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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Rdb A roll-your-own database, created in the Unix toolkit philosophy. It appears to be written in the awk language, and is very compatible with awk. It uses awk's syntax and can be combined with awk commands. The definitive introduction is "Unix Relational Database Management: Application Development in the Unix Environment", by Rod Manis, Evan Schaeffer, and Robert Jorgensen, published by Prentice Hall. The book tells how to use rdb to create database/spreadsheets in the awk tradition, only easier. It's a good way to get into programming for novices. It's also a good way to learn DB theory and construction quite painlessly. RDBA Remote Databa. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Census | (Relational Data Base) A method for organizing files in a database that specifically prohibits linking one file to another. (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 |
RDB | English | Rigid Disk Block | Computer - (Amiga, Commodore) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: RDB |
| Specialty definitions using "RDB": Oracle Rdb ♦ siod. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "RDB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RDB" is used about 23 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) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "RDB": oracle Rdb. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
rdb | 73 |
djs rdb | 10 |
bhangra rdb | 8 |
rdb song | 5 |
music rdb | 4 |
lyrics rdb | 4 |
file rdb | 4 |
oracle rdb | 3 |
odbc rdb | 2 |
rdb tuning | 2 |
rdb remote support | 2 |
expert rdb | 2 |
database rdb support | 2 |
database expert rdb | 2 |
dba rdb | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "RDB": birdbath, birdbaths, birdbrain, birdbrained, birdbrains, cardboard, cardboards, hardback, hardbacks, hardball, hardballs, hardboard, hardboards, hardboot, hardboots, hardbound, standardbred, standardbreds, wordbook, wordbooks, yardbird, yardbirds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-r" | |
+1 letter: bard, bird, brad, bred, burd, darb, drab, drib, drub. | |
+2 letters: ardeb, barde, bards, bared, beard, bider, birds, board, bored, brads, braid, brand, bread, brede, breed, bride, broad, brood, burds, darbs, debar, derby, dobra, dobro, drabs, dribs, drubs, orbed, rabid, rebid, redub, robed. | |
+3 letters: abider, aboard, abrade, abroad, absurd, adsorb, adverb, ardebs, badder, badger, balder, bander, barbed, barded, bardes, bardic, barfed, barged, barked, barred, bawdry, bayard, beards, bedder, bedrid, bedrug, begird, bender, bidder, biders, binder, birded, birder, birdie, birled, birred, blared, boards, bolder, bonder, bordel, border, boride, boyard, braced, braids, braked, brands, brandy, braved, brayed, brazed, breads, bready, bredes, breeds, brewed, briard, bribed, bridal, brides, bridge, bridle, brined, broads, bromid, broods, broody, browed, bruted, budder, budger, burden, burdie, buried, burked, burled, burned, burped, burred, byrled, byroad, byword, curbed, dabber, dauber, daubry, debark, debars, debris, debtor, desorb, dibber, disbar, dobber, dobras, dobros, dorbug, drably, dubber, dumber, durbar, forbad, forbid, garbed, herbed, hybrid, inbred, kerbed, midrib, morbid, probed, rebids, rebind, rebody, rebred, redbay, redbud, redbug, redubs, ribald, riband, ribbed, roband, robbed, rubbed, rubied, sabred, serdab, sorbed, tabard, turbid, unbred, verbid. | |
| 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)52 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)01010010 01000100 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R D B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 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)523836 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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