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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | PPL Polymorphic Programming Language. An interactive, extensible language, based on APL, from Harvard University. ["Some Features of PPL - A Polymorphic Programming Language", T.A. Standish, SIGPLAN Notices 4(8) (Aug 1969)]. (1994-10-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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 |
PPL | English | Private pilot licence | N/A |
PPL | German | Privatpilotenlizenz | Public Administration, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: PPL |
| Specialty definitions using "PPL": TLAs. (references) |
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References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
Schoheim Road and PPL line on Agate Flat. Credit: Frank Lang. | PPL Line shade at power line at LeRoy Burkhart's retirement home. Credit: Frank Lang. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "PPL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 69.81% of the time. "PPL" is used about 53 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) | 69.81% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.09% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 11.32% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.89% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.89% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | PPL Therapeutics Plc | USA | PPL Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PPL": ppl-flyable. | |
| 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 "PPL": applaud, applaudable, applaudably, applauded, applauder, applauders, applauding, applauds, applause, applauses, apple, applecart, applecarts, applejack, applejacks, apples, applesauce, applesauces, appliance, appliances, applicabilities, applicability, applicable, applicant, applicants, application, applications, applicative, applicatively, applicator, applicators, applicatory, applied, applier, appliers, applies, applique, appliqued, appliqueing, appliques, apply, applying, cripple, crippled, crippler, cripplers, cripples, crippling, cripplingly, dapple, dappled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "l-p-p" | |
+1 letter: palp, plop, pulp. | |
+2 letters: appal, appel, apple, apply, lippy, loppy, palpi, palps, papal, pepla, pipal, plops, plump, polyp, pulps, pulpy, pupal, pupil. | |
+3 letters: appall, appals, appeal, appels, apples, dapple, fipple, flappy, flippy, floppy, gloppy, hopple, lapped, lapper, lappet, laptop, lipped, lippen, lipper, lopped, lopper, nipple, palpal, palpus, papula, papule, peepul, people, peplos, peplum, peplus, pileup, pimple, pimply, pipals, plumps, polypi, polyps, poplar, poplin, popple, propel, propyl, pullup, pulpal, pulped, pulper, pulpit, pupils, purple, purply, rappel, ripple, ripply, shlepp, slippy, slipup, sloppy, supple, supply, tipple, topple, upleap, uppile. | |
| 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 50 4C |
| 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 01010000 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P P L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0050 004C |
| 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)505046 |
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