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C.B.

Crosswords: C.B.

Specialty definitions using "C.B.": Vienna Development Method Specification Language. (references)

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Modern Usage: C.B.

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Movie/TV Titles

C.B. Hustlers (1978)

The C.B. Bears (1977)

C.B. Mamas (1976)

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

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Commercial Usage: C.B.

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Books

  • The Zulu War Journal of Colonel Henry Harford, C.B. (reference)

  • C.B. Greenfield: The Tanglewood Murder (reference)

  • Willoughby the immortal: an account of the life and actions of Rear-Admiral Sir Nesbit Willoughby, Kt., C.B., K.C.H. (1777-1849) "The hero of Mauritius" (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: C.B.

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Sir J. Ranald Martin, C.B., F.R.S. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Late Frederic Carpenter Skey, C.B., F.R.S. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

M-117, 500-pound and 1000-pound bombs line the carrier's flight deck during Vietnam War combat operations in the South China Sea, 21 August 1966. Photographed by PHAA C.B. Vesper. Planes parked nearby include A-4, F-8 and A-1 types. Credit: NAVY.

Hon. J.H. Rainey, representative from South Carolina / engd. by C.B. Hall, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

C.B. Comstock. Credit: Library of Congress.

C.B. Caldwell. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brigadier General Lord George Paget C.B.. Credit: Library of Congress.

Colonel Shewell, C.B., commanding Hussar Brigade. Credit: Library of Congress.

John C.B. Moore, residence in Pound Ridge, New York. Entrance view. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grand Coulee Dam, Washington, C.B. 1 Co., contractors. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: C.B.

"C.B." is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.92% of the time. "C.B." is used about 65 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)96.92%6342,364
Noun (common)3.08%2245,945
                    Total100.00%65N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: C.B.


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

43 2E 42 2E

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

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

01000011 00101110 01000010 00101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#46 &#66 &#46

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 002E 0042 002E

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

37163616

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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