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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DDB device independent bitmap. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dullness | Phrase: davus sum non Aedipus; deadly dull and boring, DDB. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DDB |
| Specialty definitions using "DDB": device independent bitmap. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Albania | An affiliate of DDB worldwide has opened an office in Tirana. (references) |
Croatia | Currently, there are four foreign advertising firms with offices in Croatia: BBDO, DDB (Futura-DDB), McCann-Erikson and Ogilvy & Mather. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DDB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "DDB" is used about 8 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) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
ddb | 63 |
ddb worldwide | 24 |
ddb needham | 24 |
ddb spike | 17 |
ddb chicago | 16 |
ddb advertising | 10 |
tribal ddb | 8 |
ddb seattle | 7 |
ddb jarvis palmer | 6 |
ddb los angeles | 3 |
ddb dallas | 3 |
anderson ddb | 2 |
ddb bulb | 2 |
ddb needham worldwide | 2 |
ddb unlimited | 2 |
communication ddb worldwide | 2 |
beyond ddb | 2 |
ddb new york | 2 |
chicago ddb needham | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "DDB": oddball, oddballs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-d" | |
+2 letters: baddy, biddy, bided, boded, buddy. | |
+3 letters: abided, aboded, badder, baddie, badged, balded, banded, barded, beaded, bedded, bedder, bedrid, bended, bidden, bidder, birded, bladed, bodied, bonded, budded, budder, buddle, budged, dabbed, daubed, daybed, dibbed, disbud, dubbed, dumbed, redbud. | |
+4 letters: abduced, abraded, addable, addible, baddest, baddies, badland, bandaid, bandied, bearded, bedders, bedding, bedewed, bedside, bedward, betided, bidders, biddies, bidding, bielded, birdied, bladder, blended, blinded, blooded, boarded, boodled, bounded, bradded, braided, branded, breaded, bridged, bridled, brinded, brooded, budders, buddied, buddies, budding, buddles, builded, bundled, dabbled, daybeds, debased, debated, debited, deboned, debride, debuted, dibbled, disband, disbuds, doubled, doubted, drabbed, dribbed, drubbed, oddball, redbird, redbuds, roadbed, sanddab, seedbed, subdued. | |
| 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)44 44 42 |
| 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)01000100 01000100 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D D B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0044 0042 |
| 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)383836 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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