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Date "BL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
"BL" is a common misspelling or typo for: bal, ball, be, blow, by. |
| 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 |
BL | English | Blanking | N/A |
bl | German | Blau | Physics, Social Sciences |
| BL STL | English | Billet Steel | N/A |
| Bl.B. | German | Blutbild | Medicine |
| BL... | Italian | Spinto/a dal vento | Geography, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BL |
| Specialty definitions using "BL": steel for use at low temperatures. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Plate XVIII. 65,66. Bathysaurus ferox, Gunther. From specimen collected by BL AKE at N. Lat. 39 38, W. Long. 70 07, in 1241 fathoms. 67, 68. Ipnops Murrayi, Gunther. From BLAKE at N. Lat. 24.6, W. Long. 84.1, in 955 fathoms. Bathylaco nigricans, Goode and Bean. From BLAKE off St. Croix, U.S.V.I., in 2393 fathoms. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate 175. The Triple-Tail or Black Grouper. Lobotes surinamensis (Bl.), Cuvier. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Herwaldt BL, Juranek DD. Laboratory-acquired malaria, leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, and toxoplasmosis. (references) | |
Pershing DH, Herwaldt BL, Glaser C, et al. Infection with a Babesia-like organism in northern California. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 31.51% of the time. "BL" is used about 73 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 (singular) | 31.51% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 26.03% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (common) | 21.92% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Unclassified Items | 19.18% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BL": clean BL. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BL": Bl-lac. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "BL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | rent konossement (clean bill of lading, clean BL). (various references) | |
Dutch | schoon connossement (clean bill of lading, clean BL), schoon cognossement (clean bill of lading, clean BL). (various references) | |
French | admonestation. (various references) | |
German | reines Konnossement (clean bill of lading, clean BL). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαρή φορτωτική (clean bill of lading, clean BL), φορτωτικά έγγραφα χωρίς επιφυλάξεις (clean bill of lading, clean BL). (various references) | |
Italian | biasimo (animadversion, blame, censure, condemnation, me, rebuke, reference, reflection, reflexion, reprimand, reproof). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | blay.(various references) | |
Spanish | licenciado en derecho (bachelor of laws). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BL": blab, blabbed, blabber, blabbered, blabbering, blabbermouth, blabbermouths, blabbers, blabbing, blabby, blabs, black, blackamoor, blackamoors, blackball, blackballed, blackballing, blackballs, blackberries, blackberry, blackbird, blackbirded, blackbirder, blackbirders, blackbirding, blackbirds, blackboard, blackboards, blackbodies, blackbody, blackboy, blackboys, blackcap, blackcaps, blackcock, blackcocks, blacked, blacken, blackened, blackener, blackeners, blackening, blackenings, blackens, blacker, blackest, blackface, blackfaces, blackfin, blackfins, blackfish. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BL": abatable, abdicable, ablate, ablated, ablates, ablating, ablation, ablations, ablative, ablatively, ablatives, ablaut, ablauts, ablaze, able, ablegate, ablegates, abler, ables, ablest, ablings, ablins, abloom, abluent, abluents, ablush, abluted, ablution, ablutionary, ablutions, ably, abolishable, abominable, abominably, abradable, absorbable, abstractable, abubble, abusable, acceptable, acceptableness, acceptablenesses, acceptably, accessible, accessibleness, accessiblenesses, accessibly, accomplishable, accountable, accountableness, accountablenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l" | |
+1 letter: alb, bal, bel, lab, lib, lob. | |
+2 letters: able, ably, alba, albs, baal, bail, bald, bale, balk, ball, balm, bals, bawl, bell, bels, belt, bile, bilk, bill, birl, blab, blae, blah, blam, blat, blaw, bleb, bled, blet, blew, blin, blip, blob, bloc, blot, blow, blub, blue, blur, boil, bola, bold, bole, boll, bolo, bolt, bowl, buhl, bulb, bulk, bull, burl, byrl, club, flab, flub, glib, glob, labs, lamb, libs, limb, lobe, lobo, lobs, lube, obol, pleb, slab, slob, slub. | |
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