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B.L.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: B.L.

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

B.L.

EnglishBachelor of LawEducation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Modern Usage: B.L.

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

B.L. Stryker (1989)

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

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Commercial Usage: B.L.

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Advent and Nativity sermons from a fifteenth-century revision of John Mirk's Festial : ed. from B.L. MSS Harley 2247, Royal 18 B XXV, and Gloucester Cathedral Library 22 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: B.L.

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Cla. Viro Michaeli Philippo Bouvart. : Regii Ordinis Equiti, Salub.... / Dessiné par F. Bourgoin, et Gravé par B.L. Henriquez. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Underway off the coast of Southern California, 21 October 1971. Photographed by PH1 B.L. Kuykendall, USN. Credit: NAVY.

Lift off from the flight deck of USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) as she enters Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 27 June 1967. The USS Arizona Memorial is in the distance. Helicopter at left is Bureau # 152124. Photographed by PH3 B.L. Kleckner. Credit: NAVY.

Underway in January 1963. Photographed by PH1 B.L. Bennett. Credit: NAVY.

View looking aft from her forecastle, showing visitors atop her forward 13-inch gun turret, 1898. The original photograph was copyright 1898 by B.L. Singley and published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Company. Credit: NAVY.

Taking on coal from a lighter, 1898. The original photograph was copyright 1898 by B.L. Singley, and published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Company. Credit: NAVY.

W.H. Drayton / drawn from the life by Du Simitier in Philadelphia ; engraved by B.L. Prevost at Paris. Credit: Library of Congress.

J. Dickenson [sic] / drawn from the life by Du Simitier in Philadelphia ; engraved by B.L. Prevost at Paris. Credit: Library of Congress.

S. Huntingdon [sic] / drawn from the life by Du Simitier in Philadelphia ; engraved by B.L. Prevost at Paris. Credit: Library of Congress.

J. Reed / drawn from the life by Du Simitier in Philadelphia ; engraved by B.L. Prevost at Paris. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: B.L.

"B.L." is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "B.L." 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)81.82%9117,287
Noun (common)18.18%2245,945
                    Total100.00%11N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: B.L.

Expression using "B.L.": on board B.L.. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: B.L.

Language Translations for "B.L."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

ombord konossement (on board B.L., on board bill of lading, shipped bill of lading). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aan-boord-connossement (on board B.L., on board bill of lading, shipped bill of lading). (various references)

   

French

  

lettre ferroviaire (railroad B.L.), connaissement tardif (stale B.L.), connaissement reçu bord (on board B.L.), connaissement embarqué (on board B.L.), connaissement de bord (on board B.L.), connaissement bord (on board B.L., shipped B.L.). (various references)

   

German

  

Bordkonnossement (on board B.L., on board bill of lading, shipped bill of lading). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φορτωτικά έγγραφα "επί του σκάφους". (various references)

   

Italian

  

polizza di carico per merce a bordo (on board B.L., on board bill of lading, shipped bill of lading), polizza di carico a bordo (on board B.L., on board bill of lading, shipped bill of lading). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Bibliography


  

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