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TSA

"TSA" is a common misspelling or typo for: task, tea, tsar.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: TSA

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

TSA

DutchTrijpticase Soy AgarN/A

TSA

EnglishTourette's Syndrome AssociationN/A

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

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Synonyms: TSA

Synonyms by domain: Salvation Army (religion & philosophy), tax-sheltered annuity (finance), Textile Services Association Ltd (industry), The Salvation Army (religion & philosophy), The Securities Association (finance), Ticketing and Settlement Agreement (transportation), Tonnage Sharing Agreement, Total System Analyzer (computing), Tourette's Syndrome Association (medicine), Training Services Agency (education, labor), transition-state analogue (medicine, physics), Translation Studies Abstracts (language, publishing & graphic arts), Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (transportation), Trypticase Soy Agar (food & agriculture), Tumor-Specific Antigens (medicine).

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Crosswords: TSA

Non-English Usage: "TSA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Cebuano (tea), Sotho (of), Tswana (for, of).

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Modern Usage: TSA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tsa tsa tsaa (1993)

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

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Commercial Usage: TSA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Kgaa kgati tsa khwiti ya noka yeso : Northern Sotho poetry (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Chung-Kuo Kang Sheng Su Tsa Chih = Chinese Journal Of Antibiotics (reference)

  • Hsing Shih Fa Tsa Chi (reference)

  • Chung-hua Min Kuo Hsiao Hua Hsi I Hsueh Hui Tsa Chih = Chine (reference)

  • Dalu Zazhi = Ta Lu Tsa Chih = Continent Magazine (reference)

  • Chung-hua Shih Yen Ho Lin Chuang Ping Tu Hsueh Tsa Chih = Zh (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: TSA

"TSA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "TSA" is used about 9 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)55.56%5157,705
Noun (singular)33.33%3202,518
Noun (common)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TSA

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

tsa

1,491

tsa union

7

tsa vfsolutions.com

253

tip travel tsa

7

screeners tsa

42

kwa lodge luten tsa

7

halo tsa

21

airport security tsa

5

screener tsa

20

tsa vfsolution.com

5

tsa clothing

16

inc tsa

5

tsa uniform

14

airline tsa

5

cool tsa

14

news tsa

5

aircargo.org tsa

12

site tsa web

5

adminiral administration fbi ferrill ferrill hal james mike rep rogers screeners security transportation tsa

11

relocation tsa

5

job tsa

11

employee tsa

4

layoff tsa

10

halo loader tsa

4

tsa vfsolutions

10

gym home tsa

4

security tsa

10

complaint tsa

4

employment tsa

10

cut tsa

4

government tsa

8

fly list no tsa

4

hallowell susan tsa

8

national tsa

4

gi la tsa

8

background check tsa

3

solutions.com tsa vf

7

ombudsman tsa

3

solution tsa vf

7

home page tsa

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: TSA

Derivations

Words beginning with "TSA": tsade, tsades, tsadi, tsadis, tsar, tsardom, tsardoms, tsarevna, tsarevnas, tsarina, tsarinas, tsarism, tsarisms, tsarist, tsarists, tsaritza, tsaritzas, tsars, tsatske, tsatskes. (additional references)

Words containing "TSA": flotsam, flotsams, fretsaw, fretsaws, jetsam, jetsams, matsah, matsahs, outsail, outsailed, outsailing, outsails, outsang, outsat, outsavor, outsavored, outsavoring, outsavors, outsaw, petsai, petsais, pitsaw, pitsaws, sightsaw, spritsail, spritsails. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: TSA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sat, tas.

Words within the letters "a-s-t"

-1 letter: as, at, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-s-t"
 

+1 letter: acts, aits, alts, ants, arts, ates, bast, bats, cast, cats, east, eats, etas, fast, fats, gast, gats, hast, hats, kats, last, lats, mast, mats, oast, oats, past, pats, qats, rats, salt, sate, sati, scat, seat, seta, shat, skat, slat, spat, stab, stag, star, stat, staw, stay, stoa, swat, tabs, tads, tags, tams, tans, taos, taps, tars, task, tass, tats, taus, tavs, taws, teas, tsar, twas, utas, vast, vats, wast, wats.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TSA


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

54 53 41

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

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

=

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)

01010100 01010011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#83 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0053 0041

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

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

545335

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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