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Date "SAGAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Sagan /say'gn/ n. [from Carl Sagan's TV series "Cosmos"; think "billions and billions"] A large quantity of anything. "There's a sagan different ways to tweak EMACS." "The U.S. Government spends sagans on bombs and welfare -- hard to say which is more destructive.". Source: Jargon File. |
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Crosswords: SAGAN |
| Specialty definitions using "SAGAN": Sagan of Jerusalem. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sagan om Siv (1974) | |
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| "SAGAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SAGAN" is used about 12 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) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SAGAN" 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 |
| Sagan | Last name | 170 | 42,262 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SAGAN": saganash, saganashes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: angas, sanga. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-n-s" | |
-1 letter: agas, anas, anga, ansa, nags, saga, sang, snag. | |
-2 letters: aas, aga, ana, gan, gas, nag, sag. | |
-3 letters: aa, ag, an, as, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-n-s" | |
+1 letter: fangas, ganjas, gasman, lagans, pagans, pangas, sangar, sangas, satang. | |
+2 letters: abasing, afghans, against, agendas, agnails, agnates, agnosia, analogs, anginas, angoras, anlages, antisag, bisnaga, fanegas, gainsay, galenas, ganjahs, goannas, guanase, guanays, hangars, iguanas, lagunas, lasagna, lasagne, magians, manages, naganas, padnags, parangs, raglans, sagaman, sagamen, sandbag, sangars, sangria, satangs, siamang, swagman, vaginas, wangans. | |
+3 letters: abashing, afghanis, agenesia, agnosias, amassing, anagoges, anagrams, analgias, anergias, angakoks, angarias, angaries, angiomas, anhingas, apanages, arginase, arraigns, arranges, assaying, assignat, ataghans, bandages, bargains, beanbags, bisnagas, biznagas, carnages, cragsman, gainsaid, gainsays, gallants, gamelans, gamesman, ganaches, gangways, garlands, gazanias, glassman, grandads, grandams, grandmas, grandpas, granitas, granolas, guanacos, guanases, guaranis, gymnasia, handbags, hangtags, ignatias, langshan, lasagnas, lasagnes, magentas, magnates, magnesia, mahuangs, malangas, managers, nametags, organzas, paganise, paganish, paganism, paganist, pageants, pangrams, paragons, parasang, pawnages, saganash, saladang, sambaing, sandbags, sangaree, sangrias, savaging, seladang, shanghai, siamangs, stagnant, stagnate, syntagma, tanagers, tangrams, tankages, tannages, thanages, trangams, vagrants, vantages, wanigans, wantages, yatagans. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 47 41 4E |
| 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)01010011 01000001 01000111 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A G A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 0047 0041 004E |
| 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)5335413548 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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