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Date "APA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
"APA" is a common misspelling or typo for: apace, apart, ape, aped, apex, apt, papa, spa. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | APA Application Portability Architecture. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Agriculture | Administrative Procedure Act. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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In science fiction fandom an APA is a periodically collated fanzine (or specifically apazine) for which the pages are printed by each contributor on his own, and then sent to be collated and redistributed solely to the contributors themselves. (Derives from Amateur Press Association)
APA style is a widely-used and accepted format for the writing style of research papers, (such as the arrangement and punctuation of footnotes and bibliographies). Some institutions also use MLA style. Some use both styles, and prefer APA for social sciences and MLA for the arts. Other institutions may use Chicago, Turabian, or their own in-house style guides.In Hinduism, Apa is one of the vasu, a servant of Indra and, later, Vishnu.
The word 'apa' is also Swedish for monkey.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "APA."
| 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 |
APA | English | Advance Pricing Agreement | N/A |
APA | Portuguese | Alojamento e pequeno-almoço | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: APA |
| Specialty definitions using "APA": Administrative Procedure Act, Application Portability Architecture ♦ National Appeals Division ♦ Self Psychology ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "APA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Faeroese (ape, monkey), Hungarian (begetter, dad, daddy, father, old man, pa, parent, pater, sire), Indonesian (what, which), Malay (that), Portuguese (bed and breakfast, continental plan), Swedish (ape, bitch, cow, Jocko, monkey, simian). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Apa ca un bivol negru (1970) Oameni si apa Pamant (1954) Az Újszülött apa (1916) Ada apa dengan cinta? (2002) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Philippines | An APA is an agreement on the acceptability of a transfer price for a related party transaction--binding among the BIR, IRS and the taxpayer, and is valid for a stipulated time period, but renewable. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "APA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.96% of the time. "APA" is used about 27 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) | 62.96% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (singular) | 29.63% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 7.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "APA" 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 |
| Apa | Last name | 100 | 75,443 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | APA Optics, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
apa | 2,096 | apa monitor | 47 |
apa style | 1,346 | apa template | 45 |
apa format | 1,223 | apa 5th edition | 43 |
apa writing style | 377 | apa guide | 40 |
ada apa cinta dengan | 207 | apa formatting | 39 |
apa citation | 193 | apa referencing | 37 |
apa bibliography | 94 | apa journal | 35 |
apa manual | 94 | apa publication manual | 32 |
apa guidelines | 91 | apa format reference | 30 |
apa reference | 91 | apa citing | 28 |
apa writing format | 81 | apa pool | 28 |
apa style guide | 74 | apa software | 27 |
apa documentation | 68 | apa example format | 24 |
apa writing | 67 | apa citation format | 24 |
apa citation style | 62 | apa normas | 21 |
apa style bibliography | 54 | apa example style | 21 |
apa style reference | 53 | apa page title | 21 |
apa style format | 51 | apa paper style | 19 |
apa bibliography format | 48 | apa style documentation | 19 |
apa style manual | 48 | apa style papers | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "APA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | image APA (APA image), image adressable en tous points (APA image). (various references) | ||||
Italian | immagine APA (All-Points-Addressable image, APA image). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | apaay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "APA": apace, apache, apaches, apagoge, apagoges, apagogic, apanage, apanages, aparejo, aparejos, apart, apartheid, apartheids, apartment, apartmental, apartments, apartness, apartnesses, apatetic, apathetic, apathetically, apathies, apathy, apatite, apatites, apatosaurus, apatosauruses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "APA": jipijapa, kapa, papa, tapa. (additional references) | |
Words containing "APA": agapae, agapai, agapanthus, agapanthuses, anapaest, anapaests, antiapartheid, antiapartheids, antipapal, arapaima, arapaimas, capabilities, capability, capable, capableness, capablenesses, capabler, capablest, capably, capacious, capaciously, capaciousness, capaciousnesses, capacitance, capacitances, capacitate, capacitated, capacitates, capacitating, capacitation, capacitations, capacities, capacitive, capacitively, capacitor, capacitors, capacity, caparison, caparisoned, caparisoning, caparisons, carapace, carapaces, carapax, carapaxes, chaparajos, chaparejos, chaparral, chaparrals, chapati, chapaties. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-p" | |
-1 letter: aa, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-p" | |
+1 letter: atap, kapa, paca, papa, para, tapa. | |
+2 letters: abamp, adapt, agape, alpha, apace, apart, apeak, apian, apnea, appal, ataps, hapax, jalap, japan, kalpa, kapas, kappa, pacas, pacha, paean, pagan, paisa, palea, pampa, panda, panga, papal, papas, papaw, parae, paras, parka, pasha, pasta, pavan, playa, plaza, praam, salpa, tapas, watap. | |
+3 letters: abamps, adapts, agapae, agapai, alpaca, alphas, anopia, apache, apathy, aphtha, apiary, apical, apneal, apneas, apnoea, apodal, appall, appals, appeal, appear, calpac, canape, capias, capita, captan, carpal, catnap, earlap, grappa, impala, jalaps, japans, kakapo, kalpak, kalpas, kappas, lampad, lampas, madcap, mayhap, napalm, pachas, padauk, padnag, paeans, paella, paesan, pagans, pagoda, paisan, paisas, pajama, pakeha, palace, palais, palate, paleae, paleal, pallia, palmar, palpal, pampas, panada, panama, pandas, pangas, papacy, papain, papaws, papaya, papula, parade, paramo, parang, paraph, pardah, pariah, parian, parkas, parlay, parral, partan, parura, pascal, pashas, pastas, pataca, patina, pausal, pavane, pavans, pawpaw, paxwax, payday, payola, pazazz, piazza, picara, pinata, pirana, piraya, plagal, planar, plasma, platan, playas, plazas, posada, praams, purana, raphae, raphia, salpae, salpas, sampan, sapota, sarape, satrap, taipan, tampan, tapalo, tapeta, tarpan, trapan, watape, wataps. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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