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Definition: RAB |
RABNoun1. A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar. |
"RAB" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bright fame". |
Date "RAB" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| 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 |
RAB | English | RACE Advisory Board | European Union |
RAB | Greek | ριπή τυχαίας πρόσβασης | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: RAB |
| Specialty definitions using "RAB": rab1 GTP-Binding Proteins, rab3 GTP-Binding Proteins, rab4 GTP-Binding Proteins, rab5 GTP-Binding Proteins. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "RAB": Rabbi. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "RAB" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (seconds), Hungarian (captive, lag, prisoner), Romanian (drudge), Turkish (Lord). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rab Ráby (1964) Ranko rab boziji (1990) Rab C. Nesbitt (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Rab overexposed" by Vince Pataky Commentary: "People in rab." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | China | In other regions, police and RAB officials performed registration procedures concurrently with other law enforcement actions. (references) |
China | In some areas there were reports of harassment of churches by local RAB officials which is attributed, at least in part, to financial issues. (references) | |
China | In addition to refusing to register churches, there also are reports that RAB officials have requested illegal "donations" from churches in their jurisdictions as a means of raising extra revenue. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | In August 2000, S.M.A. Rab, a prominent Awami League leader in Khulna, was killed. (references) |
Bangladesh | Rab's son blames the killing on his father's rivals inside the Awami League who were upset by party leader Sheikh Hasina's announcement that Rab would be the party's nominee for the Khulna mayoral post. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RAB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.78% of the time. "RAB" is used about 268 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) | 94.78% | 254 | 18,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.61% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.24% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 268 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "RAB" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bright fame". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "RAB." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Rupert | Male | Dutch | Robert |
| Bob | Male | English | Robert |
| Hopkin | Male | English | Robert |
| Rob | Male | English | Robert |
| Robbie | Male, Female | English | Robert |
| Robby | Male, Female | English | Robert |
| Robert | Male | English | N/A |
| Roberta | Female | English | Robert |
| Robertina | Female | English | Robert |
| Robin | Male, Female | English | Robert |
| Rupert | Male | English | Robert |
| Roope | Male | Finnish | Robert |
| Roopertti | Male | Finnish | Robert |
| Robert | Male | French | N/A |
| Rupert | Male | German | Robert |
| Róbert | Male | Hungarian | Robert |
| Roibeard | Male | Irish | Robert |
| Roberta | Female | Italian | Robert |
| Robertina | Female | Italian | Robert |
| Roberto | Male | Italian | Robert |
| Roberto | Male | Portuguese | Robert |
| Robert | Male | Scandinavian | N/A |
| Rab | Male | Scottish | Robert |
| Rabbie | Male | Scottish | Robert |
| Raibeart | Male | Scottish | Robert |
| Robertina | Female | Spanish | Robert |
| Roberto | Male | Spanish | Robert |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "RAB": rab GTP-Binding Proteins. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "RAB": Rab-saris, Rab-shakeh. | |
Ending with "RAB": a-rab, Graeme-rab. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rab | 241 | music rab | 3 |
rab lighting | 29 | di isola rab | 3 |
otok rab | 21 | rab sleeping bag | 3 |
island rab | 16 | broccoli rab | 3 |
insel rab | 11 | design rab | 3 |
ansi rab | 9 | hrvatska rab | 3 |
motor rab | 9 | apartment rab | 3 |
croatia rab | 8 | rab holding | 3 |
lopar rab | 7 | guitar rab | 3 |
rab electric | 7 | nesbitt rab | 3 |
c nesbitt rab | 6 | rab ya | 3 |
byte rab | 6 | protein rab | 2 |
light rab | 6 | immobilien rab | 2 |
rab sziget | 5 | coupling protein rab | 2 |
ferienwohnungen rab | 4 | insel kroatien rab | 2 |
c nesbit rab | 4 | approved rab | 2 |
byte.com rab | 4 | lopar otok rab | 2 |
certification rab | 4 | harmon rab | 2 |
hotel rab | 4 | corbett rab | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RAB": rabat, rabato, rabatos, rabats, rabbet, rabbeted, rabbeting, rabbets, rabbi, rabbies, rabbin, rabbinate, rabbinates, rabbinic, rabbinical, rabbinically, rabbinism, rabbinisms, rabbins, rabbis, rabbit, rabbitbrush, rabbitbrushes, rabbited, rabbiter, rabbiters, rabbiting, rabbitries, rabbitry, rabbits, rabbity, rabble, rabbled, rabblement, rabblements, rabbler, rabblers, rabbles, rabbling, rabboni, rabbonis, rabic, rabid, rabidities, rabidity, rabidly, rabidness, rabidnesses, rabies, rabietic. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "RAB": crab, drab, grab, landgrab, mihrab, scarab. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RAB": acquirable, administrable, admirabilities, admirability, admirable, admirableness, admirablenesses, admirably, adorabilities, adorability, adorable, adorableness, adorablenesses, adorably, alterabilities, alterability, alterable, alterably, answerable, antirabies, arabesk, arabesks, arabesque, arabesques, arabic, arabica, arabicas, arabicization, arabicizations, arabicize, arabicized, arabicizes, arabicizing, arabilities, arability, arabinose, arabinoses, arabinoside, arabinosides, arabize, arabized, arabizes, arabizing, arable, arables, arbitrable, atrabilious, atrabiliousness, atrabiliousnesses, barrable, bearabilities. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ab": Bab, Chab, Frab, tab. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arb, bar, bra. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-r" | |
-1 letter: ab, ar, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-r" | |
+1 letter: abri, arbs, barb, bard, bare, barf, bark, barm, barn, bars, bear, boar, bora, brad, brae, brag, bran, bras, brat, braw, bray, bura, carb, crab, darb, drab, garb, grab, kbar. | |
+2 letters: abhor, abler, abort, abris, acerb, amber, ambry, arbor, ardeb, bairn, baker, baler, barbe, barbs, barde, bards, bared, barer, bares, barfs, barge, baric, barks, barky, barms, barmy, barns, barny, baron, barre, barye, baser, bazar, beard, bears, blare, blear, board, boars, boart, bolar, boral, boras, borax, boyar, brace, brach, bract, brads, braes, brags, braid, brail, brain, brake, braky, brand, brank, brans, brant, brash, brass, brats, brava, brave, bravi, bravo, brawl, brawn, braws, braxy, brays, braza, braze, bread, break, bream, briar, broad, buran, buras, bursa, caber, carbo, carbs, carob, cobra, crabs, darbs, debar, dobra, drabs, embar, garbs, grabs, kabar, kbars, kebar, labor, labra, libra, lobar, mbira, rabat, rabbi, rabic, rabid, rebar, rehab, rumba, saber, sabir, sabra, sabre, taber, tabor, umbra, unbar, urban, urbia, yerba, zebra. | |
| 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)52 41 42 |
| 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)01010010 01000001 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R A B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0041 0042 |
| 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)523536 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Digital Art 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Derived from | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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