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MERU

"MERU" is a common misspelling or typo for: mar, mare, menu, mere, merit, merry, metro, mire, more.


Specialty Definition: MERU

DomainDefinition

Literature

Meru A fabulous mountain in the centre of the world, 80,000 leagues high, the abode of Vishnu, and a perfect paradise. It may be termed the Indian Olympos. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Meru

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Meru is a commune of the Oise département in France.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Meru."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: MERU

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

MERU

EnglishMaharishi European Research UniversityN/A

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

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Modern Usage: MERU

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Meru Malan (1985)

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

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Commercial Usage: MERU

DomainTitle

Books

  • 'Anuson Ngan Phraratchathan Phlngsop 'Achan Saiphin Piamsanga, Tho. Cho., Tho. Mo., Na Meru Wat Maha (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: MERU

Photos:
MERU

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Non-Fiction Usage: MERU

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Economic History

Kenya

Ethnic groups: African--Kikuyu 21%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 11%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 5%. Non-African--Asian, European, Arab 1%. (references)

Cambodia

The principal temple, Angkor Wat, was built between 1112 and 1150 by Suryavarman II. With walls nearly one-half mile on each side, Angkor Wat portrays the Hindu cosmology with the central towers representing Mount Meru, home of the gods; the outer walls, the mountains enclosing the world; and the moat, the oceans beyond.Angkor Thom, the capital city built after the Cham sack of 1177, is surrounded by a 300-foot wide moat. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

In March 2000, a police officer in Meru reportedly killed Wallace Kiogora; the officer was arrested. (references)

Minorities

Kenya

The Kikuyu and the closely related Kamba, Meru, and Embu groups make up more than one-third of the country's population; members of these groups also dominate much of private commerce and industry and have tended to support opposition parties since they were legalized in 1992. The Kikuyu, the largest, best-educated, and most prosperous ethnic group, dominated the country under its first president, Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. (references)

Travel

Kenya

A number of incidents have also occurred near the game parks or lodges north of Mwingi, Meru, and Isiolo, which are frequented by tourists. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MERU

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

kenya meru

23

meru

22

meru network

10

dragoon legend meru

7

mount meru

4

meru foundation

4

mt meru

3

dragoon legend meru pic

2

lloyd meru

2
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Derivations: MERU

Derivations

Words containing "MERU": glomerular, glomerule, glomerules, glomeruli, glomerulonephritides, glomerulonephritis, glomerulus, humerus. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: MERU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mure.

Words within the letters "e-m-r-u"

-1 letter: emu, rem, rue, rum.

-2 letters: em, er, me, mu, re, um.

 Words containing the letters "e-m-r-u"
 

+1 letter: brume, demur, femur, fumer, grume, lemur, mured, mures, murex, murre, muser, muter, rheum, rumen, serum, umber.

 

+2 letters: amuser, armure, brumes, bummer, bumper, cerium, cumber, cummer, demure, demurs, dumber, dumper, embrue, erbium, estrum, femurs, ferrum, frenum, fumers, fumier, grumes, gummer, humeri, hummer, imbrue, immure, impure, iterum, jumper, lemurs, lumber, lumper, manure, marque, mature, mauger, maugre, mauler, morgue, mouser, mucker, mudder, mugger, muller, mummer, mumper, murder, murein, murine, murker, murres, murrey, musers, musher, muster, mutter, number, pumper, rectum, regnum, relume, remuda, repump, resume, rheums, rheumy, rumble, rumens, rummer, rumple, serums, summer, tergum, umbers, umbrae, umpire, uremia, uremic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MERU


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

4D 45 52 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)

01001101 01000101 01010010 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#69 &#82 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 0052 0055

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

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

47395255

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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