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Date "TOOR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
"TOOR" is a common misspelling or typo for: Door, Too, Toot, Tore, Torn, Tort, Tory, Tour. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Toor n. The Bourne-Again Super-user. An alternate account with UID of 0, created on Unix machines where the root user has an inconvenient choice of shell. Compare avatar. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TOOR |
| Non-English Usage: "TOOR" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (tower). |
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 | California farmer demonstrates the flood irrigation system he uses for peaches to Surjit Singh Toor, NRCS Soil Conservationist. landowner, farms 60 acres of peaches and prunes near Yuba City, CA. [Slide 97CS2965]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Surjit Singh Toor, NRCS Soil Conservationist and Ernst Paschke, NRCS District Conservationist, NRCS, Yuba City, CA, review FSA aerial photographs of farms in their district. [Slide 97CS2967]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Surjit Singh Toor, NRCS, Soil Conservationist and Ernst Paschke, NRCS District Conservationist, NRCS, Yuba City, California review FSA aerial photographs of farms in their district. Credit: USDA. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "TOOR" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Toor | Last name | 170 | 41,834 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
kanwal toor | 22 |
toor dal | 7 |
toor | 6 |
jaspal toor | 3 |
aneet toor | 3 |
rachel toor | 2 |
francis toor | 2 |
bas toor van | 2 |
anna toor van | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: root, roto, toro. | |
| Words within the letters "o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: oot, ort, rot, too, tor. | |
-2 letters: or, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: motor, ortho, robot, roost, roots, rooty, rotor, rotos, thoro, toros, torot, torso, troop, trooz. | |
+2 letters: agorot, cohort, cooter, croton, doctor, enroot, foetor, footer, forgot, grotto, hooter, hotrod, looter, mooter, motors, octroi, orator, outrow, pronto, proton, ratoon, reboot, retook, retool, robots, roosts, rooted, rooter, rotors, strook, thoron, tooler, tooter, torero, toroid, torose, toroth, torous, torpor, torsos, trogon, troops, unroot, uproot. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 4F 52 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 004F 0052 |
| 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)54494952 |
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