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Definition: Tasso |
TassoNoun1. Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Tasso" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
"Tasso" is a common misspelling or typo for: basso, lasso, taco, task, tassel, toss. |
| 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 |
TASSO | English | Two-arm-spectrometer-solenoid | Industry, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: TassoSynonym: Torquato Tasso (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: two-arm-spectrometer-solenoid (industry, meteorology & standards). |
Crosswords: Tasso |
| English words defined with "Tasso": Torquato Tasso. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Tasso": Alfonso ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Immortal Four of Italy, Improvisators ♦ Jerusalem Delivered ♦ Peter the Hermit ♦ Syrens of the Ditch. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tasso" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Italian (badger, Brock, rate, yew). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Torquato Tasso (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Torquato Tasso | None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Italy | Literary achievements--such as the poetry of Petrarch, Tasso, and Ariosto and the prose of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Castiglione--exerted a tremendous and lasting influence on the subsequent development of Western civilization, as did the painting, sculpture, and architecture contributed by giants such as da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and Michelangelo. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tasso" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Tasso" is used about 8 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) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Tasso" 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 |
| Tasso | Last name | 300 | 28,243 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Tasso": Torquato Tasso. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
tasso | 37 |
tasso torquato | 10 |
tasso torcuato | 7 |
elba tasso | 5 |
ham tasso | 4 |
aaron tasso | 4 |
guado al tasso | 2 |
interesse mutuo tasso | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tasso"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | assotay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oasts, stoas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: oast, oats, ossa, sots, stoa, taos, tass, toss. | |
-2 letters: ass, oat, sat, sos, sot, tao, tas. | |
-3 letters: as, at, os, so, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ascots, assort, boasts, coasts, fatsos, hostas, roasts, sabots, santos, shoats, softas, stoats, stomas, toasts. | |
+2 letters: accosts, aftosas, aorists, aristos, assorts, avosets, castors, costars, fatsoes, fossate, mascots, oblasts, outasks, outpass, pastors, petasos, postals, santols, sapotas, sapotes, sartors, satoris, scotias, skatols, smaltos, solates, sonants, sonatas, stators. | |
+3 letters: aerosats, agonists, airposts, alastors, altoists, amitoses, amitosis, amorists, amosites, antiboss, apostasy, apostils, apostles, arsonist, asbestos, assentor, assertor, assistor, assonant, assorted, assorter, astomous, astonies, astonish, astounds, atomises, atomisms, atomists, azotises, bastions, bathoses, boasters, bobstays, bombasts, borstals, castoffs, coarsest, coassist, coasters, coatless, costards, dashpots, earshots, espartos, fastuous, flotsams, gestapos, glasnost, hoarsest, hostages, housesat, impastos, isobaths, isolates, isostasy, isotachs, lactoses, latosols, maestoso, maestros, maltoses, massicot, mastoids, nonpasts, offcasts, onanists, oralists, oratress, osteomas, ostmarks, outcasts, outclass, outfasts, outlasts, outsails, outsoars, outspans, outstays, outtasks, oxysalts, passport, pathoses, podestas, postages, postbags, postbase, potashes, potassic, prosaist, protases, protasis, reassort, roasters, robustas, sabatons, sacatons, sandlots, santours, sarodist, sautoirs, scotomas, seaboots, seacoast, seaports, seascout, senators, sfumatos, shallots, shoalest, shortias, skatoles, snapshot, soapiest, sodalist, solvates, soothsay, sorbates, soutanes, spathose, stannous, stardoms, starnose, stasimon, stations, stokesia, stomachs, stomates, stopgaps, storages, storaxes, stowages, stratous, subatoms, surcoats, teashops, toadless, toasters, topmasts, topsails, torsades, tostadas, tostados, transoms, treasons, tsardoms, twasomes, votaress, washouts. | |
+4 letters: absolutes, accustoms, acoustics, acrostics, acrotisms, adjustors, aerostats, afforests, agnostics, agonistes, albatross, amortises, ancestors, anestrous, angstroms, aphorists, apoptoses, apoptosis, apostates, arborists, arrestors, arsonists, arthroses, arthrosis, assentors, assertion, assertors, assistors, associate, assonants, assorters, assorting, asteroids, atamascos, atomisers, atropisms, attestors, authoress, autobuses, autocross, autolyses, autolysis, autopsies, autosomes, backstops, banjoists, barstools, bestowals, blastoffs, blastomas, botanises, botanists, bushgoats, cabestros, cabrestos, canoeists, canonists, capstones, cassoulet, castratos, cathouses, cessation, chassepot, chitosans, coassists, coastings, coastwise, coatdress, coattests, constants, contrasts, copastors, cosecants, croissant, crosstalk, cryostats, desolates, diastoles, dioptases, dissonant, downcasts, dystocias, dystonias, dystopias, earstones, ectosarcs, endocasts, escargots, eschalots, estragons, falsettos, fatstocks, forecasts, foremasts, forestays, gateposts, glasnosts, glasswort, glossator, goalposts, goatskins, grassroot, gyrostats, halitoses, halitosis, hemostats, holdfasts, homestays, hospitals, insolates, iotacisms, isografts, isolators, isostatic, jarosites, keratoses, keratosis, knotgrass, lampposts, loadstars, loathness, localists, lodestars, loveseats, loyalists, maestosos, marmosets, masochist, massicots, mastodons, misatones, monastics, monsteras, moralists, mosaicist, myoblasts, mystagogs, notecases, oasthouse, obstacles, offstages, oghamists, oleasters, organists, osculates, ostiaries, ostinatos, ostracise, ostracism, ostracods, outboasts, outcastes, outfeasts, outgassed, outgasses, outpassed, outpasses, outraises, outsavors, outshames, outskates, outsmarts, outspeaks, outstands, outstares, outstarts, outstates, outswears, outwashes, outwastes, overcasts, oversalts, overstays, overtasks, parodists, passports, pastorals, pastromis, patroness, pentosans, petasoses, phaseouts, piscators, plastisol, plastrons, polestars, postcards, postcrash, postdates, postfaces, postgrads, posthaste, postheats, postmarks, potassium, potshards, prosaists, prostates, proteases, pulsators, pyrostats, quaestors, reassorts, resonants, resonates, restorals, rheostats, roadsters, royalists, sabotages, saboteurs, sailboats, saintdoms, sallowest, saltboxes, saltworks, saltworts, sanctions, sandstone, sandstorm, sandworts, santalols, santonins, saponites, sarodists, sartorius, saskatoon, satinpods, sautoires, savoriest, scholiast, scotopias, seacoasts, seafronts, seamounts, seascouts, seatworks, sedations, senoritas, sensation, setaceous, sforzatos, shakeouts, shoaliest, shoptalks, shortages, showboats, slotbacks, snapshots, soapstone, soapworts, socialist, sodalists, sodalites, softbacks, softballs, softheads, softwares, solations, somewhats, sonatinas, sonicates, sonorants, soothfast, soothsaid, soothsays, sororates, soutaches, southeast, southpaws, spiccatos, spoliates, sportsman, staccatos, stakeouts, stallions, standoffs, standouts, stanhopes, starnoses, starworts, statocyst, stegosaur, stoccados, stoccatas, stockades, stockcars, stokesias, stopbanks, stoppages, storables, stowaways, strontias, subabbots, subtaxons, subtopias, subtotals, succotash, sudations, surfboats, sweatshop, taphouses, taskworks, teahouses, teaspoons, testators, thousands, toadyisms, toastiest, totalises, totalisms, totalists, transpose, travoises, trousseau, varistors, virtuosas, vocalists, voltaisms, votarists, wainscots, wastelots. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 73 73 6F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- ... ... --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a s s o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0073 0073 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)5467858581 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Abbreviations 15. Acronyms 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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