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Definition: H2O |
H2ONoun1. Binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; "he asked for a drink of water". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "H2O" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
| 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 |
| H2ORACE | English | H2O Reactor Aldermaston Critical Experiment | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: H2O |
| English words defined with "H2O": H.P.. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "H2O": CCl4 ♦ fluorocarbon-10 ♦ zinc phosphate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now that's what I call high quality H2O. (The Waterboy; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler) | |
Clever | H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | H2O (1929) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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| "ExperiMENT.h2o" by Brendan Paxton Commentary: "An experiment of water photography. I was browsing through http://www.daprints.com and there were a lot of interesting shots of water drops in movement. So I tried many different things until I was satisfied with this photo- since this one has so many re" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "H2O" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "H2O" is used about 10 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
h2o | 502 | h2o store | 10 |
h2o inc recreation | 131 | revo and h2o | 9 |
h2o plus | 62 | h2o spa | 9 |
h2o recreation | 61 | h2o concept | 9 |
h2o pool | 48 | extreme h2o | 8 |
halloween h2o | 43 | contact extreme h2o lens | 8 |
club h2o | 27 | h2o swim wear | 8 |
h2o lyrics | 24 | h2o park water | 7 |
h2o skin care | 20 | h2o optics | 7 |
h2o inc pool recreation | 16 | h2o salon | 7 |
h2o oasis | 15 | h2o hummer | 7 |
h2o cosmetic | 14 | h2o products.com | 6 |
h2o pool recreation | 12 | h2o water | 6 |
es h2o ss4 british berkefeld water purifier | 11 | entertainment h2o | 5 |
h2o pool swimming | 11 | discography h2o | 5 |
h2o product | 11 | h2o megatech | 5 |
art design digital dog h2o | 10 | h2o innovation | 5 |
design dog h2o | 10 | h2o picture | 5 |
go h2o | 10 | h2o salon and spa | 5 |
band h2o | 10 | h2o rocket | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "2-h-o" | |
-1 letter: ho, oh. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 32 4F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 00110010 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H 2 O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0032 004F |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)422049 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Digital Art 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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