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MOE

Definition: MOE

MOE

Adjective, adverb, & noun

1. More. See Mo.

Intransitive verb

1. To make faces; to mow.

Noun

1. A wry face or mouth; a mow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MOE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: MOE

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

MOE

EnglishMinistry of EducationN/A

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

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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).

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Modern Usage: MOE

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: MOE

DomainTitle

References

  • PEP BOYS MANNY MOE & JACK: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records (reference)

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Pep Boys - Manny, Moe - PBY [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Moe McTooth : An Alley Cat's Tale (reference)

  • Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise (reference)

  • The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: MOE

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Use in Literature: MOE

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MOE

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: MOE

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2176,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: MOE

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MoeLast name4,0003,496
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: MOE

CountryName
USA

PEP BOYS MANNY MOE & JACK

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MOE

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
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: MOE

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: MOE

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)


Misspellings

"MOE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eom. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: MOE

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MOE


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

4D 4F 45

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0045

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

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

474939

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Non-English Dictionaries with "MOE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmagyar

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationangol
 


INDEX

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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