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| Domain | Definition |
Statistics | A place having facilities for merchant ships to moor and to load or unload cargo or to disembark or embark passengers to or from vessels. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Loading and unloading of a road vehicle, a wagon or an ITU on or off a ship on its own wheels or wheels attached to it for that purpose. In the case of rolling road, only road vehicles are driven on and off a train. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: RO-RO |
| Specialty definitions using "RO-RO": closed ro-ro cargo space ♦ open ro-ro cargo space ♦ ro-ro cargo. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Procurement of Ro-Ro equipment (trucks, straddle carriers and a mobile container crane) is also expected, since facilities will need to be doubled by 2005 in order to handle the forecasted traffic. (references) | |
Economic History | Bulgaria | Bulgaria has plans for a $300 million expansion of Burgas Harbor, to include new ro-ro, ferry, container terminals, and new facilities for general and bulk cargo. (references) |
Bahrain | The new port is to have a capacity of 234,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per year and will include 1,800 meters of quay with minimum 15 meters water depth designed for containers, general cargo, dry bulk and roll-on-roll-off (Ro-Ro) traffic; small craft berths; a container terminal including container freight station, and an aluminum packing shed; as well as a general cargo area. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RO-RO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "RO-RO" is used about 11 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) | 72.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "RO-RO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | roll-on/roll-off (roll-on roll-off), RO/RO (roll-on roll-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roro (roll-on roll-off), roll-on-roll-off (roll-on roll-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ajokuormaus (ro-ro) (roll-on roll-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transroulage (ro-ro) (roll-on roll-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ro-Ro (roll-on roll-off), Roll-on/Roll-off (roll-on roll-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ro/Ro (roll-on roll-off), ρολλ-ον/ρολλ-οφ (roll-on roll-off), ασυνόδευτη συνδυασμένη μεταφορά τύπου Ro/Ro (roll-on roll-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ro-ro (roll-on roll-off), movimentazione per linee orizzontali (ro-ro handling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | o-roray movimentação rolante de carga (ro-ro) (roll-on roll-off). (various references) ro-ro (roll-on roll-off), transbordo rodado de carga (roll-on roll-off). (various references) ro-ro (roll-on roll-off), roll on roll off (roll-on roll-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "o-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: or. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: morro, rotor. | |
+2 letters: arroyo, borrow, horror, karroo, kronor, morros, morrow, orator, poorer, reroof, roofer, roomer, rooser, rooter, rotors, sordor, sorrow, torero, torpor. | |
+3 letters: arroyos, barroom, borrows, brooder, colorer, cornrow, coroner, corpora, corrode, corrody, crooner, floorer, forbore, forgoer, forlorn, forworn, groomer, groover, honorer, horrors, karroos, moorier, morrion, morrows, offeror, orators, oratory, outroar, proctor, proofer, recolor, redroot, regroom, reproof, reroofs, rhodora, robotry, roofers, rookery, rookier, roomers, roomier, roosers, rooster, rooters, rootier, rotator, sordors, sororal, sorrows, toreros, torpors, trooper, woorari. | |
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