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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Pla |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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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 "PLA."
"PLA" is a common misspelling or typo for: pal, pale, pall, palm, pals, pea, plan, plat, play, plea. |
Crosswords: PLA |
| English words defined with "PLA": St. Augustine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PLA": field programmable logic array. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PLA": Withy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PLA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (tease), Latin (long-rough dab(= fish)), Portuguese (programmable logic array, programmable logic device), Welsh (bore, nuisance, pestilence, plague). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
PLA | Danish | Programmerbar logisk matrix | Electrical Engineering |
PLA | English | Private Libraries Association | N/A |
PLA | French | Prêt locatif aidé | Finance |
PLA | German | Programmable-logic-array | N/A |
PLA | Italian | Passera canadese | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
PLA | Latin | Hypoglossoides platessoides | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
PLA | Portuguese | Matriz lógica programável | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Yang Tze-jung, a Chinese PLA scout hero armed with Mao Tse-tung thought and imbued with the revolutionary wisdom and bravery of the proletariat, in the modern revolutionary Peking Opera, "Taking tiger mountain by strategy". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | There is no available evidence indicating whether party or PLA military personnel were expelled under the 1995 or 1996 regulations. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | China | The "Routine Service Regulations" of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) state explicitly that servicemen "may not take part in religious or superstitious activities." Party and PLA military personnel were expelled for adhering to the Falun Gong movement. (references) |
Economic History | China | A month after Mao's death, Hua, backed by the PLA, arrested Jiang Qing and other members of the "Gang of Four." After extensive deliberations, the Chinese Communist Party leadership reinstated Deng Xiaoping to all of his previous posts at the 11th Party Congress in August 1977. Deng then led the effort to place government control in the hands of veteran party officials opposed to the radical excesses of the previous two decades. (references) |
China | Chief among these was Deng Xiaoping, who reemerged in 1973 and was confirmed in 1975 in the concurrent posts of Politburo Standing Committee member, PLA Chief of Staff, and Vice Premier. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PLA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 39.36% of the time. "PLA" is used about 94 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) | 39.36% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 38.3% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Unclassified Items | 22.34% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 94 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Hypoglossoides platessoides. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PLA": placabilities, placability, placable, placably, placard, placarded, placarding, placards, placate, placated, placater, placaters, placates, placating, placatingly, placation, placations, placative, placatory, place, placeable, placebo, placeboes, placebos, placed, placeholder, placeholders, placekick, placekicked, placekicker, placekickers, placekicking, placekicks, placeless, placelessly, placeman, placemen, placement, placements, placenta, placentae, placental, placentals, placentas, placentation, placentations, placer, placers, places, placet, placets. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "PLA": exempla, hexapla, hoopla, pepla, whoopla. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PLA": achondroplasia, achondroplasias, achondroplastic, aeroplane, aeroplanes, airplane, airplanes, airplay, airplays, altiplano, altiplanos, amyloplast, amyloplasts, anaplasia, anaplasias, anaplasmoses, anaplasmosis, anaplastic, angioplasties, angioplasty, antineoplastic, antiplague, antiplagues, antiplaque, anyplace, aplanatic, aplasia, aplasias, aplastic, applaud, applaudable, applaudably, applauded, applauder, applauders, applauding, applauds, applause, applauses, aquaplane, aquaplaned, aquaplaner, aquaplaners, aquaplanes, aquaplaning, ashplant, ashplants, axoplasm, axoplasmic, axoplasms, backsplash. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alp, lap, pal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-p" | |
-1 letter: al, la, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-p" | |
+1 letter: alps, clap, flap, lamp, laps, leap, lipa, opal, pail, pale, pall, palm, palp, pals, paly, pawl, peal, pial, plan, plat, play, plea, pula, salp, slap. | |
+2 letters: aleph, alpha, ample, amply, ampul, appal, appel, apple, apply, aptly, clamp, claps, clapt, clasp, copal, culpa, flaps, galop, haply, jalap, jalop, kalpa, lamps, lapel, lapin, lapis, lapse, layup, leaps, leapt, lepta, limpa, maple, milpa, nopal, opals, padle, pails, palea, paled, paler, pales, palet, palls, pally, palms, palmy, palpi, palps, palsy, panel, papal, parle, parol, patly, pawls, peals, pearl, pedal, penal, pepla, petal, phial, phyla, pibal, pical, pilaf, pilar, pilau, pilaw, pilea, pipal, place, plack, plage, plaid, plain, plait, plane, plank, plans, plant, plash, plasm, plate, plats, platy, playa, plays, plaza, plead, pleas, pleat, plena, plica, polar, polka, psalm, pupal, ralph, salep, salpa, salps, scalp, sepal, slaps, spail, spale, spall, splat, splay, tepal, typal, ulpan. | |
| 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)50 4C 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 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004C 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)504635 |
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