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Definition: MOE |
MOEAdjective, adverb, & noun1. More. See Mo. Intransitive verb1. To make faces; to mow. Noun1. A wry face or mouth; a mow. |
Date "MOE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| 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 |
MOE | English | Ministry of Education | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: MOE |
| Specialty definitions using "MOE": Moe gage. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MOE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (tired). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm Moe Greene! (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; Mario Puzo) | |
Clever | He does the work of three men: Larry, Moe and Curly. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mean Moe the Great (1963) Make Room for Moe (1963) Moe Moves In (1963) Mayor Mean Moe (1963) Mean Moe and Cleopatra (1963) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Moe LeFever on the Koyukuk River. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. | ![]() | Baltimore College Of Dental Surgery : Saint Apollonia / Moe Turner. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Izzy Einstein (l) sharing a toast with Moe Smith in a New York bar] / World Telegram staff photo. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Left to right: Moe Howard, Curly Howard and Larry Fine, the Three Stooges, performing a comedy routine. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I have no moe sons of the royal blood For thee to slaughter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The MOE will continue to heighten standards, tighten enforcement and post-future standards. (references) | |
The main tool of support/funding by the MoE is the State Environmental Fund of the Czech Republic. (references) | ||
The Korean MOE reported that in 1999, over 154,000 Korean students were studying abroad in 71 countries. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | According to MOE data for 1996-97, 58.9 percent of students in the 12-14 year age range were enrolled in junior secondary school. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Burma | Government censorship boards prohibit publication or distribution of works authored by those in prison, although in 2000 the Government allowed former political prisoners Ma Thida and U Sein Myint (also known as U Moe Thu), to write several magazine articles following their release from prison. (references) |
Economic History | Korea | The Environmental Management Corporation, the implementation arm of the MOE, will construct a central TMS control center as well as purchase additional monitoring equipment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MOE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MOE" is used about 21 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% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MOE" 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 |
| Moe | Last name | 4,000 | 3,496 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | PEP BOYS MANNY MOE & JACK |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
moe | 866 | lil lyrics moe | 17 |
peeping moe | 689 | moe berg | 16 |
big moe | 310 | moe nishimura | 15 |
lil moe | 138 | down moe | 14 |
lyrics moe | 125 | moe simpsons | 13 |
moe norman | 55 | curly moe larry | 13 |
moe setlists | 51 | five guy named moe | 12 |
moe bandy | 49 | boobsquad moe | 11 |
moe tab | 46 | moe setlist | 11 |
big lyrics moe | 44 | ansari moe | 11 |
kool moe dee | 42 | moe yoshizawa | 11 |
moe singapore | 39 | home moe mom | 11 |
moe howard | 39 | jack manny moe | 10 |
moe band | 29 | moe yamaguchi | 9 |
big life moe moe | 27 | moe mp3 | 8 |
ebates maker moe money | 27 | little moe | 8 |
kirimura moe | 26 | flaming moe | 8 |
life moe | 25 | green moe | 7 |
guitar moe tab | 21 | haruta moe | 7 |
moe music | 19 | moe ontario | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "MOE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | többet (better, to drink more than is good for one, to raise the bid), többen (a number of persons), több (better, better than fifty years ago, he spoke for over an hour, more, more than, multi, parti-coloured, pluri, plus, rising of ten thousand, several, some, to be on the shady side of thirty, to be on the wrong side of thirty). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oemay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MOE": schmoe. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MOE": amoeba, amoebae, amoeban, amoebas, amoebean, amoebiases, amoebiasis, amoebic, amoebocyte, amoebocytes, amoeboid, demoed, endamoeba, endamoebae, endamoebas, entamoeba, entamoebae, entamoebas, homoerotic, homoeroticism, homoeroticisms, ipomoea, ipomoeas, schmoes, shmoes, thermoelectric, thermoelectricities, thermoelectricity, thermoelement, thermoelements. (additional references) | |
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"MOE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eom. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o" | |
-1 letter: em, me, mo, oe, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o" | |
+1 letter: come, demo, dome, home, memo, meno, meou, meow, mode, moke, mole, mome, mope, more, mote, moue, move, nome, omen, omer, poem, pome, some, tome. | |
+2 letters: amole, besom, biome, bombe, brome, cameo, celom, chemo, comae, combe, comer, comes, comet, comte, demob, demon, demos, domed, domes, embow, emote, enorm, forme, gemot, genom, gnome, golem, homed, homer, homes, homey, lemon, mahoe, melon, memos, meous, meows, meson, metro, mezzo, mimeo, model, modem, modes, mohel, moire, mokes, moles, momes, monde, money, monie, monte, mooed, moose, moped, moper, mopes, mopey, morae, morel, mores, morse, mosey, moste, motel, motes, motet, motey, motte, moues, mouse, moved, mover, moves, movie, mowed, mower, moxie, myope, nomen, nomes, odeum, oleum, omber, ombre, omega, omens, omers, ormer, oxime, poems, pomes, proem, romeo, smoke, smote, tempo, tomes, totem, venom, vomer, women. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 45 |
| 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)01001101 01001111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0045 |
| 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)474939 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | magyar |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | angol |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Names: Company Usage 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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