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Date "TRA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
"TRA" is a common misspelling or typo for: tar, tare, taro, tarp, tart, tea, tram, trap, tray. |
| 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 |
TRA | English | Targeted research action | N/A |
TRA | French | Thermomètre rayonnement aéroporté | Physics, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: TRA |
| Specialty definitions using "TRA": Carry basis ♦ Linkage disequilibrium ♦ Metabolic model ♦ Script Girl. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TRA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (tragedy), Albanian (axletree, balk, baulk, joist, stock, timber), Esperanto (through), Italian (amid, amidst, among, amongst, between, betwixt, in), Manx (when, while), Sranan (another, else, other), Welsh (over, very, while). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Tra la la la la bombardier this is the pilot speaking (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Che fanno i nostri supermen tra le vergini della giungla? (1970) Un Dollaro tra i denti (1966) Accadde tra le sbarre (1955) Dialogo tra un venditore di almanacchi e un passagero (1954) Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi (1950) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
| Waver; changeful; fluctuating; fluid; inconstant; indecisive; irregular; irresolute; irresponsible; kaleidoscopic; mercurial; mobile; movable; mutable; permutable; protean; restless; reversible; revocable; shifting; skittish; spasmodic; transformable; tra. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Tanzania | The Government is working to improve communication between the TIC and TRA, and a number of investor disputes have recently been resolved. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TRA" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 76.67% of the time. "TRA" is used about 30 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 | 76.67% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TRA": tra-la, tra-la-la, tra-la-lahing. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "TRA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Forsknings-og udviklingsprogram for Det Europæiske Økonomiske Fællesskab vedrørende et avanceret automatisk oversættelsessystem (Euro pean Economic Community research and development programme for a machine tra nslation system of advanced design, EUROTRA). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Onderzoek-en ontwikkelingsprogramma van de Europese Economische Gemeenschap inzake een geavanceerd systeem voor automatische vertaling (Euro pean Economic Community research and development programme for a machine tra nslation system of advanced design, EUROTRA). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Programme de recherche et de développement pour la Communauté économique européenne,relatif un système de traduction automatique de conception avancée (Euro pean Economic Community research and development programme for a machine tra nslation system of advanced design, European Economic Community research and development programme for a machine translation system of advanced design). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Forschungs-und Entwicklungsprogramm der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft für ein automatisches Übersetzungssystem modernster Konzeption (Euro pean Economic Community research and development programme for a machine tra nslation system of advanced design, EUROTRA). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρόγραμμα έρευνας και ανάπτυξης της Ευρωπαϊκής Οικονομικής Κοινότητας σχετικά με ένα σύστημα αυτόματης μετάφρασης προηγμένου τύπου (Euro pean Economic Community research and development programme for a machine tra nslation system of advanced design). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | radarirányítás átadása (radar transfer of control). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Programma di ricerca e di sviluppo per la Comunit economica europea,relativo ad un sistema di traduzione automatica di concezione avanzata (Euro pean Economic Community research and development programme for a machine tra nslation system of advanced design, European Economic Community research and development programme for a machine translation system of advanced design, EUROTRA). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atray Programa de Investigação e Desenvolvimento para a Comunidade Económica Europeia respeitante a um Sistema de Tradução Automática de Concepção Avançada (Euro pean Economic Community research and development programme for a machine tra nslation system of advanced design, EUROTRA). (various references) Programa de Investigación y Desarrollo para la Comunidad Económica Europea relativo a un Sistema de Traducción Automática de Concepción Avanzada (Euro pean Economic Community research and development programme for a machine tra nslation system of advanced design, EUROTRA). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TRA": trabeate, trabeated, trabeation, trabeations, trabecula, trabeculae, trabecular, trabeculas, trabeculate, trace, traceabilities, traceability, traceable, traced, traceless, tracer, traceried, traceries, tracers, tracery, traces, trachea, tracheae, tracheal, tracheary, tracheas, tracheate, tracheated, tracheid, tracheids, tracheitis, tracheitises, tracheobronchial, tracheolar, tracheole, tracheoles, tracheophyte, tracheophytes, tracheostomies, tracheostomy, tracheotomies, tracheotomy, trachle, trachled, trachles, trachling, trachoma, trachomas, trachyte, trachytes, trachytic. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TRA": antra, aspidistra, calyptra, centra, claustra, contra, dicentra, elytra, extra, fenestra, hemelytra, kalyptra, lustra, mantra, orchestra, palaestra, palestra, philtra, plectra, rostra, sequestra, sistra, spectra, sutra, tantra, tetra, ultra, yantra. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TRA": abstract, abstractable, abstracted, abstractedly, abstractedness, abstractednesses, abstracter, abstracters, abstractest, abstracting, abstraction, abstractional, abstractionism, abstractionisms, abstractionist, abstractionists, abstractions, abstractive, abstractly, abstractness, abstractnesses, abstractor, abstractors, abstracts, administrable, administrant, administrants, administrate, administrated, administrates, administrating, administration, administrations, administrative, administratively, administrator, administrators, administratrices, administratrix, allotetraploid, allotetraploidies, allotetraploids, allotetraploidy, altostrati, altostratus, aminotransferase, aminotransferases, amtrac, amtrack, amtracks, amtracs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: art, rat, tar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ar, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-t" | |
+1 letter: airt, arts, arty, brat, cart, dart, drat, fart, frat, grat, hart, kart, mart, part, prat, raft, rant, rapt, rate, rath, rato, rats, rota, star, tahr, tare, tarn, taro, tarp, tars, tart, tear, tora, trad, tram, trap, tray, tsar, tzar, wart. | |
+2 letters: abort, actor, afrit, after, airth, airts, alert, altar, alter, amort, antra, antre, aorta, apart, aport, apter, arete, argot, arhat, armet, artal, artel, artsy, aster, astir, atria, atrip, attar, avert, boart, bract, brant, brats, carat, caret, carte, carts, cater, chart, craft, crate, darts, dater, derat, draft, drats, earth, eater, extra, farts, frats, garth, gator, graft, grant, grate, great, groat, harts, hater, heart, irate, jurat, karat, karst, karts, korat, kraft, krait, kraut, kurta, later, lyart, marts, mater, oater, orate, ottar, parts, party, pater, peart, prate, prats, pruta, quart, rabat, rafts, ramet, rants, ratal, ratan, ratch, rated, ratel, rater, rates, rathe, ratio, ratos, ratty, react, reata, recta, retag, retax, retia, rhyta, riant, riata, roast, rotas, satyr, scart, sitar, smart, sprat, stair, stare, stark, stars, start, strap, straw, stray, stria, sutra, swart, taber, tabor, tahrs, taker, talar, taler, tamer, taper, tapir, tardo, tardy, tared, tares, targe, tarns, taroc, tarok, taros, tarot, tarps, tarre, tarry, tarsi, tarts, tarty, tatar, tater, tawer, taxer, tears, teary, terai, terga, terra, tetra, tharm, thraw, tiara, tolar, torah, toras, trace, track, tract, trade, tragi, traik, trail, train, trait, tramp, trams, trank, tranq, trans, traps, trapt, trash, trass, trave, trawl, trays, tread, treat, triac, triad, trial, troak, trona, tryma, tsars, tzars, ultra, urate, warts, warty, water, wrapt, wrath, yurta. | |
| 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. | |
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