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IGU

"IGU" is a common misspelling or typo for: age, ago, ague, ego, go, gum, gun, gut.


Specialty Definition: IGU

DomainDefinition

Computing

IGU I Give Up. Often found appended to documents, e-mail, programs that don't work, etc. (1999-09-30). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Census

(International Geographical Union) An organization of nations formed in 1922 to identify problems in geography, initiate and coordinate research involving several countries, and organize the International Geographic Congresses. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: IGU

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

IGU

EnglishInternational Gas UnionIndustry

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

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Synonyms: IGU

Synonyms by domain: International Gas Union (industry), International Geographical Union (geography).

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Commercial Usage: IGU

DomainTitle

Books

  • Loess and periglacial phenomena : symposium of the INQUA Commission on Loess : lithology, genesis, and geotechnic definitions : and IGU Commission for Periglacial Studies : field and laboratory experimentation : Normandy, Jersey, Brittany, Caen, August 19 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: IGU

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

igu

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: IGU

Derivations

Words beginning with "IGU": iguana, iguanas, iguanian, iguanians, iguanodon, iguanodons. (additional references)

Words containing "IGU": aiguille, aiguilles, aiguillette, aiguillettes, ambiguities, ambiguity, ambiguous, ambiguously, ambiguousness, ambiguousnesses, antifatigue, antiguerrilla, antiguerrillas, antigun, churrigueresque, ciguatera, ciguateras, configuration, configurational, configurationally, configurations, configurative, configure, configured, configures, configuring, contiguities, contiguity, contiguous, contiguously, contiguousness, contiguousnesses, disambiguate, disambiguated, disambiguates, disambiguating, disambiguation, disambiguations, disfigure, disfigured, disfigurement, disfigurements, disfigures, disfiguring, exiguities, exiguity, exiguous, exiguously, exiguousness, exiguousnesses, fatigue. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: IGU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "g-i-u"
 

+1 letter: guid, iglu.

 

+2 letters: cuing, fugio, fungi, gigue, guide, guids, guild, guile, guilt, guiro, guise, iglus, lungi, ruing, suing, unrig, using.

 

+3 letters: agouti, aguish, auding, augite, bluing, bougie, budgie, busing, buying, cluing, cubing, cueing, curing, dingus, duding, duking, duping, during, feuing, figure, fugios, fulgid, fuming, fungic, fusing, fuzing, genius, giaour, gigues, gluier, gluily, gluing, glutei, gomuti, gonium, guaiac, guanin, guided, guider, guides, guidon, guilds, guiled, guiles, guilts, guilty, guimpe, guinea, guiros, guised, guises, guitar, gunite, gussie, guying, iguana, impugn, ingulf, juking, kiaugh, ligula, ligule, ligure, lingua, lubing, luggie, luging, lungis, lungyi, luring, luting, midgut, muling, muring, musing, muting, nilgau, nuking, outing, pignus, pignut, pigout, puking, puling, quaigh, regius, reguli, rigour, rubigo, ruling, sluing, spuing, truing, tubing, tugrik, tuning, turgid, uglier, uglies, uglify, uglily, umping, ungird, ungirt, unguis, unrigs, upgird, upgirt, upping, urging, vigour.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IGU


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

49 47 55

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --.    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01000111 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#71 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0047 0055

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

434155

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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