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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Specially shaped hoe used for working gravel in the sluice in Japan. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
KUA owns, operates and manages the municipal electric system established by the City of Kissimmee in 1901. Compared to the other municipally-owned electric utilities, KUA is the 6th largest utility in Florida. KUA’s 289 employees serve approximately 58,000 customers in Kissimmee and surrounding areas.
KUA owns and operates the Roy E. Hansel Generating Station and the Cane Island Power Park and has ownership interests in Orlando Utilities Commission's (OUC) Curtis H. Stanton Energy Center coal-fired Units 1 & 2 and Indian River Combustion Turbine Units A and B; Florida Power Corporation's (FPC) Crystal River Nuclear Unit No. 3; and Florida Power & Light Company's (FPL) St. Lucie Nuclear Unit No. 2. KUA's total generating capacity is 305 megawatts (MW).
The governing body of KUA consists of six members. The Mayor of Kissimmee is a non-voting Ex-Officio member. The 5 voting members are nominated by the Board and ratified by the City Commission.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "KUA."
Crosswords: KUA |
| Non-English Usage: "KUA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (that, which, who). |
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Screenplays | That's the flora kua alaya. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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Books | |
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| "KUA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "KUA" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KUA" 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 |
| Kua | Last name | 400 | 21,456 |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "KUA": Chao-ju-kua, pa-kua. | |
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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 |
pa kua | 57 |
kua | 39 |
pali ke kua | 36 |
kua number | 16 |
pa kua chang | 15 |
aina kua | 8 |
marc pali ke kua | 7 |
kua numbers | 7 |
ba kua | 4 |
kauai pali ke kua | 3 |
ana kua | 3 |
feng kua number shui | 3 |
feng kua pa shui | 3 |
feng kua shui | 3 |
kua pa video | 2 |
calculator kua | 2 |
condo ke kua pali sale | 2 |
kua pa set | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "KUA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 八卦掌 (eight trigrams palm, Pa Kua Zhang). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | はっけしょう (eight trigrams palm, Pa Kua Zhang). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uakay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "KUA": skua. (additional references) | |
Words containing "KUA": skuas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: auk. | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-u" | |
-1 letter: ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-u" | |
+1 letter: auks, jauk, kagu, kuna, skua, wauk. | |
+2 letters: amuck, ankus, baulk, caulk, dumka, haiku, jauks, kagus, kaput, kauri, kaury, knaur, kraut, kulak, kurta, oakum, pucka, pukka, punka, quack, quake, quaky, quark, skuas, taluk, ukase, umiak, wauks. | |
+3 letters: adzuki, amucks, ankush, auklet, backup, baulks, baulky, buckra, caulks, chabuk, chukar, chukka, eureka, funkia, gagaku, haikus, jauked, judoka, kabuki, kahuna, kalium, kaputt, kauris, kiaugh, knaurs, koruna, krauts, kulaki, kulaks, kurgan, kurtas, kuvasz, likuta, makeup, makuta, mamluk, markup, oakums, outask, padauk, padouk, punkah, punkas, quacks, quaked, quaker, quakes, quarks, quokka, rumaki, saluki, squawk, squeak, sukkah, takeup, taluka, taluks, tanuki, ukases, umiack, umiaks, unakin, uncake, unmake, unmask, unpack, untack, uptake, walkup, wauked. | |
| 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. | |
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