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BIG BLUE

Specialty Definition: BIG BLUE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Big blue International Business Machines. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BIG BLUE

Specialty definitions using "BIG BLUE": Control Program for Microcomputers. (references)

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Modern Usage: BIG BLUE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

So, the Big Blue. What's it like? (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton)

That hood wasn't looking at her big blue eyes. (The Narrow Margin; writing credit: Earl Felton; Martin Goldsmith)

I hate it! It's boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually repressed accountants and first-year drama students with too many posters of Betty Blue, The Blues Brothers, Big Blue and Blue Velvet on their blue bloody walls! (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson)

Lyrics

The sun's still shining in the big blue sky (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

Tongue Twisters

Big ben blew big blue bubbles. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Big Blue Marble (1974)

Big Blue Goose (1956)

Bear in the Big Blue House (1997)

The Big Blue (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BIG BLUE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bear's Big Band (Bear in the Big Blue House Squeeze and Squeak) (reference)

  • What's That Smell?: A Lift and Sniff Book (Bear in the Big Blue House) (reference)

  • Sniff! Sniff! (Bear in the Big Blue House Sniffy Bear) (reference)

  • When You'Ve Got to Go! (Bear in the Big Blue House 8X8, 6) (reference)

  • Bear's Bedtime Wish (Bear in the Big Blue House) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: BIG BLUE

Illustrations:
BIG BLUE

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Photo Album: BIG BLUE

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Big Blue Marble. Credit: NASA.

Big Blue Stem rangeland grass. Credit: Tim McCabe.

A big blue bottle fly in the web. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIG BLUE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bear in the big blue house

588

bear in the big blue house toy

12

big blue

237

big blue store

11

big blue bus

112

bear in the big blue house coloring page

11

big blue interactive

83

big blue den

11

big blue marlin rock

82

big blue crane

11

bear big blue house

82

big blue pitbull

10

big blue marlin rock tournament

69

big blue pit

10

airline big blue

49

airtrax atlet big blue bt clark corp crown equipment forklift forklift forklift giant hyster industry joe linde material material mitsubishi nissan raymond schaeff tcm toyota yale

10

big blue box

40

big blue travel

9

big blue nation

39

big blue production

9

big blue ball

27

bear in the big blue house bedding

8

big blue bus santa monica

25

big blue liriope

8

big blue wrecking crew

24

big blue book

8

big blue house

21

bear in the big blue house game

7

bear in the big blue house party supply

21

big blue box fable

7

bear in the big blue house live

18

bear in the big blue house cake pan

7

big blue monkey

18

big blue filter

7

bear in the big blue house picture

15

bear in the big blue house cake

6

big blue marble

15

bear in the big blue house merchandise

6

big blue movie

13

big blue bear

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BIG BLUE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-e-g-i-l-u"

-2 letters: bible, bilge, bugle, bulge, guile.

-3 letters: bile, bleb, blub, blue, bulb, gibe, glib, glue, iglu, lieu, lube, luge.

-4 letters: beg, bel, bib, big, bub, bug, ebb, gel, gib, gie, gul, leg, lei, leu, lib, lie, lug.

-5 letters: be, bi, el, li.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-e-g-i-l-u"
 

+3 letters: bejumbling, blubbering, slubbering.

 

+4 letters: belabouring, submergible.

 

+5 letters: nightclubbed, nightclubber, unbridgeable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BIG BLUE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 47      42 4C 55 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01000111 00100000 01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#71 &#32 &#66 &#76 &#85 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0047      0042 004C 0055 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

364341236465539

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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