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A CQ call can be qualified by appending more letters, as in CQ DX (meaning 'calling all long-distance stations'), or the ITU callsign prefix for a particular country (e.g. CQ VK for 'calling Australia'). The originator of the call can be identified by appending the letters DE (French for 'from', also means 'this is...') and the callsign of the transmitting station.
A variant of the CQ call, CQD, was the first code used as a distress signal. It was proposed by the Marconi Company and adopted in 1904, but was replaced between 1906 and 1908 by the SOS code. However, when the Titanic sank in 1912, it transmitted the distress call CQD DE MGY, MGY being the ship's callsign.
The CQ call was originally used by landline telegraphy operators in the UK. French was, and still is, the official language for international postal services, and the word sécurité was used to mean 'safety' or 'pay attention'. It is still used in this sense in international telecommunications. The letters CQ, when pronounced in French, resemble the first two syllables of sécurité, and were therefore used as shorthand for the word. In English-speaking countries, the origin of the abbreviation was popularly changed to the phrase "seek you", or later, when used in the CQD distress call, to the command "come quick". CQ was adopted by the Marconi company in 1904 for use in wireless (spark) telegraphy, and was adopted internationally at the 1912 London Radiotelegraph Convention, and is still used.
CQ is also the alternate title of Congressional Quarterly a publication that summarizes the legislative activities of the United States Congress.
CQ (2001) is a film directed by Roman Coppola and starring Jeremy Davies and Angela Lindvall.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CQ."
"CQ" is a common misspelling or typo for: co. |
| 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 |
CQ | English | Chloroquine | Chemistry |
CQ | French | Contrôle de qualité | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Periodicals | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The CQ will be subject to annual review by the BOC and is valid until revoked or canceled. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "CQ": NicoDerm CQ Patch. 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 |
the cq researcher | 46 |
adm amazing cable cq descrambler digital fw new possivel rcefczgh re rglje spam | 8 |
leupold cq t | 4 |
leupold mark 4 cq t | 3 |
barrack cq sop | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "CQ": acquaint, acquaintance, acquaintances, acquaintanceship, acquaintanceships, acquainted, acquainting, acquaints, acquest, acquests, acquiesce, acquiesced, acquiescence, acquiescences, acquiescent, acquiescently, acquiesces, acquiescing, acquirable, acquire, acquired, acquirement, acquirements, acquirer, acquirers, acquires, acquiring, acquisition, acquisitional, acquisitions, acquisitive, acquisitively, acquisitiveness, acquisitivenesses, acquisitor, acquisitors, acquit, acquits, acquittal, acquittals, acquittance, acquittances, acquitted, acquitter, acquitters, acquitting, jacquard, jacquards, jacquerie, jacqueries, lacquer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-q" | |
+3 letters: quack, quick. | |
+4 letters: acquit, caique, calque, casque, cheque, cinque, cirque, claque, clique, cliquy, cloque, coquet, quacks, quaich, quench, quiche, quicks, quince, quinic, quitch, sacque. | |
+5 letters: acequia, acquest, acquire, acquits, aquatic, cacique, caiques, calqued, calques, casqued, casques, cazique, charqui, chequer, cheques, cinques, cirques, claquer, claques, cliqued, cliques, cliquey, cloques, coequal, conquer, coquets, coquina, coquito, croquet, croquis, cumquat, lacquer, lacquey, macaque, picquet, quacked, quadric, quaichs, quantic, quartic, quiches, quicken, quicker, quickie, quickly, quinces, quintic, racquet, sacques, squelch, squinch. | |
| 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)43 51 |
| 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)01000011 01010001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C Q |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0051 |
| 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)3751 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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