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Definition: PABA |
PABANoun1. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells; used to make dyes and drugs and sunblockers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
PABA | English | Para-aminobenzoic acid | Medicine |
PABA | Finnish | Para-aminobentsoehappo | Medicine |
PABA | French | Acide para-aminobenzoïque | Medicine |
PABA | Italian | Acido para-amminobenzoico | Medicine |
PABA | Latin | Acidum paraaminobenzoicum | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PABASynonym: para aminobenzoic acid (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: PABA |
| English words defined with "PABA": sulfa, sulfa drug, sulfonamide, sulpha, sunblock, sunblocker, sunscreen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PABA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (PABA, para-aminobenzoic acid). |
| "PABA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "PABA" is used about 14 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 (singular) | 57.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 42.86% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PABA": paba-udca. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
paba | 189 |
paba free sunscreen | 12 |
paba free product | 8 |
sunscreen with paba | 6 |
hotel paba | 4 |
paba free | 4 |
allergy paba | 3 |
paba vitamin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PABA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | paraaminobenzoesyretest (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references) | |
Dutch | PABA-test (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references) | |
Finnish | PABA-koe (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references) | |
French | PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid), PAB (para-aminobenzoic acid), acide para-aminobenzoïque (para-aminobenzoic acid). (various references) | |
German | p-Aminobenzoesäure (para-aminobenzoic acid), PAB (para-aminobenzoic acid). (various references) | |
Greek | PABA-test (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test), δοκιμασία PABA (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references) | |
Italian | PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid), acido para-amminobenzoico (para-aminobenzoic acid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abapay.(various references) | |
Spanish | test del ácido paraaminobenzoico (PABA test, para-aminobenzoic acid test). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acidum paraaminobenzoicum, PAB, PABA. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-p" | |
-1 letter: aba, baa, bap. | |
-2 letters: aa, ab, ba, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-p" | |
+1 letter: abamp. | |
+2 letters: abamps. | |
+3 letters: capable, capably, copaiba, pabular, palabra, parable, payable, payably, payback, piasaba. | |
+4 letters: abampere, abapical, alphabet, amphibia, anableps, baaskaap, backpack, backslap, backwrap, baldpate, ballpark, baptisia, blackcap, brainpan, capabler, capybara, copaibas, drapable, lapboard, lapsable, mappable, packable, palabras, palpable, palpably, palpebra, parables, parabola, parsable, passable, passably, passband, pawnable, payables, paybacks, piasabas, piassaba, placable, placably, playable, playback, prebasal, reapable, shapable, snapback, soapbark, sparable, trapball. | |
+5 letters: abamperes, adaptable, adoptable, alphabets, amblyopia, amphibian, approbate, baaskaaps, backpacks, backpedal, backslaps, backspace, backwraps, baldpates, ballparks, baptisias, baptismal, barograph, basipetal, blackcaps, brainpans, capablest, capybaras, carpetbag, clapboard, drapeable, flappable, graspable, incapable, incapably, lampblack, lapboards, packboard, palatable, palatably, palpebrae, palpebral, palpebras, paperback, parabolas, parabolic, passbands, peaceable, peaceably, piassabas, pickaback, placeable, plantable, playbacks, pleadable, procambia, reparable, repayable, separable, shapeable, snapbacks, soapbarks, spaceband, spallable, sparables, spareable, speakable, subapical, trapballs, vibraharp. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 42 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)01010000 01000001 01000010 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A B A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0042 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)50353635 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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