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Date "EMO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
"EMO" is a common misspelling or typo for: ammo, demo, ego, emir, emit, emote, emus, me, memo, meow. |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: Emo is short for emotional. Definition: Emo music is somewhat 'sappy' and heartlfelt. most emo's listen predominantl to emo muisc. their lifestyle is a mix of straight-edge and non-political involvement in a predominantly political scene. they usually do not fit in well. Context: Used by someone who wants to refer to a person who is involved in the emocore music scene. Social Source: Punk rock subculture. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Emotional punk. Definition: Emotional punk played at a slow tempo and sung emotionally rather then chanted, yelled, or mumbled. Context: Often used at concerts. Social Source: Punk. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional 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 |
EMO | Dutch | Europese Monetaire Overeenkomst | European Union, Finance |
EMO | English | European Music Office | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hope | At spes non fracta; ego spem prietio non emo; un Dieu est ma fiance; " hope! thou nurse of young desire "; in hoc signo spes mea; in hoc signo vinces; la speranza e il pan de miseri; l'esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille; " the mighty hopes that make us men"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: EMO |
| Non-English Usage: "EMO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (tendency), Finnish (dam). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Emo (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Emo Philips | Judge: Emo? |
| I'm a great lover, I'll bet. | |
| You know what I hate? Indian givers. | |
| Oh, yes...I've tried my hand at sex. | |
| People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?" | |
| The other day a woman came up to me and said, "Didn't I see you on television?" | |
| Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. | |
| I was walking down the street. Something caught my eye...and dragged it fifteen feet. | |
| I went into Gus's artificial organ and taco stand. I said "Give me a bladder por favor." | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "EMO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "EMO" 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 (proper) | 72.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "EMO" 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 |
| Emo | Last name | 100 | 85,466 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "EMO": ego spem prietio non emo. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
emo | 1,322 | cut emo hair | 41 |
emo band | 200 | emo tab | 31 |
emo music | 144 | boy emo | 26 |
emo lyrics | 134 | emo glasses | 26 |
emo clothes | 91 | emo test | 26 |
dress emo | 85 | emo style | 24 |
emo fashion | 85 | emo core | 19 |
emo game | 80 | emo quote | 19 |
emo girl | 70 | cheer emo kid up | 19 |
emo philips | 68 | emo not this | 19 |
emo clothing | 65 | band emo punk | 17 |
emo kid | 61 | emo suck | 15 |
emo punk | 56 | emo porn | 15 |
emo picture | 54 | emo ontario | 15 |
emo phillips | 54 | band emo name | 14 |
emo hair style | 54 | emo online | 14 |
buddy emo icon | 51 | emo villa | 14 |
emo hair | 48 | emo rock | 13 |
emo quiz | 47 | emo icon | 13 |
emo shirt | 45 | emo name screen | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EMO": emodin, emodins, emollient, emollients, emolument, emoluments, emote, emoted, emoter, emoters, emotes, emoting, emotion, emotional, emotionalism, emotionalisms, emotionalist, emotionalistic, emotionalists, emotionalities, emotionality, emotionalize, emotionalized, emotionalizes, emotionalizing, emotionally, emotionless, emotionlessly, emotionlessness, emotionlessnesses, emotions, emotive, emotively, emotivities, emotivity. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "EMO": chemo, countermemo, demo, memo, supremo, twelvemo. (additional references) | |
Words containing "EMO": anemograph, anemographs, anemometer, anemometers, anemometries, anemometry, anemone, anemones, anemophilous, anemoses, anemosis, antemortem, antidemocratic, atemoya, atemoyas, avgolemono, avgolemonos, behemoth, behemoths, bemoan, bemoaned, bemoaning, bemoans, bemock, bemocked, bemocking, bemocks, blasphemous, blasphemously, blasphemousness, blasphemousnesses, cacodemon, cacodemonic, cacodemons, ceremonial, ceremonialism, ceremonialisms, ceremonialist, ceremonialists, ceremonially, ceremonials, ceremonies, ceremonious, ceremoniously, ceremoniousness, ceremoniousnesses, ceremony, chemoautotrophic, chemoautotrophies, chemoautotrophy, chemoprophylactic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o" | |
-1 letter: em, me, mo, oe, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o" | |
+1 letter: come, demo, dome, home, memo, meno, meou, meow, mode, moke, mole, mome, mope, more, mote, moue, move, nome, omen, omer, poem, pome, some, tome. | |
+2 letters: amole, besom, biome, bombe, brome, cameo, celom, chemo, comae, combe, comer, comes, comet, comte, demob, demon, demos, domed, domes, embow, emote, enorm, forme, gemot, genom, gnome, golem, homed, homer, homes, homey, lemon, mahoe, melon, memos, meous, meows, meson, metro, mezzo, mimeo, model, modem, modes, mohel, moire, mokes, moles, momes, monde, money, monie, monte, mooed, moose, moped, moper, mopes, mopey, morae, morel, mores, morse, mosey, moste, motel, motes, motet, motey, motte, moues, mouse, moved, mover, moves, movie, mowed, mower, moxie, myope, nomen, nomes, odeum, oleum, omber, ombre, omega, omens, omers, ormer, oxime, poems, pomes, proem, romeo, smoke, smote, tempo, tomes, totem, venom, vomer, women. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4D 4F |
| 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)01000101 01001101 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E M O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004D 004F |
| 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)394749 |
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