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EMO

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.


Specialty Definition: EMO

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: EMO

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

EMO

DutchEuropese Monetaire OvereenkomstEuropean Union, Finance

EMO

EnglishEuropean Music OfficeN/A

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

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Synonyms within Context: EMO

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: EMO

Non-English Usage: "EMO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Esperanto (tendency), Finnish (dam).

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Modern Usage: EMO

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Emo (2000)

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

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Commercial Usage: EMO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: First International Conference, Emo 2001, Zurich, Switzerland, March 2001: Proceedings (Lecture Notes In) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: EMO

Computer Images:
EMO

More pictures...

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Familiar Quotations: EMO

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Usage Frequency: EMO

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)72.73%8124,375
Noun (singular)27.27%3202,518
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: EMO

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
EmoLast name10085,466
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: EMO

Expression using "EMO": ego spem prietio non emo. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EMO

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

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.

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Derivations: EMO

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).

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Anagrams: EMO

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EMO


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

45 4D 4F

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

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

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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

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

01000101 01001101 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D 004F

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

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

394749

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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