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Manilla

Definition: Manilla

Manilla

Noun

1. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.

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

Date "manilla" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)



Synonyms: Manilla

Synonyms: manila (n), manila paper (n), manilla paper (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Manilla

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Manilla is the name of several places around the world: There are also several places named Manila, of which Manila, the capital of the Philippines is the most important.





Manilla, Iowa

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Manilla is a city located in Crawford County, Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 839. The city is not to be confused with Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Geography

Manilla is located at 41°53'18" North, 95°13'58" West (41.888202, -95.232809)1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.0 km² (0.8 mi²). 2.0 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 839 people, 337 households, and 222 families residing in the city. The population density is 410.1/km² (1,059.2/mi²). There are 369 housing units at an average density of 180.3/km² (465.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.74% White, 0.24% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.36% from other races, and 1.67% from two or more races. 0.48% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 337 households out of which 27.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.7% are married couples living together, 7.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.1% are non-families. 30.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 17.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.31 and the average family size is 2.89.

In the city the population is spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 21.8% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 27.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 44 years. For every 100 females there are 90.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $31,146, and the median income for a family is $37,625. Males have a median income of $27,292 versus $16,875 for females. The per capita income for the city is $14,011. 12.1% of the population and 10.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 17.2% are under the age of 18 and 7.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Manilla."

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Crosswords: Manilla

English words defined with "manilla": astern ♦ Bandala ♦ Manilio, Manilla hemp, manilla paper, Manille. (references)
Specialty definitions using "manilla": 46150 ♦ 51454 ♦ rope core, round strand rope. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Manilla" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (abaca, Manila), Spanish (bracelet, manacle), Swedish (Manila).

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Commercial Usage: Manilla

DomainTitle

Books

  • A history of Manilla, 1853-1979 (reference)

  • Bonniers porträttsamling, Nedre Manilla (reference)

  • Conclusions of government of Cross River State of Nigeria on the report of the administrative inquiry into the affairs of the Manilla Insurance Company Limited (reference)

  • No Filipinos in Manilla : a study of Filipino migrants in Australia (reference)

  • Norm, Variation and Change in Language: Proceedings of the Centenary Meeting of the Nyfilologiska Sallskapet Nedre Manilla 22-23 March 1996 (Stockholm Studies in Modern Philology New Series , No 11) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Manilla

Illustrations:
Manilla

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Photo Album: Manilla

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

U.S.S. Isla de Luzon, cruiser taken at Manilla [i.e. Manila] by Dewey.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Manilla

"Manilla" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Manilla" is used about 20 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)95%1980,337
Noun (proper)5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%20N/A

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

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Cities: Manilla


1. Manilla, IA (city, FIPS 48855)
Location: 41.88906 N, 95.23504 W
Population (1990): 898 (389 housing units)
Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 51454
Country: USA

2. Manilla, IN
Zip Code(s): 46150
Country: USA

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Expressions: Manilla

Expressions using "manilla": manilla hemp ♦ manilla paper. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "manilla": manilla-bound.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Manilla

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

manilla

97

manilla road

50

manilla rope

17

thrilla in manilla

11

manilla ia

10

manilla iowa

8

manilla folder

5

manilla phillipines

5

file manilla

4

manilla philippine

4

manilla hotel

4

manilla envelope

4

bar girl manilla

3

manilla in

3

clam manilla

3

manilla utah

2

airport manilla

2

arkansas manilla

2

manilla nightlife

2

gorilla manilla

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

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Modern Translations: Manilla

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

Danish

  

kacheret manilla-karton (pasted manilla), japansk tæppemusling (Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Japanse tapijtschelp (Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam), gekleefd manillakarton (pasted manilla). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

japaninmattosimpukka (Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam). (various references)

   

French

  

palourde japonaise (Manilla clam), enduit de carton manille redoublé (pasted manilla), enduit de carton manille contrecollé (pasted manilla), clam japonais (Manilla clam), carton manille contre-collé (pasted manilla). (various references)

   

German

  

manilahanf (abaca, abaca fibre, Manila, Manila hemp, manila hemp fibre), hartpapier (Manila). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κυδώνι της Ιαπωνίας (Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

manillaszivar (cheroot), manilai (manila), karperec (bangle, bracelet, wristlet), fémgyűrű (collar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vongola verace (calico clam, calicoclam, carpetshell, clam, grooved carpetshell, Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam), cartoncino di tipo manilla patinato (pasted manilla). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anillamay

   

Portuguese

  

ameijoa japonesa (Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam), amêijoa japonesa (Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

манила (manila). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

almeja japonesa (Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

japansk venusmussla (Japanese clam, Manilla clam, short-necked clam). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Manilla

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Ruditapes philippinarum, Tapes japonica, Tapes semidecussatus, Tapes variegata. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Manilla

Derivations

Words beginning with "manilla": manillas. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Manilla"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "manilla" (pronounced muni"lu)
6m u n i" l uManila.
5-u n i" l uvanilla.
3-i" l uArmilla, chinchilla, flotilla, gorilla, guerilla, guerrilla, Mantilla, maxilla, Scilla, scintilla, Villa, Zillah.

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

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Anagrams: Manilla

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laminal.

Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-l-m-n"

-1 letter: animal, lamina, manila.

-2 letters: amain, amnia, anima, lamia, lanai, liana, liman, llama, maill, mania.

-3 letters: alan, alma, amia, amin, anal, anil, lain, lama, lima, limn, mail, main, mall, mana, mill, mina, nail, nill.

-4 letters: aal, ail, aim, ain, ala, all, ama, ami, ana, ani, ill, lam, lin, man, mil, nam, nil, nim.

-5 letters: aa, ai, al, am, an, in, la, li, ma, mi, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-l-m-n"
 

+1 letter: animally, manillas, mantilla.

 

+2 letters: gallamine, manically, mantillas.

 

+3 letters: alarmingly, anemically, animalcula, animalcule, animallike, bimanually, gallamines, maniacally, marginally.

 

+4 letters: abdominally, amontillado, animalcules, animalculum, dynamically, hallmarking, implantable, inflammable, inflammably, lactalbumin, leishmanial, lineamental, malignantly, manipulable, marshalling, matrilineal, matutinally, melancholia, mesalliance, millenarian, milliradian, misalliance, miscellanea, nonfamilial.

 

+5 letters: ambivalently, amontillados, anatomically, antimalarial, artilleryman, balletomania, blackmailing, demoniacally, harmonically, inflammables, intramurally, lactalbumins, limitational, magnetically, magnifically, managerially, mechanically, melancholiac, melancholias, mesalliances, millenarians, milliradians, misalliances, monastically, mulligatawny, mutationally, normalizable, planetesimal, romantically, semantically, semiannually, simoniacally, supraliminal, unfamiliarly, unicamerally.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Manilla


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

4D 61 6E 69 6C 6C 61

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)

--    .-    -.    ..    .-..    .-..    .-

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

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

01001101 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 006E 0069 006C 006C 0061

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

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

47678075787867

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Cities 		9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient 		13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography 		17. Bibliography


  

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