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Date "NORTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
Crosswords: NORTE |
| Non-English Usage: "NORTE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (north, north point, northern, northward, northwardly), Portuguese Brazilian (north), Spanish (n, north, northerly). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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Literature | Norte Violent northern gales, which visit the Gulf of Mexico from September to March. In March they attain their maximum force, and then immediately cease. (Spanish, nórte, the north.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Leão do Norte (1974) Allá en el Norte (1973) Burgos de Norte a Sur (1965) Los Bárbaros del norte (1962) El Centauro del norte (1962) | |
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 | Natal, Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |  | Madrid. Puente del ferro-carril del Norte sobre el Manzanares / J. Laurent. Madrid. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | El Paso del Norte from the cathedral. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cathedral at El Paso del Norte, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Terrace Restaurant, Fred Harvey Corp., Capital Ct., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. El Norte. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Asturias! -- Valencianos! Ayuda, albergue y amparo a las familias evacuadas de los heroes del norte. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | End-users are used to buying general parts and accessories (mostly filters, tires, light bulbs, and batteries) at superstores such as Easy Home Center, Carrefour, Jumbo, Wal-Mart, and Norte Supermarket. (references) | |
A large Norte supermarket in an upper-middle class area of Buenos Aires devotes only 12 meters of aisle space (eye-level, shallow ½ meter high glass door freezers located just above deeper floor freezers), with very little variety and no imports. (references) | ||
The private electricity generating company, Generadora Electrica del Norte, Ltda. - GENOR, with a generating capacity of 40 MW, is part of the InterAmerican Power & Light Corp. And of Energy Partners of Central America, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Development. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Angola | Provincial governments, particularly in Malange and Kwanza Norte, limited press freedom and harassed independent journalists during the year. (references) |
Angola | In July authorities threatened nine journalists in N'dalatando, Kwanza Norte province, because of high-level contacts they maintained with UNITA-Renovada. (references) | |
Venezuela | However, in January the Government denied the existence of all but a small number of 700 Colombians who crossed the Rio de Oro river into Zulia state and claimed to be fleeing paramilitary incursions near La Cooperativa and La Pista in Colombia's Norte de Santander department. (references) | |
Economic History | El Salvador | The American Chamber of Commerce in El Salvador is located at 87 Avenida Norte No. 720, Apto. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Administrative subdivisions: Seven provinces--Annobon, Bioko Norte, Bioko Sur, Centro Sur, Kie-Ntem, Litoral, Wele-Nzas. (references) | |
Colombia | CARBOCOL, formerly state-owned, owns 50 percent of total output in the massive Cerrejon Norte project , which is the largest coal mining operation in Latin America; the other 50 percent is held by ExxonMobil's Intercor. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | A similarly fierce struggle for control continued in Norte de Santander, Cauca, and Valle del Cauca departments. (references) |
Colombia | A paramilitary was charged in the January murder of regional human rights ombudsman Ivan Villamizar in Cucuta, Norte de Santander department. (references) | |
Colombia | Several major paramilitary campaigns during the year included massacres in Sucre, Norte de Santander, Magdalena, and Valle del Cauca departments. (references) | |
Political Rights | Angola | There also were reports that members of the MPLA beat and detained UNITA-Renovada members whom they accused of supporting Savimbi in Uige and Kwanza Norte. (references) |
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| "NORTE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "NORTE" is used about 9 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) | 66.67% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "NORTE": coto Norte ♦ Del Norte ♦ Del Norte County. 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. |
Derivations | |
Words containing "NORTE": ripsnorter, ripsnorters, snorted, snorter, snorters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: noter, tenor, toner, trone. | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: note, rent, rote, tern, tone, tore, torn. | |
-2 letters: eon, ern, net, nor, not, one, ore, ort, ret, roe, rot, ten, toe, ton, tor. | |
-3 letters: en, er, et, ne, no, oe, on, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: atoner, cornet, enroot, hornet, mentor, nestor, norite, noters, nother, orient, ornate, retorn, rodent, rotten, stoner, tenors, tenour, tensor, throne, toners, tonger, tonier, tonner, torten, trones. | |
+2 letters: another, atoners, baronet, bethorn, bornite, cointer, concert, convert, cornets, cornute, coronet, counter, crownet, donnert, elytron, enactor, enroots, enteron, entropy, erodent, estrone, fortune, forwent, fronted, fronter, frontes, genitor, hornets, horrent, intoner, jointer, knotter, mentors, monster, montero, mordent, mounter, negator, nestors, network, neutron, norites, norther, notcher, noticer, oestrin, oftener, operant, orients, outearn, pointer, portend, portent, postern, pronate, protean, protein, protend, reboant, recount, refront, remount, retinol, rodents, rontgen, routine, senator, shorten, snorted, snorter, sorbent, stentor, stoners, stonier, tenoner, tenours, tensors, ternion, thereon, thorned, throned, thrones, tonearm, tongers, tonners, tonsure, torment, torrent, tourney, treason, tritone, trodden, tropine, trounce. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 4F 52 54 45 |
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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 01001111 01010010 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N O R T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 004F 0052 0054 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)4849525439 |
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