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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A Latin name for charcoal, later transferred to fossil coal. (references) |
| Clay-bonded silicon carbide; used as refractory. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CARBO |
| English words defined with "CARBO": Dust brand. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CARBO": Carbuncle. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CARBO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (burnt wood, carbon, charcoal, charcoal /burning wood, coal), Portuguese (ness). |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pl. LIX. 216. Aphanopus carbo, Lowe. From Gunther, Challenger Report, Vol. XXII. 217. Trichiurus lepturus, Linnaeus. Collected by Captain Janeway, USN, at St. Augustine, Florida. 218. Pteraclis carolinus, Cuvier and Valenciennes. At N. Lat. 28.7, W. Lon. 78.8, in 504 fathoms. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | It is estimated that the largest wholesaler group, Polska Grupa Farmaceutyczna (PGF, with branches in Lodz, Gdansk, Szczecin, Jaslo and Sosnowiec), which incorporates the firms Medicines, Carbo, Cefarm B Opole, Cefarm Bydgoszcz and Cefarm Olsztyn, has about 20-25% share of the market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CARBO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "CARBO" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CARBO" 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 |
| Carbo | Last name | 400 | 20,342 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Carbo Plc | USA | Carbo Ceramics Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "CARBO": carbo loading ♦ phalacrocorax carbo ♦ u Carbo ♦ Ustilago Carbo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CARBO": carbo-union. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
carbo | 58 | carbo force | 6 |
low carbo diet | 23 | carbo mexico | 5 |
carbo diet | 21 | carbo tech | 5 |
carbo smasher | 15 | carbo q | 4 |
carbo ceramics | 14 | carbo clean | 4 |
marie carbo | 13 | carbo fuel | 4 |
carbo loading | 10 | carbo block | 3 |
carbo lite | 10 | carbo food | 3 |
carbo blockers | 9 | carbo lean | 3 |
carbo counter | 9 | carbo chart | 3 |
carbo blocker | 9 | carbo addict | 3 |
bernie carbo | 8 | carbo hit | 3 |
carbo lucas san | 8 | carbo max | 3 |
carbo addict diet | 7 | carbo low recipe | 3 |
carbo vegetabilis | 7 | carbo platinum | 3 |
low carbo | 7 | carbo lite bar | 3 |
low carbo food | 7 | carbo ceramics inc | 3 |
carbo grabber | 6 | carbo tunnel | 2 |
carbo plus | 6 | carbo low shrimp | 2 |
carbo pro | 6 | no carbo diet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CARBO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | skarv (cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo sinensis), phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo sinensis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo sinensis), aalscholver (cormorant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (phalacrocorax carbo sinensis), grand cormoran (phalacrocorax carbo sinensis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo sinensis), Kormoran (cormorant, cormorant greatZool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | cormorano (cormorant, shag), phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo sinensis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arbocay corvo marinho (cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo sinensis), phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo sinensis). (various references) углевод (carbohydrate, carbo-hydrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CARBO": carbocyclic, carbohydrase, carbohydrases, carbohydrate, carbohydrates, carbolic, carbolics, carbon, carbonaceous, carbonade, carbonades, carbonado, carbonadoed, carbonadoes, carbonadoing, carbonados, carbonara, carbonaras, carbonate, carbonated, carbonates, carbonating, carbonation, carbonations, carbonic, carboniferous, carbonization, carbonizations, carbonize, carbonized, carbonizes, carbonizing, carbonless, carbonnade, carbonnades, carbons, carbonyl, carbonylation, carbonylations, carbonylic, carbonyls, carbora, carboras, carbos, carboxyl, carboxylase, carboxylases, carboxylate, carboxylated, carboxylates, carboxylating. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CARBO": bicarbonate, bicarbonates, chlorofluorocarbon, chlorofluorocarbons, cocarboxylase, cocarboxylases, decarbonate, decarbonated, decarbonates, decarbonating, decarbonation, decarbonations, decarbonize, decarbonized, decarbonizer, decarbonizers, decarbonizes, decarbonizing, decarboxylase, decarboxylases, decarboxylate, decarboxylated, decarboxylates, decarboxylating, decarboxylation, decarboxylations, dicarboxylic, fluorocarbon, fluorocarbons, halocarbon, halocarbons, hydrocarbon, hydrocarbons, isocarboxazid, isocarboxazids, monocarboxylic, multicarbon, polycarbonate, polycarbonates, radiocarbon, radiocarbons, sesquicarbonate, sesquicarbonates, tricarboxylic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carob, cobra. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arco, boar, bora, carb, crab, orca. | |
-2 letters: abo, arb, arc, bar, boa, bra, bro, cab, car, cob, cor, oar, oca, ora, orb, orc, rob, roc. | |
-3 letters: ab, ar, ba, bo, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-o-r" | |
+1 letter: boxcar, broach, carbon, carbos, carboy, carobs, cobras, corban, crambo. | |
+2 letters: abroach, acrobat, aerobic, boraces, boracic, boxcars, bracero, brocade, carabao, carbons, carbora, carboys, caribou, ciboria, corbans, corbina, cordoba, crambos, crowbar, rockaby. | |
+3 letters: abductor, acrobats, aerobics, albacore, albicore, ascorbic, bachelor, backdoor, backdrop, backroom, barbasco, barouche, barranco, baryonic, beclamor, becoward, bookrack, boracite, braceros, braciola, braciole, braconid, broached, broacher, broaches, brocaded, brocades, brocatel, brockage, bronchia, buckaroo, buckayro, cabestro, cabresto, cabriole, carabaos, carbinol, carbolic, carbonic, carbonyl, carboras, carboxyl, carboyed, caribous, choriamb, combater, corbinas, cordobas, cornball, corybant, cramboes, crossbar, crowbars, cupboard, gabbroic, isobaric, microbar, mobocrat, obduracy, rockabye, rollback, roorbach, roorback, saprobic, scabrous, turbocar. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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