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BIXIE

Specialty Definition: BIXIE

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Bixie /bik'see/ n. Variant emoticons used on BIX (the BIX Information eXchange). The most common (smiley) bixie is <@_@>, representing two cartoon eyes and a mouth. These were originally invented in an SF fanzine called APA-L and imported to BIX by one of the earliest users. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIXIE

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

bixie

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BIXIE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-x"

-1 letter: ibex.

-3 letters: be, bi, ex, xi.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-x"
 

+2 letters: exhibit, mixible.

 

+3 letters: bemixing, exhibits, exigible.

 

+4 letters: exhibited, exhibitor.

 

+5 letters: exhibiting, exhibition, exhibitive, exhibitors, exhibitory, inexpiable, inexpiably, inflexible, inflexibly, oxidizable, xenobiotic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BIXIE


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

42 49 58 49 45

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    -..-    ..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01001001 01011000 01001001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#88 &#73 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0058 0049 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3643584339

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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