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Date "ICO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
"ICO" is a common misspelling or typo for: co, ice, icon, icy. |
| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | International Coffee Organization. (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 |
ICO | English | Inducible co-stimulator | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ICO |
| Specialty definitions using "ICO": guarantee capital. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ICO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (hit, make a deal, to strike, wound /strike a bargain). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | El caballito valiente Ico (1981) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Potential competitors include ICO, Globalstar, Ellipso, and Constellation. (references) | |
The two British based groups, ICO and Inmarsat, initially suffered as a result of bad publicity associated with the high-profile demise of the Motorola backed Iridium project. (references) | ||
The Official Credit Institute (Instituto de Credito Oficial – ICO) and the Energy Diversification and Saving Institute (Instituto para la Diversificacion y Ahorro de la Energia – IDAE) have recently reached an agreement to finance renewable energy (energy efficiency and saving) projects in Spain through special loans. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ICO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "ICO" is used about 48 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) | 50% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (singular) | 47.92% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "ICO": un-oau-ico-arab. | |
| 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 |
ico | 680 | free ico icon | 10 |
gif to ico | 449 | 2 ico | 10 |
ico file | 289 | play station 2 ico | 9 |
ico icon | 164 | free ico | 9 |
ico ps2 | 162 | create ico | 8 |
ico teen | 91 | ico editor | 8 |
girl ico | 73 | ico rally | 8 |
girl ico tgp | 57 | ico teen tgp | 8 |
ico maker | 55 | file ico icon | 7 |
ico through walk | 50 | converter ico sit | 7 |
ico converter | 35 | ico global communication | 6 |
bmp to ico | 23 | gallery ico teen | 6 |
ico format | 21 | ico jpg | 6 |
cheat ico | 18 | ico inc | 6 |
convert gif ico | 13 | download file ico | 5 |
file free ico | 12 | ico ps2 through walk | 5 |
convert ico | 11 | ico file format | 5 |
convert ico sit | 11 | convert ico jpg | 5 |
convert bmp to ico | 10 | create file ico | 5 |
ico tgp | 10 | ico icones | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ICO": icon, icones, iconic, iconical, iconically, iconicities, iconicity, iconoclasm, iconoclasms, iconoclast, iconoclastic, iconoclastically, iconoclasts, iconographer, iconographers, iconographic, iconographical, iconographically, iconographies, iconography, iconolatries, iconolatry, iconological, iconologies, iconology, iconoscope, iconoscopes, iconostases, iconostasis, icons, icosahedra, icosahedral, icosahedron, icosahedrons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ICO": alnico, calico, chico, classico, fantastico, fico, magnifico, medico, politico, portico, simpatico. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ICO": adrenocorticosteroid, adrenocorticosteroids, adrenocorticotrophic, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotrophins, adrenocorticotropic, adrenocorticotropin, adrenocorticotropins, albicore, albicores, alnicoes, alnicos, anticoagulant, anticoagulants, anticodon, anticodons, anticold, anticollision, anticolonial, anticolonialism, anticolonialisms, anticolonialist, anticolonialists, anticolonials, anticommercial, anticommercialism, anticommercialisms, anticommunism, anticommunisms, anticommunist, anticommunists, anticompetitive, anticonglomerate, anticonservation, anticonservationist, anticonservationists, anticonservations, anticonsumer, anticonsumers, anticonventional, anticonvulsant, anticonvulsants, anticonvulsive, anticonvulsives, anticorporate, anticorrosion, anticorrosive, anticorrosives, anticorruption, anticorruptions, anticounterfeiting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o" | |
+1 letter: ciao, cion, coif, coil, coin, coir, coni, fico, foci, icon, loci, odic, otic, zoic. | |
+2 letters: azoic, bocci, boric, chiao, chico, chino, chiro, choir, cibol, cions, cisco, coati, cobia, cocci, coifs, coign, coils, coins, coirs, colic, colin, comic, comix, conic, conin, corgi, coria, cosie, covin, cozie, croci, curio, dicot, disco, dolci, domic, hoick, ichor, icons, incog, iodic, ionic, logic, lotic, micro, nicol, oculi, ohmic, oleic, ontic, optic, orcin, orgic, osmic, picot, pisco, scion, sicko, sodic, sonic, stoic, tonic, topic, toric, toxic, voice, wilco, yogic, yonic. | |
| 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)49 43 4F |
| 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)01001001 01000011 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I C O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0043 004F |
| 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)433749 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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