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| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Pineapple fibre, obtained from leaves of pineapple plants of the Bromeliaceae family. Source: European Union. (references) |
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 |
PINA | English | Pacific Islands News Association | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: PINA |
| Etymologies containing "PINA": Pina cloth. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PINA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (ass, cunt, futz, slit, tail), Latin (mussel, periwinkle), Portuguese (curana, felloe, felly, pina, silkgrass), Spanish (pinna), Sranan (abide, bear, endure, miserable, poor, put up with, suffer), Swedish (ache, agonize, agony, crucify, excruciate, excruciation, pain, pinch, tantalise, tantalize, torment, torture). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We ate lobster and drank pina coladas (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Death? Or pina colata (That '80s Show; writing credit: Irit Boger) You like pina colodas (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Lyrics | I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ritratto di Pina (1960) Caricaturas por Pina Vaz (1896) Ras Pina (2001) Was tun Pina Bausch und ihre Tänzer in Wuppertal? (1983) Un jour Pina m'a demandé (1983) | |
Song Titles | Escape (The Pina Colada Song) (performing artist: Rupert Holmes) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Play | Caption |
 | Blender; blending; blended; blends; motor; Cuisinart; whirl; whirling; chop; chopping; mix; mixing; liquefy; liquefying; daiquiri; margarita; blended drink; cocktail; pina colada. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Portugal | To broaden his base of support for a program of budget cuts, former Finance Minister, Joaquim Pina Moura, invited former finance ministers and central bank governors to meet with him on June 18. Seventeen accepted the invitation, but several prominent invitees declined. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PINA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "PINA" 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 (proper) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PINA" 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 |
| Pina | Last name | 7,000 | 1,727 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "PINA": Pina cloth ♦ Pina colada. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "PINA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | pina (curana, silkgrass), silkegraes (curana, silkgrass), curana (curana, silkgrass). (various references) | |
Dutch | pina (curana, silkgrass), silkgrass (curana, silkgrass), curana (curana, silkgrass). (various references) | |
French | pina, silkgrass, curana. (various references) | |
German | pina (curana, silkgrass), silkgrass (curana, silkgrass), curana (curana, silkgrass). (various references) | |
Greek | pina (curana, silkgrass), silkgrass (curana, silkgrass), curana (curana, silkgrass). (various references) | |
Italian | pina (curana, silkgrass), silkgrass (curana, silkgrass), curana (curana, silkgrass). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inapay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pina (felloe, felly), silkgrass (curana, silkgrass), curaná (curana, silkgrass). (various references) | |
Spanish | piña (cone, fight, pine, pineapple, pine-apple, pinecone), silkgrass (curana, silkgrass), curaná (curana, silkgrass). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PINA": pinafore, pinafored, pinafores, pinang, pinangs, pinas, pinaster, pinasters, pinata, pinatas. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PINA": cerebrospinal, epinaoi, epinaos, epinasties, epinasty, resupinate, spinach, spinaches, spinachlike, spinachy, spinage, spinages, spinal, spinally, spinals, spinate, supinate, supinated, supinates, supinating, supination, supinations, supinator, supinators. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PINA" (pronounced pē"nu) |
| 4 | p ē" n u | subpoena. |
| 3 | -ē" n u | arena, ballerina, cantina, catena, concertina, Farina, galena, hyena, Marina, Mina, patina, Regina, Salina, vena, verbena, Vina. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nipa, pain, pian. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-p" | |
-1 letter: ain, ani, nap, nip, pan, pia, pin. | |
-2 letters: ai, an, in, na, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-p" | |
+1 letter: apian, aping, inapt, lapin, nipas, pains, paint, panic, patin, pavin, piano, pians, pinas, pinna, pinta, plain. | |
+2 letters: alpine, anopia, apneic, caplin, catnip, gaping, harpin, hatpin, impawn, inspan, inwrap, japing, kidnap, lapins, napkin, nappie, pacing, paging, painch, pained, paints, painty, paisan, paling, pandit, panics, panier, pantie, papain, parian, paring, patina, patine, patins, paulin, paving, pavins, pawing, paying, paynim, penial, pennia, pianic, pianos, pinang, pinata, pineal, pineta, pinnae, pinnal, pinnas, pintas, pirana, pitman, plains, plaint, pliant, ptisan, rapine, raping, rapini, spavin, spinal, sprain, taipan, taping, unpaid. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Sounds | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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