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Definition: Ru |
RuNoun1. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Ru" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Ru |
Slang | Noun Phrase. Source: Highschool students chatting over the internet. Definition: Are You??. Context: Used when someone is trying to verify the situation. To make sure. Social Source: Internet Chatting Users. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ru."
| 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 |
RU | Danish | Rådgivende komité | General |
RU | Dutch | Rusland | Geography |
RU | English | Roll Up | N/A |
RU | Finnish | Venäjän federaatio | N/A |
RU | French | êtes-vous...? | Computing, Post & Telecom |
RU | German | Russische Föderation | Geography, Law |
RU | Greek | Ρωσία | Geography |
RU | Italian | Federazione Russa | N/A |
RU | Portuguese | Rússia | Geography |
RU | Spanish | Es usted...? | Computing, Post & Telecom |
RU | Swedish | Ryssland | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RuSynonyms: atomic number 44 (n), ruthenium (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ru |
| English words defined with "Ru": RU 486, Ru bible. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Ru": Ruthenium Radioisotopes. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ru" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (coarse, rough), Guarani (father). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lai ru feng (1970) Ru lai shen zhang zai xian shen wei (1968) Lang xin ru tie (1964) Zhao lang ru she (1963) Jiao wo ru he bu xiang ta (1963) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Studies have only just begun on the newest class of antihormonal agents, the antiprogestins, the best known of which is RU 486. Even though fibroids appear primarily stimulated by estrogens, drugs in this class which oppose the other major female hormone, progesterone, also seem to be effective for treatment of uterine fibroids. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ru" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 43.42% of the time. "Ru" is used about 76 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 | 43.42% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.58% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (common) | 18.42% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.58% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Ru": RU 486 ♦ ru bible ♦ To ru the hazard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Ru": Ru-ir-os, Ru-o, ru-tu, Ru-Tuss. | |
Ending with "Ru": toko-ru, toku-ru. | |
| 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 |
blondinki ru | 6,892 | game ru | 49 |
ru | 1,062 | referat ru | 48 |
rambler ru | 925 | google ru | 47 |
mail ru | 735 | ru rustest | 43 |
yandex ru | 655 | ru rumbler | 42 |
ru 486 | 299 | auto ru | 39 |
ru ya | 157 | omen ru | 38 |
lenta ru | 148 | mts ru | 38 |
porn ru | 143 | km ru | 37 |
aport ru | 128 | mp3 ru | 33 |
bride ru | 126 | fox kid ru | 31 |
ru sex | 113 | job ru | 29 |
fomenko ru | 93 | krovatka ru | 29 |
ru paul | 91 | pupsik ru | 29 |
1tv ru | 80 | dni ru | 29 |
gazeta ru | 74 | ntv ru | 28 |
mtv ru | 58 | combat ru | 28 |
mult ru | 58 | informika ru | 26 |
ru yndex | 57 | chat ru | 25 |
jandex ru | 53 | narod ru | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Ru": ruana, ruanas, rub, rubaboo, rubaboos, rubace, rubaces, rubaiyat, rubasse, rubasses, rubati, rubato, rubatos, rubbaboo, rubbaboos, rubbed, rubber, rubbered, rubbering, rubberize, rubberized, rubberizes, rubberizing, rubberlike, rubberneck, rubbernecked, rubbernecker, rubberneckers, rubbernecking, rubbernecks, rubbers, rubbery, rubbing, rubbings, rubbish, rubbishes, rubbishy, rubble, rubbled, rubbles, rubblier, rubbliest, rubbling, rubbly, rubdown, rubdowns, rube, rubefacient, rubefacients, rubella, rubellas. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Ru": bebeeru, ecru, grugru, guru, haleru, jabiru, kuru, thru. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Ru": abrupt, abrupter, abruptest, abruption, abruptions, abruptly, abruptness, abruptnesses, abstruse, abstrusely, abstruseness, abstrusenesses, abstruser, abstrusest, abstrusities, abstrusity, acarus, accruable, accrual, accruals, accrue, accrued, accruement, accruements, accrues, accruing, adenovirus, adenoviruses, aerugo, aerugos, airbrush, airbrushed, airbrushes, airbrushing, alarum, alarumed, alaruming, alarums, allosaurus, allosauruses, altruism, altruisms, altruist, altruistic, altruistically, altruists, ambulacrum, anacruses, anacrusis, anestrus, anestruses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "r-u" | |
+1 letter: bur, cur, fur, our, pur, rub, rue, rug, rum, run, rut, urb, urd, urn. | |
+2 letters: arum, aura, blur, brut, buhr, bura, burd, burg, burl, burn, burp, burr, burs, bury, crud, crus, crux, curb, curd, cure, curf, curl, curn, curr, curs, curt, dour, drub, drug, drum, dura, dure, durn, duro, durr, ecru, euro, four, frug, furl, furs, fury, gaur, grub, grue, grum, guar, guru, hour, hurl, hurt, jura, jury, knur, kuru, lour, lure, lurk, mura, mure, murk, murr, nurd, nurl, ours, pour, prau, pure, puri, purl, purr, purs, rhus, roue, roup, rout, roux, rube, rubs, ruby, ruck, rudd, rude, rued, ruer, rues, ruff, ruga, rugs, ruin, rule, ruly, rump, rums, rune, rung, runs, runt, ruse, rush, rusk, rust, ruth, ruts, slur, sour, spur, suer, sura, surd, sure, surf, thru, tour, true, trug, turd, turf, turk, turn, urbs, urds, urea, urge, uric, urns, ursa, urus, user, waur, your, yurt. | |
| 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 75 |
| 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 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0075 |
| 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)5287 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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