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Definition: TUE |
TUENoun1. The parson bird. |
"TUE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the thunder". |
Date "TUE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Crosswords: TUE |
| Specialty definitions using "TUE": humane trap. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TUE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (hushed, kills). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Tue mani sul mio corpo (1970) L' Alcool tue (1947) Le Baiser qui tue (1929) La Forêt qui tue (1925) Tue la mort (1920) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "TUE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.00% of the time. "TUE" is used about 25 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) | 72% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Unclassified Items | 20% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "TUE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the thunder". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "TUE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Thunor | Male | Anglo-Saxon Mythology | Thor |
| Thorbjörn | Male | Danish | Thor |
| Tordis | Female | Danish | Thor |
| Torgeir | Male | Danish | Thor |
| Torsten | Male | Danish | Thor |
| Tue | Male | Danish | Thor |
| Thurstan | Male | English | Thor |
| Thora | Female | German | Thor |
| Donar | Male | Germanic Mythology | Thor |
| &Thorn;ór | Male | Icelandic | Thor |
| &Thorn;órir | Male | Icelandic | Thor |
| &Thorn;órr | Male | Norse Mythology | Thor |
| Thor | Male | Norse Mythology | N/A |
| Tordis | Female | Norwegian | Thor |
| Torgeir | Male | Norwegian | Thor |
| Torhild | Female | Norwegian | Thor |
| Tormod | Male | Norwegian | Thor |
| Andor | Male | Scandinavian | Thor |
| Haldor | Male | Scandinavian | Thor |
| Thora | Female | Scandinavian | Thor |
| Thorborg | Female | Scandinavian | Thor |
| Tor | Male | Scandinavian | Thor |
| Tore | Male | Scandinavian | Thor |
| Torvald | Male | Scandinavian | Thor |
| Torkel | Male | Swedish | Thor |
| Torsten | Male | Swedish | Thor |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TUE": Tue-iron, Tue-irons, Tue-sun. | |
| 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 |
nam tri tue viet | 10 |
mouche tue | 8 |
tue | 7 |
ce fort ne pas plus qui rend tue | 5 |
tue vivre | 3 |
mouches tue | 3 |
sy tue | 3 |
mais pamela qui rose tue | 2 |
amanite mouche tue | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 火木土 (Tue-Thurs-Sat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かもくど (Tue-Thurs-Sat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | uetay день)вторник (tues). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TUE": battue, habitue, statue, virtue. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TUE": battues, constituencies, constituency, constituent, constituently, constituents, habitues, mutuel, mutuels, parimutuel, spirituel, spirituelle, statued, statues, statuesque, statuesquely, statuette, statuettes, substituent, substituents, virtueless, virtues. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-t-u" | |
-1 letter: et, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-t-u" | |
+1 letter: bute, cute, duet, etui, jute, lute, mute, suet, true, tube, tule, tune. | |
+2 letters: acute, beaut, bluet, brute, buret, buteo, butes, butle, butte, centu, chute, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, cutes, cutey, cutie, debut, duets, duvet, educt, elute, eruct, erupt, etude, etuis, exult, fetus, flute, fumet, getup, guest, haute, jutes, letup, lunet, lutea, luted, lutes, muted, muter, mutes, outed, outer, outre, quate, quest, quiet, quite, quote, rebut, recut, route, saute, scute, setup, shute, stupe, suets, suety, suite, taupe, tegua, teuch, teugh, togue, toque, touse, truce, trued, truer, trues, tubae, tubed, tuber, tubes, tules, tulle, tuned, tuner, tunes, tuque, tutee, tuxes, tuyer, unite, unlet, unmet, unset, untie, upset, urate, uteri, utile, utter, vertu. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Derived from 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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