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CNN

Specialty Definition: CNN

DomainDefinition

Computing

CNN Cellular Neural Network. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CNN

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CNN

EnglishComposite network nodeN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: CNN

Specialty definitions using "CNN": Cellular Neural Network. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CNN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (Cable News Network), Portuguese (cable news network).

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Modern Usage: CNN

DomainUsage

Lyrics

I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Movie/TV Titles

CNN Saturday (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CNN

DomainTitle

Books

  • CNN : Making News in the Global Market (reference)

  • CNN Looks at Personal and Legal Issues: Law for Business and Personal Use 15E (reference)

  • Discovering Computers 2000, Concepts for a Connected World, Web and CNN Enhanced, Brief Edition (reference)

  • Global Television and the Shaping of World Politics: Cnn, Telediplomacy, and Foreign Policy (reference)

  • Interacting in Today's Office: CNN Video (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CNN

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Korea

CNN television broadcasts are available in a Pyongyang hotel frequented by foreigners. (references)

Azerbaijan

ABA was the country's CNN distributor and held rebroadcasting rights for a number of Russian channels as well. (references)

Bhutan

A large variety of programming is available, including CNN, and BBC. The Government does not censor cable content. (references)

Economic History

Chile

U.S. offerings include CNN International, HBO Ole, MTV, TNT, Worldnet, ESPN, Cartoon Network and MSTV. (references)

Switzerland

Generally, CNN International and BBC Prime are available, in English, on most cable systems in the major cities. (references)

Kenya

Kenya Television Network (KTN), run by the Standard Ltd., runs a 24-hour channel with considerable CNN programming. (references)

Travel

Belgium

CNN is also available on cable. (references)

Mexico

CNN and other programs popular with business travelers are routinely available in hotel rooms. (references)

Thailand

Thailand is served by the major international cable television channels including CNN, BBC, CNBC, ABN, Star TV, HBO, etc. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: CNN

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Robert Novak

Twenty years is a long time for any television program, and I am grateful to CNN for permitting it to happen, particularly because this has been an old-fashioned kind of program.

Sarah Ferguson

I was watching and saw CNN film Little Red. I went, That's Little Red. I can't believe she survived.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CNN

"CNN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.52% of the time. "CNN" is used about 61 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)88.52%5446,184
Noun (singular)4.92%3202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)3.28%2245,945
Noun (common)3.28%2245,945
                    Total100.00%61N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: CNN

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "CNN": time-cnn.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CNN

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cnn

66,363

cnn radio

104

cnn news

8,413

cnn headline

98

cnn world news

5,407

cnn center

92

cnn headline news

2,549

cnn financial

89

cnn weather

2,469

cnn wolf

75

cnn financial network

1,289

cnn home page

67

cnn money

1,271

cnn new

64

cnn sports

507

anchor cnn

62

cnn com

476

cnn crossfire

62

cnn si

451

cnn frank

57

cnn.com wolf

375

cnn tour

56

cnn en espanol

318

cnn news us

52

cnn world

229

español cnn

49

cnn news.com

193

cnn live

49

espanol cnn

170

cnn si.com

49

cnn en español

164

cnn.com lou

48

breaking cnn news

144

cnn en espaãol

47

arabic cnn

136

cnn money.com

46

cnn david

131

cnn fn

46

asia cnn

108

cnn health

45
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CNN

Language Translations for "CNN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

си-эн-эн аг. новостей. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CNN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-n-n"
 

+1 letter: conn.

 

+2 letters: ancon, canna, canny, canon, conin, conns, nance, nancy, nonce.

 

+3 letters: ancone, cancan, canine, caning, cannas, canned, cannel, canner, cannie, cannon, cannot, canons, canton, canyon, conine, coning, conins, conned, conner, cranny, cunner, cyanin, encina, fennec, incant, incony, nances, nancys, niacin, nocent, nonces, noncom, nuance, nuncio, nuncle, tannic, uncini.

 

+4 letters: actinon, alencon, ancient, anconal, ancones, anionic, bannock, bonnock, canakin, cancans, candent, canikin, canines, cannels, canners, cannery, cannier, cannily, canning, cannoli, cannons, cannula, canonic, canonry, canteen, cantina, canting, cantons, canyons, canzona, canzone, canzoni, cayenne, censing, centner, channel, chanson, chignon, chining, chinned, chinone, chronon, cinerin, cloning, coannex, coining, concent, concern, condemn, condign, condone, confine, coniine, conines, conjoin, conking, connate, connect, conners, conning, connive, connote, consent, consign, contain, contemn, contend, content, convene, convent, cooncan, corning, craning, crannog, cunners, cunning, cyanine, cyanins, dancing, enchain, enchant, encinal, encinas, enhance, enounce, fencing, fennecs, finance, incants, incense, inching, incline, inconnu, indican, infancy, lancing, lyncean, mincing, nancies, narcein, nascent, necking, niacins, niching, nicking, nicotin, nocking, nocturn, nonacid, noncash, noncola, noncoms, nonfact, nonsuch, nuanced, nuances, nuclein, nucleon, nudnick, nuncios, nuncles, penance, pinnace, poncing, scanned, scanner, scunner, sonance, stannic, syncing, tenancy, uncanny, unchain, uncinal, uncinus, unclean, uncrown, unction, unfancy, unfence, unicorn, unsoncy, wincing, winnock, zincing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Quotations: Spoken
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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