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SAUR

Definition: SAUR

SAUR

Noun

1. Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Saur \Saur\, noun. [Contracted from Gaelic salachar filth, nastiness, from salach nasty, from sal filth, refuse.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Usage: SAUR

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Saur sepuh (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SAUR

DomainTitle

Books

  • Routledge-K.G. Saur German Dictionary of Philosophical Terms/Worterbuch Philosophischer Fachbegriffe Englisch: English-German (Routledge Bilingual sp (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: SAUR

The following table summarizes the usage of "SAUR" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SaurLast name30025,137
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: SAUR

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "SAUR": Bowker-saur.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SAUR

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sig saur

77

saur

22

france saur

10

international saur

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: SAUR

Derivations

Words beginning with "SAUR": saurel, saurels, saurian, saurians, sauries, saurischian, saurischians, sauropod, sauropods, saury. (additional references)

Words ending with "SAUR": ankylosaur, archosaur, balisaur, brontosaur, cotylosaur, dinosaur, hadrosaur, ichthyosaur, mosasaur, pelycosaur, plesiosaur, pterosaur, stegosaur, tyrannosaur. (additional references)

Words containing "SAUR": allosaurus, allosauruses, ankylosaurs, ankylosaurus, ankylosauruses, apatosaurus, apatosauruses, archosaurian, archosaurs, balisaurs, brontosaurs, brontosaurus, brontosauruses, cotylosaurs, dinosaurian, dinosaurs, hadrosaurs, ichthyosaurian, ichthyosaurians, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, pelycosaurs, plesiosaurs, prosauropod, prosauropods, pterosaurs, stegosaurs, stegosaurus, stegosauruses, thesaural, thesauri, thesaurus, thesauruses, tyrannosaurs, tyrannosaurus, tyrannosauruses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SAUR"

Words ending with "aur": gaur, Taur, Waur. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SAUR

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sura, ursa.

Words within the letters "a-r-s-u"

-1 letter: ars, ras, sau.

-2 letters: ar, as, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: arcus, argus, arums, auras, aures, auris, buras, bursa, duras, gaurs, guars, muras, praus, ramus, saury, scaur, sugar, supra, surah, sural, suras, surra, sutra, urase, ureas, ursae, varus.

 

+2 letters: absurd, abuser, acarus, airbus, amours, amuser, argues, arouse, asarum, assure, augers, augurs, aureus, aurist, aurous, aurums, azures, burans, bursae, bursal, bursar, bursas, busbar, carpus, causer, cesura, douras, durras, feuars, frauds, frusta, furans, gradus, guards, hussar, jurats, kauris, knaurs, krauts, kurtas, larums, lauras, lunars, lustra, mudras, murals, murras, pareus, parous, pauser, prahus, pulsar, purdas, quarks, quarts, quasar, radius, ramous, rasure, reseau, ruanas, rugosa, rumbas, sacrum, sambur, santur, sapour, saucer, sauger, saurel, savour, scaurs, souari, soucar, square, struma, suaver, subpar, sudary, sugars, sugary, surahs, surras, surtax, sutras, synura, tarsus, tragus, tussar, ultras, umbras, unarms, unbars, upsoar, uraeus, urares, uraris, urases, urates, urbias, urease, urials, walrus.

 

+3 letters: abjures, absurds, abusers, accrues, accurst, accuser, acerous, adjures, aerugos, alarums, allures, amorous, amusers, antrums, anurans, anurias, anurous, apercus, arbours, arbutes, arbutus, arcuses, ardours, arduous, arenous, arguers, arguses, armfuls, armours, armsful, armures, arousal, aroused, arouser, arouses, aruspex, asarums, assumer, assured, assurer, assures, assuror, asunder, atriums, auburns, aurists, aurochs, auroras, ausform, austere, austral, auteurs, authors, barbuts, bariums, barques, buckras, bureaus, burials, burlaps, bursars, bursary, bursate, bursera, busbars, bustard, caesura, carfuls, carious, carolus, carouse, causers, cesurae, cesuras, chukars, cougars, crusade, crusado, crustal, cuirass, curaghs, curaras, curares, curaris, curates, curiosa, currans, curtals, custard, danseur, dasyure, daturas, daubers, desugar, dhurnas, dourahs, durbars, durians, durmast, dustrag, dysuria, earfuls, erasure, estrual, estuary, faquirs, favours, ferulas, fractus, fulmars, furanes, gaugers, giaours, grampus, guisard, guitars, haulers, hurrahs, hurrays, hussars, insular, jabirus, jaguars, jarfuls, jarsful, jurants, kashrut, kauries, korunas, kurbash, kurgans, labours, labrums, langurs, larrups, lauders, laurels, lumbars, lurdans, lustral, maduros, manures, marauds, markups, marques, marquis, masquer, masseur, matures, maulers, measure, morulas, muggars, murrhas, muskrat, mustard, natures, nutrias, oculars, oscular, ossuary, ourangs, ouraris, outsoar, outwars, papyrus, parlous, paruras, parures, pasture, paupers, pausers, perusal, pleuras, plurals, priapus, pulsars, puranas, purdahs, pyurias, quaeres, quakers, quartes, quartos, quasars, quasher, quatres, quavers, radiums, radulas, ragouts, railbus, ranulas, rasures, raucous, recusal, refusal, remudas, reseaus, reseaux, residua, rhamnus, rhumbas, rituals, robusta, rubaces, rubasse, rubatos, rugolas, rugosas, rumakis, runways, rupiahs, sacrums, saguaro, sahuaro, saluter, sambhur, samburs, samurai, sandbur, santour, santurs, sapours, sarcous, sardius, saucers, saucier, saugers, saunter, saurels, saurian, sauries, sautoir, saviour, savours, savoury, scauper, secular, serumal, sevruga, simular, slurban, souaris, soucars, spirula, squalor, squared, squarer, squares, startup, stature, stratum, stratus, strumae, strumas, suasory, subadar, subalar, subarea, subarid, suboral, subpart, subrace, sucrase, sudaria, sudoral, suffari, sugared, summary, sunward, surbase, surcoat, surface, surname, surpass, surreal, sutural, synurae, tabours, tamburs, tarbush, torulas, traumas, truants, tundras, turacos, turbans, turista, tussars, unbears, undraws, unhairs, unsharp, unsmart, unsnarl, unstrap, unswear, unwraps, upbears, updarts, upraise, uprates, uprears, uproars, upsoars, upstair, upstare, upstart, uptears, upwards, uracils, uranias, uranism, uranous, uranyls, ureases, uremias, urinals, uvulars, valours, valuers, vapours, various, varuses, vulgars, warmups, yaupers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SAUR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 41 55 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-    ..-    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000001 01010101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#85 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 0055 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53355552

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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