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Crosswords: NGA |
| Non-English Usage: "NGA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (at, by, from, of, off, on, out, out of, since, Syne, through, to, towards, with), Hawaiian (by, from, of, on, since), Luganda (just after, on), Wolof (you). |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "NGA."
| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | National Governors Association. (references) |
| National Grocers Association. (references) | |
Census | (National Governors' Association) An association established to help its members, the Governors of the states and territories, be more effective and to improve the Federal-State partnership. (references) |
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| 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 |
NGA | English | Federal Republic of Nigeria | Geography, Law |
NGA | French | République fédérale du Nigéria | Geography, Law |
NGA | German | Bundesrepublik Nigeria | Geography, Law |
NGA | Italian | Repubblica federale della Nigeria | Geography, Law |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kronika kulturore nga Shkupi-Shkëndija (1972) Duke filluar nga vehtja (1972) Kronika nga Shqipëria (1971) Nga festivali i shtëpisë së fëmijës (1970) Miq nga Vietnami heroik (1970) | |
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| "NGA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 63.16% of the time. "NGA" is used about 19 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) | 63.16% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.58% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "NGA" 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 |
| Nga | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,276 |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "NGA": phang-nga, sa-nga. | |
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| 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 "NGA": anga, anhinga, bubinga, chimichanga, conga, donga, fanga, linga, malanga, mridanga, panga, sanga, seringa, syringa, tonga. (additional references) | |
Words containing "NGA": angakok, angakoks, angaria, angarias, angaries, angary, angas, anhingas, antifungal, antifungals, bengaline, bengalines, bubingas, bungalow, bungalows, chimichangas, congaed, congaing, congas, diphthongal, disengage, disengaged, disengagement, disengagements, disengages, disengaging, dongas, dungaree, dungarees, elongate, elongated, elongates, elongating, elongation, elongations, engage, engaged, engagement, engagements, engager, engagers, engages, engaging, engagingly, engarland, engarlanded, engarlanding, engarlands, fangas, farthingale, farthingales. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gan, nag. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n" | |
-1 letter: ag, an, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n" | |
+1 letter: agin, agon, anga, bang, dang, fang, gaen, gain, gane, gang, gaun, gnar, gnat, gnaw, gran, guan, hang, lang, nags, pang, rang, sang, snag, tang, vang, yang. | |
+2 letters: acing, again, agene, agent, aging, agone, agons, agony, alang, algin, align, along, among, angas, angel, anger, angle, angry, angst, aping, argon, awing, axing, bangs, began, bhang, bogan, chang, clang, conga, dangs, donga, fagin, fanga, fangs, gains, gamin, ganef, ganev, gangs, ganja, ganof, garni, gaunt, genoa, genua, giant, gland, glans, glean, gnarl, gnarr, gnars, gnash, gnats, gnawn, gnaws, goban, gonad, gonia, gowan, grain, grana, grand, grans, grant, groan, guano, guans, hangs, hogan, kiang, lagan, liang, ligan, linga, logan, mange, mango, mangy, naggy, orang, organ, pagan, panga, pangs, prang, range, rangy, regna, sanga, sangh, slang, snags, spang, stang, swang, tango, tangs, tangy, tonga, twang, vangs, vegan, wagon, whang, wigan, wrang, yangs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 47 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)01001110 01000111 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N G A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0047 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)484135 |
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