Rb

  

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Rb

Definition: Rb

Rb

Noun

1. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite.

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

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Rb

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

RB

DutchRegelbestandN/A

RB

EnglishReconnaissance bomberN/A

RB

FrenchRétinoblastomeMedicine

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

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Synonyms: Rb

Synonyms: atomic number 37 (n), rubidium (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rb

Specialty definitions using "Rb": Genes, RetinoblastomaRB protein, Retinoblastoma Protein, Rubidium Radioisotopes. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rb

DomainUsage

Lyrics

The homies got RB, collab' creations ("No Diggity"; performing artist: Blackstreet)

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

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Commercial Usage: Rb

DomainTitle

Books

  • L'autre monde, ou, Les empires et estats de la lune : édition diplomatique d'un manuscrit inédit (Bibliothèque Fisher, University of Sydney, RB Add. Ms. 68) (reference)

  • Rb 1980: The Rule of st Benedict (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rb

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

For example, to resolve a problem of the landfill for sewage sludge, Vodokanal used a technology for dewatering and sludge incineration offered by a French company OTV. The total cost of the waste treatment plant construction (first two phases) was Rb 450 million, half of which was provided as an intergovernmental Russian-French credit. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Rb

"Rb" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.65% of the time. "Rb" is used about 93 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)80.65%7538,535
Lexical Verb (base form)15.05%1493,893
Noun (common)4.3%4175,879
                    Total100.00%93N/A

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

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Expression: Rb

Expression using "Rb": RB protein. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Rb": rb-associated, rb-doped, rb-radiant, rb-related.

Ending with "Rb": anti-rb.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rb

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

rb music

1,084

rb

1,078

rb lyrics

130

rb concept

48

auction rb

16

eawardcenter.com rb

15

converter format rb

13

racing rb

10

0000110566 1 eawardcenter.com rb

10

k rb

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rb

Language Translations for "Rb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

puissant inhibiteur de la croissance cellulaire (RB protein), protéine RB (RB protein), protéine rétinoblastome (RB protein). (various references)

   

Italian

  

proteina RB (RB protein, retinoblastoma protein). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

굽은 길. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

rbay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

proteína RB (RB protein, retinoblastoma protein). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Rb

Derivations

Words ending with "Rb": absorb, acerb, adsorb, adverb, arb, barb, bicarb, blurb, carb, chemisorb, cowherb, curb, darb, desorb, disturb, exurb, forb, garb, herb, kerb, orb, perturb, potherb, proverb, reabsorb, resorb, reverb, rhubarb, slurb, sorb, suburb, superb, uncurb, urb, verb, wellcurb. (additional references)

Words containing "Rb": absorbabilities, absorbability, absorbable, absorbance, absorbances, absorbancies, absorbancy, absorbant, absorbants, absorbed, absorbencies, absorbency, absorbent, absorbents, absorber, absorbers, absorbing, absorbingly, absorbs, acerbate, acerbated, acerbates, acerbating, acerber, acerbest, acerbic, acerbically, acerbities, acerbity, adsorbable, adsorbate, adsorbates, adsorbed, adsorbent, adsorbents, adsorber, adsorbers, adsorbing, adsorbs, adverbial, adverbially, adverbials, adverbs, afterbirth, afterbirths, afterburner, afterburners, airbag, airbags, airboat, airboats, airborne, airbound, airbrush, airbrushed, airbrushes, airbrushing, airburst, airbursts, airbus, airbuses, airbusses, amobarbital, amobarbitals, antiscorbutic, antiscorbutics, antiurban, arbalest, arbalests, arbalist, arbalists, arbelest, arbelests, arbiter, arbiters, arbitrable, arbitrage, arbitraged, arbitrager, arbitragers, arbitrages, arbitrageur, arbitrageurs, arbitraging, arbitral, arbitrament, arbitraments, arbitrarily, arbitrariness, arbitrarinesses, arbitrary, arbitrate, arbitrated, arbitrates, arbitrating, arbitration, arbitrational, arbitrations, arbitrative, arbitrator, arbitrators, arbor, arboreal, arboreally, arbored, arboreous, arbores, arborescence, arborescences, arborescent, arboreta, arboretum, arboretums, arboricultural, arboriculture, arboricultures, arborist, arborists, arborization, arborizations, arborize, arborized, arborizes, arborizing, arborous, arbors, arborvitae, arborvitaes, arbour, arboured, arbours, arbovirus, arboviruses, arbs, arbuscle, arbuscles, arbute, arbutean, arbutes, arbutus, arbutuses, ascorbate, ascorbates, ascorbic, astarboard, barbal, barbarian, barbarianism, barbarianisms, barbarians, barbaric, barbarically, barbarism, barbarisms, barbarities, barbarity, barbarization, barbarizations, barbarize, barbarized, barbarizes, barbarizing, barbarous, barbarously, barbarousness, barbarousnesses, barbasco, barbascoes, barbascos, barbate, barbe, barbecue, barbecued, barbecuer, barbecuers, barbecues, barbecuing, barbed, barbel, barbell, barbells, barbels, barbeque, barbequed, barbeques, barbequing, barber, barbered, barbering, barberries, barberry, barbers, barbershop, barbershops, barbes, barbet, barbets, barbette, barbettes, barbican, barbicans, barbicel, barbicels, barbing, barbital, barbitals, barbitone, barbitones, barbiturate, barbiturates, barbless, barbs, barbule, barbules, barbut, barbuts, barbwire, barbwires, bearbaiting, bearbaitings, bearberries, bearberry, beaverboard, beaverboards, berberin, berberine, berberines, berberins, berberis, berberises, bicarbonate, bicarbonates, bicarbs, bitterbrush, bitterbrushes, blunderbuss, blunderbusses, blurbed, blurbing, blurbs, borborygmi, borborygmus, bourbon, bourbonism, bourbonisms, bourbons, bowerbird, bowerbirds, burble, burbled, burbler, burblers, burbles, burblier, burbliest, burbling, burbly, burbot, burbots, burbs, butterball, butterballs, carbachol, carbachols, carbamate, carbamates, carbamic, carbamide, carbamides, carbamino, carbamyl, carbamyls, carbanion, carbanions, carbarn, carbarns, carbaryl, carbaryls, carbazole, carbazoles, carbide, carbides, carbine, carbines, carbinol, carbinols, carbo, carbocyclic, carbohydrase, carbohydrases, carbohydrate, carbohydrates, carbolic, carbolics, carbon, carbonaceous, carbonade, carbonades, carbonado, carbonadoed, carbonadoes, carbonadoing, carbonados, carbonara, carbonaras, carbonate, carbonated, carbonates, carbonating, carbonation, carbonations, carbonic, carboniferous, carbonization, carbonizations, carbonize, carbonized, carbonizes, carbonizing, carbonless, carbonnade, carbonnades, carbons, carbonyl, carbonylation, carbonylations, carbonylic, carbonyls, carbora, carboras, carbos, carboxyl, carboxylase, carboxylases, carboxylate, carboxylated, carboxylates, carboxylating, carboxylation, carboxylations, carboxylic, carboxyls, carboxymethylcellulose, carboxymethylcelluloses, carboxypeptidase, carboxypeptidases, carboy, carboyed, carboys, carbs, carbuncle, carbuncled, carbuncles, carbuncular, carburet, carbureted, carbureting, carburetion, carburetions, carburetor, carburetors, carburets, carburetted, carburetter, carburetters, carburetting, carburettor, carburettors, carburise, carburised, carburises, carburising, carburization, carburizations, carburize, carburized, carburizes, carburizing, cedarbird, cedarbirds, centerboard, centerboards, charbroil, charbroiled, charbroiler, charbroilers, charbroiling, charbroils, chatterbox, chatterboxes, checkerberries, checkerberry, checkerboard, checkerboards, chemisorbed, chemisorbing, chemisorbs, chlorofluorocarbon, chlorofluorocarbons, choirboy, choirboys. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Rb

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-r"
 

+1 letter: arb, bar, bra, bro, brr, bur, orb, reb, rib, rob, rub, urb.

 

+2 letters: abri, arbs, barb, bard, bare, barf, bark, barm, barn, bars, bear, beer, berg, berm, bier, bird, birk, birl, birr, blur, boar, boor, bora, bore, born, bort, brad, brae, brag, bran, bras, brat, braw, bray, bred, bree, bren, brew, brie, brig, brim, brin, brio, bris, brit, broo, bros, brow, brrr, brut, buhr, bura, burd, burg, burl, burn, burp, burr, burs, bury, byre, byrl, carb, crab, crib, curb, darb, drab, drib, drub, forb, garb, grab, grub, herb, kbar, kerb, orbs, orby, rebs, ribs, robe, robs, rube, rubs, ruby, sorb, urbs, verb.

 

+3 letters: abhor, abler, abort, abris, acerb, amber, ambry, arbor, ardeb, bairn, baker, baler, barbe, barbs, barde, bards, bared, barer, bares, barfs, barge, baric, barks, barky, barms, barmy, barns, barny, baron, barre, barye, baser, bazar, beard, bears, beers, beery, beret, bergs, berme, berms, berry, berth, beryl, bevor, bider, biers, biker, birch, birds, birks, birle, birls, birrs, birse, birth, biter, blare, blear, bluer, blurb, blurs, blurt, board, boars, boart, bolar, boner, boors, boral, boras, borax, bored, borer, bores, boric, borne, boron, borts, borty, bortz, bourg, bourn, bower, boxer, boyar, brace, brach, bract, brads, braes, brags, braid, brail, brain, brake, braky, brand, brank, brans, brant, brash, brass, brats, brava, brave, bravi, bravo, brawl, brawn, braws, braxy, brays, braza, braze, bread, break, bream, brede, breed, brees, brens, brent, breve, brews, briar, bribe, brick, bride, brief, brier, bries, brigs, brill, brims, brine, bring, brink, brins, briny, brios, brisk, brits, britt, broad, brock, broil, broke, brome, bromo, bronc, brood, brook, broom, broos, brose, brosy, broth, brown, brows, brugh, bruin, bruit, brume, brunt, brush, brusk, brute, buhrs, buran, buras, burbs, burds, buret, burgh, burgs, burin, burke, burls, burly, burns, burnt, burps, burro, burrs, burry, bursa, burse, burst, buyer, byres, byrls, caber, carbo, carbs, carob, cobra, corby, crabs, cribs, crumb, cuber, curbs, darbs, debar, derby, dobra, dobro, drabs, dribs, drubs, embar, ember, exurb, fiber, fibre, forbs, forby, garbs, giber, grabs, grebe, grubs, herbs, herby, jiber, kabar, kbars, kebar, kerbs, krubi, labor, labra, liber, libra, libri, lobar, mbira, omber, ombre, orbed, orbit, oribi, probe, rabat, rabbi, rabic, rabid, rebar, rebbe, rebec, rebel, rebid, rebop, rebus, rebut, rebuy, redub, rehab, rhomb, rhumb, ribby, ribes, robed, robes, robin, roble, robot, rubes, ruble, rubus, rugby, rumba, saber, sabir, sabra, sabre, scrub, shrub, slurb, sober, sorbs, suber, taber, tabor, throb, tribe, tuber, turbo, umber, umbra, unbar, urban, urbia, verbs, weber, yerba, zebra.

 

+4 letters: abaser, abater, abator, abhors, abider, abjure, aboard, aboral, aborts, abrade, abroad, abrupt, absorb, absurd, abuser, adsorb, adverb, aerobe, airbag, airbus, ambari, ambary, ambeer, ambers, ambery, ambler, arabic, arable, arbors, arbour, arbute, ardebs, arroba, auburn, backer, badder, badger, bagger, bailer, bailor, bairns, baiter, bakers, bakery, balder, balers, balker, baller, bander, banger, banker, banner, banter, barbal, barbed, barbel, barber, barbes, barbet, barbut, barded, bardes, bardic, barege, barely, barest, barfed, barfly, barged, bargee, barges, barhop, baring, barite, barium, barked, barker, barley, barlow, barman, barmen, barmie, barong, barons, barony, barque, barred, barrel, barren, barres, barret, barrio, barrow, barter, baryes, baryon, baryta, baryte, basher, baster, bather, batter, bawdry, bawler, bayard, bazaar, bazars, beaker, beards, bearer, beater, beaver, bedder, bedrid, bedrug, beeper, beezer, before, befret, beggar, begird, begirt, begrim, belfry, belier, belter, bemire, bender, berake, berate, bereft, berets, berime, berlin, bermes, bertha, berths, beryls, bestir, betray, better, bettor, bevors, beware, beworm, bewrap, bewray, bezoar, bharal, bibber, bicarb, bicker, bicorn, bicron, bidder, biders, biform, bigger, bikers, bilker, biller, binary, binder, binger, birded, birder, birdie, bireme, birkie, birled, birler, birles, birred, birses, births, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, bitter, blamer, blared, blares, blazer, blears, bleary, blower, blurbs, blurry, blurts, boards, boarts, boater, bobber, boiler, bolder, bolero, bolter, bomber, bonder, boners, bonier, bonzer, booger, booker, boomer, boozer, bopper, borage, borals, borane, borate, bordel, border, boreal, boreen, borers, boride, boring, borons, borrow, borsch, borsht, borzoi, bosker, bother, bourgs, bourne, bourns, bourse, bowers, bowery, bowler, bowyer, boxcar, boxers, boxier, boyard, boyars, braced, bracer, braces, brachs, bracts, braggy, brahma, braids, brails, brains, brainy, braise, braize, braked, brakes, branch, brands, brandy, branks, branny, brants, brashy, brasil, brassy, bratty, bravas, braved, braver, braves, bravos, brawer, brawls, brawly, brawns, brawny, brayed, brayer, brazas, brazed, brazen, brazer, brazes, brazil, breach, breads, bready, breaks, breams, breast, breath, bredes, breech, breeds, breeks, breeze, breezy, bregma, brents, breves, brevet, brewed, brewer, brewis, briard, briars, briary, bribed, bribee, briber, bribes, bricks, bricky, bridal, brides, bridge, bridle, briefs, briers, briery, bright, brills, brined, briner, brines, brings, brinks, briony, brisks, britts, broach, broads, broche, brocks, brogan, brogue, broils, broken, broker, brolly, bromal, bromes, bromic, bromid, bromin, bromos, bronco, broncs, bronze, bronzy, brooch, broods, broody, brooks, brooms, broomy, broses, broths, brothy, browed, browns, browny, browse, brucin, brughs, bruins, bruise, bruits, brulot, brumal, brumby, brumes, brunch, brunet, brunts, brushy, brutal, bruted, brutes, bryony, bucker, buckra, budder, budger, buffer, bugger, bugler, bulbar, bulger, bulgur, bummer, bumper, bunker, bunter, burans, burble, burbly, burbot, burden, burdie, bureau, burets, burgee, burger, burghs, burgle, burgoo, burial, buried, burier, buries, burins, burked, burker, burkes, burlap, burled, burler, burley, burned, burner, burnet, burnie, burped, burred, burrer, burros, burrow, bursae, bursal, bursar, bursas, burses, bursts, burton, busbar, busher, busier, busker, buster, butler, butter, buyers, buzzer, byrled, byrnie, byroad, byword, bywork, cabers, camber, carbon, carbos, carboy, caribe, carobs, cherub, cobber, cobras, comber, corban, corbel, corbie, corymb, crabby, crambe, crambo, crumbs, crumby, cubers, cumber, curbed, curber, cyborg, dabber, dauber, daubry, debark, debars, debris, debtor, desorb, dibber, disbar, dobber, dobras, dobros, dorbug, drably, dubber, dumber, durbar, embark, embars, embers, embrue, embryo, enrobe, erbium, exurbs, eyebar, fabler, fabric, ferbam, fibber, fibers, fibres, fibril, fibrin, forbad, forbid, forbye, foreby, gabber, gabbro, gambir, garbed, garble, gerbil, gibber, gibers, goober, grabby, graben, grebes, grubby, harbor, herbal, herbed, hereby, hombre, hubris, hybrid, hybris, imbark, imbrue, inborn, inbred, isobar, jabber, jabiru, jerboa, jibber, jibers, jobber, kabars, kebars, kerbed, krubis, krubut, labara, labors, labour, labret, labrum, lamber, libber, libers, librae, libras, limber, lobber, lubber, lubric, lumbar, lumber, marble, marbly, mbiras, member, midrib, mihrab, mimbar, mobber, morbid, nabber, nearby, nobler, number, obeyer, obvert, ombers, ombres, orbier, orbing, orbits, oribis, ourebi, prefab, probed, prober, probes, probit, rabato, rabats, rabbet, rabbin, rabbis, rabbit, rabble, rabies, ragbag, ramble, ratbag, rebait, rebars, rebate, rebato, rebbes, rebeck, rebecs, rebels, rebids, rebill, rebind, rebody, reboil, rebook, reboot, rebops, rebore, reborn, rebozo, rebred, rebuff, rebuke, rebury, rebuts, rebuys, recomb, redbay, redbud, redbug, redubs, rehabs, resorb, reverb, rhebok, rhombi, rhombs, rhumba, rhumbs, ribald, riband, ribbed, ribber, ribbon, ribeye, ribier, riblet, ribose, robalo, roband, robbed, robber, robbin, robing, robins, robles, robots, robust, rouble, rubace, rubati, rubato, rubbed, rubber, rubble, rubbly, rubied, rubier, rubies, rubigo, rubles, ruboff, rubout, rubric, rumbas, rumble, rumbly, rurban, sabers, sabirs, sabras, sabred, sabres, sambar, sambur, scarab, scribe, scrubs, serdab, shrubs, slurbs, sobber, sobers, somber, sombre, sorbed, sorbet, sorbic, strobe, subers, suborn, subpar, suburb, superb, tabard, tabers, tabors, tabour, tambur, terbia, terbic, throbs, timber, timbre, treble, trebly, tribal, tribes, trilby, tubber, tubers, turban, turbid, turbit, turbos, turbot, umbers, umbrae, umbral, umbras, unbars, unbear, unborn, unbred, uncurb, unrobe, upbear, upbore, urbane, urbias, verbal, verbid, vibrio, warble, webers, yabber, yerbas, zareba, zariba, zebras.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Rb


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

52 62

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

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

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#98

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0062

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

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

5268

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INDEX

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


  

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