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Definition: LOMA |
LOMANoun1. A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap. |
Date "LOMA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Etymology: Loma \Lo"ma\, noun; plural Lomata. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression fringe.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Mining | A term used in the Southwestern United States for an elongated, gentle swell or rise of the ground (as on a plain), or a rounded, broad-topped, inconspicuous hill. Etymol: Spanish, hillock, rising ground, slope. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Loma is a city located in Cavalier County, North Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 21.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Loma, Montana."
| 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 |
LOMA | English | Literature on modern art | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Height | Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LOMA |
| English words defined with "LOMA": Lomata. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "LOMA": lomatinous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LOMA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Finnish (furlough, gap, holidays, interval, leave, vacation), Spanish (bank, hill, hump, knoll), Swedish (go away, slouch). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (1942) Loma (1985) Canada Vignettes: From Cobalt to Casa Loma (1978) Loma (1976) | |
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 | Tower at Loma Prieta, Santa Cruz Mountains, covered with ice Triangulation party of Lorne G. Taylor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A view of Point Loma with the Point Loma lighthouse seen to the right. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 22. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Plate XXIV. 89. Lampanyctus lacerta, Goode and Bean. From N. Lat. 28.6, W. Lon. 85.9, at 142 fathoms. 90. Lampanyctus Guntheri, Goode and Bean. From Georges Bank in 45 fathoms. 91. Ceratoscopelus maderensis, (Lowe), Goode and Bean. From N. Lat. 41.8, W. Lon. 65.6 at 677 fathoms. 92. Lampanyctus alatus. From N. Lat. 28.7, W. Lon. 87.2, at 525 fathoms. 93. Diaphus theta. From Point Loma, CA. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate XXVIII. 104. Rhinoscopelus Coccoi, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. From ALBATROS S, in N. Lat. 39, W. Lon. 72. 105. Tarletonbeania tenua, Eigenmann and Eigenmann . From off Point Loma, Calif. 106. Dasyscopelus asper, (Richardson), Goode and Bean. From Richardson, "Voyage of the Erebus and Terror." 107. Electrona Risso i, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. From Cent. Coll. of Italian Vertebrata, Florence. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Figure 33. Kofoid plankton sampling bucket devised by Charles A. Kofoid of the University of California at Berkeley in 1905. It was used on board the vessel LOMA out of San Diego. This bottle was used to acquire a volume of water in which the plankton would be counted for quantitative studies of life in the sea. This instrument closely resembled a Pettersson bottle. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Photographed at the time of a fatal gun accident on board, January 1926. The photograph's original caption (which does not completely fit the image) reads: "One Sailor was killed and seven other members of the forward four-inch gun crew received minor injuries as a result of the premature explosion of the gun during battle torpedo practice off Point Loma, California, January 1926. The gun is in the center, foreground.". Credit: NAVY. |
 | Raja Yoga Academy and Aryan Memorial Temple at the International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A group of young children, Raja-Yoga students, dressed in white and wearing flower garlands in their hair and around their necks, at the International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coronado Beach from Pt. Loma. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Grain storage elevators, freight car and railroad station. Loma, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | An important turning point was reached in 1977 with the discovery of a gigantic gas deposit in Loma de la Lata in the Neuquen Basin. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | Police arrested and charged 44 students with inciting violence under the LOMA. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The Government enforced laws that restrict this right, including the LOMA, and repeatedly used force to break up nonviolent demonstrations by its critics. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | On June 25, police arrested Dirk Wouter du Ploy, a garage manager, and charged him with breaching the LOMA after he allegedly made comments critical of President Mugabe. (references) | |
Economic History | Colombia | The largest Colombian mines have U.S. investments (Cerrejon and La Loma), and they plan to expand production for 2001 to 30 million tons per year. (references) |
Mexico | Among the major private sector, potential end-users of building materials are: GRUPO SARE, CONSORCIO ARA, GRUPO GEO, TERRUM, PARQUE REFORMA, GRUPO LOMA, Desarrolladora Metropolitana DEMET, Corporativo DINE, Desarrollo Monarca, Grupo ICA, and Gutsa Vivienda. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bolivia | On September 27, a group of approximately 200 protesters accompanied by journalists attempted to occupy a camp for coca eradication work crews near Loma Alta in the Chapare. (references) |
Worker Rights | Colombia | In March Valmore Locarno Rodriguez and Victor Hugo Orcasita, local president and vice president of miners' union SINTRAMINERGETICA at Drummond Corporation's La Loma coal mine in the northeastern department of Cesar, were abducted from their company bus and killed. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LOMA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LOMA" is used about 15 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) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LOMA" 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 |
| Loma | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,751 |
| Loma | Last name | 100 | 81,897 |
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1. Loma, CO 2. Loma, MT 3. Loma, ND (city, FIPS 47660) |
Expressions using "LOMA": Alta Loma ♦ La Loma ♦ Loma Linda ♦ Loma Mar ♦ Loma Rica ♦ Mira Loma. 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 ending with "LOMA": condyloma, diploma, granuloma, lymphogranuloma, myeloma, papilloma. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LOMA": acoelomate, acoelomates, celomata, coelomata, coelomate, coelomates, condylomas, condylomata, condylomatous, diplomacies, diplomacy, diplomaed, diplomaing, diplomas, diplomat, diplomata, diplomate, diplomates, diplomatic, diplomatically, diplomatist, diplomatists, diplomats, granulomas, granulomata, granulomatous, lymphogranulomas, lymphogranulomata, lymphogranulomatoses, lymphogranulomatosis, megalomania, megalomaniac, megalomaniacal, megalomaniacally, megalomaniacs, megalomanias, megalomanic, myelomas, myelomata, myelomatous, nondiplomatic, papillomas, papillomata, papillomatous, papillomavirus, papillomaviruses, pseudocoelomate, pseudocoelomates, superdiplomat, superdiplomats, undiplomatic. (additional references) | |
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"LOMA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Koma, Lma, Loja, Lomawa, Lomba, Lomi, Lomo, Lonja, Lonka, Loomba, Lugmag, Luzma, Olam, Olma. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "LOMA" (pronounced 'Lo"ma'): Aboma, Adenoma, Adipoma, Amma, Amphiuma, Analemma, Arapaima, Aroma, Asthma, Atheroma, Bema, Blastema, BRAHMA, Brama, Bregma, Broma, Cauma, Ceroma, Chacma, Chiloma, Chloasma, Chondroma, Cima, Coloboma, Comma, Cosmorama, Croma, Cyclorama, Cytoblastema, Enigma, fibroma, GAMMA, gemma, Georama, Glama, Glaucoma, Glioma, gumma, hematoma, Hypoderma, karma, Kokama, Lecama, lemma, Lepisma, leucoma, Lima, lipoma, llama, Lucuma. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: loam, mola. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: lam, moa, mol. | |
-2 letters: al, am, la, lo, ma, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: alamo, amole, comal, dolma, domal, gloam, loams, loamy, modal, molal, molar, molas, moola, moral. | |
+2 letters: abloom, alamos, almond, almost, amatol, amidol, amoles, amoral, aplomb, bromal, clamor, copalm, dolman, dolmas, formal, gambol, glamor, glioma, gloams, lipoma, loamed, logjam, mallow, maloti, maltol, molars, mollah, moolah, moolas, morale, morals, mortal, morula, normal, oilman, salmon, shalom, slalom, smalto, stomal, tombal, wadmol. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 4F 4D 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 01001101 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L O M A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 004F 004D 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)46494735 |
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