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PPL

Specialty Definition: PPL

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: PPL

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

PPL

EnglishPrivate pilot licenceN/A

PPL

GermanPrivatpilotenlizenzPublic Administration, Transportation

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

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Crosswords: PPL

Specialty definitions using "PPL": TLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PPL

DomainTitle

References

  • PPL Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • PPL Therapeutics Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

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

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Photo Album: PPL

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Usage Frequency: PPL

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)69.81%3756,631
Noun (singular)15.09%8124,375
Noun (common)11.32%6143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.89%1339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)1.89%1339,140
                    Total100.00%53N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: PPL

CountryNameCountryName
United Kingdom

PPL Therapeutics Plc

USA

PPL Corporation

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: PPL

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "PPL": ppl-flyable.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PPL

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ppl

448

ppl trailer travel

4

ppl motor home

125

gas ppl

4

electric ppl

27

flying h lesson ppl training

3

ppl rv

23

find ppl

3

ppl utility

17

ppl trailer

3

ppl california

15

dell ppl

3

ppl electric utility

15

picture ppl

3

ppl corp

13

dell latitude ppl

3

houston ppl

11

ppl telecom

3

motor ppl

8

gas ppl utility

3

ppl corporation

6

credit gold ppl union

3

ppl search

5

lol metaspy nosy ppl

3

pic ppl

5

com home motor ppl

3

ppl rvs

5

flugschule ppl wien

3

montana ppl

4

home motor ppl sales

3

ppl rv sales

4

fragensammlung ppl privatpiloten

2

ppl uitm

4

allentown ppl

2

examination ppl question

4

ppl televox

2

motorhomes.com ppl

4

ppl televox.cc

2

ppl ugly

4

company electric ppl

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

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Derivations: PPL

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).

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Anagrams: PPL

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.

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Alternative Orthography: PPL


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

50 50 4C

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)

01010000 01010000 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#80 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0050 004C

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

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

505046

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Company Usage
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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