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Date "MORENO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
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Literature | Moreno (3 syl.). Don Antonio Moreno, a gentleman of Barcelona, who entertained Don Quixote with mockheroic hospitality. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: MORENO |
| Non-English Usage: "MORENO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (moraine), Portuguese (brown, dark, duskiness, dusky, swarthy, tawny), Spanish (brown, brunette, dark, dusky, swart, swarthy). |
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Screenplays | I'm sorry about your little brother, Moreno. (Bad Boys; writing credit: Richard Di Lello) | |
Movie/TV Titles | De color moreno (1963) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Ed Moreno and Carol Sweeting, city employees of Iowa City, IA, working with Amy Bouska, Johnson County SWCD. [Slide 97CS3165. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Biological technician Eleazar Moreno artificially infects a mango with a fruit fly larva in one of the controlled atmosphere (CA) tests. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | J.L. Moreno, M.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Sida no ocultes el tema : informate / [poster by] Eduardo Moreno. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. Baldy Mountain. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Ecuador | The conservative Gabriel Garcia Moreno unified the country in the 1860s with the support of the Catholic Church. (references) |
Human Rights | Colombia | Pedro Mateo Hurtado Moreno and three other paramilitary suspects in the massacre remained at large at year's end. (references) |
Mexico | On August 24, the authorities released Manuel Moreno Gonzalez, a police officer with supervisory responsibilities convicted in connection with the 1995 Aguas Blancas massacre of 17 indigenous farmers; he had served 6 years of his 19-year sentence. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | The U.S. Embassy in Quito is located at the corner of Avenida 12 de Octubre and Avenida Patria (across from the Casa de la Cultura); telephone (011-593-2) 562-890, extension 480, during business hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) or 561-749 for after-hours emergencies; fax (011-593-2) 561-524; Internet web site - http://www.usembassy.org.ec/. The Consulate General in Guayaquil is located at the corner of 9 de Octubre and Garcia Moreno (near the Hotel Oro Verde); telephone (011-593-4) 323-570 during business hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) or 321-152 for after-hours emergencies; fax (011-593-4) 320-904. Consular services for U.S. citizens in the Galapagos Islands are provided by the Consulate General in Guayaquil. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MORENO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "MORENO" 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) | 85.71% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MORENO" 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 |
| Moreno | Last name | 43,000 | 247 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "MORENO": Moreno Valley. 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. |
Misspellings | |
"MORENO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cornejo, Malenko, Marenco, Mazeno, Merena, Milenko, Miranov, Modeno, Moengo, Mohenjo, Moorend, Morani, Morannon, Morazo, Morenho, moreon, Morio, Morken, Mormesnil, Moronov, Morren, Mortenson, Moruna, Morwen, Morwena, Moxen, M'reen, Muhren, Murango, Murena, Myrene, Noreng, Novenco, Voronov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-n-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: enorm, moron, romeo. | |
-2 letters: meno, mono, moon, moor, more, morn, nome, norm, omen, omer, room. | |
-3 letters: eon, ern, men, mon, moo, mor, nom, noo, nor, one, ore, rem, roe, rom. | |
-4 letters: em, en, er, me, mo, ne, no, oe, om, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: doormen, hormone, ionomer, monomer, montero, moonier, moorhen. | |
+2 letters: aeronomy, anteroom, coenamor, colormen, commoner, enormous, hormones, ionomers, marooned, mesotron, monogerm, monomers, monteros, moonrise, moorhens, motioner, motormen, neomorph, newsroom, nonmetro, omnivore, remotion, trombone, unmoored. | |
+3 letters: aeronomer, aeronomic, anterooms, boogerman, boogermen, boomerang, chromogen, coenamors, commoners, comonomer, condemnor, conformed, conformer, contemnor, endomorph, ergonomic, forewoman, forewomen, greenroom, groomsmen, homegrown, homeowner, lampooner, mellotron, mesotrons, metronome, microtone, moneywort, monitored, monoester, monolayer, monomeric, monometer, monorhyme, monotreme, moonrises, morphogen, motioners, neomorphs, newsrooms, nonsmoker, oarswomen, omnivores, pheromone, protonema, remotions, roominess, tonometer, tonometry, tormentor, trombones, workwomen. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 52 45 4E 4F |
| 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 01010010 01000101 01001110 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O R E N O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0052 0045 004E 004F |
| 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)474952394849 |
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