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Date "ARG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Arg /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function), used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano' from `pianoforte'). "The sine function takes 1 arg, but the arc-tangent function can take either 1 or 2 args." Compare param, parm, var. Source: Jargon File. |
Aerospace | International Astronomical Union Abbreviation for Argo . See constellation. (references) |
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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 |
ARG | English | ATM requirements group | N/A |
ARG | French | République argentine | Geography, Law |
ArG | German | Arbeitsgruppe | N/A |
ARG | Italian | Repubblica Argentina | Geography, Law |
ARG | Latin | Argentina sphyraena | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ARG |
| Specialty definitions using "ARG": butlerite ♦ RNA-Binding Proteins ♦ var.. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ARG" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (abusive, angry, bad, bitter, coarse, confirmed, cross, crude, evil, harsh, important, inveterate, malicious, mischievous, nasty, raw, rough, serious, sore, sorely, terrible, unrefined, unwrought, vicious, wicked), Latin (argentines(= fishes)), Swedish (angry, bad, cross, mad, miserable, nasty, poor, rabid). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Women's edition (Buffalo) Courier / ARG ; the Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "ARG" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "ARG" 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ARG": Ala-pro-gly-pro-arg, Lys-his-arg-arg, Val-pro-asp-pro-arg. | |
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| 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 |
arg | 106 |
arg yahoo | 9 |
arg trading | 8 |
arg clip heart | 7 |
arg list long too | 3 |
arg trading.com | 3 |
arg essex | 3 |
ack arg grr | 3 |
arg equation | 3 |
anime arg zone | 2 |
arg clarin diario | 2 |
arg back door | 2 |
arg tyr val | 2 |
arg caracaraña comuna de fe santa | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "ARG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | argomento (argument, case, copy, matter, object, plea, point, question, reason, subject, text, theme, topic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | argay аргумент (argument, plea). (various references) argumento (action, ammunition, argument, plea, plot, scenario, story). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Argentina sphyraena. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ARG": argal, argala, argalas, argali, argalis, argals, argent, argental, argentic, argentiferous, argentine, argentines, argentite, argentites, argents, argentum, argentums, argil, argillaceous, argillite, argillites, argils, arginase, arginases, arginine, arginines, argle, argled, argles, argling, argol, argols, argon, argonaut, argonauts, argons, argosies, argosy, argot, argotic, argots, arguable, arguably, argue, argued, arguer, arguers, argues, argufied, argufier, argufiers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ARG": aargh, allargando, bargain, bargained, bargainer, bargainers, bargaining, bargains, barge, bargeboard, bargeboards, barged, bargee, bargees, bargello, bargellos, bargeman, bargemen, barges, barghest, barghests, barging, barguest, barguests, cargo, cargoes, cargos, charge, chargeable, charged, chargehand, chargehands, charger, chargers, charges, charging, counterargue, counterargued, counterargues, counterarguing, counterargument, counterarguments, countercharge, countercharged, countercharges, countercharging, discharge, dischargeable, discharged, dischargee, dischargees. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gar, rag. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-r" | |
-1 letter: ag, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-r" | |
+1 letter: agar, ager, brag, crag, drag, frag, garb, gars, gaur, gear, gnar, grab, grad, gram, gran, grat, gray, guar, raga, rage, ragi, rags, rang, ruga. | |
+2 letters: aargh, agars, agers, agger, aggro, agora, agree, agria, algor, anger, angry, argal, argil, argle, argol, argon, argot, argue, argus, auger, augur, barge, brags, cager, cargo, cigar, crags, drags, eager, eagre, eggar, frags, gager, gamer, gaper, garbs, garni, garth, gator, gaurs, gayer, gazar, gazer, gears, gerah, glair, glare, glary, gnarl, gnarr, gnars, goral, graal, grabs, grace, grade, grads, graft, grail, grain, grama, gramp, grams, grana, grand, grans, grant, grape, graph, grapy, grasp, grass, grate, grave, gravy, grays, graze, great, groan, groat, guard, guars, gular, gyral, jager, jagra, lager, large, largo, marge, orang, organ, pager, parge, pargo, prang, ragas, raged, ragee, rages, raggy, ragis, range, rangy, regal, regma, regna, retag, rugae, rugal, sager, sarge, scrag, sprag, sugar, targe, terga, tragi, virga, wager, wrang, yager. | |
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