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Crosswords: ABDEL |
| English words defined with "ABDEL": Wahabee. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser shaking hands with Japanese chief delegate Tatsunosuke Takasaki at the Afro-Asian Conference--Chinese premier Chou En- lai is in center. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Yugoslavia / Eastfoto, N.Y.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | On May 21, the Center called for the banning of the publication of "The Formative Years of the Prophet Mohammed," by Khalil Abdel Karim. (references) |
Egypt | On June 18, the Court of Appeals rejected an Islamist lawyer's suit against the Sheikh of al-Azhar and several other senior Islamic figures in their effort to block publication of the book "My Father Adam: The Story of the Creation Between Legend and Reality," by Abdel Sabour Shahine. (references) | |
Egypt | Haidar's book had been the subject of student demonstrations in May 2000. On January 6, the Prime Minister dismissed several Ministry of Culture officials following protests by Islamist members of the People's Assembly regarding three allegedly pornographic books ("Sons of Romantic Sins," by Yasser Sha'aban, "Forbidden Dreams," by Mahmoud Hamed, and "Before and After," by Tawfik Abdel Rahman) published by the Ministry. (references) | |
Economic History | Libya | One of these suspects, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, was found guilty; the other was acquitted. (references) |
Libya | On January 31, 2001, a Scottish court seated in Netherlands found one of the suspects, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, guilty of murder in connection with the bombing, and acquitted the second suspect, Al-Amin Kalifa Fhima. (references) | |
Syria | Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt. (references) | |
Human Rights | Egypt | Abdel Hamid was arrested on March 8, 2000, on suspicion of arms dealing. (references) |
Egypt | Atef Soliman Abdel Nasser Soliman reportedly disappeared on September 1, 1996, in the town of Abu Qurqa, Minya province. (references) | |
Egypt | Also on July 26, the Giza Criminal Court sentenced a police officer to 2 years in prison with hard labor in the June 2000 death of Ahmed Imam Abdel Na'im in the Agouza police station. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ABDEL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.03% of the time. "ABDEL" is used about 103 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) | 99.03% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.97% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 103 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ABDEL" 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 |
| Abdel | Last name | 100 | 75,667 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "ABDEL": Gamal Abdel Nasser. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ABDEL": Abdel-aziz, Abdel-baqi, Abdel-fattah, Abdel-ghani, Abdel-hadi, Abdel-halim, abdel-hamid, Abdel-jabbar, Abdel-jabber, Abdel-karim, Abdel-latif, abdel-maguid, abdel-majid, Abdel-mohsin, Abdel-moneim, Abdel-qader, Abdel-rahim, Abdel-rahman, abdel-razzaq, Abdel-salem, Abdel-shafi, Abdel-wahab. | |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: baled, blade. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l" | |
-1 letter: abed, able, bade, bald, bale, bead, blae, bled, dale, deal, lade, lead. | |
-2 letters: alb, ale, bad, bal, bed, bel, dab, dal, deb, del, eld, lab, lad, lea, led. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, ae, al, ba, be, de, ed, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-l" | |
+1 letter: albedo, ambled, bailed, balded, balder, balked, balled, bawled, beadle, bedlam, beglad, belady, belaud, beldam, bladed, blades, blamed, blared, blawed, blazed, cabled, dabble, doable, dyable, fabled, gabled, lambed, tabled. | |
+2 letters: ablated, abluted, addable, addible, albedos, alibied, audible, babbled, baffled, baldest, baldies, ballade, battled, baulked, beadily, beadles, bedlamp, bedlams, bedrail, beglads, belaced, belated, belauds, belayed, beldame, beldams, bipedal, blabbed, blacked, bladder, blander, blanked, blasted, blatted, bleared, bleated, bloated, brailed, brawled, codable, dabbled, dabbler, dabbles, datable, debacle, disable, dowable, drabble, dryable, dupable, durable, dyeable, enabled, fadable, flatbed, gabbled, gambled, garbled, halberd, hidable, labeled, labored, lobated, marbled, piebald, rabbled, rambled, ridable, slabbed, stabled, wabbled, wadable, wambled, warbled. | |
| 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)41 42 44 45 4C |
| 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)01000001 01000010 01000100 01000101 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B D E L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0042 0044 0045 004C |
| 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)3536383946 |
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