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Definition: Argonne |
ArgonneNoun1. An American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the Armistice on November 11. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
| ARBOR | English | Argonne Boiling Reactor | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ArgonneSynonyms: Argonne Forest (n), Meuse (n), Meuse River (n), Meuse-Argonne (n), Meuse-Argonne operation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Argonne |
| English words defined with "Argonne": Argonne Forest. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Argonne": ANL ♦ PARMACS. (references) |
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 | Rescue teams at work on the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), seeking crew members trapped inside, 7 December 1941. The starboard bilge keel is visible at the top of the upturned hull. Officers' Motor Boats from Oklahoma and USS Argonne (AG-31) are in the foreground. USS Maryland (BB-46) is in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Confers with south Pacific area officers, possibly on board USS Argonne (AG-31) at Noumea, New Caledonia, on 28 September 1942. Those present are, from left to right: Major General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff to General MacArthur; Admiral Nimitz; Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, Commander South Pacific Force; and Major General Millard F. Harmon, USAAF, Commanding General U.S. Army Forces South Pacific Area. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed on board USS Argonne (AS-10), circa 1931. He was then serving as Chief of Staff to the Commander, Base Force, U.S. Fleet, Rear Admiral Henry H. Hough, USN. Credit: NAVY. |  | With officers of his staff, on board USS Argonne (AS-10), circa 1932. Seated in the front row are (left to right): Commander Leo L. Lindley, Aide & Force Material Officer; Captain Issac C. Kidd, Chief of Staff; Rear Admiral H.H. Hough, ComBaseFor; Captain Ellsworth H. Van Patten, (SC), Aide & Force Supply Officer; and Lieutenant Commander Jacob H. Jacobson, in charge of Battle Force Camera Party. Among those in the rear row are (in no particular order): Lieutenant Thomas F. Darden, Jr., Aide & Flag Secretary; Lieutenant Walter E. Moore, Aide & Force Personnel Officer; and Lieutenant Llewellyn J. Johns, Aide and Flag Lieutenant. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Iden, New Mexico. Joe Melende, left, and E. Argonne of Mountainair, New Mexico. Section workers on a job in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard, between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Arlington National Cemetery. Argonne Cross. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hindenburg Line, Argonne Forest, France, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Argonne Cemetery, Argonne Forest, France, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | In the Argonne Forest, from the American front lines, near Four de Paris. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Four de Paris in the Argonne, on the left American lines. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Seeking to secure peace in the world, we have had to fight through the forests of the Argonne, to the shores of Iwo Jima, and to the cold mountains of Korea. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
1. Argonne, IL |
Expression using "Argonne": argonne Forest. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Argonne": Meuse-Argonne. | |
Containing "Argonne": Meuse-Argonne operation. | |
| 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 |
argonne national laboratory | 63 |
argonne | 60 |
argonne lab national | 48 |
argonne credit union | 19 |
argonne wi | 15 |
argonne lab | 12 |
argonne forest | 9 |
argonne west | 7 |
argonne laboratory | 6 |
meuse argonne | 5 |
argonne laboratory nation | 4 |
argonne national | 3 |
argonne battle forest | 3 |
argonne battle | 3 |
argonne il | 3 |
argonne meuse offensive | 2 |
argonne laboratory national west | 2 |
argonne carpet | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-n-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: nonage, onager, orange. | |
-2 letters: agone, anger, argon, genoa, genro, goner, groan, orang, organ, range, regna. | |
-3 letters: aeon, aero, ager, agon, anon, earn, ergo, gaen, gane, gear, gnar, goer, gone, gore, gran, near, neon, nona, none, ogre, rage, rang, roan. | |
-4 letters: age, ago, ane, are, ear, ego, eng, eon, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-n-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: androgen, crannoge, negatron, nonglare. | |
+2 letters: androgens, androgyne, crannoges, downrange, enamoring, ignorance, magnetron, negatrons, nongraded, nongreasy, nontarget, omnirange, organzine, reasoning, reloaning. | |
+3 letters: androgenic, androgynes, begroaning, broadening, carcinogen, coarsening, congregant, enamouring, gangrenous, generation, governance, hoarsening, ignorances, interorgan, magnetrons, nonbearing, nonearning, nonreading, omniranges, organzines, outearning, readorning, reasonings, renovating, resonating. | |
+4 letters: anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, antiforeign, carcinogens, centimorgan, chaperoning, coenamoring, congregants, congressman, denigration, encouraging, encroaching, endeavoring, exonerating, forewarning, generations, germination, governances, integration, interrobang, legionnaire, manoeuvring, nitrogenase, nonallergic, nonargument, noncoverage, nonearnings, nongraduate, nonintegral, nonpregnant, orientating, ornamenting, outlearning, overhanding, overhanging, overmanning, personating, promenading, reanointing, reobtaining, reordaining, reseasoning, resignation, ropedancing, unignorable, unorganized, unreasoning. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 67 6F 6E 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. --. --- -. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01100111 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r g o n n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0067 006F 006E 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35847381808071 |
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