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Definitions: Indus |
IndusNoun1. 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) |
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Aerospace | See constellation.Abbreviation Ind, Indi. (references) |
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Synonym: IndusSynonym: Indus River (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Indus |
| English words defined with "Indus": Indus River. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Indus": alligator ♦ Ind, Indi, Indi, Indians ♦ Pison ♦ Sindhu' ♦ 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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Screenplays | Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
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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. |
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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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 54.39% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.11% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Germany | Indus Holding AG | Pakistan | Indus Motors Co Ltd |
| South Korea | Samae Indus Corp. | USA | Indus International Inc |
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Expressions using "Indus": Haliastur Indus ♦ indus river. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Indus": Indus-tsangpo. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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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| Language | Translations for "Indus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | Indus. (various references) | ||||
Esperanto | Induso. (various references) | ||||
Greek | Ινδόσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | indusay | ||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 64 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100100 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n d u s |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380708785 |
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