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Definition: Biz |
BizNoun1. Informal terms for your occupation; "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "biz" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Biz in theatrical slang, means "business." Good biz means full houses; but an actor's "biz" is quite another thing, meaning by-play. Thus, Hamlet trifling with Ophelia's fan, Lord Dundreary's hop, and so on, are the special "business" of the actor of the part. As a rule, the "business" is invented by the actor who creates the part, and is handed down by tradition. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
BIZ | English | Builders Iron Zincwork Ltd. | N/A |
BIZ | German | Bank fuer Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: BizSynonym: game (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Biz |
| English words defined with "biz": show biz. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "biz": netiquette. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Biz" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Turkish (awl, bodkin, prod, punch, us, we), Turkmen (awl, we). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What the hell happened in here? I been in show biz for thirty-seven years! (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) George Burns was right: show biz is a horrible bitch goddess. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Get ready for this, mind your own biz (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) So get ready for this, mind your own biz (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) Strictly biz, she don't play around (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) Firm biz, what is, Blackstreet (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY) | |
Movie/TV Titles | That's Show Biz (1970) Biz de arkadasmiyiz? (1962) No Biz Like Shoe Biz (1960) Show Biz Bugs (1957) Quiz Biz (1941) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Biz" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Biz" is used about 45 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) | 100% | 45 | 50,900 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Grow Biz International, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "biz": show biz. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "biz": biz-speak, biz-zalza. | |
Ending with "biz": show-biz. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
biz | 463 | register biz | 30 |
biz markie | 151 | shoes biz | 29 |
big biz tycoon | 124 | big biz tycoon cheat | 28 |
toy biz | 124 | biz expo show | 27 |
2 big biz tycoon | 115 | biz registration | 27 |
biz rate | 87 | biz domain registration | 26 |
fed biz ops | 83 | biz stuffers | 26 |
biz wellsfargo.com | 59 | biz domain name registration | 25 |
e biz | 56 | show biz | 25 |
home biz | 54 | biz and info domain registration service | 25 |
fed biz opps | 51 | biz on the net | 23 |
biz domain | 47 | dot biz | 22 |
biz domain name | 35 | biz rate.com | 22 |
big biz | 34 | biz lyrics markie | 20 |
buy or sell a biz | 34 | biz hosting | 18 |
biz card | 32 | biz greaser | 17 |
register biz domain | 32 | battery biz | 16 |
biz lebed | 31 | sno biz | 16 |
register biz domain name | 31 | small biz | 16 |
bce bell biz canada enterprise inc not | 31 | biz mommy | 15 |
biz opp | 15 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "biz"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عالم المال و الأعمال (show biz), عالم المشاهير (show biz). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шоу бизнес (show biz, show business). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | monde du spectacle (show biz). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Geschäft (affair, bargain, boutique, business, deal, duty, office, sale, shop, snip, store, trade, transaction, warehouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mondo dello spettacolo (show biz, show business). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シュタイナー学 (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace, weeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ショー"ズ (show biz). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | izbay negocio (bargain, business, commerce, deal, enterprise, occasion, show, trade, transaction). (various references) ธุรกิจ (business). (various references) iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works). (various references) справа (act, affair, brief, business, case, cause, deed, discipline, employ, enterprise, nevermind, point, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction), фірма (concern, firm), комерційна діяльність, бізнес (business). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "biz": bizarre, bizarrely, bizarreness, bizarrenesses, bizarrerie, bizarreries, bizarres, bize, bizes, biznaga, biznagas, bizonal, bizone, bizones, bizzes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "biz": showbiz. (additional references) | |
Words containing "biz": albizia, albizias, albizzia, albizzias, arabize, arabized, arabizes, arabizing, showbizzes, showbizzy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "biz" (pronounced bi"z) |
| 2 | -i" z | chandeliers, fizz, his, is, quiz, tis, whiz, wiz. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-z" | |
-1 letter: bi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-z" | |
+1 letter: bize. | |
+2 letters: baiza, baize, bezil, bizes, blitz, zibet, zineb, zombi. | |
+3 letters: baizas, baizes, banzai, benzin, bezils, bizone, bizzes, blintz, borzoi, braize, brazil, buzuki, kibitz, zariba, zibeth, zibets, zinebs, zombie, zombis. | |
+4 letters: albizia, arabize, banzais, baptize, bedizen, benzine, benzins, benzoic, benzoin, bezique, bizarre, biznaga, bizonal, bizones, blazing, blintze, blitzed, blitzes, boozier, boozily, boozing, borzois, braizes, brazier, brazils, brazing, britzka, bromize, brulzie, buzukia, buzukis, buzzing, buzzwig, ebonize, imblaze, kibbitz, kibbutz, obelize, showbiz, sizable, sizably, zaribas, zebraic, zebrine, zebroid, zibeths, zombies, zombify. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 7A |
| 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 01101001 01111010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i z |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 007A |
| 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)367592 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Company Usage 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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