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H2O

Definition: H2O

H2O

Noun

1. 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)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: H2O

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
H2ORACEEnglishH2O Reactor Aldermaston Critical ExperimentNuclear Energy & Physics

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

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Crosswords: H2O

English words defined with "H2O": H.P.. (references)
Specialty definitions using "H2O": CCl4fluorocarbon-10zinc phosphate. (references)

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Modern Usage: H2O

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: H2O

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: H2O
 

"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.

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Usage Frequency: H2O

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Unclassified Items100%10111,207

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: H2O

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

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.

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Anagrams: H2O

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.

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Alternative Orthography: H2O


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 32 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

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INDEX

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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