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Definitions: Laredo |
LaredoNoun1. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Laredo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: Laredo |
| Specialty definitions using "Laredo": 64652 ♦ 78040, 78041. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas on the north shore of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo), across from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 176,576.The city is served by Laredo International Airport.
History
The town of Laredo was founded in 1755 while the area was part of a region called Nuevo Santander in the Spanish colony of New Spain. In 1840 Laredo was the capital of the independent Republic of Rio Grande, set up in rebellion to the dictatorship of Santa Anna and brought back into Mexico by military force. In 1846 during the Mexican-American War the town was occupied by the Texas Rangers. After the war the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ceded the land to the United States. A referendum was taken in the town, which voted overwhelmingly to be part of Mexico rather than the United States. However, the U.S. Military refused the petition, and the bulk of the population moved over the river into Mexican territory to found the new town of Nuevo Laredo. In 1849 the military set up Fort McIntosh (originally Camp Crawford) by the town. Laredo was rechartered as a city in 1852. The city is a major port of trade between the United States and Mexico.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laredo, Missouri."
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Screenplays | Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Laredo (1967) Down Laredo Way (1953) Streets of Laredo (1949) Trail to Laredo (1948) Marshal of Laredo (1945) | |
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CDC spray equipment leaving the warehouse at a field office in Laredo, TX, for work in a flood area.Credit: CDC. | People standing in food line in Laredo, Texas, following the Rio Grande flood of 1954.Credit: CDC. | ||
Municipal workers pick up old tires to remove potential mosquito breeding sites, Laredo, Texas.Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Flavio Garza (left), NRCS District Conservationist, discusses wildlife conservation with landowner from Laredo, TX. Landowner loads feed into a supplemental feeder for deer. [Slide 97CS3009].Credit: Ken Hammond. | |
![]() | Detail of fence and gate, Laredo, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Purebred Hereford cows and cattle purchased with a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan by a FSA borrower in Laredo, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Laredo, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Home of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Laredo, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower and his children. Laredo, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | City of Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mex., 1920.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Mexico Border (population of more than three million) includes the cities of Juarez, Tijuana, Mexicali, Matamoros, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo. (references) | |
Economic History | Mexico | Nuevo Laredo across the border from Laredo, TX, is the principal inland port of entry to Mexico. (references) |
Mexico | According to port officials, 80 percent of Mexico's imports and exports are shipped across the Laredo/Nuevo Laredo border. (references) | |
Mexico | The Fox Administration is committed to developing Highway 57, connecting Mexico City and Laredo, into a modern, six-lane system, improving safety, and reducing transportation expenses generally. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | In May 2000, doctors at a prison in Nuevo Laredo resigned, citing unhealthy conditions such as inadequate food and water as the reason for their resignations. (references) |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Laredo" 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 |
| Laredo | Last name | 170 | 50,841 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Laredo, MO (city, FIPS 40736) 2. Laredo, TX (city, FIPS 41464) |
| 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 |
laredo morning times | 1,084 |
laredo tx | 998 |
laredo | 539 |
laredo texas | 351 |
laredo community college | 261 |
nuevo laredo | 205 |
laredo national bank | 154 |
laredo entertainment center | 148 |
city of laredo | 124 |
laredo mexico nuevo | 105 |
laredo independent school district | 92 |
laredo times | 86 |
jeep grand cherokee laredo | 54 |
laredo boot | 50 |
laredo hotel | 50 |
isd laredo | 50 |
heat laredo | 47 |
jeep laredo | 42 |
laredo newspaper | 40 |
buck laredo | 34 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Laredo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 拉雷多. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aredolay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Laredo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afredo, Aluredus, Arado, Claredon, Larad, lardo, Lewedon, Lewendon, Liyeko, Lloreda, Lloredo, Luredur, Parejo, Sarpedon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: loader, ordeal, reload. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: adore, alder, lader, oared, older, oread. | |
-2 letters: aero, aloe, dale, dare, deal, dear, doer, dole, dore, earl, lade, lard, lead, lear, load, lode, lord, lore, odea, olea, orad, oral, orle, rale, read, real, redo, road, rode, role. | |
-3 letters: ado, ale, are, dal, del, doe, dol, dor, ear, eld, era, lad, lar, lea, led, oar, ode, old, ole, ora, ore, rad, red, rod, roe. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, al, ar, de, do, ed, el, er, la, lo, od, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: caroled, dariole, delator, earldom, labored, ladrone, leopard, leotard, loaders, ordeals, paroled, reloads, roulade. | |
+2 letters: adorable, arillode, aureoled, banderol, beadroll, carolled, clamored, colander, coleader, collared, conelrad, darioles, deflator, delators, dialoger, earldoms, exordial, falderol, flavored, fordable, forelady, foreland, freeload, idolater, laboured, ladrones, leadwork, leadwort, leeboard, leopards, leotards, lodestar, oleander, overglad, overlade, overlaid, overland, overload, poleward, portaled, poularde, recoaled, reloaded, reloader, reloaned, remolade, roadless, roulades, solander, tailored, unloader. | |
+3 letters: arillodes, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, beadrolls, belabored, blockader, boardlike, boulevard, broadleaf, bromeliad, burladero, calorized, caprioled, caracoled, carpooled, chlordane, clamoured, clangored, clarioned, colanders, coleaders, comradely, conelrads, cordately, corelated, corralled, dayflower, deflators, delegator, desolater, desolator, dialogers, doorplate, dreadlock, droppable, ealdorman, ealdormen, earlywood, editorial, estradiol, falderols, farandole, flavoured, floriated, forelands, freeloads, gargoyled, gasholder, girandole, gladsomer, glamoured, holidayer, hydrolase, idolaters, landowner, leadworks, leadworts, leeboards, leotarded, leporidae, lodestars, lowlander, malformed, melodrama, moralised, moralized, oleanders, orderable, outglared, outlander, overalled, overladed, overladen, overlades, overlands, overloads, overpedal, overplaid, paloverde, parboiled, patrolled, polarised, polarized, pollarded, polyhedra, poulardes, prolapsed, refloated, reloaders, reloading, relocated, remolades, romeldale, roundelay, solanders, solarised, solarized, steroidal, tolerated, unloaders, valorised, valorized. | |
+4 letters: aardwolves, adenoviral, adsorbable, adulterous, affordable, afterworld, alderwoman, alderwomen, asteroidal, banderoles, bandoleers, bandoliers, bankrolled, bardolater, beclamored, beglamored, belaboured, blastoderm, blockaders, borderland, boulevards, broadscale, bromeliads, burladeros, camelopard, caracolled, cardholder, charcoaled, chlordanes, cladoceran, clangoured, confederal, cordillera, coromandel, correlated, coveralled, cradlesong, dayflowers, debonairly, defalcator, defoliator, deformable, delegators, delineator, demoralize, depilatory, deplorable, deplorably, depolarize, deportable, dermatomal, desolaters, desolators, doorplates, dreadlocks, dreamworld, earlywoods, ectodermal, editorials, edulcorate, elaborated, elucidator, endodermal, endorsable, entodermal, estradiols, farandoles, floodwater, fluoridate, foreladies, forestland, formalised, formalized, formidable, formulated, freeloaded, freeloader, gasholders, girandoles, glamorised, glamorized, goaltender, holidayers, holohedral, hydrolases, hydroplane, hypodermal, idolatries, intermodal, internodal, jackrolled, landholder, landowners, leopardess, linerboard, loadmaster, loggerhead, longhaired, lowercased, lowlanders, meadowlark, meliorated, melodramas, meridional, mesodermal, mislabored, moderately, mortadella, motherland, nondurable, nonfederal, normalised, normalized, obdurately, octahedral, outbrawled, outcrawled, outlanders, outlearned, outrivaled, overcalled, overhandle, overhauled, overlading, overlapped, overleaped, overloaded, overpedals, overplaids, overplayed, oversalted, overscaled, overtalked, overvalued, palindrome, paloverdes, panbroiled, pardonable, percolated, periodical, polyhedral, ponderable, preholiday, procedural, proclaimed, quadrupole, radiolabel, radiolyses, railroaded, railroader, reallotted, recordable, retailored, romeldales, roundelays, roundtable, sacerdotal, saddlesore, sandlotter, slanderous, spheroidal, sporulated, tetraploid, waterflood, wonderland, woodlander. | |
+5 letters: accelerando, adulterator, advertorial, aeromedical, aerosolized, afterworlds, aldosterone, allegorised, allegorized, allografted, ameliorated, bachelordom, bardolaters, beglamoured, billboarded, bipolarized, bladderwort, blastoderms, bloodstream, boatbuilder, borderlands, camelopards, candlepower, cardholders, carillonned, charbroiled, chloralosed, chlorinated, cladocerans, clapboarded, coldhearted, cordialness, cordilleran, cordilleras, coromandels, corydalises, cradlesongs, dangerously, decelerator, declamatory, declaration, declaratory, defalcators, defloration, defoliators, deformalize, deglamorize, delineators, delusionary, demodulator, demoralized, demoralizer, demoralizes, depolarized, depolarizer, depolarizes, dermatology, desalinator, dilatometer, dilatometry, dimercaprol, directional, directorial, disprovable, disrelation, dragonflies, dreamworlds, drosophilae, editorially, edulcorated, edulcorates, elucidators, endocardial, endometrial, floodwaters, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, foolhardier, forestalled, forestlands, freeloaders, freeloading, glamourized, goaltenders, grandiosely, haloperidol, holographed, hydrolysate, hydrolyzate, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, hydroxylase, hydroxylate, icosahedral, journalized, labradorite, landholders, leaderboard, leapfrogged, leaseholder, leatherwood, lepidoptera, linerboards, lionhearted, loadmasters, loggerheads, loudspeaker, maledictory, meadowlarks, meridionals, meteoroidal, modularized, mortadellas, motherlands, nondurables, obliterated, operculated, outrivalled, outsparkled, overclaimed, overcleaned, overcleared, overhandled, overhandles, overlabored, overlearned, overloading, overpedaled, overplaided, overplanned, overplanted, paddleboard, palindromes, periodicals, periodontal, petrodollar, philodendra, placeholder, polyandries, popularised, popularized, preallotted, predoctoral, procedurals, promulgated, pterodactyl, quadrupoles, radiolabels, radiologies, radiolucent, railroaders, rallentando, reallocated, redactional, redoubtable, redoubtably, reductional, repolarized, repopulated, revalorized, rhabdocoele, roadblocked, roundtables, sandlotters, scleroderma, scolopendra, secondarily, severalfold, shareholder, slaveholder, sloganeered, smallholder, sockdolager, stadtholder, stakeholder, stallholder, steamrolled, swordplayer, tetraploids, tetraploidy, trapezoidal, ultramodern, unpolarized, valedictory, varicolored, warmblooded, waterfloods, waterlogged, wonderlands, woodlanders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 72 65 64 6F |
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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)01001100 01100001 01110010 01100101 01100100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a r e d o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0072 0065 0064 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)466784717081 |
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