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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Waist-hip-ratio. The ratio of a person's waist circumference to hip circumference. WHR looks at the relationship between the differences in the measurements of waist and hips. Most people store body fat in two distinct ways, often called the "apple" and "pear" shapes, either the middle (apple) or the hips (pear). For most people, carrying extra weight around their middle increases health risks more than carrying extra weight around their hips or thighs. Overall obesity, however, is still of greater risk than body fat storage locations or WHR. A WHR. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
WHR | English | Waist hip ratio | Abbreviation |
WHR | Italian | Rapporto vita-fianchi | Abbreviation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: WHR |
| Specialty definitions using "WHR": Waist-hip-ratio. (references) |
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| "WHR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "WHR" is used about 11 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 (singular) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
whr | 25 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "h-r-w" | |
+1 letter: whir. | |
+2 letters: crwth, hewer, rowth, shrew, thraw, threw, throw, wharf, where, whirl, whirr, whirs, whore, whorl, whort, worth, wrath, wroth. | |
+3 letters: awhirl, chawer, chewer, crwths, forwhy, growth, harrow, hawker, hawser, hewers, howler, rawish, rechew, reshow, rewash, rowths, shewer, shower, shrewd, shrews, swarth, thawer, thrawn, thraws, thrown, throws, thwart, trowth, warmth, washer, wether, whaler, wharfs, wharve, wheres, wherry, wherve, whiner, whirls, whirly, whirrs, whirry, whiter, whored, whores, whorls, whorts, wisher, wither, worths, worthy, wraith, wraths, wrathy, wreath, wrench, wretch, wright, writhe, wuther. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 48 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010111 01001000 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W H R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0048 0052 |
| 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)574252 |
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