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Definition: Bk |
BkNoun1. A radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Bk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| 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 |
BK | Dutch | Betalingskredieten | European Union, Finance |
BK | English | Below knee | Medicine |
BK | German | Beschlusskaestchen | Economics, Engineering & Technology |
| BKV | French | Virus BK | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Most commonly:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BK."
Synonyms: BkSynonyms: atomic number 97 (n), berkelium (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bk |
| Specialty definitions using "Bk": Abdiel, Abus, Accius Navius, Adonis Flower ♦ binomial tree, Bk tree, BK virus ♦ Cambalo's Ring, Canace, Cenotaphs ♦ Gabrioletta, Galerana, Gama, Gang-board, Geneura ♦ Lancelot du Lac, Landiere, Lilli-Burlero, Lord Thomas, Lucifera ♦ Mirror of King Ryence, Mozaide, Much Ado about Nothing, Munera, Mynian Sails ♦ Pacolet, Pelorus, Pentapolin, Physignathos, Priamond, Pyramus ♦ Rhene, Rimmon, Rings Noted in Fable, Ruddy-mane, Ruydera ♦ S.S. Collar, Samson Carrasco, Scipio dismissed the Iberian Maid, Sick Man, Silver Star of Love, Sinon, Sortes Virgilianae, Spear of Ithuriel, Starry Sphere ♦ Ubeda, Ulania, Ulysses' Bow, U'na ♦ Valdarno ♦ White Moon, William, Windmills ♦ Yggdrasil'. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Åshöjdens BK (1985) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | W. on Main St. from cor. of St. Paul, Dallas, Texas--Praetorian, Kirby, Exchange Bk., and Republic Buildings.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | These stations have some editorial biases, but BK is considered to be a respected news source. (references) |
Yugoslavia | Two major independent television stations, BK and TV Pink, which flourished during the Milosevic era, have regional coverage; their content is considered to be objective. (references) | |
Yugoslavia | Under the previous regime, some private media was controlled by Milosevic sympathizers, and during the Milosevic era the stations BK and TV Pink were aligned with the Socialist Left. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bk" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Bk" is used about 14 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) | 71.43% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Sweden | Elektronikgruppen BK AB | Switzerland | BK Vision AG |
| USA | Pacific Bk N.A. San Francisco | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "Bk": BK virus. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Bk": BK-Virus. | |
| 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 "Bk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | BK virus (BK virus), rubinpigment BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), litholrubin BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), E180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), carmin 6B (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), C1 pigment red 57 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | BK-virus (BK virus), rubis pigment (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), robijnpigment (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), litholrubine BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), karmijn 6B (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), E180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), CI pigment red 57 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | litolirubiini BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), E 180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | virus BK (BK virus), pigment rubis (lithol-rubin BK), pigment rouge CI 57 (lithol-rubin BK), litholrubine BK (lithol-rubin BK), E180 (lithol-rubin BK), carmin 6B (lithol-rubin BK). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | BK-Virus (BK virus), Rubinpigment BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), Rubinpigment (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), Litholrubin BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), E180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), CI pigment red 57 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ιός BK (BK virus), Ε180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), λιθορουμπίνη 'Κ (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | virus BK (BK virus), pigmento rubino (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), litolrubina BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), E180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), CI pigmento rosso 57 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), carminio 6B (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | bkay vermelho FD&C 7 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), vírus BK (BK virus), pigmento vermelho CI 5 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), pigmento rubi (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), pigmento de rubina (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), litol-rubina BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), E180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), carmina 6B (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) virus BK (BK virus), rubinpigment (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), litolrubina (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), E180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), CI pigment red 57 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), carmine 6B (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) litolrubin BK (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment), E 180 (carmine 6B, CI pigment red 57, E180, lithol-rubin BK, rubinpigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "Bk": babka, babkas, knobkerrie, knobkerries, lambkill, lambkills, lambkin, lambkins, subkingdom, subkingdoms, thumbkin, thumbkins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-k" | |
+1 letter: kab, kob. | |
+2 letters: back, bake, balk, bank, bark, bask, beak, beck, bike, bilk, birk, bisk, bock, bonk, book, bosk, buck, bulk, bunk, busk, kabs, kbar, kerb, kibe, knob, kobo, kobs. | |
+3 letters: aback, abaka, babka, backs, baked, baker, bakes, balks, balky, banks, barks, barky, basks, batik, baulk, beaks, beaky, becks, biked, biker, bikes, bikie, bilks, birks, bisks, black, blank, bleak, blink, block, bloke, bocks, bonks, books, bosks, bosky, brake, braky, brank, break, brick, brink, brisk, brock, broke, brook, brusk, bucko, bucks, bulks, bulky, bunko, bunks, burke, busks, kabab, kabar, kabob, kbars, kebab, kebar, kebob, kerbs, kibbe, kibbi, kibei, kibes, kibla, knobs, kobos, krubi. | |
| 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 6B |
| 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 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006B |
| 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)3677 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Company Usage 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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