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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Lr |
Census | (Last Resort) Field enumeration terminology to indicate a last attempt to reach a respondent. (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 |
LR | Danish | Republikken Liberia | Geography |
LR | Dutch | Republiek Liberia | Geography |
LR | English | Liquefied refinery | Chemical Industry |
LR | Finnish | Liberian tasavalta | Geography |
LR | French | République du Libéria | Geography, Law |
LR | German | Republik Liberia | Geography |
LR | Greek | καταχωρητής θέσης αναζήτησης | Computing |
LR | Italian | Repubblica di Liberia | Geography |
LR | Portuguese | Libéria | Geography |
LR | Spanish | República de Liberia | Geography |
LR | Swedish | Republiken Liberia | Geography |
| LR 1 | English | Large range,class 1 | Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: LR |
| Specialty definitions using "LR": Ada ♦ likelihood ratio, LOCRV. (references) |
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Wells RM, Young J, Williams RJ, Armstrong LR, Busico K, Khan AS, et al. Hantavirus transmission in the United States. (references) | |
Afzalpurkar RG, Shiller LR, Little KH, Santangelo WC, Fortran JS. The self-limited nature of chronic idiopathic diarrhea. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.00% of the time. "LR" is used about 209 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) | 89% | 186 | 22,556 |
| Noun (common) | 9.57% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.96% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.48% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 209 | N/A |
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. |
Derivations | |
Words containing "LR": already, alright, ballroom, ballrooms, bullring, bullrings, bullrush, bullrushes, bulrush, bulrushes, cavalries, cavalry, cavalryman, cavalrymen, chivalric, chivalries, chivalrous, chivalrously, chivalrousness, chivalrousnesses, chivalry, conelrad, conelrads, daredevilries, daredevilry, devilries, devilry, grillroom, grillrooms, hexylresorcinol, hexylresorcinols, hostelries, hostelry, jewelries, jewelry, kohlrabi, kohlrabies, millrace, millraces, millrun, millruns, milreis, missilries, missilry, nonrailroad, poolroom, poolrooms, railroad, railroaded, railroader, railroaders. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "l-r" | |
+1 letter: lar. | |
+2 letters: alar, aril, aryl, birl, blur, burl, byrl, carl, curl, dirl, earl, farl, furl, girl, harl, herl, hurl, jarl, lair, lard, lari, lark, lars, lear, leer, lehr, liar, lier, lira, lire, liri, lord, lore, lorn, lory, lour, lure, lurk, lyre, marl, merl, nurl, oral, orle, purl, rail, rale, real, reel, rely, rial, riel, rile, rill, roil, role, rolf, roll, rotl, rule, ruly, slur, tirl, virl. | |
| 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)4C 52 |
| 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)01001100 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0052 |
| 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)4652 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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