HOA

Definitions: HOA

HOA

Interjection

1. Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.

2. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.

3. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HOA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

HOA

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

Crosswords: HOA

Papago (coil basket), Tahitian (friend), Vietnamese (carpet, flower, maypole).

Books

• An Ocean Apart/Nghin Trung Xa Cach: Contemporary Vietnamese Art from the United States and Vietnam/My Thuat Duong Dai Viet Nam O Hoa Ky Va O Viet Nam (reference)

• Higher-Order Algebra, Logic, and Term Rewriting: First International Workshop, Hoa '93, Amsterdam, the Netherlands September 23-24, 1993 Selected Pa (reference)

• Hoa Tien Killers (The Black Eagles, No 19) (reference)

• Operation Tuscaloosa: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, at an Hoa, 1967 (reference)

• The Fields of Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong and Hoa Hui, Three Battles Just Beyond the South China Sea (Vietnam War, No 7) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hoa Thinh Don Viet Bao (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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

Under fire from shore batteries, while bombarding the Cong Phy railroad yard, 25 Miles south of Thanu Hoa, North Vietnam, on 4 August 1967.Credit: NAVY.

People's peace treaty Hoa uoc nhan dan.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Business

This will require an enormous upgrade of IT skills within the country, and overseas expertise will be key. Although leading IT programs of Vietnam's universities produce a fairly large number of graduates each year, the volume is inadequate and most multinational employers find that they require extensive targeted post-employment training in order to do world-class work. Special opportunities for foreign participation may come about in the Hoa Lac and Quang Trung software parks being developed as national priorities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, respectively. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

Between 100 and 200 visitors worship at the central Hoa Hao Pagoda in An Giang Province on a daily basis. (references)

Vietnam

The Government neither acknowledged the claims of these Hoa Hao believers nor officially permitted their independent activities. (references)

Vietnam

Buddhist monk Thich Thai Hoa in Hue, for example, has been refused permission to travel outside the country on several occasions. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Religions: Buddhism, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestant), animism, Islam. (references)

Human Rights

Vietnam

In addition, it is unknown whether several persons detained in previous years ever have been tried, including: Le Huu Hoa, Dinh Troi, Va Sinh Giay, Phang A Dong, Ma Van Chinh, and Lu Seo Dieu. (references)

Vietnam

In December 2000, during an unauthorized demonstration by Hoa Hao followers, police intervened to separate scuffling groups, and using batons beat one follower, Truong Van Duc, so severely that he required hospitalization. (references)

Political Economy

Vietnam

Dissident groups of Buddhists, Hoa Hao, and Protestants, in particular, faced harassment by authorities. (references)

Vietnam

In July a festival gathering of up to 300,000 Hoa Hao in An Giang province took place with official permission, and in August an estimated 15,000 persons attended the Roman Catholic La Vang pilgrimage. (references)

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

Romanian

hei (ahoy, hallo, heigh, hello, hey, heyday, hi, holla, hullo, hullo there, huzza, I say, oh), cea (gee, ho, the, the one). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "HOA": hoactzin, hoactzines, hoactzins, hoagie, hoagies, hoagy, hoar, hoard, hoarded, hoarder, hoarders, hoarding, hoardings, hoards, hoarfrost, hoarfrosts, hoarier, hoariest, hoarily, hoariness, hoarinesses, hoars, hoarse, hoarsely, hoarsen, hoarsened, hoarseness, hoarsenesses, hoarsening, hoarsens, hoarser, hoarsest, hoary, hoatzin, hoatzines, hoatzins, hoax, hoaxed, hoaxer, hoaxers, hoaxes, hoaxing. (additional references)

Words ending with "HOA": whoa. (additional references)

Words containing "HOA": choana, choanae, choanocyte, choanocytes, dimethoate, dimethoates, inchoate, inchoately, inchoateness, inchoatenesses, inchoative, inchoatively, inchoatives, postpsychoanalytic, psychoacoustic, psychoacoustics, psychoactive, psychoanalyses, psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic, psychoanalytical, psychoanalytically, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyzed, psychoanalyzes, psychoanalyzing, shoal, shoaled, shoaler, shoalest, shoalier, shoaliest, shoaling, shoals, shoaly, shoat, shoats, uphoard, uphoarded, uphoarding, uphoards. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hao.

-1 letter: ah, ha, ho, oh.

+1 letter: ahoy, chao, halo, hoar, hoax, hora, hoya, oath, ohia, opah, whoa.

+2 letters: abhor, abmho, abohm, achoo, ahold, aloha, altho, azoth, bohea, cahow, chaos, chiao, coach, hallo, halos, haole, havoc, hoagy, hoard, hoars, hoary, hodad, hogan, holla, honan, honda, hooka, horah, horal, horas, hosta, hoyas, loach, loath, lotah, macho, mahoe, mocha, nacho, oaths, obeah, ogham, ohias, opahs, orach, poach, roach, shako, shoal, shoat, torah, wahoo, whamo, yahoo.

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