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Definition: Kudu |
KuduNoun1. Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "kudu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Synonyms: KuduSynonyms: koodoo (n), koudou (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Kudu |
| English words defined with "kudu": Bovinae ♦ greater kudu ♦ kudu lily ♦ lesser kudu ♦ subfamily Bovinae ♦ Tragelaphus imberbis, Tragelaphus strepsiceros. (references) |
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Business | The Kudu gas field, developed by a Shell-led consortium, is at the centre of this ambitious power generation project. (references) | |
Examples of such schemes in the region include Namibia's Kudu gas scheme, which envisages taking natural gas down to South Africa to feed new power and commercial plants there. (references) | ||
In the second phase of the project, towards 2004, the consortium exploring Kudu is considering a gas pipeline to Cape Town to drive a new power station in the Western Cape. This could supply Saldanha Steel and South African consumers via the Cape Town municipality. (references) | ||
Economic History | Namibia | Some natural gas was discovered in 1974 in the Kudu Field off the mouth of the Orange River, but the extent of this find is only now being determined. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Kudu" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Kudu" is used about 13 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 (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "kudu": greater kudu ♦ kudu lily ♦ lesser kudu ♦ Strepsiceros kudu. 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 |
kudu | 38 |
barking kudu | 8 |
greater kudu | 7 |
kudu horn | 5 |
kudu picture | 4 |
antelope kudu | 4 |
kudu lesser | 3 |
african kudu | 3 |
industry kudu | 3 |
horn kudu polish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "kudu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | الكود بقرة وحشية (koodo). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | vache sauvage. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | μεγάλη αντιλόπη τησ αφρικήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | csavartszarvú antilop. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | udukay ละมั่งแอฟริกาขนา"ใหญ่ (koodoo). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kudu": kudus. (additional references) | |
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"Kudu" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gkutu, Kausu, keda, kedi, Khufu, kido, Kiduff, kiud, knud, koda, Kodru, kogu, kou, Kud, Kuda, Kudamm, Kudan, kude, Kuder, kudi, Kudo, Kudoh, kudow, Kudz, kufu, Kumud, kuru, Kusu, kuzdu, kuzu, Udu, wudu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-k-u-u" | |
+1 letter: kudus, kudzu. | |
+2 letters: kudzus. | |
+3 letters: undrunk. | |
+4 letters: outdrunk, unhusked, untucked. | |
+5 letters: outbulked, outsulked, unbuckled, upchucked. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 75 64 75 |
| 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)01001011 01110101 01100100 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K u d u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0075 0064 0075 |
| 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)45877087 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, arabe, αραβικόσ, arab, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, français, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, grec, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, hongrois, Ούγγρος, magyar, ชาวฮังการี |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thaïlandais, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, anglais, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ |
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