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Definitions: CBC

CBC

Noun

1. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: CBC

DomainDefinitions

Computing

C-BC A strongly typed version of BC by Mark Hopkins, with expanded C-like syntax, more base types and the ability to form array and pointer types of any dimension and to allocate/free arrays at run time. Most POSIX-BC features are supported, except that functions must be declared consistently and declared before first use. String handling is slightly different. It requires and ANSI-C compiler and runs under MS-DOS or Unix. Version 1.1. Posted to alt.sources 1993-04-10. (1993-08-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CBC

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CBC

EnglishCross-border cooperationN/A

CBC

FrenchCancer baso-cellulaireMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: CBC

Synonyms: blood profile (n), complete blood count (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: CBC

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

CBC Weekend (1969)

Tuning In: Fifty Years On the CBC (2002)

Family: A Loving Look at CBC Radio (1991)

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

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Commercial Usage: CBC

DomainTitle

References

  • CBC CIA Brasileira de Cartuchos: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Age of Ecology: The Environment on Cbc Radio's Ideas (reference)

  • Airplay: An Anthology of Cbc Radio Drama (reference)

  • Girl in a Cbc Studio: With Excerpts from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio Programme, Tea and Trumpets, 1958-1965 (reference)

  • Here's Looking at Us: Celebrating 50 Years of Cbc TV (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Sviatoslav Richter: The 1964 CBC Telecast (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: CBC

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The CBC also measures the amount of Hgb in your blood. (references)

If a hantavirus infection is suspected, a CBC and blood chemistry should be repeated every 8 to 12 hours. (references)

Civil Liberties

Barbados

Although CBC is a state enterprise, it regularly reported views opposing government policies. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

CBC data, contained in balance-of-payments statistics, are not further classified by industry or country. (references)

Political Economy

TAIWAN

The CBC still limits the use of derivative products denominated in New Taiwan Dollars (NTD). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CBC

"CBC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 44.26% of the time. "CBC" is used about 61 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)44.26%2766,962
Noun (singular)40.98%2569,787
Noun (common)14.75%9117,287
                    Total100.00%61N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: CBC

CountryName
Brazil

CBC CIA Brasileira de Cartuchos

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: CBC

Expression using "CBC": Port Hueneme Cbc. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CBC

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  cbc

3,313

  brunswick cbc new

34

  cbc news

810

  cbc toronto

32

  cbc radio

456

  cbc company

31

  cbc newsworld

214

  cbc sport

28

  cbc kid

152

  cbc vancouver

26

  cbc weather

147

  cbc newfoundland

26

  cbc television

127

  cbc johns st

24

  cbc sports

101

  partylite cbc

22

  cbc blood test

87

  cbc marketplace

22

  cbc.ca taken

83

  canada cbc radio

19

  cbc tv

71

  cbc edmonton

19

  cbc taken

55

  cbc.ca marketplace

19

  cbc federal credit union

48

  cbc saskatchewan

18

  canada cbc

48

  port hueneme cbc base ca

18

  cbc test

47

  cbc calgary

18

  cbc north

44

  bc cbc

17

  cbc survey.com

43

  cbc radio 2

17

  ca cbc

43

  cbc halifax

16

  cbc one radio

40

  cbc with differential

16

  cbc manitoba

37

  cbc national

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CBC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-c-c"
 

+2 letters: bacca, bocce, bocci, cubic.

 

+3 letters: baccae, bocces, boccia, boccie, boccis, buccal, chebec, cubics.

 

+4 letters: acerbic, baccara, baccate, bacchic, bacchii, bawcock, bibcock, bicycle, boccias, boccies, boracic, breccia, bucolic, cambric, chebecs, corncob, coxcomb, cubical, cubicle, cubicly, cutback, ecbolic, obconic, sebacic, succuba, succubi, succumb, tobacco.

 

+5 letters: ascorbic, baccaras, baccarat, baccated, bacchant, bacchius, backache, backcast, backchat, backpack, bawcocks, bechance, bescorch, bibcocks, bicycled, bicycler, bicycles, bicyclic, biocycle, blackcap, bocaccio, boychick, breccial, breccias, broccoli, buccally, bucolics, caboched, cabochon, callback, cambrics, cannabic, carbamic, carbolic, carbonic, cascabel, cascable, catacomb, celibacy, cerebric, cherubic, chubasco, cicisbei, cicisbeo, cobaltic, cockbill, cockboat, cocobola, cocobolo, columbic, comeback, corncobs, corncrib, coxcombs, crucible, cubicity, cubicles, cubicula, cubistic, cucumber, cucurbit, cutbacks, dabchick, ecbolics, kickback, libeccio, maccabaw, maccaboy, maccoboy, microbic, peccable, scatback, succubae, succubas, succubus, succumbs, tobaccos.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CBC


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

43 42 43

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

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

=

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)

01000011 01000010 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#66 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0042 0043

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

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

373637

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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