Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- [awr-kuh]
- /ˈɔr kə/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [awr-kuh]
- /ˈɔr kə/
Definitions of orca word
- noun orca the killer whale, Orcinus orca. 1
- noun orca A large toothed whale with distinctive black-and-white markings and a prominent dorsal fin. It lives in groups that cooperatively hunt fish, seals, and penguins. 1
- noun Technical meaning of orca Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. "Orca: A Language for Distributed Processing", H.E. Bal <[email protected]> et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(5):17-24 (May 1990). 1
- countable noun orca An orca is a large black and white killer whale. 0
- noun orca a killer whale 0
- noun orca killer whale 0
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Origin of orca
First appearance:
before 1865 One of the 28% newest English words
1865-70; < New Latin, Latin; see orc
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Parts of speech for Orca
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orca popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 74% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
orca usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for orca
noun orca
- beluga — a large white sturgeon, Acipenser (or Huso) huso, of the Black and Caspian Seas: a source of caviar and isinglass
- dolphin — any of several chiefly marine, cetacean mammals of the family Delphinidae, having a fishlike body, numerous teeth, and the front of the head elongated into a beaklike projection.
- grampus — a cetacean, Grampus griseus, of the dolphin family, widely distributed in northern seas.
- mammal — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
- narwal — Archaic form of narwhal.
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