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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 |
CLA | Danish | Communication line adapter unit | Computing |
CLA | English | Communication line adapter/adaptor | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cla. Viro Michaeli Philippo Bouvart. : Regii Ordinis Equiti, Salub.... / Dessiné par F. Bourgoin, et Gravé par B.L. Henriquez. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Singapore | The CLA historically has been employed primarily against suspected organized crime and drug trafficking. (references) |
Singapore | However, persons detained under the CLA may have recourse to the courts via an application of a writ of habeas corpus. (references) | |
Singapore | The CLA is used almost exclusively in cases involving narcotics or criminal organizations and has not been used for political purposes. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Taiwan | In 2000 the CLA ended the practice of requiring foreign female workers to undergo pregnancy tests. (references) |
Taiwan | According to a CLA survey, about one-third of private enterprises also have 5-day workweeks every other week. (references) | |
Taiwan | Critics allege that the CLA does not effectively enforce workplace laws and regulations because it employs too few inspectors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CLA" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "CLA" is used about 24 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 62.5% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 29.17% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CLA": cla-cla-cla. | |
Ending with "CLA": cla-cla-cla. | |
| 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 |
cla val | 66 |
cla supplement | 45 |
eas cla | 13 |
conjugated linoleic acid cla | 12 |
cla and dieting | 6 |
ala cla | 5 |
cla dietary supplement | 5 |
cla fair game | 5 |
cla conjugated france health linoleic | 4 |
cla cmc | 2 |
c cla kinase protein | 2 |
cla guarana | 2 |
book cla year | 2 |
cla linoleic acid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | RM:Cumissiun per dumondas giuridicas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CLA": clabber, clabbered, clabbering, clabbers, clach, clachan, clachans, clachs, clack, clacked, clacker, clackers, clacking, clacks, clad, cladding, claddings, clade, clades, cladist, cladistic, cladistically, cladistics, cladists, cladoceran, cladocerans, cladode, cladodes, cladodial, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, cladogenetic, cladogenetically, cladogram, cladograms, cladophyll, cladophylla, cladophylls, cladophyllum, clads, clag, clagged, clagging, clags, claim, claimable, claimant, claimants, claimed, claimer, claimers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CLA": acclaim, acclaimed, acclaimer, acclaimers, acclaiming, acclaims, acclamation, acclamations, afterclap, afterclaps, anticlassical, autoclave, autoclaved, autoclaves, autoclaving, balaclava, balaclavas, beclamor, beclamored, beclamoring, beclamors, beclasp, beclasped, beclasping, beclasps, bonnyclabber, bonnyclabbers, catclaw, catclaws, conclave, conclaves, counterclaim, counterclaimed, counterclaiming, counterclaims, cyclamate, cyclamates, cyclamen, cyclamens, cyclase, cyclases, cyclazocine, cyclazocines, declaim, declaimed, declaimer, declaimers, declaiming, declaims, declamation, declamations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lac. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l" | |
-1 letter: al, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l" | |
+1 letter: acyl, alec, calf, calk, call, calm, calo, calx, carl, caul, clad, clag, clam, clan, clap, claw, clay, coal, cola, lace, lack, lacs, lacy, laic, loca, talc. | |
+2 letters: acold, acyls, alack, alcid, alecs, aulic, black, cabal, cable, calfs, calif, calix, calks, calla, calls, calms, calos, calve, calyx, camel, canal, carle, carls, carol, cauld, caulk, cauls, cavil, cecal, cella, chalk, chela, cilia, clach, clack, clade, clads, clags, claim, clamp, clams, clang, clank, clans, claps, clapt, claro, clary, clash, clasp, class, clast, clave, clavi, claws, clays, clean, clear, cleat, cloak, coala, coals, coaly, colas, colza, comal, copal, coral, coxal, craal, crawl, culpa, decal, ducal, eclat, fecal, flack, focal, glace, ileac, iliac, jacal, laced, lacer, laces, lacey, lacks, laich, laics, lance, larch, latch, leach, lilac, linac, loach, local, lycea, macle, malic, octal, pical, place, plack, plica, salic, scald, scale, scall, scalp, scaly, slack, talcs, tical, vocal. | |
| 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 4C 41 |
| 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 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0041 |
| 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)374635 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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