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Indus

Definitions: Indus

Indus

Noun

1. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana.

2. An Asian river; flows into the Arabian Sea.

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

Date "Indus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Indus

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

See constellation.Abbreviation Ind, Indi. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Indus

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Indus."

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Synonym: Indus

Synonym: Indus River (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Indus

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Lamentation

Sigh; give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh; "waft a sigh from Indus to the pole"; sigh "like a furnace"; wail.

Space

Adverb: extensively; Adjective: wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Indus

English words defined with "Indus": Indus River. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Indus": alligatorInd, Indi, Indi, IndiansPisonSindhu'UHELP. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Indus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (Indus), French (industrialization), Hungarian (Hindoo, Hindu), Serbo-Croatian (hindoo).

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Modern Usage: Indus

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

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

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Commercial Usage: Indus

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References

  • Indus Holding AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Indus International Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Indus Motors Co Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A Peaceful Realm : The Rise And Fall of the Indus Civilization (reference)

  • Indus Valley (History Opens Windows) (reference)

  • On Alexander's Track to the Indus (reference)

  • Sindh and the races that inhabit the valley of the Indus with notices of the topography and history of [the] province (reference)

  • The Indus River: Biodiversity, Resources, Humankind (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Annual Rep Of The Minister Of Indus Science & Tech Under The Corp & Labor Unions Ret Act (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Indus

Illustrations:
Indus

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Photo Album: Indus

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Alexander attacking the citadel on the Indus / A. Castaigne.Credit: Library of Congress.

Abandoned citrus grove near Weslaco, Texas. Note the great amount of underbrush. There are several of these abandoned groves in this section, due to lack of finances for cultivation and irrigation. There is also much absentee ownership in the citrus indus.Credit: Library of Congress.

Entering the bridge over the Indus at Sukkur.Credit: Library of Congress.

Bridge over the Indus at Sukkur.Credit: Library of Congress.

Approach to fortified bridge over Indus at Attock.Credit: Library of Congress.

Fortified Northwestern Railway bridge over the Indus at Attock.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Indus

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Pakistan

Archeological explorations have revealed impressive ruins of a 4,500-year old urban civilization in Pakistan's Indus River valley. (references)

Pakistan

Plans for building the controversial 3,600-MW Kalabagh Hydropower Project on the River Indus downstream of the Tarbela Dam are held in abeyance. (references)

Pakistan

The majority of Pakistan's population lives along the Indus River valley and along an arc formed by the cities of Faisalabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, and Peshawar. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ALLIGATOR, n. The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World. Herodotus says the Indus is, with one exception, the only river that produces crocodiles, but they appear to have gone West and grown up with the other rivers. From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.

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

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Usage Frequency: Indus

"Indus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 54.39% of the time. "Indus" is used about 57 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)54.39%3162,296
Noun (singular)42.11%2471,196
Unclassified Items1.75%1339,140
Noun (common)1.75%1339,140
                    Total100.00%57N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: Indus

CountryNameCountryName
Germany

Indus Holding AG

Pakistan

Indus Motors Co Ltd

South Korea

Samae Indus Corp.

USA

Indus International Inc

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Indus

Expressions using "Indus": Haliastur Indus indus river. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Indus": Indus-tsangpo.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Indus

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

  indus

92

  alberta indus

4

  indus valley civilization

74

  indus map valley

4

  indus valley

55

  customer indus

4

  indus river

41

  ancient indus valley

4

  indus international

32

  indus tv

4

  indus river valley

20

  indus creed

3

  indus music

14

  indus valley civilization picture

3

  indus civilization

11

  indus rhythm

3

  indus valley civilisation

11

  indus technology

3

  indus motor

10

  indus motor pakistan

3

  indus map river

10

  indus news

3

  indus vision

9

  indus toyota

3

  indus passport

8

  berkeley indus

3

  indus entrepreneur

8

  indus music valley

2

  ancient civilization indus

7

  civilization indus map valley

2

  corporation indus

7

  corp indus

2

  indus software

6

  arthur indus

2

  dolphin indus river

6

  indus motor toyota

2

  indus script

6

  indus line time valley

2

  indus river valley civilization

5

  indus map river valley

2

  indus treaty water

5

  indus tamadun

2
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Modern Translations: Indus

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

Dutch

  

Indus. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Induso. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Ινδόσ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indusay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Indus

Derivations

Words beginning with "Indus": indusia, indusial, indusium, industrial, industrialise, industrialised, industrialises, industrialising, industrialism, industrialisms, industrialist, industrialists, industrialization, industrializations, industrialize, industrialized, industrializes, industrializing, industrially, industrials, industries, industrious, industriously, industriousness, industriousnesses, industry. (additional references)

Words containing "Indus": deindustrialization, deindustrializations, deindustrialize, deindustrialized, deindustrializes, deindustrializing, interindustry, nonindustrial, nonindustrialized, nonindustry, overindustrialize, overindustrialized, overindustrializes, overindustrializing, postindustrial, preindustrial, reindustrialization, reindustrializations, reindustrialize, reindustrialized, reindustrializes, reindustrializing, subindustries, subindustry, unindustrialized. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Indus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iduns, Imus, indes, indis, Indisc, indu, indues, Inouk, Inqua, Intus. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Indus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nidus.

Words within the letters "d-i-n-s-u"

-1 letter: dins, duns.

-2 letters: din, dis, dui, dun, ids, ins, nus, sin, sun, uns.

-3 letters: id, in, is, nu, si, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-n-s-u"
 

+1 letter: dingus, indues, nudies, nudism, nudist, undies, unsaid.

 

+2 letters: audings, beduins, bundist, dinkums, diurons, dousing, dubbins, duncish, dunites, dunlins, durians, durions, dusking, dustbin, dusting, guidons, incudes, incused, indiums, induces, inducts, indults, indusia, infused, insured, niduses, nudisms, nudists, nudniks, pundits, sudsing, sueding, sunbird, sundial, tundish, unbinds, undines, ungirds, unipods, unsized, unsolid, unwinds, upbinds, upwinds, windups.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Indus


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

49 6E 64 75 73

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

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

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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)

01001001 01101110 01100100 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#100 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0064 0075 0073

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

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

4380708785

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INDEX

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


  

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