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"BDS" is a plural of: bd. |
| 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 |
BDS | English | Broadband Distributive Services | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Barbados | Since 1992, BDS $61.7 million in commercial property was sold by the Government to private investors through the sale of shares in Barbados External Telecommunications (to Cable & Wireless of the U.K.), Barbados Telephone Company (to Cable & Wireless), Barbados Mills, the Arawak Cement Company, Barbados Dairy Industries, Barbados National Oil Company, National Petroleum Corporation, Barbados Tourism Investment Inc., and Heywoods resorts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BDS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BDS" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bds suspension | 100 |
bds mongolian barbecue | 64 |
bds blower | 25 |
bds mongolian | 10 |
bds grill mongolian | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-s" | |
+1 letter: bads, beds, bids, bods, buds, dabs, debs, dibs, dubs. | |
+2 letters: balds, bands, bards, based, bauds, bawds, beads, bends, bides, binds, birds, bodes, bolds, bonds, brads, bunds, burds, bused, darbs, daubs, debts, drabs, dribs, drubs, dumbs, sabed. | |
+3 letters: abased, abides, abodes, absurd, abused, adobes, adobos, adsorb, ardebs, badass, badges, bardes, bashed, basked, basted, beards, bedels, bedews, bedims, bedsit, bendys, beside, bested, bestud, biased, biders, bidets, bields, bindis, bipeds, bipods, blades, bleeds, blends, blinds, blonds, bloods, boards, bodies, bossed, bounds, boused, bovids, bowsed, braids, brands, breads, bredes, breeds, brides, broads, broods, budges, builds, bundts, bushed, busied, busked, bussed, busted, cebids, daubes, debars, debase, debits, debris, debugs, debuts, debyes, demobs, desorb, dhobis, disbar, disbud, dobies, doblas, dobras, dobros, dobson, doubts, dweebs, embeds, imbeds, rebids, redubs, sabbed, sabred, seabed, serdab, sobbed, sorbed, subbed, subdeb, subdue. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 44 53 |
| 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)01000010 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0044 0053 |
| 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)363853 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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