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Coda

Definition: Coda

Coda

Noun

1. The closing section of a musical composition.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "coda" was first used: 1753. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Coda

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CODA

EnglishCentral Office of Delay AnalysisN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Coda

Synonym: finale (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Coda

English words defined with "coda": CodettaStretto. (references)
Specialty definitions using "coda": Cow's Tail. (references)
Etymologies containing "coda": Codetta. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Coda" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (coda), Italian (line, queue, tail, train).

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Modern Usage: Coda

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Chop another line like a coda with a curse, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind)

Movie/TV Titles

Quando le donne persero la coda (1971)

La Coda dello scorpione (1971)

Quando le donne avevano la coda (1970)

La Coda del diavolo (1964)

In coda della coda (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Coda

DomainTitle

Books

  • Coda (reference)

  • CODA MUSIC TECHNOLOGY, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Francesco Clemente: Testa Coda (reference)

  • In Memory of Bela Banerjee: A Coda to Her Biography (reference)

  • Led Zeppelin Coda (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Coda

"Coda" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.47% of the time. "Coda" is used about 53 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75.47%4054,274
Noun (proper)24.53%1397,576
                    Total100.00%53N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Coda

The following table summarizes the usage of "coda" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CodaLast name17044,233
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Coda

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "coda": coda-ias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coda

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coda music

1,053

coda grupo

4

coda

315

coda group

3

coda finale

26

avevano coda donne la le quando

3

coda bow

14

coda financials

3

coda meeting

9

coda inc

3

coda lutherwood

9

coda tour

3

coda drum

8

coda doce las para veinte

3

coda music technology

7

coda music software

2

coda music finale

7

club coda

2

coda gallery

7

coda dalla di la velluto volpe

2

coda jamis

7

coda magazine

2

coda korg

7

bow coda violin

2

coda led zeppelin

6

club coda night

2

coda software

6

coda laminator

2

70 coda kef

6

coda download finale

2

coda nyc

6

encore coda

2

coda drum set

6

coda codec

2

coda music.com

5

aun coda

2

camp encore coda

5

club coda nyc

2

coda finale 2003

4

coda group support

2

coda technology

4

coda lounge

2

coda kef

4

coda lounge

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coda

Language Translations for "coda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏المقطع الختامي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

кода. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

結尾 (ending, wind up). (various references)

   

French

  

coda. (various references)

   

German

  

koda. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kóda. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ゲリラ兵 (calking, caulking, caution, coach, coach's box, coaster, coat, coating, coding, coding system, cogeneration, cogeneration system, Coke, Coke highball, coordinate, coordination, coordinator, corduroy, corkscrew, corselet, cortisone, course, course of study, course record, courseware, gel, gene, Gentzen, germane, germanium, guerrilla, lane marks, money, money pinch, ski slope, tennis court). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

コーダ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

odacay

   

Russian 

  

кода. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

završetak (completion, conclusion, end, termination, wind up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

koda (code, encode). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

koda. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Coda

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cauda. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Coda

Derivations

Words beginning with "coda": codable, codas. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Coda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bodda, Cada, cadd, Cadwa, Cbde, cccdna, ccd, cde, cdma, Cdo, Cdpa, cdsa, ceda, cedae, cedav, cedax, cedi, choad, choda, ciad, cida, Cidhal, Cidi, ciod, cioda, ckd, cmod, coa, coad, coav, Coba, codae, codal, codan, Codar, codax, Codazzi, codd, codec, codek, codeu, Codham, codi, codo, Codul, cofa, coga, cohab, comdap, cona, condi, coode, cooga, copa, corda, cosa, Cota, Cotac, couda, coude, cova, cowa, Cowap, coxa, Crda, croad, croda, cuda, Cudi, cudo, cufa, Cuidad, Cydia, doda, Godda, Goddag, ioda, joda, kada, keda, Khodja, koda, kode, Kuda, Ocadu, ocd, ocdna, oda, Odda, Ooda, pcdma, voda, yoda. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Coda"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "coda" (pronounced kō"du)
3-ō" d upagoda, soda.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Coda

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-o"

-1 letter: ado, cad, cod, doc, oca.

-2 letters: ad, do, od.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-o"
 

+1 letter: acold, codas, octad.

 

+2 letters: accord, acnode, anodic, candor, canoed, chador, coaled, coated, coaxed, codeia, cohead, colead, comade, coward, dacoit, deacon, modica, octads, zodiac.

 

+3 letters: abscond, acaroid, accords, acnodes, alcoved, avocado, brocade, cabildo, cacodyl, cactoid, cajoled, calando, caldron, cameoed, candors, candour, cantdog, cardoon, carload, caroled, caromed, carotid, cathode, celadon, chadors, chordal, cladode, cloaked, coached, coacted, coadmit, coapted, coasted, cockade, codable, codeias, codeina, coheads, coleads, collard, command, comrade, congaed, conidia, cordage, cordate, cordial, cordoba, corrade, corrida, costard, cotidal, couvade, cowards, cowhand, croaked, crusado, cruzado, czardom, dacoits, dacoity, daglock, deacons, decagon, decalog, decapod, dockage, dogcart, dogface, domical, factoid, gonadic, haddock, located, monacid, monadic, nodical, nomadic, nonacid, octadic, orchard, oxyacid, paddock, padlock, parodic, peascod, pedocal, picador, placoid, poached, pochard, redcoat, roached, sarcoid, scalado, solaced, tacnode, zodiacs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Coda


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 64 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    -..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#100 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0064 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37817067

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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