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| 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 |
ARU | English | Automatic response unit | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ARU |
| Non-English Usage: "ARU" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Aymara (language), Estonian (sense), Indonesian (buginese title). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai (1974) Gendai sei hanzai ankokuhen: aru torima no kokuhaku (1969) B.G. aru 19 sai no nikki agete yokkata (1968) Aru joshi kôkôi no kiroku hatsutaiken (1968) Kyupora no aru machi (1962) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "ARU" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ARU" is used about 9 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) | 66.67% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
shangri la tanjung aru | 6 |
shangri la tanjung aru resort | 4 |
aru las resort shangri tanjung | 4 |
ai aru ga kitto makenai | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ARU": arugola, arugolas, arugula, arugulas, arum, arums, aruspex, aruspices. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ARU": acarus, alarum, alarumed, alaruming, alarums, asarum, asarums, caruncle, caruncles, harumph, harumphed, harumphing, harumphs, haruspex, haruspication, haruspications, haruspices, jaguarundi, jaguarundis, labarum, labarums, larum, larums, parura, paruras, parure, parures, pirarucu, pirarucus, simaruba, simarubas, varus, varuses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-u" | |
-1 letter: ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-u" | |
+1 letter: arum, aura, bura, dura, gaur, guar, jura, mura, prau, ruga, sura, urea, ursa, waur. | |
+2 letters: amour, arcus, argue, argus, arums, auger, augur, aurae, aural, aurar, auras, aurei, aures, auric, auris, aurum, azure, buran, buras, bursa, crura, curia, doura, dural, duras, durra, feuar, fraud, furan, gaurs, guard, guars, gular, jural, jurat, kauri, kaury, knaur, kraut, kurta, larum, laura, lunar, mudra, mural, muras, murra, pareu, prahu, praus, pruta, purda, quare, quark, quart, ramus, ruana, rugae, rugal, rumba, rural, saury, scaur, sugar, supra, surah, sural, suras, surra, sutra, ulnar, ultra, umbra, unarm, unary, unbar, uraei, urare, urari, urase, urate, urban, urbia, ureal, ureas, urial, ursae, varus, yurta. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 52 55 |
| 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 01010010 01010101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A R U |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0052 0055 |
| 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)355255 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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