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Definition: SORA |
SORANoun1. A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto. |
"SORA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sky". |
Crosswords: SORA |
| English words defined with "SORA": Soree. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SORA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Faeroese (crush, shatter, smash), Finnish (gravel, grit). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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| Porzana carolina |
The Sora, Porzana carolina, is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae.
Adults are brown on top and light underneath, with a blue-grey face and front. They have a short thick yellow bill, with black facial marking at the base. They have yellowish legs.
Their breeding habitat is marshes throughout much of North America. They nest in a well-concealed location in dense vegetation. They are more often seen than heard.
They migrate from to the southern United States and northern South America. Sora is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
These birds forage while walking or swimming. They are omnivores, eating seeds, insects and snails.
They are sometimes seen walking near open water. They are fairly common, despite a decrease of suitable habitat in recent times.
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Sora is a city of Campania, Italy, in the province of Frosinone, 77 miles N by W of Caserta on the railway between Roccasecca and Avezzano, 920 ft above sea-level. Pop. (1901), 6,050 (town); 16,022 (commune), in 2001 24,300 for the town. It is built in a plain on the banks of the Liris. This part of the valley is the seat of some important manufactures, especially of paper-mills. The original cathedral, consecrated by Pope Adrian IV in 1155, was destroyed by the earthquake of 1634. On the precipitous rock above the town (1768 ft) which guards the Liris valley and the entrance to the Abruzzi are remains of polygonal walls; here, possibly, was the citadel of the original Volscian town. There are also remains of medieval fortifications. In the town itself there are no remains of antiquity nor buildings of interest. The district around Sora is famous for the costumes of its peasants.Sora, an ancient Volscian town, was thrice captured by the Romans, in 345, 314 and 305 BC, before they managed, in 303, by means of a colony 4000 strong, to confirm its annexation. In 209 it was one of the colonies which refused further contributions to the war against Hannibal. By the lex Julia it became a municipium, but under Augustus it was colonized by soldiers of the legio IV Sorana, which had been mainly enrolled there. It belonged technically to Latium Adjectum.
The castle of Sorella, built on the rocky height above the town, was in the Middle Ages a stronghold of some note - Charles of Anjou made Sora a duchy for the Cantelmi; it was afterwards seized by Pope Pius II, but, being restored to the Cantelmi by Pope Sixtus IV, it ultimately passed to the Della Rovere of Urbino. Against Caesar Borgia the city was heroically defended by Giovanni di Montefeltro. It was purchased by Pope Gregory XIII for 11,000 ducats and bestowed on the Buoncompagni, the ancestors of the line of Buoncompagni-Ludovisi. In ancient times Sora was the birthplace of the Decii, Atilius Regulus, and Lucius Mummius; and among its later celebrities is Cardinal Baronius.
This text is from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sora."
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Screenplays | I'm Sora. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings) Come on Tai's my best friend and he knows how I feel, besides I completely trust Sora, I'm not worried at all Izzy. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ore no sora da ze! Wakadaishô (1970) Kurenai no sora (1962) Sora kakeru hanayome (1959) Son-goku sora (1959) Sora yukaba (1957) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sora Rails. Credit: Bob Hines. |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "SORA" 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 |
| Sora | Last name | 200 | 31,093 |
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Expressions using "SORA": King sora ♦ sora rail. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "SORA": sora-ath. | |
| 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. |
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Danish | amerikansk roervagtel (sora rail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sora ral (sora rail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | marouette de Caroline (sora rail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | voltolino americano (sora rail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orasay franga-d'água da Carolina (sora rail). (various references) polluela de Carolina (sora rail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Porzana carolina. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SORA": soras. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SORA": professorate, professorates, psoralea, psoraleas, psoralen, psoralens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SORA" (pronounced 'So"ra'): Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Amphineura, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Appoggiatura, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Camorra, Capibara, Capybara, Caracara, Cesura, Chara, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera, Chimera, Cinura, Cora, Crantara, Damara, Datura, Dura, Durra, ERA, Ferrara, Flora, Gastrura, Gemara, hegira, Laura, Legatura, lira, Lyra, Macrura, Madeira, Madrepora, Masora, Millepora. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oars, osar, soar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ars, oar, ora, ors, ras. | |
-2 letters: ar, as, or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arose, arson, arvos, boars, boras, dorsa, faros, hoars, horas, moras, okras, orals, orcas, praos, proas, ratos, roads, roams, roans, roars, roast, rotas, sapor, sarod, saros, savor, soars, sofar, solar, sonar, soras, sowar, taros, toras. | |
+2 letters: abhors, aborts, absorb, acorns, across, actors, adores, adorns, adsorb, aggros, agoras, ahorse, algors, amours, aorist, aortas, aprons, arbors, ardors, argols, argons, argosy, argots, ariose, ariosi, arioso, aristo, arkose, armors, aroids, aromas, arouse, arrows, arseno, arsino, arsons, ashore, assort, aurous, barons, boards, boarts, borals, boyars, bravos, broads, carbos, cargos, carobs, carols, caroms, castor, claros, coarse, cobras, copras, corals, corsac, costar, croaks, dobras, dorsad, dorsal, douras, favors, floras, forams, forays, gators, gorals, groans, groats, hoards, hoarse, horahs, isobar, ixoras, jorams, jowars, karoos, kaross, korats, labors, largos, lorans, macros, majors, manors, mayors, molars, morals, morass, morays, narcos, norias, oaters, operas, orangs, orates, oreads, organs, orgasm, ottars, pareos, pargos, parols, parous, parson, parvos, pastor, payors, pharos, polars, racons, radios, radons, ramose, ramous, ramson, ransom, ratios, rayons, razors, reason, resoak, riojas, roasts, romans, rosary, rostra, rowans, royals, rugosa, safrol, sailor, salvor, sapors, sapour, sarode, sarods, sarong, sartor, satori, savior, savors, savory, savour, scoria, scrota, senora, serosa, shofar, shoran, soaker, soaper, soared, soarer, sofars, sonars, souari, soucar, sovran, sowars, sowcar, sporal, stator, storax, stroma, tabors, tarocs, taroks, tarots, tolars, torahs, troaks, tronas, upsoar, valors, vapors. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 52 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01010010 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O R A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 0052 0041 |
| 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)53495235 |
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