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| Domain | Definition |
Finance | See Federal Asset Disposition Association. (references) |
Literature | Fada A fée or kobold of the south of France, sometimes called "Hada." These house-spirits, of which, strictly speaking, there are but three, bring good luck in their right hand and ill luck in their left. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FADA |
| Specialty definitions using "FADA": Federal Asset Disposition Association. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FADA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Irish (long), Occitan (fairy, fay), Portuguese (fay, peri, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite), Scottish (far, long). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Fada do Oriente (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Burkina Faso | Activists in Bobo-Dioulasso, Kaya, and Fada N'Gourma also complained of similar harassment during the year. (references) |
Human Rights | Burkina Faso | Also in December 2000, progovernment vigilantes forced a high school teacher and student to flee Fada N'Gourma. (references) |
Burkina Faso | For example, in December 2000 in Fada N'Gourma, there were reports that vigilante groups detained, tied up, and threatened human rights activists and cut with a machete an activist who tried to negotiate their release. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FADA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FADA" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
fada | 39 |
fada radio | 7 |
contos de fada | 7 |
fada nyc | 3 |
fada sininho | 3 |
fada gard | 3 |
fada morgana | 3 |
fada industry | 3 |
azul fada | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FADA": fadable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-f" | |
-1 letter: fad. | |
-2 letters: aa, ad, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-f" | |
+1 letter: farad. | |
+2 letters: afeard, afraid, facade, farads. | |
+3 letters: abfarad, afeared, facades, fadable, faraday, faradic, fathead, fazenda. | |
+4 letters: aardwolf, abfarads, affrayed, deadfall, defrayal, fadeaway, fahlband, fairlead, falcated, falderal, fandango, fanegada, faradaic, faradays, faradise, faradism, faradize, farmhand, farmland, farmyard, fatheads, fazendas, flancard, flathead, flatland, foldaway, handfast, landfall, safaried, toadflax, unafraid. | |
+5 letters: affianced, affidavit, aforesaid, afterward, antidraft, antifraud, asafetida, barefaced, broadleaf, deadfalls, defalcate, defrayals, draftable, draftsman, fadeaways, fahlbands, fairleads, fairyland, falderals, fandangos, fanegadas, fantasied, faradised, faradises, faradisms, faradized, faradizes, farandole, farmhands, farmlands, farmstead, farmyards, fasciated, fatheaded, fatidical, flancards, flashcard, flatheads, flatlands, handcraft, handfasts, landfalls, picofarad, safeguard, steadfast. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 44 41 |
| 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)..-. .- -.. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01000100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A D A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 0044 0041 |
| 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)40353835 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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