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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | PRA PRAgmatics. The language used by COPS for specification of code generators. ["Metalanguages of the Compiler Production System COPS", J. Borowiec, in GI Fachgesprach "Compiler-Compiler", ed W. Henhapl, Tech Hochs Darmstadt 1978, pp. 122-159]. (1994-11-18). 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 |
PRA | English | Para-rosaniline hydrochloride | N/A |
PRA | German | Progressive Retinaatrophie | Medicine |
PRA | Italian | Gamberello boreale | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
PRA | Latin | Pandalus borealis | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
pra | Spanish | Potencia radiada aparente | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: PRA |
| Specialty definitions using "PRA": TLAs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PRA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (hereupon, so, thus, well), Latin (northern prawn). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tchau Pra Quem Fica (1970) Jovens Pra Frente (1968) É Pra Casar? (1953) Pra Lá de Boa (1949) De Quina pra Lua (1985) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | So far, BTC has sold 1,146 BRA ISDN subscriber lines and 140 PRA ISDN subscriber lines out of the 7,041 BRA ISDN and 254 PRA ISDN installed capacity. (references) | |
Economic History | Cambodia | On April 14, after its first session, the PRA announced that Khieu Samphan would chair the State Presidium for a 5-year term. (references) |
Cambodia | A new constitution in January 1976 established Democratic Kampuchea as a Communist People's Republic, and a 250-member Assembly of the Representatives of the People of Kampuchea (PRA) was selected in March to choose the collective leadership of a State Presidium, the chairman of which became the head of state. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PRA" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 45.00% of the time. "PRA" is used about 20 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 45% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | 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 | Pandalus borealis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PRA": praam, praams, practic, practicabilities, practicability, practicable, practicableness, practicablenesses, practicably, practical, practicalities, practicality, practically, practicalness, practicalnesses, practicals, practice, practiced, practicer, practicers, practices, practicing, practicum, practicums, practise, practised, practises, practising, practitioner, practitioners, praecipe, praecipes, praedial, praefect, praefects, praelect, praelected, praelecting, praelects, praemunire, praemunires, praenomen, praenomens, praenomina, praesidia, praesidium, praesidiums, praetor, praetorial, praetorian, praetorians. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "PRA": coppra, copra, supra. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PRA": appraisal, appraisals, appraise, appraised, appraisee, appraisees, appraisement, appraisements, appraiser, appraisers, appraises, appraising, appraisingly, appraisive, apractic, apraxia, apraxias, apraxic, chiropractic, chiropractics, chiropractor, chiropractors, chrysoprase, chrysoprases, comprador, compradore, compradores, compradors, coppras, coprah, coprahs, copras, depravation, depravations, deprave, depraved, depravedly, depravedness, depravednesses, depravement, depravements, depraver, depravers, depraves, depraving, depravities, depravity, desipramine, desipramines, dispraise, dispraised. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: par, rap. | |
| Words within the letters "a-p-r" | |
-1 letter: ar, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-p-r" | |
+1 letter: aper, carp, crap, frap, harp, pair, para, pard, pare, park, parr, pars, part, pear, pram, prao, prat, prau, pray, proa, ramp, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, spar, tarp, trap, warp, wrap. | |
+2 letters: apart, apers, apery, aport, apres, apron, apter, arpen, asper, atrip, caper, carpi, carps, copra, cramp, crape, craps, drape, fraps, gaper, gramp, grape, graph, grapy, grasp, harps, harpy, japer, opera, pacer, padre, padri, pager, pairs, paler, paper, parae, paras, parch, pardi, pards, pardy, pared, pareo, parer, pares, pareu, parge, pargo, paris, parka, parks, parle, parol, parrs, parry, parse, parts, party, parve, parvo, pater, paver, pawer, payer, payor, pearl, pears, peart, perea, pilar, polar, praam, prahu, prams, prang, prank, praos, prase, prate, prats, praus, prawn, prays, presa, prima, proas, pruta, purda, pyran, ralph, ramps, raped, raper, rapes, raphe, rapid, rasps, raspy, reaps, recap, remap, repay, sapor, scarp, scrap, sharp, spare, spark, spars, spear, sprag, sprat, spray, strap, supra, taper, tapir, tarps, tramp, traps, trapt, vapor, warps, wraps, wrapt. | |
| 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 52 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 01010010 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 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)505235 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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