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Definition: Iwo |
IwoNoun1. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Iwo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a yew". |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
IWO | English | Institute for World Order | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: IwoSynonym: invasion of Iwo (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | The Iwo Jima Memorial? (The Recruit; writing credit: Roger Towne; Kurt Wimmer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945) Heroes of Iwo Jima (2001) | |
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![]() | Apollo 13 Astronauts on the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Hydrographic survey signal on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima This signal was erected within a short time of the famous American flag raising. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | This emblem was received in 1970. It's design features a depiction of the raising of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, in February 1945, plus symbols representing the ship's mission of ammunition transporation and delivery. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Sinking at Ulithi, 20 November 1944. The capsized ship's bottom can be seen at the base of the flames, with bow or stern toward the left. NOTE: Identification provided above is provisional. The original caption reads: " Casualty at Iwo Jima -- While the battle raged ashore, a U.S. Tanker goes up in flame and smoke as the result of enemy action." The identity of this ship, if lost at Iwo Jima, is unknown. However, the circumstances seen in the photo appear to be correct for the loss of USS Mississinewa. The presence of many anchored cargo ships and oilers, plus the several fleet tugs and salvage ships, looks more like Ulithi than Iwo Jima. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | At sea with two other battleships and an amphibious force command ship (AGC), probably at the time of the Iwo Jima or Okinawa operations, circa February-April 1945. Battleship in the center background is USS Idaho (BB-42). The one further to the left is either Tennessee (BB-43) or California (BB-44). Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Firing her forward 8"/55 guns while bombarding Iwo Jima, 23 January 1945. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) signals with a blinker lamp, during a rainy dusk off Iwo Jima, 16 February 1945. Photographed from USS Texas (BB-35). Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Comes alongside USS Makin Island (CVE-93) during the Iwo Jima campaign, 11 March 1945. She is wearing camouflage Measure 32, Design 3d. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Pulls alongside USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) for refueling, during operations in the Atlantic, February 1979. Photographed by PH2 Alexander and PH3 Kent from on board the Iwo Jima. CH-46 "Sea Knight" helicopters of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (HMM-261) are parked in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Photograph (framed) of Iwo Jima taken by the crew of the U.S.S. Spearfish on her twelfth war patrol, Nov. 28, to Dec. 2, 1944. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Seeking to secure peace in the world, we have had to fight through the forests of the Argonne, to the shores of Iwo Jima, and to the cold mountains of Korea. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Fifty crowded years ago, in the sands of Iwo Jima, he taught and he learned the lessons of citizenship. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Iwo" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Iwo" is used about 7 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) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Iwo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a yew". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Iwo." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ives | Male | N/A | Yves |
| Ivo | Male | Dutch | Yves |
| Yves | Male | French | N/A |
| Yvette | Female | French | Yves |
| Ivo | Male | German | Yves |
| Yvo | Male | German | Yves |
| Iwo | Male | Polish | Yves |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Iwo": invasion of Iwo ♦ Iwo Jima. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
Derivations | |
Words containing "Iwo": antiwoman, demiworld, demiworlds, golliwog, golliwogg, golliwoggs, golliwogs, handiwork, handiworks, polliwog, polliwogs, semiworks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-w" | |
-1 letter: ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-w" | |
+1 letter: wino. | |
+2 letters: dowie, indow, miaow, owing, towie, widow, wilco, winos, yowie, zowie. | |
+3 letters: billow, bowfin, bowing, cowier, cowing, cowpie, cowrie, disown, dowing, godwit, howdie, indows, inflow, intown, inwove, jowing, lowing, lowish, miaows, minnow, mowing, nowise, oilway, outwit, owlish, owning, pillow, rowing, sowing, towies, towing, townie, vowing, wanion, weirdo, whilom, whosis, wicopy, widows, wigeon, willow, window, winnow, winoes, wisdom, wittol, woodie, wooing, woolie, wormil, worrit, wowing, yowies, yowing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 77 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .--. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I w o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0077 006F |
| 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)438981 |
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