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TRA

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.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: TRA

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

TRA

EnglishTargeted research actionN/A

TRA

FrenchThermomètre rayonnement aéroportéPhysics, Transportation

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

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Crosswords: TRA

Specialty definitions using "TRA": Carry basisLinkage disequilibriumMetabolic modelScript 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).

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Modern Usage: TRA

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: TRA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Famiglia e servizi sociali : una ricerca in Alto-Adige tra bisogni e risorse (reference)

  • La finanza pubblica napoletana tra centro e periferia : Piedimonte d'Alife durante il regno di Ferdinando II : 1830-59 (reference)

  • Problemi economici nei rapporti tra agricoltura e ambiente : atti del XXV Convegno di studi della SIDEA, Ancona, ottobre 1988 (reference)

  • Arona : tra Medioevo ed età moderna : porta da entrare in Lombardia : atti del 9. Convito dei verbanisti : Arona, 28 maggio 1995, Chiesa dei Ss. Felino e Gratiniano (reference)

  • Asili nido tra esperienza e progetto : la realtà dell'Emilia-Romagna nel contesto nazionale (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: TRA

ThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Sounds Captioned with "TRA".

PlayCaption
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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TRA

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: TRA

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Unclassified Items76.67%2372,767
Noun (singular)16.67%5157,705
Noun (proper)6.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%30N/A

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

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Expressions: TRA

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TRA": tra-la, tra-la-la, tra-la-lahing.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TRA

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

tra vigne

62

craft editor star tra x

46

tra vigne restaurant

16

knox tra

11

enclosed millennium source tra trailer welcome

7

taa tra

5

la la tra

5

no tinh tra xa

5

napa tra vigne

4

3 editor tra warcraft x

4

e figlio madre sesso tra

4

helena st tra vigne

4

dita la le mia storia tra

3

e il mare te tra

2

la la touch tra

2

album black comin head introducing knox lyrics nod smith suit tra version will ya

2

200 209 218 237 b b b b contact home links map site staff tra us

2

12 261 ammonia ammonium analyzer aquaculture aquifer attenuation chloride chlorophyll conductivity data dissolved environmental farming field fish fluctuation groundwater hermit hermit3000 in in in level level logger logger logging minitroll monitoring monitoring natural nitrate orp oxidation oxygen ph pocket pressure probe probe pxd pxd quality quality redox reduction remediation resource salinity sdi sensor sensor situ situ situ situ situ.com surface tds telemetry temperature testing tidal tra

2

la la song tra

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TRA

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TRA

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).

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Anagrams: TRA

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Sounds
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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