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Definition: Moa |
MoaNoun1. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Moa" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a mother". |
Note: Moa \Mo"a\, noun. [Native name.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | Memorandum of agreement. (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | A giant flightless bird that lived in New Zealand. Source: European Union. (references) |
Census | (Memorandum of Agreement) A formal memorandum defining and explaining agreements and decisions reached on specific issues by two or more parties. See also MOU (Memorandum of Understanding). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Moa."
| 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 |
MOA | English | Memorandum of Agreement | Finance |
MOA | French | Zone d'activité militaire | Transportation |
MOA | German | Militärische Betriebsfläche | Transportation |
MOA | Italian | Zona di attivit militare | Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Moa |
| English words defined with "moa": anomalopteryx, Anomalopteryx oweni ♦ Dinornis giganteus ♦ giant moa. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "moa": Memorandum of Agreement, MOU. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Moa" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Samoan (chicken), Turkish (moa). |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
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. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Kei Rite Te Ngaro O Te Tangata Ki Te Moa : Tikina He Kiri Ure. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | In March state security officials in Moa detained Juan Carlos Garcel of the APLO as he attended a civic demonstration. (references) |
Cuba | He then was driven to Holguin, 95 miles from Moa, and detained for 7 hours at a state security house where government officials interrogated him. (references) | |
Economic History | China | MOA and the China Dairy Industry do not compile statistics on these products either. (references) |
Trade | Colombia | Imports from countries with trade agreements with Colombia are not subject to MOA approval. (references) |
Colombia | Agricultural commodities that require MOA approval for import licenses include wheat, poultry meat, malting barley, corn, rice, sorghum, wheat flour, oilseeds and their products (soybeans, soybean meal and soybean oil). (references) | |
Colombia | Import License Approval Requirement by the Ministry of Agriculture: The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Decree 2439 of 1994 requires the MOA to approve import licenses of commodities that compete with domestically produced commodities that fall under absorption agreements between local producers and processors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Moa" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Moa" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | MOA Hospitality, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "moa": giant moa. 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 |
moa | 153 |
cuba moa | 27 |
moa inhibitor | 14 |
anika moa | 14 |
bmw moa | 14 |
bird moa | 11 |
moa martinson | 9 |
moa pio | 7 |
gammel moa | 6 |
moa hospitality | 5 |
bg moa | 5 |
moa zedong | 5 |
giant moa | 5 |
fest moa | 4 |
moa moa | 4 |
moa ticket.com | 2 |
moa tse tung | 2 |
control frequenc moa range | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "moa"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | εκλίπο πτηνό τησ νότιασ ζηλανδίασ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oamay moa, yeni zelanda devekuşu. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "moa": moan, moaned, moaner, moaners, moanful, moaning, moans, moas, moat, moated, moating, moatlike, moats. (additional references) | |
Words containing "moa": bemoan, bemoaned, bemoaning, bemoans, chemoautotrophic, chemoautotrophies, chemoautotrophy. (additional references) | |
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"Moa" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bmaa, bmoa, eoa, koa, m'a, ma'a, maaa, maoi, maok, maop, mda, Mdoya, meou, Mga, miau, miba, mija, Miou, miva, Mka, mla, mma, moac, moad, moaf, Moah, moai, Moal, moap, Moapa, moar, moas, moaw, moax, moay, moc, Moca, mocar, moda, modag, moeb, mof, mofa, Mog, Moga, mogad, mogar, moh, Mohay, moi, moig, moik, moio, moix, moj, Moja, Mojar, mok, moka, molak, moma, monam, Mooa, Mooi, mooj, moq, Mosa, mota, mou, mouf, mov, mova, moxa, moy, moz, Mqa, msa, muay, muga, muq, muu, muza, mva, mvo, mza, noa, noaa, noqa, omad, omai, omal, omas, omda, omi, omia, Omoua, Omua, omv, Omya, tmoa, Umaa, wmoa, yoa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-o" | |
-1 letter: am, ma, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-o" | |
+1 letter: ambo, ammo, amok, atom, coma, foam, loam, mako, mano, mayo, moan, moas, moat, mola, mora, moxa, noma, ogam, roam, soma. | |
+2 letters: abmho, abohm, aboma, alamo, ambos, amido, amigo, amino, ammos, amnio, amoks, amole, among, amort, amour, anomy, armor, aroma, atoms, atomy, axiom, cameo, campo, carom, comae, comal, comas, comma, dogma, dolma, domal, douma, foams, foamy, foram, gloam, imago, joram, loams, loamy, macho, macon, macro, magot, mahoe, major, makos, mambo, mango, manor, manos, mason, matzo, mayor, mayos, miaou, miaow, moans, moats, mocha, modal, moira, molal, molar, molas, momma, monad, monas, moola, morae, moral, moras, moray, moxas, myoma, nomad, nomas, oakum, ogams, ogham, omasa, omega, roams, roman, sambo, somas, stoma, toman, whamo, woman. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (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)01001101 01101111 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0061 |
| 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)478167 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | τούρκικοσ, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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