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| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Block Definition Program) A program similar to the Block Boundary Suggestion Project. This 1990 decennial census program was limited specifically to American Indian reservations and is not related to the Public Law 94-171 program. (references) |
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 |
BDP | French | Balance des paiements | Statistics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bermuda | In the 1968 election, the UBP won 30 House of Assembly seats, while the PLP won 10 and the BDP lost the three seats it had previously held. (references) |
Botswana | An additional 4 seats are held by individuals appointed by the President; all 4 are currently held by the ruling BDP. The opposition out-polled the ruling BDP in most urban areas. (references) | |
Political Economy | Botswana | Although the BDP easily won the last general elections, it too faces internal challenges. (references) |
Political Rights | Botswana | Members of the BDP have held a majority of seats in the National Assembly, and as a result also the presidency, continuously since independence. (references) |
Botswana | The BDP increased its majority in the National Assembly from 31 to 37 of 44 seats, thereby ensuring the election of its presidential candidate, incumbent President Mogae. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BDP" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BDP" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | 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 |
bdp cac | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-p" | |
+2 letters: biped, bipod. | |
+3 letters: bedpan, beeped, bipeds, bipods, bopped, bumped, burped, probed, upbind. | |
+4 letters: bedlamp, bedpans, bedpost, bedrape, bipedal, bleeped, blipped, blooped, buildup, dupable, pebbled, pedicab, piebald, plumbed, prebend, prebind, proband, upbinds, upbound, upbraid, upbuild. | |
+5 letters: backdrop, baldpate, baptised, baptized, becapped, bediaper, bedimple, bedlamps, bedplate, bedposts, bedraped, bedrapes, beleaped, bespread, bicuspid, biopsied, biparted, bishoped, buildups, bumpered, bypassed, cupboard, dippable, drapable, lapboard, mopboard, passband, pedicabs, pegboard, piebalds, polybrid, prebaked, prebends, prebinds, prebound, probands, probated, pudibund, purblind, purebred, reprobed, subdepot, superbad, unprobed, upboiled, upbraids, upbuilds. | |
| 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 44 50 |
| 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 01000100 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B D P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0044 0050 |
| 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)363850 |
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