Vega

Definitions: Vega

Vega

Noun

1. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).

2. The brightest star in the constellation Lyra.

Date "Vega" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonym: Vega

Synonym: Lope de Vega (n). (additional references)

The Vega was a six-passenger monoplane built by the Lockheed company starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record breaking pilots who were attracted to the rugged and very long-ranged design. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic single handed in one, and Wiley Post flew his around the world twice.

Designed by John Northrop and Gerrard Vultee, both of whom would later form their own companies, the plane was originally intended to serve with Lockheed's own airline routes. They set out to build a four-seat plane that was not only rugged, but the fastest plane as well. Utilizing the latest designs in monocoque fuselages, cantilever wings and the best engine available, the Vega delivered on the speed promises.

The fuselage was monocoque, but built from sheets of plywood skinned over wooden ribs. The plane was built in two halves in large presses, and then glued together. With the fuselage constructed in this fashion, the wing spar had to be kept clear, so they decided to make a single spar cantilever mounted on the very top of the plane. The only part of the aircraft that wasn't particularily streamlined was the landing gear. For power they chose the Wright Whirlwind, which delivered 225 horsepower.

The first Vega 1, named the Golden Eagle, flew from Lockheed's Los Angeles plant on July 4, 1927. It could cruise at a then-fast 120mph, and had a top speed of 135. However the four-passenger (plus one pilot) load was considered too small for airline use. A number of private owners placed orders for the design however, and by the end of 1928 they had produced 68 of this original design. In the 1928 National Air Races in Cleveland, the Vegas won every speed award.

Looking to improve the design, Northrop and Vultee then delivered the Vega 5 in 1929. Adding the Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine of 450hp improved weights enough to allow two more seats to be added. They also added a new NACA cowling to further improve speed, with cruise increasing to 155mph and top to 165. However even the new six-seat configuration proved to be too small, and the 5 was also purchased primarily for private aviators and executive transports, another 64 Vega 5's being built.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Plain	Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vega

English words defined with "Vega": Lope de Vega, Lyra. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Vega": 79092 ♦ Poets ♦ Spanish Brutus. (references)

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

Faeroese (recruit), Spanish (bottom).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Don Diego Vega. I'm with the greedy bloodsuckers. (Zorro, the Gay Blade; writing credit: Greg Alt; Hal Dresner) You have a visitor in there, a Miss Sophie De Vega. (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)
Movie/TV Titles	Santos Vega (1971) La Conquista de una vega (1971) Garcilaso de la Vega (1966) Lope de Vega (1964) Santos Vega vuelve (1947)
Song Titles	Luka (performing artist: Suzanne Vega)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Vega Engenharia Ambiental S.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Vega Group PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	1910/1920 Vega Alta Mun: PR Federal Census (reference) Agent of Vega & Other Stories (reference) Danger from Vega (reference) De Vega Plays Three (reference) De Vega Plays Two (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Anuario Lope De Vega (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Suzanne Vega (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	CERWIN VEGA E712 Floor Standing Speaker - Black (reference) CERWIN VEGA E-705 2-Way Bookshelf Speaker System (Pair) (reference) CERWIN VEGA E75C 2-Way Center Channel Speaker (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Vega FSXXX Pro Finger Saver (reference) Vega MMB-1 Machinery Mover without Tongue: 13"-28" Wide, 17"-29" Long (reference) VEGA MD-11 Mini-Lathe Duplicator (reference) Vega SF1-SW Stock Feed System - Pro (reference) Vega D-36 36" Professional Lathe Duplicator (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Lockheed Vega Air Express.Credit: NASA.		Figure 20. Ekman insulated bottle invented by Professor Fredrik Eckman for studies of the temperature and salinity of the waters of the Skagerrak in 1869. A model of this type was used by Nordenskiold on the VEGA in 1878 and was also used by the FRAM in 1893. This image shows the bottle in the descending position.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Sent General Vega and myself to select positions for the artillery.Credit: Library of Congress.		Garcilaso de la Vega.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Lope de Vega, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right.Credit: Library of Congress.		Steamer Vega.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Vega [sic] Canal at Ixtacalco.Credit: Library of Congress.		Production. Aircraft. Final assembly line of the Vega Aircraft Corporation. A mechanic makes a final check-up on a Ventura bomber.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Women aircraft workers. Precision assembly at one of the West Coast's huge aircraft plants. A woman inspector here checks electrical assemblies. Vega.Credit: Library of Congress.		Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Lope de Vega	Except for God, the King's our only lord.
	Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.
	Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Wildorado and Vega and Boise and Glenrio.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Chapparo J, Vega J, Terry W, Barra B, Meyer R, Peters CJ, et al. Assessment of person-to-person transmission of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in a Chilean hospital setting. (references)
Business		The Vega refinery used to be specializing in the solvent and catalyst production necessary for crude oil processing. (references)
Children	Dominican Republic	There are legal advocates especially for juveniles in Santo Domingo and La Vega to provide them with representation in delinquency cases. (references)
Civil Liberties	Mexico	Former Mexico City mayor Rosario Robles filed the charges against Pavon and Junco de la Vega following an April 12 cover story alleging that almost 10 percent of her administration's budget was missing. (references)
	Mexico	In a May 22 letter to the President, the CPJ protested the defamation charges filed against Carolina Pavon, a reporter from the newspaper Reforma, and Alejandro Junco de la Vega, its president and publisher. (references)
Economic History	Bulgaria	Other small carriers such as Air Via, Air Soifa, Bulgarian Lucky Flight, Vega Airlines, Air Ban, Air Varna, and Heli Air also exist. (references)
Human Rights	El Salvador	Two board members, Juan Sigfrido Torres Polanco and Fredy Orlando Vega, faced charges of embezzlement of public funds. (references)
	Mexico	Maldonado Vega, who also served previously as director of the Federal District Police Academy, was linked to the Juarez Cartel. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Vega" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.08% of the time. "Vega" is used about 52 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)	98.08%	51	47,619
Noun (singular)	1.92%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	52	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Vega" 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
Vega	Last name	30,000	360
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name	Country	Name
Brazil	Vega Engenharia Ambiental S.A.	United Kingdom	Vega Group PLC
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1. Vega, TX (town, FIPS 75188)
Location: 35.24658 N, 102.42593 W
Population (1990): 840 (388 housing units)
Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 79092
Country: USA

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Expressions: Vega

Expressions using "Vega": lope de Vega ♦ Vega Alta zona ♦ Vega Baja zona. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Vega": vega-built.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vega

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
amelia vega	3,981
cerwin vega	674
alexa vega	603
vega	489
suzanne vega	265
paz vega	226
vega vixen	169
vega helmet	167
amelia miss universe vega	165
chevy vega	136
mindy vega	119
amelia picture vega	106
amelia miss universo vega	103
dominican la republic vega	92
lope de vega	80
chevrolet vega	75
2003 amelia miss universe vega	72
alexa picture vega	65
amelia photo vega	56
amelia pic vega	56
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vega

Language		Translations for "Vega"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏النسر الواقع. (various references)

Danish		vega. (various references)

Dutch		vega. (various references)

Finnish		option vega. (various references)

French		véga, V, indicateur véga, exposition � la volatilité implicite. (various references)

German		Vega (kappa). (various references)

Greek		vega. (various references)

Italian		indicatore "Vega". (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"女星 , �"女 (female weaver), ヘ長調 (a hike in the basic wagebase up, bacon, bailout, bake off, baked potato, Bakelite, bakery, baking powder, bare look, bare top, base, base camp, base coach, base down, basement, BASIC, Basic English, bass, bassist, Bayes, Bayesian, Bayrische Motorenwerke, bearing, Beethoven, Behcet, beige, Beirut, Belgrade, beta, betatron, BMW, F major, kiss, salary increase, to base something on, to make something the basis, valium, vector, veil, version of English with a maximum of 850 basic words). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ベガ , しょくじょせい, しょくじょ (female weaver). (various references)

Pig Latin		egavay

Portuguese		vega. (various references)

Spanish		vega (bottom, flats, plain), coeficiente vega. (various references)

Swedish		vega. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vega

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Vega": vegan, veganism, veganisms, vegans. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vega" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cega, Evga, Fga, Vaega, Vaga, Vagg, veba, veg, vegal, vege, vegi, vego, veja, Vema, vga, Viega, viga. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Vega

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: gave.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-v"
	-1 letter: age, ave, gae, veg.
	-2 letters: ae, ag.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-v"
	+1 letter: agave, ganev, gavel, grave, vague, vegan.
	+2 letters: agaves, avenge, ganevs, garvey, gavage, gavels, geneva, glaive, graved, gravel, graven, graver, graves, greave, lavage, lovage, maglev, ravage, regave, rivage, savage, vagile, vaguer, vegans, visage, voyage.
	+3 letters: avenged, avenger, avenges, average, avgases, deaving, dogvane, engrave, evading, evangel, forgave, garveys, gavages, gaveled, gavotte, genevas, glaived, glaives, gravels, gravely, gravers, gravest, gravies, gravure, greaved, greaves, heaving, lavages, leaving, lovages, maglevs, misgave, outgave, overage, ravaged, ravager, ravages, reaving, rivages, salvage, savaged, savager, savages, selvage, sevruga, vaginae, vaguely, vaguest, vantage, vealing, vegetal, ventage, verglas, village, vinegar, vintage, virgate, visaged, visages, voltage, vorlage, voyaged, voyager, voyages, vulgate, weaving.
	+4 letters: aasvogel, agentive, aggrieve, avengers, avenging, averaged, averages, averring, averting, avgasses, behaving, beverage, burgrave, cleavage, cleaving, coverage, davening, divagate, dogvanes, engraved, engraver, engraves, envisage, ergative, evangels, gaveling, gavelled, gavelock, gavotted, gavottes, gingivae, giveable, giveaway, giveback, gravamen, graveled, gravelly, gravidae, gravures, grievant, hangover, havening, havering, lawgiver, leavings, leverage, levigate, ligative, mangrove, margrave, megavolt, navigate, negative, overaged, overages, overglad, overgoad, overhang, ravagers, raveling, ravening, ravigote, repaving, salvaged, salvagee, salvager, salvages, savagely, savagery, savagest, scavenge, selvaged, selvages, sevrugas, sheaving, sleaving, stravage, travelog, vagaries, vaginate, valeting, valguses, vantages, veganism, vegetant, vegetate, venogram, ventages, verbiage, vestigia, vicarage, vicinage, villager, villages, vinegars, vinegary, vintager, vintages, viragoes, virgates, voltages, vorlages, voyagers, voyageur, vulgarer, vulgates, wavering.
	+5 letters: aasvogels, achieving, advantage, advecting, adverting, agentives, aggravate, aggrieved, aggrieves, agitative, almsgiver, averagely, averaging, beavering, bereaving, beverages, burgraves, caregiver, caveating, caverning, clavering, cleavages, coverages, cravening, deleaving, depraving, devaluing, deviating, divagated, divagates, elevating, engravers, engraving, enslaving, envisaged, envisages, evangelic, everglade, galvanise, galvanize, gavelkind, gavelling, gavelocks, genitival, giveaways, givebacks, grapevine, gravamens, graveless, graveling, gravelled, graveness, graveside, graveyard, gravitate, gravities, grievance, grievants, hangovers, inweaving, laveering, lawgivers, leavening, levanting, leveraged, leverages, levigated, levigates, mangroves, margraves, marveling, megavolts, navigable, navigated, navigates, negatived, negatives, overawing, overeager, overglaze, overgoads, overgraze, overhangs, overlarge, palsgrave, pervading, purgative, quavering, ravelings, ravelling, ravenings, ravigotes, reavowing, reengrave, reshaving, revaluing, revamping, revealing, reweaving, salvagees, salvagers, scavenged, scavenger, scavenges, shaveling, slavering, stravaged, stravages, traveling, travelogs, unavenged, unaverage, unweaving, upheaving, vagueness, variegate, vassalage, veganisms, vegetable, vegetably, vegetated, vegetates, vengeance, venograms, verbiages, verglases, vestigial, vicarages, viceregal, vicinages, vigesimal, vigilance, vigilante, villagers, villagery, villenage, vinegared, vintagers, voyageurs, vulgarest, vulgarise, vulgarize, waveguide.
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