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TK

Specialty Definition: TK

DomainDefinition

Computing

Tk A GUI library, generally used with TCL by John Ousterhout, but also available from within C or Perl. Tk is available for X Window System, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Tk looks very similar to Motif. Version 3.5. (ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/) (1995-11-09) tk The country code for Tokelau. (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Specialty Definition: Tk

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Tk extension is a Graphical User Interface widget toolkit implemented by John Ousterhout for the Tcl scripting language.

Since its release, it has been used in other languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby, and others; and ported to run on most flavors of Linux, Apple Macintosh, Unix and Windows.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tk."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TK

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

TK

DutchTweede KamerN/A

TK

EnglishTelkom Kenya LtdN/A

Tk

FrenchTankMilitary & Defense

TK

GermanTelekommunikationComputing, Post & Telecom

TK

GreekΤοκελάουGeography

TK

ItalianTimidina chinaseMedicine

TK

PortugueseTimidina quinaseMedicine

TK

SpanishTimidinquinasaMedicine

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

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Crosswords: TK

Specialty definitions using "TK": BiCapitalisation, BiCapitalizationCygnus Tcl ToolsJohn OusterhoutSTkTK!Solver, Tool Command Language. (references)
Non-English Usage: "TK" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (thymidine kinase, Tokelau).

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Commercial Usage: TK

DomainTitle

References

  • TK Development: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Graphical Applications with Tcl & TK (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: TK

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

McIntosh TK, Juhler M, Wieloch T. Novel pharmacologic strategies in the treatment of experimental traumatic brain injury. (references)

Conti AC, Raghupathi R, Lee VMY, Trojanowski JQ, McIntosh TK. Experimental brain injury induces regionally distinct apoptosis during the acute and delayed post-traumatic period. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TK

"TK" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "TK" is used about 16 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)87.5%1493,893
Noun (common)12.5%2245,945
                    Total100.00%16N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: TK

CountryName
Denmark

TK Development

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: TK

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TK": TK-90X, TK-95, tk-promoter.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TK

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tk

416

igl.net tk

15

tcl tk

72

k lite tk

14

dot tk

46

construction tk

13

glamour tk

40

performance tk

11

perl tk

32

mike tk

11

kazaa lite tk

31

tk 8 graphic helmet

9

tk constructor

27

tk 9 solid helmet

9

tk tourneys.igl.net

26

tk x torque graphic helmet

9

kbc tk 8 graphic helmet

21

tk 9 graphic helmet

9

nexus tk

21

tk 7 graphic helmet

9

kbc tk 9 graphic helmet

21

tk valve

8

kbc tk 9 solid helmet

21

kazaa tk

8

kbc tk 7 graphic helmet

21

kbc tk x torque graphic helmet

8

tk solver

20

kazaalite tk

8

chess tk

20

tcl tk tutorial

8

tk maxx

19

kenwood tk

8

tk development

19

outsourcing tk

8

builder tk

18

tk 3101k

7

tk max

17

extreme hentai tk

7

home tk

17

field hockey tk

7

raceway tk

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TK

Language Translations for "TK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

naar strukturen maettes med hydrogen, taber metallet al sin plasticitet og formbarhed (xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

door de opslorping van waterstof in het kristalrooster ver liest het metaal zijn plasticiteit en vervormingsvermogen geheel (xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

plastisuus (plasticity, xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY), muodonmuuttuvuus (xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY). (various references)

   

French

  

sous l'effet d'une iPbibation de la structure par l'hydrogène, l uétal perd toute plasticité et toute capacité d'ad=ptation (xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY). (various references)

   

German

  

wird das Gefuege mit Wasserstoff durchtraenkt, so verliert das Metall seine Bildsaukeit und sein Formaenderungsvermoegen (xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όσο το υδρογόνο διεισδύει στη δομή του μετάλλου τόσο αυτό χάνει την πλαστικότητά του και την ικανότητα παραμόρφωσης (xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sotto l'effetto di un assorbimento della struttura da parte dell'idrogeno, il metallo perde ogni plasticit e capacit di adattamento (xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

tkay

   

Russian 

  

грузовик (automobile wagon, autotruck, commercial vehicle, lorry, moving van, tk truck, truck). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

el material pierde su plasticidad y su adaptabilidad cuando se satura con hidrógeno (xken tk structure is saturated witk hYdrogen the met=l entirelY loses its plasticitY and deformabilitY). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TK

Derivations

Words containing "TK": catkin, catkins, latke, latkes, outkeep, outkeeping, outkeeps, outkept, outkick, outkicked, outkicking, outkicks, outkill, outkilled, outkilling, outkills, outkiss, outkissed, outkisses, outkissing, pocketknife, pocketknives. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: TK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "k-t"
 

+1 letter: kat, kit, tsk.

 

+2 letters: ikat, kart, kata, kats, keet, kent, kept, keto, khat, khet, kilt, kist, kite, kith, kits, knit, knot, koto, kyat, kyte, skat, skit, tack, taka, take, talk, tank, task, teak, tick, tike, tiki, toke, took, trek, tsks, tuck, turk, tusk, tyke.

 

+3 letters: batik, ikats, kaput, karat, karst, karts, katas, keets, kempt, ketch, ketol, khats, kheth, khets, kilts, kilty, kists, kited, kiter, kites, kithe, kiths, kitty, klutz, knelt, knits, knots, knout, korat, kotos, kotow, kraft, krait, kraut, kurta, kyats, kytes, kythe, latke, shtik, skate, skats, skeet, skint, skirt, skite, skits, stack, stake, stalk, stank, stark, steak, steek, stick, stink, stirk, stock, stoke, stook, stork, stuck, stunk, tacks, tacky, takas, taken, taker, takes, takin, talks, talky, taluk, tanka, tanks, tarok, tasks, teaks, thack, thank, thick, think, thunk, ticks, tikes, tikis, tilak, tokay, toked, token, toker, tokes, torsk, track, traik, trank, treks, trick, trike, troak, trock, troke, truck, trunk, tsked, tucks, tupik, turks, tusks, tweak, tykes.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Company Usage
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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