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NGU

Definition: NGU

NGU

Noun

1. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: NGU

DomainDefinitions

Health

An inflammation of the urethra caused by an organism other than Neisseria gonorrhoeae. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: NGU

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

NGU

EnglishNongonoccocal urethritisMedicine

NGU

GermanNicht-gonorrhoische UrethritisN/A

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

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Synonym: NGU

Synonym: nongonococcal urethritis (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: nongonoccocal urethritis (medicine), non-gonoccocal urethritis, non-gonococcal Urethritis.

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Crosswords: NGU

Non-English Usage: "NGU" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Xhosa (is).

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Modern Usage: NGU

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Returning to Ngu Thuy (1998)

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

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Commercial Usage: NGU

DomainTitle

Periodicals

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

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Usage Frequency: NGU

"NGU" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.68% of the time. "NGU" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)73.68%1493,893
Noun (common)15.79%3202,518
Noun (proper)10.53%2245,945
                    Total100.00%19N/A

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

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Expression: NGU

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "NGU": nyaung-ngu.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NGU

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

ngu

54

ngu std

4

ngu patan.org

4

ngu viet

3

health ngu

2

ngu treatment

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: NGU

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

urethritis non gonococcica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: NGU

Derivations

Words beginning with "NGU": ngultrum, ngultrums. (additional references)

Words containing "NGU": anguine, anguish, anguished, anguishes, anguishing, angular, angularities, angularity, angularly, angulate, angulated, angulates, angulating, angulation, angulations, angulose, angulous, anilingus, anilinguses, beardtongue, beardtongues, bilingual, bilingualism, bilingualisms, bilingually, bilinguals, bluetongue, bluetongues, cangue, cangues, cingula, cingulate, cingulum, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineously, consanguinities, consanguinity, contradistinguish, contradistinguished, contradistinguishes, contradistinguishing, crosslinguistic, crosslinguistically, cunnilingus, cunnilinguses, dengue, dengues, dingus, dinguses, distingue, distinguish, distinguishabilities, distinguishability, distinguishable, distinguishably, distinguished, distinguishes, distinguishing, engulf, engulfed, engulfing, engulfment, engulfments, engulfs, ensanguine, ensanguined, ensanguines, ensanguining, equiangular, exsanguinate, exsanguinated, exsanguinates, exsanguinating, exsanguination, exsanguinations, extinguish, extinguishable, extinguished, extinguisher, extinguishers, extinguishes, extinguishing, extinguishment, extinguishments, extralinguistic, extralinguistically, fungus, funguses, gangue, gangues, hangul, hangup, hangups, harangue, harangued, haranguer, haranguers, harangues, haranguing, indistinguishabilities, indistinguishability, indistinguishable, indistinguishableness, indistinguishablenesses, indistinguishably, inextinguishable, inextinguishably, inguinal, ingulf, ingulfed, ingulfing, ingulfs, ingurgitate, ingurgitated, ingurgitates, ingurgitating, ingurgitation, ingurgitations, language, languages, langue, langues, languet, languets, languid, languidly, languidness, languidnesses, languish, languished, languisher, languishers, languishes, languishing, languishingly, languishment, languishments, languor, languorous, languorously, languors, langur, langurs, lingua, linguae, lingual, lingually, linguals, linguine, linguines, linguini, linguinis, linguist, linguistic, linguistical, linguistically, linguistician, linguisticians, linguistics, linguists, longueur, longueurs, merengue, merengues, meringue, meringues, metalanguage, metalanguages, metalinguistic, metalinguistics, microfungus, microfunguses, monolingual, monolinguals, multilingual, multilingualism, multilingualisms, multilingually, mundungus, mundunguses, nonguest, nonguests, nonguilt, nonguilts, nonlanguage, nonlanguages, nonlinguistic, orangutan, orangutans, oversanguine, oxtongue, oxtongues, paralanguage, paralanguages, paralinguistic, paralinguistics, penguin, penguins, pinguid, protolanguage, protolanguages, psycholinguist, psycholinguistic, psycholinguistics, psycholinguists, quadrangular, rectangular, rectangularities, rectangularity, rectangularly, sanguinaria, sanguinarias, sanguinarily, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguinely, sanguineness, sanguinenesses, sanguineous, sanguines, sanguinities, sanguinity, singular, singularities, singularity, singularize, singularized, singularizes, singularizing, singularly, singulars, slanguage, slanguages, sociolinguist, sociolinguistic, sociolinguistics, sociolinguists, strangulate, strangulated, strangulates, strangulating, strangulation, strangulations, stranguries, strangury, sublanguage, sublanguages, sublingual, thingumajig, thingumajigs, thingummies, thingummy, tongue, tongued, tongueless, tonguelike, tongues, tonguing, tonguings, triangular, triangularities, triangularity, triangularly, triangulate, triangulated, triangulates, triangulating, triangulation, triangulations, trilingual, trilingually, undistinguished, ungual, unguard, unguarded, unguardedly, unguardedness, unguardednesses, unguarding, unguards, unguent, unguenta, unguents, unguentum, ungues, unguessable, unguided, unguis, ungula, ungulae, ungular, ungulate, ungulates, unilingual, vanguard, vanguardism, vanguardisms, vanguardist, vanguardists, vanguards, wangun, wanguns. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: NGU

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gnu, gun.

Words within the letters "g-n-u"

-1 letter: nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "g-n-u"
 

+1 letter: bung, dung, gaun, genu, gnus, guan, gunk, guns, hung, lung, pung, rung, snug, sung, tung.

 

+2 letters: begun, bungs, clung, cuing, dungs, dungy, flung, fungi, fungo, gaunt, genua, genus, gluon, grunt, guano, guans, gunks, gunky, gunny, lunge, lungi, lungs, mungo, negus, nudge, pungs, ruing, rungs, slung, snugs, stung, suing, swung, tungs, ungot, unpeg, unrig, using, wrung, young.

 

+3 letters: auding, augend, bluing, blunge, bunged, bungee, bungle, busing, buying, cangue, cluing, congou, cubing, cueing, curing, dengue, dingus, duding, dugong, duking, dunged, duping, during, englut, engulf, enough, feuing, fuming, fungal, fungic, fungus, fusing, fuzing, gangue, genius, gerund, glucan, gluing, glunch, gluons, gluten, gonium, granum, ground, grunge, grungy, grunts, guanay, guanin, guanos, guenon, guidon, guinea, gulden, gundog, gunite, gunman, gunmen, gunned, gunnel, gunnen, gunner, gunsel, gurnet, gurney, guying, hangul, hangup, hognut, hunger, hungry, iguana, impugn, ingulf, juking, jungle, jungly, kurgan, laguna, lagune, langue, langur, lanugo, lingua, lounge, loungy, lubing, luging, lungan, lunged, lungee, lunger, lunges, lungis, lungyi, luring, luting, magnum, muling, mungos, muring, musing, muting, naught, nilgau, nougat, nought, nudged, nudger, nudges, nugget, nuking, nutmeg, oppugn, ourang, outgun, outing, pignus, pignut, plunge, popgun, puking, puling, pungle, quango, regnum, rehung, repugn, ruling, shogun, sluing, snugly, sprung, spuing, strung, sundog, tongue, truing, tubing, tuning, umping, unaged, uncage, unclog, ungird, ungirt, unglue, ungual, ungues, unguis, ungula, unhang, unhung, unpegs, unplug, unrigs, unsung, upping, urgent, urging, wangun, youngs.

 

+4 letters: abusing, agendum, aground, amusing, angelus, anguine, anguish, angular, antibug, antigun, arguing, audings, augends, augment, autoing, beguine, blowgun, blueing, bluings, bluming, blunged, blunger, blunges, bousing, bruting, bubinga, bucking, budding, budging, buffing, bugbane, bugging, bugling, bulging, bulking, bulling, bumming, bumping, bungees, bunging, bungled, bungler, bungles, bunking, bunting, buoying, burgeon, burking, burling, burning, burping, burring, burying, bushing, busings, busking, bussing, busting, busying, butling, butting, buzzing, cangues, causing, chuting, cingula, clueing, congius, congous, couping, cuffing, culling, culming, cunning, cupping, curbing, curding, curling, curring, cursing, curving, cussing, cutting, daubing, dauting, dengues, deucing, dousing, dubbing, ducking, ducting, dudgeon, dueling, dugongs, dulling, dumbing, dumping, dungeon, dungier, dunging, dunking, dunnage, dunning, dunting, dupping, durning, dusking, dusting, educing, eluding, eluting, enduing, engluts, engulfs, enoughs, ensuing, enuring, eugenia, eugenic, eugenol, euglena, expunge, exuding, feuding, fluking, fluming, fluting, fluxing, fouling, fourgon, fubbing, fucking, fudging, fueling, fugging, fugling, fuguing, fulgent, fulling, funding, fungals, fungoes, fungoid, fungous, funking, funning, furling, furlong, furring, fussing, futzing, fuzzing, gainful, gallnut, gangues, gauging, gauming, gaunter, gauntly, gauntry, genuine, genuses, gerenuk, gerunds, glucans, glueing, glutens, glutton, goldurn, gouging, granule, grounds, grownup, grunges, grunion, grunted, grunter, gruntle, grutten, guanaco, guanase, guanays, guanine, guanins, guarani, gudgeon, guenons, guerdon, guiding, guidons, guiling, guineas, guising, guldens, gulfing, gulling, gulping, gumming, gunboat, gundogs, gunfire, gunites, gunless, gunlock, gunnels, gunners, gunnery, gunnies, gunning, gunplay, gunroom, gunsels, gunship, gunshot, gunwale, gurging, gurnard, gurnets, gurneys, gushing, gusting, gutting, guyline, handgun, hangout, hangups, hauling, hegumen, hindgut, hognuts, housing, huffing, hugging, hulking, hulling, humming, humping, hungers, hunting, hurling, hurting, hushing, husking, hutting, igneous, iguanas, imbuing, impugns, induing, indulge, ingenue, ingroup, ingulfs, inuring, issuing, jauking, jauping, jouking, judging, jugging, juicing, jumping, jungled, jungles, junking, jurying, justing, jutting, kingcup, kurgans, lagunas, lagunes, langues, languet, languid, languor, langurs, lanugos, lauding, legumin, linguae, lingual, lounged, lounger, lounges, louping, louring, lousing, louting, lucking, luffing, lugeing, lugging, lulling, lumping, lungans, lungees, lungers, lungful, lunging, lungyis, lunting, lurking, lushing, lusting, lutings, magnums, mahuang, mauling, meouing, mousing, mucking, mudding, muffing, mugging, muggins, mulling, mumming, mumping, munting, mushing, musings, mussing, mustang, musting, mutagen, naughts, naughty, neguses, nilgaus, nilghau, nondrug, nougats, noughts, nudgers, nudging, nuggets, nuggety, nulling, numbing, nurling, nursing, nutgall, nutmegs, nutting, nylghau, oppugns, organum, ouching, ourangs, ousting, outgain, outgnaw, outgone, outgrin, outguns, outings, outrang, outring, outrung, outsang, outsing, outsung, pausing, penguin, pignuts, pinguid, piquing, pluming, plunged, plunger, plunges, popguns, pouring, pouting, pruning, pudding, puffing, pugging, pulings, pulling, pulping, pulsing, pumping, pungent, pungled, pungles, punning, punting, pupping, purging, purling, purring, pursing, pushing, putting, putzing, quaking, quangos, queuing, quiring, quoting, rebegun, repugns, reusing, roguing, roughen, rouging, rouping, rousing, routing, rubbing, rubying, ruching, rucking, ruffing, rugging, ruining, rulings, running, rushing, rusting, rutting, saucing, shoguns, shotgun, shuting, snugged, snugger, snuggle, songful, souping, souring, sousing, spuming, subbing, subring, sucking, sudsing, sueding, sughing, suiting, sulking, summing, sundogs, sunglow, sunning, supping, surfing, surgeon, surging, sussing, tabuing, tauting, tegumen, thouing, tongued, tongues, toughen, touring, tousing, touting, trucing, trudgen, trueing, tubbing, tubings, tucking, tufting, tugging, tumping, tunings, tunnage, tunning, tupping, turfing, turgent, turning, tushing, tusking, tutting, unagile, unaging, uncaged, uncages, unclogs, undergo, undoing, undying, uneager, ungirds, unglove, unglued, unglues, ungodly, unguard, unguent, ungulae, ungular, unhangs, unhinge, unitage, uniting, unpaged, unplugs, unrough, unsight, unsling, unslung, unstung, untying, unurged, unwrung, unyoung, upfling, upflung, upgoing, upgrown, uppings, upswing, upswung, urgency, valuing, vicugna, voguing, wanguns, wauking, wauling, yauping, yeuking, younger, yucking, yukking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NGU


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

4E 47 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)

01001110 01000111 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#71 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0047 0055

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

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

484155

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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