ratou, i nga wa e taea ai e tou ringa. |
| Norwegian | Nekt ikke de trengende din hjelp, når det står i din makt å gi den! |
| Portuguese | Não negues o bem a quem de direito, estando no teu poder fazê-lo. |
| Rumanian | Nu opri o binefacere celui ce are nevoie de ea, cknd poyi s`o faci. |
| Russian | оЕ ПФЛБЪЩЧБК Ч 'МБЗП"ЕСОЙЙ ОХЦ"БАЭЕНХУС, ЛПЗ"Б ТХЛБ ФЧПС Ч УЙМЕ У"ЕМБФШ ЕЗП. |
| Spanish | No niegues un bien a quien es debido, teniendo poder para hacerlo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Eu": eucaine, eucaines, eucalypt, eucalypti, eucalyptol, eucalyptole, eucalyptoles, eucalyptols, eucalypts, eucalyptus, eucalyptuses, eucaryote, eucaryotes, eucharis, eucharises, eucharistic, euchre, euchred, euchres, euchring, euchromatic, euchromatin, euchromatins, euclase, euclases, euclidean, euclidian, eucrite, eucrites, eucritic, eudaemon, eudaemonism, eudaemonisms, eudaemonist, eudaemonistic, eudaemonists, eudaemons, eudaimonism, eudaimonisms, eudemon, eudemons, eudiometer, eudiometers, eudiometric, eudiometrically, eugenia, eugenias, eugenic, eugenically, eugenicist, eugenicists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Eu": adieu, emeu, feu, jeu, leu, lieu, milieu, pareu, priedieu, purlieu. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Eu": accoucheur, accoucheurs, aculeus, adieus, adieux, aeneus, aleuron, aleurone, aleurones, aleurons, amateur, amateurish, amateurishly, amateurishness, amateurishnesses, amateurism, amateurisms, amateurs, aneuploid, aneuploidies, aneuploids, aneuploidy, aneurin, aneurins, aneurism, aneurisms, aneurysm, aneurysmal, aneurysms, antileukemic, antineutrino, antineutrinos, antineutron, antineutrons, antirheumatic, antirheumatics, aponeuroses, aponeurosis, aponeurotic, arbitrageur, arbitrageurs, athenaeum, athenaeums, atheneum, atheneums, aureus, auteur, auteurist, auteurists, auteurs, berceuse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "Eu": Feu. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "e-u" | |
+1 letter: cue, due, eau, ecu, emu, feu, hue, jeu, kue, leu, rue, sue, uke, use. | |
+2 letters: ague, beau, bedu, blue, bute, clue, cube, cued, cues, cuke, cure, cute, duce, dude, duel, dues, duet, duke, dune, dupe, dure, eaux, ecru, ecus, emeu, emus, etui, euro, feud, feus, flue, fuel, fume, fuse, fuze, genu, geum, glue, grue, gude, hued, hues, huge, jehu, jeux, jube, juke, jupe, jute, kues, kune, leku, leud, lieu, lube, luce, lude, lues, luge, lune, lure, lute, luxe, menu, meou, moue, mule, mure, muse, mute, neuk, neum, nude, nuke, puce, puke, pule, pure, quey, roue, rube, rude, rued, ruer, rues, rule, rune, ruse, slue, spue, sued, suer, sues, suet, supe, sure, true, tube, tule, tune, ukes, unbe, unde, urea, urge, used, user, uses, uvea, yeuk, yule, zebu. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 75 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0075 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3987 |
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