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Definition: Tug-of-war |
Tug-of-warNoun1. Any hard struggle between equally matched groups. 2. A contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The political tug-of-war reached the point where, some 3 years ago, large end-users like the Basel based chemical and pharmaceutical giants Novartis and Hoffmann LaRoche threatened to build their own power lines across the nearby borders to get access to cheaper energy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tug-of-war" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tug-of-war" is used about 37 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% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tug-of-war"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | "河 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 綱引き. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 당기 의 쟁. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | tayrn teaddey. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ug-of-wartay dragkamp (tug of war). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-o-r-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: forgat, fugato, outwar, ragout. | |
-3 letters: argot, fagot, gator, graft, groat, grout. | |
-4 letters: auto, faro, fart, fora, fort, four, frag, frat, frog, frow, frug, gaur, goat, gout, grat, grot, grow, guar, raft, rato, rota, rout, ruga, taro, tofu, toga, tora, tour, trow, trug, tufa, turf, waft, wart, waur, wort. | |
-5 letters: aft, ago, arf, art, fag. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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