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Definition: BANC |
BANCNoun1. Alt. of Bank |
Date "BANC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| 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 |
BANC | English | British Association of Nature Conservationists | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BANC |
| English words defined with "BANC": Court in banc ♦ Nisi prius. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BANC": en banc. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BANC" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (bank), French (bank, bed, bench, box, form, frame, pew, school, seat), Irish (bank), Manx (bank), Occitan (bench), Romanian (anecdote, Baccara, bank, bed, crank, layer, reef, run, wisecrack), Romansch (bank), Scottish (a bank), Welsh (bank, hillock, mound). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Grand banc (1996) Maigret et l'homme du banc (1993) Deux filles sur un banc (1984) Au bout du bout du banc (1979) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Corporis banc speciem decorat mens alma Liceti. / Jo. Georg sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Romania | For FY-01, Romania is eligible for $40 million of GSM-102 available through the following banks: Romanian Commercial Bank, Romanian Bank for Development - Groupe Societe Generale, Banc Post, Romanian Eximbank, Raiffeisenbank Romania, Banca Romaneasca, RoBank, West Bank, and Bucharest-Frankfurt Bank. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BANC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "BANC" is used about 11 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) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Albion Banc Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "BANC": Court in banc ♦ In banc. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BANC": char-a-banc, Chars-a-banc. | |
| 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 |
first citizen banc | 259 |
banc of america | 166 |
banc one | 140 |
coastal banc | 111 |
banc of america securities | 85 |
the banc | 40 |
banc corp | 33 |
star banc | 19 |
banc home | 16 |
banc covest | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BANC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | é"¶è¡Œ (Bank, Banks). (various references) | |
French | cour en banc (court en banc). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ancbay.(various references) | |
Russian | банк (bank, banking-house, jackpot, kitty). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Судова Лава. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BANC": banco, bancos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BANC": charabanc. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BANC": absorbance, absorbances, absorbancies, absorbancy, charabancs, disturbance, disturbances, reprobance, reprobances. (additional references) | |
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"BANC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baance, baec, Baic, Bancau, banci, banka, banko, bauc, Benci, Bency, Bnaf, bnc, bnk, bocn, bonc, branc, branca, bunic, Uanc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-n" | |
-1 letter: ban, cab, can, nab. | |
-2 letters: ab, an, ba, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-n" | |
+1 letter: bacon, banco, cabin. | |
+2 letters: bacons, bancos, beacon, blanch, bonaci, branch, cabana, cabins, cabman, cabmen, carbon, confab, corban. | |
+3 letters: abscond, absence, albinic, baching, backing, balance, balcony, bannock, barchan, beacons, blacken, bonacis, botanic, bracing, bracken, branchy, brechan, cabanas, cabbing, cabezon, cabined, cabinet, cabling, carabin, carbarn, carbine, carbons, clubman, coalbin, confabs, corbans, corbina, cowbane, cutbank, finback, jacobin, minicab, runback, subclan, sunback, unbrace. | |
+4 letters: abducens, abducent, abducing, abeyance, abeyancy, abidance, abscisin, absconds, absences, ambiance, ambience, anabatic, anabolic, bacchant, backbend, backbone, backhand, backings, backland, backspin, bacterin, baculine, balanced, balancer, balances, banausic, bankcard, bannocks, barbican, barchans, barnacle, barranca, barranco, baryonic, batching, beaching, beaconed, bechance, billycan, binnacle, bioclean, blackens, blackfin, blacking, blanched, blancher, blanches, blatancy, boniface, botanica, bracings, brackens, braconid, brainiac, branched, branches, branchia, brechans, brisance, bronchia, buckbean, buoyance, buoyancy, cabernet, cabezone, cabezons, cabinets, cabining, cabochon, cabstand, cannabic, cannabin, cannabis, cannibal, carabine, carabins, carbarns, carbines, carbinol, carbonic, carbonyl, carnauba, cinnabar, claybank, clubhand, coalbins, coinable, corbinas, cornball, corybant, cowbanes, crabbing, cutbanks, dumbcane, finbacks, incubate, jacobins, lambency, minicabs, neckband, nonbasic, nonblack, publican, rabbinic, rebranch, runbacks, scabbing, scabland, snapback, subclans, unbacked, unbraced, unbraces, vibrance, vibrancy, wingback. | |
+5 letters: abducting, abduction, aberrance, aberrancy, abeyances, abidances, abiogenic, abjection, abscising, abscisins, absconded, absconder, abundance, aitchbone, albinotic, ambiances, ambiences, ambulance, anaerobic, antiblack, ascribing, bacchanal, bacchante, bacchants, backbench, backbends, backbones, backhands, backlands, backspins, backswing, bacterins, balancers, balancing, balconied, balconies, baldachin, balmacaan, bandicoot, bankcards, barbicans, barnacled, barnacles, baronetcy, barracoon, barrancas, barrancos, basilican, beaconing, becalming, becapping, bechanced, bechances, benchland, benchmark, biconcave, billycans, binnacles, binocular, blackened, blackener, blackfins, blackings, blackland, blackness, blanchers, blanching, bleaching, bonifaces, botanical, botanicas, bracingly, braconids, braincase, brainiacs, brainsick, branchiae, branchial, branchier, branching, branchlet, breaching, breakneck, brisances, broaching, brocading, bronchial, buccaneer, buckbeans, buoyances, caballing, cabbaging, cabernets, cabezones, cabinetry, cabochons, cabstands, cambering, canebrake, cannabins, cannibals, canoeable, cantabile, carabiner, carabines, carbamino, carbanion, carbinols, carbonade, carbonado, carbonara, carbonate, carbonize, carbonyls, carbuncle, carnaubas, celebrant, charabanc, chawbacon, chilblain, cinnabars, claybanks, cleanable, clubhands, cobalamin, cobaltine, combatant, combating, confabbed, connubial, constable, cornballs, cornbread, corybants, countable, countably, cranberry, danceable, dumbcanes, embracing, fabricant, greenback, hunchback, imbalance, incapable, incapably, incubated, incubates, incubator, incunable, incurable, incurably, jubilance, lubricant, monobasic, neckbands, nonblacks, noncombat, notchback, obeisance, obscurant, obstinacy, publicans, punchball, rebalance, scabbling, scablands, scannable, screwbean, scrubland, semblance, sibilance, snapbacks, spaceband, subagency, subbranch, subdeacon, subjacent, substance, thornback, unactable, unbalance, unbracing, vibrances, watchband, wingbacks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4E 43 |
| 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 01000001 01001110 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A N C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004E 0043 |
| 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)36354837 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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