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Date "LOA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
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Health | A genus of parasitic nematodes found throughout the rain-forest areas of the Sudan and the basin of the Congo. L. loa inhabits the subcutaneous tissues, which it traverses freely. (references) |
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Loa:
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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 |
LOA | English | Log-out analysis | N/A |
| IOP LOA | English | Independent Oil Producers and Land Owners Association | N/A |
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Crosswords: LOA |
| Specialty definitions using "LOA": Diethylcarbamazine ♦ Hawaiian eruption ♦ lava dome, Loiasis ♦ Mauna Loa record ♦ secular carbon dioxide trend. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LOA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (carol). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Loa loai, agent of filariasis. Anterior end. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |  | Pack train at the top of Mauna Loa Astro Party of E. J. Brown World Longitude Network. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Beginning a spur line into Mokuaweoweo Crater Leveling in support of gravity operations on Mauna Loa Party of Lansing Simmons. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Mauna Loa from the air. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Instruments on the tower at the Mauna Loa Observatory. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Snow on the ground at Mauna Loa Observatory. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Pahoehoe lava flow on Mauna Loa. Note small cinder cone in the distance. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Photo #1 of sequence. A view of snow-capped Mauna Kea as seen from Mauna Loa. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Photo #2 of sequence. The same view of Mauna Kea but panning to the right and showing the winding road leading to the Mauna Loa Observatory. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Each day the cloud cover rolls up Mauna Loa from the Hilo area. It fills the saddle first, then reaches the observatory by late afternoon. This is a daily cycle. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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Health | Examination of blood samples will allow identification of microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, Brugia timori, Loa loa, Mansonella perstans, and M. ozzardi. (references) | |
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| "LOA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "LOA" is used about 24 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) | 66.67% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Unclassified Items | 20.83% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LOA" 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 |
| Loa | Last name | 200 | 35,332 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Loa, UT (town, FIPS 45530) |
Expression using "LOA": Mauna Loa. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LOA": loach, loaches, load, loaded, loader, loaders, loading, loadings, loadmaster, loadmasters, loads, loadstar, loadstars, loadstone, loadstones, loaf, loafed, loafer, loafers, loafing, loafs, loam, loamed, loamier, loamiest, loaming, loamless, loams, loamy, loan, loanable, loaned, loaner, loaners, loaning, loanings, loans, loanword, loanwords, loath, loathe, loathed, loather, loathers, loathes, loathful, loathing, loathings, loathly, loathness, loathnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "LOA": halloa, hilloa, holloa, hulloa, keitloa. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LOA": afloat, alloantibodies, alloantibody, alloantigen, alloantigens, armload, armloads, autoloading, becloak, becloaked, becloaking, becloaks, bloat, bloated, bloater, bloaters, bloating, bloats, boatload, boatloads, bombload, bombloads, breechloader, breechloaders, busload, busloads, carload, carloads, cartload, cartloads, caseload, caseloads, chloasma, chloasmata, cloaca, cloacae, cloacal, cloacas, cloak, cloaked, cloaking, cloakroom, cloakrooms, cloaks, cycloaddition, cycloadditions, cycloaliphatic, download, downloadable, downloaded, downloading. (additional references) | |
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"LOA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Laaa, lao, Laou, Lga, Lhota, Lma, Loat, Loba, Lofa, Loh, loha, Loja, Lota, Loua, loxa, Luoi, Olac, Olah, Olja, Oloa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-o" | |
-1 letter: al, la, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-o" | |
+1 letter: aloe, alow, also, alto, awol, bola, calo, coal, cola, foal, gaol, goal, halo, kola, load, loaf, loam, loan, loca, lota, mola, olea, olla, opal, oral, oval, sola, tola. | |
+2 letters: aboil, acold, afoul, aglow, ahold, aioli, alamo, aldol, algor, allod, allot, allow, alloy, aloes, aloft, aloha, aloin, alone, along, aloof, aloud, altho, altos, amole, anole, argol, atoll, awols, azlon, azole, bloat, bolar, bolas, boral, boyla, calos, carol, claro, cloak, coala, coals, coaly, colas, colza, comal, copal, coral, coxal, dobla, dolma, domal, dotal, float, flora, flota, foals, focal, folia, galop, gaols, gloam, gloat, goals, goral, hallo, halos, haole, holla, horal, jalop, joual, koala, kolas, labor, laevo, largo, lasso, llano, loach, loads, loafs, loams, loamy, loans, loath, lobar, local, logan, logia, loofa, loral, loran, lotah, lotas, lovat, loyal, modal, molal, molar, molas, moola, moral, nodal, nopal, notal, octal, offal, ollas, opals, orals, ovals, parol, polar, polka, royal, salol, salon, salvo, shoal, skoal, solan, solar, talon, tolan, tolar, tolas, tonal, total, valor, viola, vocal, voila, volar, volta, volva, waldo, woald, zoeal, zonal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 4F 41 |
| 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 01001111 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L O A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 004F 0041 |
| 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)464935 |
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