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Definition: Cisco |
CiscoNoun1. Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward. 2. Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cisco" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
| 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 |
| CIO | English | Cisco Information Online | Computer - (Cisco, WWW) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CiscoSynonym: lake herring (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cisco |
| English words defined with "cisco": lake herring ♦ Moon-eye. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cisco": administrative distance ♦ Cisco Systems, Inc., CRM ♦ IPSec ♦ Layer Two Tunneling Protocol. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cisco" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (dust-cloak, speck), Spanish (coaldust). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Not you, Cisco! (Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy; writing credit: Kevin McDonald; Mark McKinney) You wanna be the Lone Ranger or the Cisco Kid? (Stand by Me; writing credit: Raynold Gideon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cisco Pike (1972) El Cisco (1966) The Cisco Kid (1950) Viva Cisco Kid (1940) Lucky Cisco Kid (1940) | |
Song Titles | Cisco Kid (performing artist: War) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Plate 197A. The Cisco or Lake Herring. Coregonus Artedi, Lesueur. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate 197 B. The Moon-Eye or Cisco of Lake Michigan. Coregonus Hoyi (Gill.), Jordan. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Fish and Wildlife Service Vessel CISCO. Operated exclusively on the Great Lakes for fisheries research. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Research vessel base near the mouth of the Kalamazoo River on Lake Michigan. Research vessels CISCO and KAHO tied up to pier. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Research Vessel CISCO operated on the Great Lakes . Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Arctic Cisco. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |
 | Least Cisco. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |  | Molly Scott, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, with Cisco Houston, both playing guitars. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Nortel, 3Com and Cisco provide complementary security equipment. (references) | |
In the data sector, the market is dominated by Lucent and Cisco technologies. (references) | ||
As a result, Lotus, Novell, Autodesk and Cisco certification vendors are also doing brisk business. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bulgaria | Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Xerox and Cisco continue to be among the market leaders in Bulgaria. (references) |
Australia | This new network will comprise infrastructure provided by Ericsson, Motorola and Cisco, and will cost more than US$400 million. (references) | |
Australia | A number of U.S. companies, including Lucent, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, and Canadian company Nortel, have contracts to supply network equipment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cisco" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cisco" 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) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cisco" 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 |
| Cisco | Last name | 2,000 | 5,964 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Cisco Systems Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Cisco, GA 2. Cisco, IL (village, FIPS 14442) 3. Cisco, TX (city, FIPS 15004) |
| 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 |
cisco | 3,298 | cisco vpn client | 91 |
cisco system | 658 | cisco networking academy program | 87 |
cisco router | 391 | cisco vpn | 82 |
cisco switch | 215 | cisco ata 186 | 80 |
cisco certification | 209 | cisco 2600 | 77 |
cisco texas | 166 | used cisco equipment | 74 |
cisco junior college | 147 | cisco pix | 65 |
used cisco | 145 | cisco ccna | 62 |
cisco academy | 134 | cisco ccna training | 58 |
cisco networking | 131 | cisco 2600 router | 56 |
cisco training | 128 | cisco cable | 55 |
ccie cisco cn ftp | 120 | cisco 2950 | 54 |
refurbished cisco | 111 | used cisco switch | 53 |
3500 catalyst cisco xl | 110 | cisco 3600 | 52 |
cisco memory | 105 | cisco 1700 | 52 |
cisco partner | 105 | cisco ios | 50 |
cisco kid | 101 | cisco 3550 | 50 |
cab cisco ss v.35 v35mt | 100 | cisco aironet | 49 |
used cisco router | 99 | cisco 3640 | 47 |
cisco fraud investigat resign system | 92 | cisco tool | 47 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cisco"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | amerikansk helt (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ciscomorene (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee), ciscomarene (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | amerikanmuikku (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cisco de l'Est (lake cisco), cisco de lac (lake cisco), hareng de lac (lake cisco), \CIS (lake cisco). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Maräne (chub, freshwater herring, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, pollan, tullibee), Felchen (whitefish), Amerikanische Kleine Maräne (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιμνόρεγγα (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coregone americano (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee), agone americano (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iscocay coregono de artedi (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee), arenque-de-lago (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) coregono de Artedi (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee), arenque de lago (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) amerikansk siklöja (chub, lake cisco, lake herring, lakefish, tullibee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Coregonus artedii, Coregonus artedii Lesueur,1818, Leucichthys artedii. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cisco": ciscoes, ciscos. (additional references) | |
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"Cisco" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acisclo, Cascio, Cascob, Cecco, Cedco, Cico, Cimco, Cimcon, cisc, Cisk, Cissa, Cisto, Ciucci, Coscom, Iccsa, Kisco, Kiscoe, Kiszcko, Risco, Sciaco. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cisco" (pronounced si"skō) |
| 4 | -i" s k ō | disco. |
| 3 | -s k ō | fiasco, fresco, Roscoe. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-o-s" | |
-2 letters: cis, cos, sic. | |
-3 letters: is, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-o-s" | |
+1 letter: boccis, chicos, ciscos, colics, comics, conics, cosmic. | |
+2 letters: boccias, boccies, calicos, choices, ciceros, ciscoes, cocains, coccids, cochins, cockish, codices, concise, sirocco, tictocs. | |
+3 letters: acoustic, acrostic, ascorbic, bibcocks, bucolics, calicoes, calorics, cariocas, chicanos, choicest, chronics, cicisbeo, cicorees, classico, cocaines, coccoids, cochairs, cockiest, cockpits, codicils, colicins, colonics, conceits, conchies, conciser, convicts, coppices, cornices, cortices, coscript, cosmetic, cosmical, councils, cowlicks, cricoids, croceins, cryonics, cycloids, cyclosis, ecbolics, ecocides, glucosic, isocracy, moccasin, occasion, occiputs, occupies, picachos, piccolos, scincoid, scirocco, scolices, sconcing, scotopic, siroccos, spiccato, syncopic, vocalics. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 73 63 6F |
| 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 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i s c o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 0073 0063 006F |
| 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)3775856981 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Cities | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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