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Definition: Orca |
OrcaNoun1. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Orca Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. "Orca: A Language for Distributed Processing", H.E. Bal |
Literature | Orca The Orkney Islands, or Orcades. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
ORCA | English | Organic Reclamation and Composting Association | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: OrcaSynonyms: grampus (n), killer (n), killer whale (n), sea wolf (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Orca |
| English words defined with "orca": Orcinus orca. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "orca": Ada 95 ♦ field-programmable gate array. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Orca" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (cheek, cheeks, jowl), Italian (grampus, ogress), Latin (a pot or jar, cetacean, orca), Portuguese (cold-blooded killer, grampus, killer), Spanish (grampus, killer whale). |
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Screenplays | I'm not just talking fat, I'm talkin' orca fat. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) Big fat guy, I mean like orca fat. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) And I'm Orca! (Real Women Have Curves; writing credit: Nicholas Hicks-Beach; Shelley Miller) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Orca (1977) Oedipus Orca (1976) La Orca (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A large male killer whale - Orcinus orca. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Marine mammal observers watching mother killer whale and calf - Orcinus orca. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Killer whale - Orcinus orca - spy-hopping in the ice. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | ORCA signal in Taku Inlet Told tourists in area that signals were native hieroglyphics Signal made by crew off of WESTDAHL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Plate 5. The High-Finned Killer. Orca rectipinnis, Cope. The Skunk Porpoise or Bay Porpoise. Lagenorynchus gubernator, Cope (L. perspicillatus, Cope). Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Orca. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |
 | Fitting out at the Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington, on 10 July 1943. The unit outboard is probably USS Orca (AVP-49). The old paddle-wheel ferry is named West Seattle. Credit: NAVY. |  | Underway during the early 1900s, flying the U.S. Yachting Ensign. She was later renamed Orca and was commissioned as USS Orca (SP-726) on 8 May 1917. Stricken from the Navy list on 18 August 1919, she was sold on 2 February 1920. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed prior to World War I. She was commissioned as USS Orca (SP-726) on 8 May 1917, stricken on 18 August 1919 and sold on 2 February 1920. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Orca" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Orca" is used about 14 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) | 92.86% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "orca": orca ater ♦ orca gladiator ♦ orca rectipinna ♦ orcinus orca. 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
orca | 1,922 | la orca | 9 |
orca whale | 572 | orca art | 9 |
orca picture | 71 | ballena orca | 9 |
orca wetsuits | 51 | orca pic | 9 |
orca killer whale | 48 | killer orca picture whale | 8 |
orca wet suit | 30 | boat orca skagit | 8 |
orca whale picture | 24 | orca whale photo | 7 |
orca orcinus | 21 | orca triathlon | 7 |
orca bay | 21 | cam orca | 7 |
orca boat | 20 | orca project | 7 |
orca photo | 18 | keiko orca | 7 |
orca whale watching | 15 | orca sound | 6 |
orca tattoo | 14 | orca world | 6 |
movie orca | 13 | enterprise orca | 6 |
orca wallpaper | 12 | orca book | 6 |
orca s | 12 | orca yacht | 6 |
live orca | 10 | lover orca | 6 |
orca whalewatch | 10 | orca speedsuit | 6 |
orca island | 10 | birth orca whale | 6 |
juan orca san whale | 9 | captive orca | 6 |
inn orca | 6 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "orca"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 海怪. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | orka (killer whale), ork (killer whale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | bóghvítuhvalur (killer whale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orcaay katil balina (killer whale), deniz ejderhası. (various references) loại cá kình lo i thuỷ quái (orc). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | orca. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "orca": orcas. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "orca": minorca. (additional references) | |
Words containing "orca": minorcas, motorcade, motorcaded, motorcades, motorcading, motorcar, motorcars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "orca" (pronounced ô"rku) |
| 4 | ô" r k u | Minorca. |
| 3 | -r k u | markka, parka. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arco. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arc, car, cor, oar, oca, ora, orc, roc. | |
-2 letters: ar, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r" | |
+1 letter: acorn, actor, carbo, cargo, carob, carol, carom, claro, cobra, copra, coral, coria, croak, macro, narco, ocrea, orach, orcas, racon, roach, taroc. | |
+2 letters: accord, acorns, across, actors, anchor, aortic, archon, boxcar, broach, calory, candor, cantor, captor, carbon, carbos, carboy, cargos, carhop, carobs, caroch, caroli, carols, caroms, carrom, carrot, carton, cartop, castor, cavort, chador, charro, choral, chorea, chroma, clamor, claros, coaler, coarse, coater, coaxer, cobras, collar, contra, coppra, coprah, copras, corals, corban, cornea, cornua, corona, corral, corsac, coryza, costar, cottar, cougar, coward, crambo, craton, crayon, croaks, croaky, factor, garcon, lorica, macron, macros, narcos, ochrea, ocreae, ocular, orache, oracle, orgiac, oxcart, picaro, racons, racoon, rancho, rancor, recoal, scoria, scrota, soucar, sowcar, tarocs, trocar, turaco. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 72 63 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- .-. -.-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110010 01100011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O r c a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0072 0063 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)49846967 |
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