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Cl

Definition: Cl

Cl

Adjective

1. Being ten more than one hundred forty.

Noun

1. A common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water).

2. A metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Cl

DomainDefinitions

Computing

CL 1. Control Language. 2. A programming language and proof system developed by Paul Voda and a colleague since 1997, written in Trilogy II. (http://www.fmph.uniba.sk/~voda). (2000-04-08) cl The country code for Chile. (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Census

(Crew Leader) First line supervisor of census enumerators for field data collection operations. (references)

Shipping

Abbreviation for "Carload" and "Containerload". (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cl

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

CL

DanishRepublikken ChileGeography

CL

DutchComputerlinguistiekComputing

CL

EnglishClosed LoopN/A

CL

FinnishChilen tasavaltaGeography

CL

FrenchConcentration léthaleN/A

CL

GermanWeißkalkN/A

CL

GreekασυνδεσιμικόςN/A

CL

ItalianConcentrazione letaleN/A

CL

PortugueseConcentração letalN/A

CL

SpanishConcentración letalN/A

CL

SwedishRepubliken ChileGeography

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

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Synonyms: Cl

Synonyms: one hundred fifty (adj), atomic number 17 (n), centiliter (n), centilitre (n), chlorine (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cl

Specialty definitions using "cl": baotiteCl-, CL data, CMU CL, CMU Common Lisp, compliance of the lungs-thorax systemECLhilgarditelift coefficientMACL, MMAOCLPseudoSchemeReport Program Generator. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Cl

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adventure Slip: D'Ni CL (reference)

  • FUGITIVE DAYS CL (reference)

  • Jim Sloan's CL Tips & Techniques (reference)

  • Power Rangers Phonics \Big CL (reference)

  • RISKS OF FAITH CL : THE EMERGENCE OF A BLACK THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION, 1968-1998 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Cl

Illustrations:
Cl

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Photo Album: Cl

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

A destroyer-escort (DE) dropping depth charges while searching for Japanese submarines in Ulithi anchorage on 20 November 1944, following the sinking of USS Mississinewa (AO-59). A Fletcher class destroyer is steaming past in the foreground. Two light cruisers (CL) and several other ships are in the distance. Photographed from USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Credit: NAVY.

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) / Cl. Julien. Credit: Library of Congress.

Taine (1828-1893) / Cl. Braun. Credit: Library of Congress.

Manpower. Negro arsenal workers. Robert Scott, one of the many Negro workers in a large Eastern arsenal, is fondling a little "bundle for Berlin." These 75 mm shells are being turned out on a mass production basis in this arsenal which works around the cl. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cl

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Trinidad and Tobago

In May 1997, the government sold it remaining 69% interest in the Trinidad and Tobago Methanol Company to a consortium consisting of the local firm CL Financial and Germany's Ferrostaal and Helm consortium. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Cl

"Cl" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 41.22% of the time. "Cl" is used about 489 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
Unclassified Items41.22%20221,454
Noun (proper)40.82%20021,580
Cardinal Number17.96%8835,154
                    Total100.00%489N/A

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

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Expression: Cl

Expressions using "cl": CL data cmu CL. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "cl": cl-activating, Cl-alexanders, Cl-caralight.

Ending with "cl": Tris-cl.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cl

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

cl

570

hjc cl 31 solid helmet

22

acura cl

155

acura 3.2 cl

22

cl p

70

2004 acura cl

21

cl p.com

60

cl 14 mbii helmet

21

acura cl used

43

cl 14 switch helmet

21

acura cl type s

41

65 amg cl

21

hjc cl 14

41

mercedes cl 500

21

hjc cl 12

40

acura cl for sale

20

mercedes cl class used

37

buy acura cl

20

acura cl body kit

32

cl class for sale

20

rock pete cl smooth

31

mercedes cl class for sale

20

12 cl helmet hjc

31

new cl class

19

cl gd5401

30

bargain mercedes cl class

19

cl google

27

bargain acura cl

19

new acura cl

23

bargain mercedes benz cl class

19

hjc cl 14 mbii helmet

23

bargain cl class

19

hjc cl 14 metallic helmet

23

buy cl class

19

hjc cl 14 solid helmet

22

buy mercedes cl class

19

hjc cl 14 switch helmet

22

new mercedes cl class

19

mercedes cl class

22

cl flushentitypacket

19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cl

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

Chinese 

  

编译程序语言 (Cl-). (various references)

   

French

  

données CL (CL data). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

clay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Cl

Derivations

Words beginning with "cl": 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 "cl": acclaim, acclaimed, acclaimer, acclaimers, acclaiming, acclaims, acclamation, acclamations, acclimate, acclimated, acclimates, acclimating, acclimation, acclimations, acclimatise, acclimatised, acclimatises, acclimatising, acclimatization, acclimatizations, acclimatize, acclimatized, acclimatizer, acclimatizers, acclimatizes, acclimatizing, acclivities, acclivity, aclinic, acyclic, acyclovir, acyclovirs, afterclap, afterclaps, alicyclic, anaclitic, anticlassical, anticlerical, anticlericalism, anticlericalisms, anticlericalist, anticlericalists, anticlericals, anticlimactic, anticlimactical, anticlimactically, anticlimax, anticlimaxes, anticlinal, anticline, anticlines. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Cl

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-l"
 

+1 letter: cel, col, lac.

 

+2 letters: acyl, alec, bloc, calf, calk, call, calm, calo, calx, carl, caul, ceil, cell, cels, celt, clad, clag, clam, clan, clap, claw, clay, clef, clew, clip, clit, clod, clog, clon, clop, clot, cloy, club, clue, coal, coil, cola, cold, cole, cols, colt, coly, cool, cowl, cull, culm, cult, curl, flic, floc, lace, lack, lacs, lacy, laic, lech, lice, lich, lick, loca, loch, loci, lock, loco, luce, luck, talc.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Cl


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3778

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Cl"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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