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Definition: PROA |
PROANoun1. A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known. |
| 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 |
PROA | English | Public Record Office Archives | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PROA |
| English words defined with "PROA": Caracora. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PROA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (bow, fiddle-bow, noe head, prow), Romanian (proa), Spanish (bow, head, nose, prow). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PROA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PROA" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PROA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Proa | Last name | 130 | 54,819 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "PROA": flying proa. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
proa | 22 |
boat proa sail | 3 |
pacific proa | 2 |
mbuli proa | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PROA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lundër me bilancier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | maláji vitorláshajó (prau). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oapray barco malaio, barco à vela malaio. (various references) proa. (various references) проа. (various references) brza jedrilica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PROA": proabortion, proactive, proas. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PROA": approach, approachabilities, approachability, approachable, approached, approaches, approaching, inapproachable, irreproachabilities, irreproachability, irreproachable, irreproachableness, irreproachablenesses, irreproachably, reproach, reproachable, reproached, reproacher, reproachers, reproaches, reproachful, reproachfully, reproachfulness, reproachfulnesses, reproaching, reproachingly, unapproachabilities, unapproachability, unapproachable, unapproachably, uproar, uproarious, uproariously, uproariousness, uproariousnesses, uproars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: prao. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: oar, ora, par, pro, rap. | |
-2 letters: ar, op, or, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: aport, apron, copra, opera, pareo, pargo, parol, parvo, payor, polar, praos, proas, sapor, vapor. | |
+2 letters: aprons, barhop, captor, carhop, cartop, coppra, coprah, copras, nonpar, operas, orphan, pallor, paramo, pardon, pareos, pargos, parlor, parody, parole, parols, parous, parrot, parson, parton, parvos, pastor, patrol, patron, pavior, pawnor, payors, pharos, picaro, polars, poplar, portal, prolan, protea, prowar, pyrola, ragtop, raptor, sapors, sapour, soaper, sporal, tarpon, uproar, upsoar, vapors, vapory, vapour. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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