BANC

  

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BANC

Definition: BANC

BANC

Noun

1. Alt. of Bank

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BANC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: BANC

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

BANC

EnglishBritish Association of Nature ConservationistsN/A

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

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Crosswords: BANC

English words defined with "BANC": Court in bancNisi 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).

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Modern Usage: BANC

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: BANC

DomainTitle

References

  • Ohio Valley Banc Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Albion Banc Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Banc Corporation (The): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Security Banc Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Southern Banc Company, Inc. (The): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • ALBION BANC CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • EMPIRE BANC CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • FARMERS NATIONAL BANC CORP.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • FC BANC CORP.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • FIRST CITIZENS BANC CORP: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: BANC

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Corporis banc speciem decorat mens alma Liceti. / Jo. Georg sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: BANC

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: BANC

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)90.91%10111,207
Noun (singular)9.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: BANC

CountryName
USA

Albion Banc Corp.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: BANC

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BANC

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

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.

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Modern Translations: BANC

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BANC

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: BANC

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BANC


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

42 41 4E 43

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)

-...    .-    -.    -.-.

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

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

01000010 01000001 01001110 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#78 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 004E 0043

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

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

36354837

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INDEX

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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