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Date "ROCA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Sp. Rock or stone, whether in the ordinary or geological sense. b. Sp. Rock standing out from the general surface.c. Sp. A vein or bed of hard rock and stone. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Roca, Nebraska."
Crosswords: ROCA |
| Non-English Usage: "ROCA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Asturian (rock), Catalan (reef), Portuguese (baby's rattle, distaff, spindle), Spanish (boulder, reef, rock). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hombres de roca (1965) Puños de roca (1959) Frágil como el cristal Duro como la roca (1985) Tiempo libre a la roca (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Four Quechua Indians (l to r) Maria Palimino; her sister Raymunda; Juan Quispe, harp player; and Justino Roca, flute player at Empire State Building] / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Walter Albertin.. |
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Human Rights | Cuba | Vladimiro Roca Antunez, a member of the Internal Dissidents Working Group, remained in prison at year's end. (references) |
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| "ROCA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "ROCA" is used about 11 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) | 72.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ROCA" 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 |
| Roca | Last name | 1,000 | 12,341 |
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1. Roca, NE (village, FIPS 41830) |
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Ending with "ROCA": Catala-roca. | |
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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 |
roca wear | 339 | general roca | 6 |
roca | 126 | eterna roca | 6 |
fella roca | 58 | fella records.com roca | 6 |
roca wear.com | 38 | girl roca wear | 6 |
fella record roca | 32 | berry farm roca | 6 |
lewis roca | 28 | casa la roca sobre | 6 |
almond roca | 26 | de lana roca | 6 |
nuria roca | 23 | roca nebraska | 5 |
en escalada roca | 12 | alex castillo roca | 5 |
elio roca | 11 | firme roca | 5 |
fella.com roca | 11 | clothes roca wear | 5 |
clothing roca wear | 10 | miguel angel roca | 5 |
cabo da roca | 10 | juan manuel roca | 5 |
roca sanitarios | 10 | editora roca | 5 |
la roca | 9 | roca wear woman | 5 |
almond recipe roca | 8 | argentina julio roca | 4 |
cabo da hotel roca | 7 | de la roca zach | 4 |
hotel porto roca | 7 | roca ware | 4 |
kid roca wear | 7 | baby roca wear | 4 |
loro roca | 6 | fosforica roca | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ROCA": rocaille, rocailles. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ROCA": brocade, brocaded, brocades, brocading, brocatel, brocatelle, brocatelles, brocatels, chlorofluorocarbon, chlorofluorocarbons, deuterocanonical, dipterocarp, dipterocarps, electrocardiogram, electrocardiograms, electrocardiograph, electrocardiographic, electrocardiographically, electrocardiographies, electrocardiographs, electrocardiography, embrocation, embrocations, fluorocarbon, fluorocarbons, hemerocallis, hemerocallises, hydrocarbon, hydrocarbons, marocain, marocains, microcalorimeter, microcalorimeters, microcalorimetric, microcalorimetries, microcalorimetry, microcapsule, microcapsules, microcassette, microcassettes, nonreciprocal, nonreciprocals, procaine, procaines, procambia, procambial, procambium, procambiums, procarbazine, procarbazines, procarp. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arco, orca. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arc, car, cor, oar, oca, ora, orc, roc. | |
-2 letters: ar, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r" | |
+1 letter: acorn, actor, carbo, cargo, carob, carol, carom, claro, cobra, copra, coral, coria, croak, macro, narco, ocrea, orach, orcas, racon, roach, taroc. | |
+2 letters: accord, acorns, across, actors, anchor, aortic, archon, boxcar, broach, calory, candor, cantor, captor, carbon, carbos, carboy, cargos, carhop, carobs, caroch, caroli, carols, caroms, carrom, carrot, carton, cartop, castor, cavort, chador, charro, choral, chorea, chroma, clamor, claros, coaler, coarse, coater, coaxer, cobras, collar, contra, coppra, coprah, copras, corals, corban, cornea, cornua, corona, corral, corsac, coryza, costar, cottar, cougar, coward, crambo, craton, crayon, croaks, croaky, factor, garcon, lorica, macron, macros, narcos, ochrea, ocreae, ocular, orache, oracle, orgiac, oxcart, picaro, racons, racoon, rancho, rancor, recoal, scoria, scrota, soucar, sowcar, tarocs, trocar, turaco. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 43 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010010 01001111 01000011 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O C A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0043 0041 |
| 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)52493735 |
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