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Definition: Leda |
LedaNoun1. (Greek mythology) a queen of Sparta who was raped by Zeus who had taken the form of a swan; Helen of Troy was conceived in the rape of Leda. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Leda" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a woman". |
Date "Leda" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | LEDA Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms Leda A multi-paradigm language (imperative, declarative, procedural, applicative, functional, logic, and object-oriented!) by Tim Budd |
Biographical Satire | LEDA, see mythology books, paintings, and statuary. Also Jupiter, Castor, and Pollux. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| 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 |
LEDA | English | Lunar European Demonstration Approach | N/A |
LEDA | Italian | Immagini acquisite dalle stazioni Earthnet con dettagli sui percorsi,sui quadri,sui giorni e sulle ore | Computing, Information |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Leda |
| English words defined with "Leda": Helen, Helen of Troy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Leda": LEDA, Leda and the Swan. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Leda" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Leda), Esperanto (leather), Swedish (articulate, beacon, boredom, boss, captain, channel, conduct, convey, direct, disgust, ennui, fugle, go, govern, guide, lead, loathing, open, operate, pilot, route, take, tedium, wheel). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | 7/64: Leda mit dem Schwan (1964) Povera Leda... (1914) Leda and the Swan: Nailed (1999) | |
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| "Leda" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Leda" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Leda" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Leda | First name Female | 3,000 | 1,951 |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Leda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Handlingsprogram til fremme af lokale beskæftigelsesinitiativer (Local Employment Development Action Programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Leda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Ledao. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | LEDA, Programme d'action pour le développement local de l'emploi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | LEDA, Aktionsprogramm zur örtlichen Beschäftigungsförderung (Local Employment Development Action Programme), Aktionsprogramm zur örtlichen Beschäftigungsentwicklung (Local Employment Development Action Programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | LEDA, ρόγραμμα δράσης για την τοπική ανάπτυξη της απασχόλησης (Local Employment Development Action Programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | LEDA (on-Line Earthnet Data Availability), Programma di azione per lo sviluppo locale dell'occupazione (Local Employment Development Action Programme), Immagini acquisite dalle stazioni Earthnet con dettagli sui percorsi,sui quadri,sui giorni e sulle ore (on-Line Earthnet Data Availability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edalay LEDA, Programa de Acção para o Desenvolvimento Local do Emprego (Local Employment Development Action Programme). (various references) LEDA, Programa de Acción para el Desarrollo del Empleo Local (Local Employment Development Action Programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Leda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lazda, Leada, Leadam, ledal, Leta, Lexa, Lhda, Lidar, Lledo, Lrda, Ltda, Olmeda. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dale, deal, lade, lead. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l" | |
-1 letter: ale, dal, del, eld, lad, lea, led. | |
-2 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l" | |
+1 letter: addle, ailed, alder, axled, baled, blade, clade, dales, deals, dealt, decal, dedal, delay, delta, eland, glade, haled, ideal, laced, laded, laden, lader, lades, ladle, laked, lamed, lased, lated, laved, lawed, layed, lazed, leads, leady, medal, naled, padle, paled, pedal, plead, waled, weald. | |
+2 letters: addled, addles, adenyl, aedile, afield, agedly, aisled, alated, albedo, alcade, alders, aldose, alined, aliped, allied, allude, almude, aludel, ambled, aneled, angled, ankled, argled, ariled, audile, aulder, bailed, balded, balder, balked, balled, bawled, beadle, bedlam, beglad, belady, belaud, beldam, bladed, blades, blamed, blared, blawed, blazed, cabled, calked, called, calmed, calved, candle, caudle, cedula, clades, clawed, clayed, coaled, colead, cradle, credal, dabble, daddle, daedal, daggle, daledh, daleth, dalles, damsel, dandle, dangle, dapple, darkle, darnel, dartle, dawdle, dazzle, deadly, deafly, dealer, dearly, deasil, decals, declaw, deflea, delate, delays, delead, deltas, denial, dental, derail, dermal, desalt, detail, dewlap, dialed, dialer, dilate, doable, dyable, eidola, elands, elapid, elated, elodea, fabled, failed, fardel, feudal, flaked, flamed, flared, flawed, flayed, foaled, gabled, galled, gaoled, gelada, glades, glared, glazed, goaled, hailed, halide, haloed, halted, halved, handle, hauled, healed, herald, ideals, jailed, lacked, ladder, laddie, ladens, laders, ladies, ladled, ladler, ladles, lagend, lagged, laired, lalled, lambed, lamedh, lameds, lammed, lamped, lanced, landed, lander, lapped, lapsed, larded, larder, larked, lashed, lasted, lathed, lauded, lauder, lazied, leaded, leaden, leader, leafed, leaked, leaned, leaped, leased, leaved, loaded, loader, loafed, loamed, loaned, macled, mailed, malfed, malled, malted, marled, mauled, medals, medial, medlar, nailed, naleds, ordeal, paddle, padles, palled, palmed, parled, pealed, pedalo, pedals, pedlar, placed, planed, plated, played, pleads, pleiad, raddle, railed, reclad, redial, relaid, reload, saddle, sailed, salted, salved, scaled, sealed, sendal, shaled, slaked, slated, slaved, slayed, staled, tabled, tailed, talced, talked, unlade, unlead, vailed, valued, valved, vealed, vialed, waddle, wadmel, wailed, walked, walled, wandle, wauled, wawled, wealds, whaled, yawled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 64 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (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 01100101 01100100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e d a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0064 0061 |
| 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)46717067 |
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