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"BG" is a common misspelling or typo for: by, big, bit, bag, bags, Br, BT, beg, bays, bug, bog, bgs, Hg, Gb, Ng, bogie, BH, BV, BB, BF, VG, GG, LBG, BGA, IBG, BGM, BGP, MBG, PBG, BGC, BRG.

Date "BG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1988. (references)

Specialty Definition: BG

Domain Definition
Computing Bg The country code for Bulgaria. (1999-01-27) Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Administration Billion Gallons. (references)
Business Block group. (references)
Census (Block Group) The groups of blocks in the areas where data for the 1980 decennial census were reported by block. For the 1990 decennial census the entire country was blocked. A BG comprises all census blocks that have the same first digit in a census tract or the block numbering area. For purposes of data tabulation BGs are equivalent to the tabulated enumeration districts used in the 1970-1980 decennial censuses. (references)
Environment 1: Burial Ground. (references)
  2: Biotechnology and Geosciences. (references)
Forestry Bunch Grass (Biogeoclimatic Zone). (references)
Military 1: Background. (references)
  2: British Guiana. (references)
Technology 1: Battle Group. (references)
  2: Border Gateway. (references)

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

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Common Expressions: BG

Expressions Definition
BG Group BG Group Plc is an energy production and distribution company which is headquartered in Reading outside London, England. The company was created in 1997 when British Gas plc demerged Centrica plc and became BG plc, which was reorganised in 1999 as BG Group plc. BG Group has use of the trading name "British Gas" outside the United Kingdom, Centrica owns the rights to use it within the UK. (references)
BG James Brian Gerard James (born May 20, 1970 )[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416321/]) is an American professional wrestler, currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is best known as a former member of D-Generation X and as the former tag team partner of Billy Gunn, with whom he comprised the New Age Outlaws. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BG

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
BG Danish Bulgarien Geography
BG Dutch Bulgarije Geography
BG English Background N/A
BG Finnish Bulgarian tasavalta Geography
bg French Bougie N/A
BG German Republik Bulgarien Geography
BG Greek Βουλγαρία Geography
BG Italian Repubblica di Bulgaria Geography
BG Portuguese Bulgária Geography
BG Spanish República de Bulgaria Geography
BG Swedish Republiken Bulgarien Geography
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: BG


BG

BG, B.G., or bg may refer to:

  • Backgammon
  • background as for[art (in particular traditional animation)
  • Baldur's Gate, the first role-playing computer game in the Baldur's Gate series
  • Bank guarantee
  • Battlegrounds, a patch-released enhancement to World of Warcraft
  • Battlestar Galactica, a science fiction TV series
  • Before Guild, a designation used to number years in the Dune universe
  • Brigadier General, a military rank (more usually written BGen)
  • beautifulgarbage, 3th studio album by Garbage
  • Brake Gangwayed, a type of railway coach
  • Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic War
  • Broad gauge
  • Border guard, police be have function in Border only
  • Brian Griffin, a character on Family Guy voiced by Seth MacFarlane

People and groups:

  • B.G. (rapper) ("Baby Gangsta"), rapper Christopher Dorsey
  • B.G., the Prince of Rap, Bernard Greene, American rapper and dance music artist
  • B.G. Knocc Out a gangsta rapper
  • Berry Gordy, founder and former CEO of Motown Records
  • Benny Goodman, American jazz musician
  • Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium
  • Bee Gees, or the "Brothers Gibb"
  • Blind Guardian, German power-metal band
  • Brothers Grimm, famous writing group in the 1800s that wrote stories such as Snow White and Cinderella
  • BarlowGirl, a Christian rock band comprised of three sisters
  • Bones Gate, a fraternity at Dartmouth College

Computing:

  • bg (Unix), Unix command for background processes
  • Before Google, a popular term to describe times without web search engines

Places:

  • Bulgaria, 2-letter ISO country code
    • .bg, the ccTLD for Bulgaria
    • Bulgarian language (bg), ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
  • Bangladesh, obsolete 2-letter NATO country code
  • Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
  • Blaenau Gwent, a county borough in Wales
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, WMO country code
  • Bowling Green, Kentucky
  • Bowling Green, Ohio
  • British Guiana (now the co-operative republic of Guyana)
  • Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Companies and organizations:

  • British Government, Government of United Kingdom
  • BG Group, one part of the demerged British Gas plc
  • Biman Bangladesh Airlines, IATA airline code
  • Bord Gáis, Bord Gáis Éireann, the Irish Gas Board
  • Bowling Green State University
  • British Gas (privatised & later split between BG plc and Centrica)

Schools:

  • Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln (Higher Education Institution in Lincoln, UK)
  • Bishop Guertin High School

Music:

  • Barbie Girl, song by Aqua in 1997

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "BG". Image Credit.



Topics by Level of Interest: BG

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
BG B Football Group Season 2007-08 50     BG 6
BG Group 27     BG B Football Group Season 2005-06 18
BG B Football Group Season 2006-07 24     BG B Football Group Season 2006-07 24
Survivor BG 21     BG B Football Group Season 2007-08 50
BG B Football Group Season 2005-06 18     BG Checo International Ltd. v. British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority 8
BG Karlsruhe 15     BG Geminorum 6
BG Henry 9     BG Group 27
BG Checo International Ltd. v. British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority 8     BG Henry 9
Briegleb BG 12 8     BG Karlsruhe 15
BG Geminorum 6     Briegleb BG 12 8
BG 6     Survivor BG 21

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"BG" is a common misspelling or typo for: by, big, bit, bag, bags, Br, BT, beg, bays, bug, bog, bgs, Hg, Gb, Ng, bogie, BH, BV, BB, BF, VG, GG, LBG, BGA, IBG, BGM, BGP, MBG, PBG, BGC, BRG.


Computed Synonyms: BG

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0194   BG     behind     after, backside, back, bottom, rear   
 2   1.0192   BG     backdrop     background, ground, bottom   
 3   1.0095   BG     foil     leaf, sheet, lamina, frustrate, thwart   
 4   1.0095   BG     rear     raise, back, bring up, erect, lift   
 5   1.0094   BG     field     area, ground, range, sphere, realm   
 6   1.0093   BG     ground     Earth, land, grounds, soil, grounding   
 7   1.0090   BG     posterior     rear, back, hind, backside, behind   
 8   1.0088   BG     static image     background image, still image, posterior, field, behind   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: BG

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Bohemian pozadí (background, background image, rear, backdrop, field). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, bg. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina pozadí (background, background image, rear, backdrop, field). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, bg. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 保加利亚 (Bulgaria, bg, Bulgarian, bulge). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, bg. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 保加利亞 (Bulgaria, bg, bulge, Bulgarian). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, bg. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech pozadí (background, background image, rear, backdrop, field). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, bg. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top