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Definitions: Tao |
TaoNoun1. An adherent of any branch of Taoism. 2. (Taoism) the ultimate principle of the universe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | TAO Lisp dialect with concurrency, object-orientation and logic. "Concurrent Programming in TAO - Practice and Experience", I. Takeuchi in Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems, T. Ito et al eds, LNCS 441, Springer 1989, pp.271-299. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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| 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 |
TAO | English | Telecommunications Advancement Organisation | N/A |
TAO | French | Traduction assistée par ordinateur | General |
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Synonym: TaoSynonym: Taoist (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tao |
| Specialty definitions using "Tao": the X that can be Y is not the true X, TLAs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Tao": Taotai. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tao" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Malagasy (there). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tao se jing ji (1973) Sapagkat kami'y tao lamang (1963) Tao li zheng chun (1962) Yi shu tao hua qian duo hong (1960) Tao wang 48 xiao shi (1959) | |
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Business | Built under the authority of the PWD, these plants were turned over to local authorities (know as tambol authority organizations or TAO). Of the 84 plants planned for construction, just over 50 have been completed. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Major non-U.S. investors include: Unilevers, Nestle's, British American Tobacco Company, Mitsui, Pacific Dunlop/Ansell, Prima, FDK and S.P. Tao. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tao" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Tao" is used about 55 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Tao" 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 |
| Tao | Last name | 1,000 | 12,503 |
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| Hong Kong | Sing Tao Holdings Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Tao": Healing Tao ♦ Tao Healing Energy Chant ♦ Tao of Health. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Tao": hong-tao. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tao | 598 |
tao feng | 223 |
tao te ching | 129 |
tao ski valley | 114 |
tao yuan taiwan | 109 |
cheat feng tao | 103 |
sing tao | 83 |
david tao | 79 |
tao lodging | 60 |
tao hotel | 53 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Tao"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 陶, " (a measure word, direction, method, path, principle, reason, road, skill, to say, to speak, to talk, truth, way). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aotay.(various references) | |
Russian | тао. (various references) | |
Thai | ความจริงอันเป็นที่สุ"ของสิ่งที่มีอยู่. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Tao": taos. (additional references) | |
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"Tao" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atko, Etio, Ftao, Iao, taao, taho, tajo, Tamo, taoo, taox, Tapol, taqo, tavo, Tavoy, tayo, tazo, Teio, toa, Tsavo, Tuzo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Tao" (pronounced tou" or dou") |
| 2 | t ou" | kowtow. |
| 2 | d ou" | Dow, endow. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-t" | |
-1 letter: at, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-t" | |
+1 letter: alto, atom, atop, auto, boat, bota, coat, dato, doat, goat, iota, jato, jota, lota, moat, nota, oast, oath, oats, rato, rota, stoa, taco, taos, taro, toad, toea, toga, tola, tora. | |
+2 letters: abbot, abort, about, actor, adopt, afoot, allot, aloft, altho, altos, amort, aorta, aport, argot, ascot, atoll, atoms, atomy, atone, atony, atopy, autos, azote, azoth, baton, biota, bloat, boart, boast, boats, botas, canto, coact, coapt, coast, coati, coats, costa, cotan, cotta, datos, datto, doats, dotal, fagot, fatso, float, flota, gator, gavot, gloat, goats, groat, hosta, iotas, jabot, jatos, jotas, korat, loath, lotah, lotas, lovat, magot, matzo, moats, notal, oasts, oaten, oater, oaths, octad, octal, octan, orate, ostia, ottar, ovate, panto, patio, quota, ratio, ratos, roast, rotas, sabot, santo, shoat, softa, stoae, stoai, stoas, stoat, stoma, taboo, tabor, tacos, talon, tango, tanto, tardo, taroc, tarok, taros, tarot, taxon, toads, toady, toast, today, toeas, togae, togas, tokay, tolan, tolar, tolas, toman, tonal, tonga, topaz, torah, toras, total, troak, trona, volta. | |
+3 letters: abator, abbots, aborts, abvolt, accost, action, actors, adopts, adroit, afloat, aftosa, agorot, agouti, agouty, aliyot, allots, almost, amatol, amount, anatto, anoint, aorist, aortae, aortal, aortas, aortic, argots, aristo, aroint, aroynt, ascots, assort, astony, atolls, atomic, atonal, atoned, atoner, atones, atonic, atopic, attorn, author, autoed, avocet, avoset, azoted, azotes, azoths, azotic, ballot, batboy, bathos, batons, biotas, bloats, boarts, boasts, boated, boatel, boater, bobcat, bonita, borate, botany, cahoot, cannot, canton, cantor, cantos, capote, captor, carrot, carton, cartop, castor, catalo, cation, cavort, chalot, citola, coacts, coapts, coasts, coated, coatee, coater, coatis, cobalt, coital, comate, combat, contra, costae, costal, costar, cotans, coteau, cottae, cottar, cottas, cowpat, craton, dacoit, dakoit, dalton, dattos, diatom, doated, donate, dopant, dotage, dotard, etalon, factor, faggot, fagots, fantod, fantom, fathom, fatsos, floats, floaty, flotas, foetal, folate, fontal, forgat, format, fugato, galiot, galoot, garote, gators, gavots, gelato, gitano, gloats, goatee, groats, hallot, harlot, hatbox, hostas, iodate, jabots, kation, korats, laptop, latigo, latino, layout, legato, loathe, lobate, locate, loquat, lotahs, lovats, maggot, magots, mahout, maloti, maltol, manito, marmot, mascot, matron, matzoh, matzos, matzot, moated, mortal, mortar, nation, natron, nonart, nonfat, nontax, notary, notate, nougat, oaters, oblast, oblate, obtain, octads, octane, octans, octant, octave, octavo, oleate, omenta, opiate, optima, orated, orates, orator, orgeat, ornate, osteal, otalgy, ottars, ottava, outact, outadd, outage, outask, outate, outeat, outgas, outlaw, outlay, outman, outran, outsat, outsaw, outwar, oxcart, oxtail, pantos, parrot, parton, pastor, pathos, patios, patois, patrol, patron, payout, pelota, portal, postal, potage, potash, potato, potman, protea, quarto, quotas, quotha, rabato, ragout, ragtop, raptor, ration, ratios, ratoon, ratton, rebato, rialto, roasts, rostra, rotary, rotate, rubato, sabots, santol, santos, sapota, sapote, sartor, satori, scotia, scrota, shoats, skatol, smalto, softas, solate, somata, sonant, sonata, stator, stoats, stomal, stomas, storax, stroma, taboos, tabors, tabour, tailor, talion, tallol, tallow, talons, tampon, tangos, tapalo, tarocs, taroks, tarots, tarpon, tattoo, tautog, taxons, teabox, teapot, teapoy, teopan, thorax, thoria, throat, toasts, toasty, todays, toecap, togaed, togate, tokays, tolane, tolans, tolars, tomans, tomato, tombac, tombak, tombal, tomcat, tongas, torahs, torula, totals, toucan, towage, toward, troaks, trocar, troika, tronas, turaco, utopia, viator, volant, votary, wanton, wombat, zealot, zonate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006F |
| 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)546781 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Company Usage 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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