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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | BCL The successor to Atlas Commercial Language. ["The Provisional BCL Manual", D. Hendry, U London 1966]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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 |
BCL | English | Branch on C latch instruction | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BCL |
| Specialty definitions using "BCL": TLAs. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | On May 20, activists from the ruling party student front, the BCL, assaulted two Dhaka University correspondents and threatened to kill one of them. (references) |
Economic History | Luxembourg | The BCL is a component in the European Central Bank Mechanism (ECBM). (references) |
Luxembourg | The BCL started its activities on January 1, 1999 as a member of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | Police have charged 22 persons in connection with the BCL killings, 3 of whom are in custody. (references) |
Bangladesh | In July 2000, gunmen fired at a van in Chittagong, killing eight persons, including six members of the BCL. The Government accused the ICS of being responsible for the attack. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Authorities shut down Chittagong University after a gun battle between activists of BCL and the Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (a member of the four-party alliance), left 20 persons injured on August 13. On August 11, the ICS began enforcing an indefinite strike on campus to pressure university authorities to return dormitories to students ousted by BCL activists during Awami League rule and to sweep the campus for illegal weapons. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BCL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "BCL" is used about 14 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) | 71.43% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (common) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BCL": BCL-1, bcl-2, bcl-2, bcl-2 antisense oligodeoxynucleotide G3139. | |
Containing "BCL": Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bcl drake | 35 | bcl download drake | 3 |
bcl | 28 | bcl chinese | 3 |
bcl magellan | 17 | bcl freebird | 3 |
bcl 2 | 10 | bcl concept | 3 |
bcl jade | 10 | 6 bcl drake | 3 |
5.0 bcl drake | 7 | 2000 bcl tecsun | 2 |
bcl computer | 6 | 6 bcl | 2 |
6 bcl drake full | 5 | 2 bcl bh3 domain structure | 2 |
bcl technology | 4 | 5 bcl drake | 2 |
bcl magnetics | 4 | bcl content web | 2 |
bcl drake v5.0 | 3 | 2 antisense bcl genasense oligonucleotide | 2 |
6.0 bcl drake | 3 | 5 bcl magellan | 2 |
bcl easypdf | 3 | bcl lndia.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BCL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | gène PRAD1 (Bcl-1 gene), gène Bcl-2 (Bcl-2 gene), gène Bcl-1 (Bcl-1 gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | gene PRAD1 (Bcl-1 gene, PRAD1 gene), gene Bcl-2 (Bcl-2 gene), gene Bcl-1 (Bcl-1 gene, PRAD1 gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | bclay gen PRAD1 (Bcl-1 gene, PRAD1 gene), gen Bcl-2 (Bcl-2 gene), gen Bcl-1 (Bcl-1 gene, PRAD1 gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "BCL": subclan, subclans, subclass, subclassed, subclasses, subclassification, subclassifications, subclassified, subclassifies, subclassify, subclassifying, subclassing, subclavian, subclavians, subclerk, subclerks, subclimax, subclimaxes, subclinical, subclinically, subcluster, subclusters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-l" | |
+1 letter: bloc, club. | |
+2 letters: belch, black, block, blocs, cabal, cable, celeb, cibol, climb, clomb, clubs, coble. | |
+3 letters: abulic, bacula, becalm, beclog, beylic, blacks, blanch, bleach, blench, blocks, blocky, blotch, boucle, buccal, buckle, cabala, cabals, cabled, cables, cablet, celebs, cibols, climbs, clubby, cobalt, cobble, cobles, colobi, corbel, cymbal, limbic, lubric, public. | |
+4 letters: aboulic, actable, albinic, albitic, alembic, bacalao, bacilli, backlit, backlog, baculum, balance, balcony, baldric, bascule, basilic, becalms, bechalk, beclasp, becloak, beclogs, becloud, beclown, becrawl, befleck, belaced, belched, belcher, belches, beylics, bicolor, bicycle, bifocal, binocle, blacked, blacken, blacker, blackly, blocked, blocker, blotchy, blucher, bluecap, boucles, brickle, bricole, brocoli, buckled, buckler, buckles, bucolic, bulimic, bullace, bullock, cabalas, cabbala, cabildo, cablets, cabling, caliber, calibre, callboy, cambial, capable, capably, cembali, cembalo, chablis, chimbly, ciboule, citable, clabber, clamber, climbed, climber, clobber, clubbed, clubber, clubman, clubmen, clumber, coalbin, coalbox, cobalts, cobbled, cobbler, cobbles, codable, colobus, corbeil, corbels, coulomb, cowbell, crumble, crumbly, cubical, cubicle, cubicly, cubital, curable, curably, cymbals, debacle, decibel, ecbolic, embolic, limbeck, lockbox, niblick, placebo, plumbic, publics, scabble, scribal, scumble, sibylic, subcell, subclan, subcool, subcult, unblock, upclimb, vocable, vocably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 43 4C |
| 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 01000011 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B C L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0043 004C |
| 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)363746 |
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