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| 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 |
BDF | English | Bitmap Description / Display Format | Computer - (Adobe, Fonts) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Belize | The BDF, currently under the command of Brig. (references) |
Botswana | The BDF is a capable and well-disciplined military force. (references) | |
Botswana | The BDF was formed in 1977 and has approximately 8,000 members. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belize | In response, the police and members of the BDF attempted to clear the roadway. (references) |
Barbados | A joint unit with the BDF also was active during the year, including during the annual "Crop Over" carnival period. (references) | |
Belize | On November 22, soldiers from the BDF shot and killed three Guatemalans in the "adjacency zone" along the border with Guatemala. (references) | |
Political Economy | Belize | Both the police and the BDF report to the Minister of National Security and are responsible to and controlled by civilian authorities. (references) |
Barbados | The small volunteer Barbados Defense Force (BDF) is responsible for national security and can be employed to maintain public order in times of crisis, emergency, or other specific need; the BDF supported the police during the year. (references) | |
Women | Botswana | In 2000 Parliament passed a resolution calling for young women to be allowed to serve in the BDF "as soon as practicable." The Government and interested NGO's meet regularly to implement the long-term plan of action described in the National Policy on Women. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BDF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BDF" is used about 6 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) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
bdf | 33 |
bdf presentations.com | 6 |
auction bdf | 5 |
bdf font | 4 |
bdf dae stiff | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-f" | |
+2 letters: bifid. | |
+3 letters: baffed, barfed, beefed, biffed, bifold, boffed, buffed, fabled, fibbed, fobbed, forbad, forbid, fubbed, webfed. | |
+4 letters: abfarad, baffled, bedfast, bedwarf, bifidly, bluffed, briefed, debrief, fadable, fatbird, feedbag, feedbox, fibered, fibroid, flatbed, flubbed, flubdub, forbade, forbids, forbode, fumbled. | |
+5 letters: abfarads, basified, bedeafen, bedframe, bedwarfs, beefwood, befitted, befleaed, befogged, befooled, befouled, befriend, befuddle, begulfed, belfried, bifidity, biforked, biformed, billfold, birdfarm, bloodfin, bodysurf, boldface, buffered, buffeted, debriefs, doubtful, fahlband, fatbirds, feedable, feedback, feedbags, fibroids, findable, firebird, flambeed, flatbeds, flubdubs, fogbound, foldable, foldboat, forbidal, forboded, forbodes, fordable, forebode, forebody, fribbled, furibund, rebuffed, subfield, subfluid, surfbird. | |
| 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)42 44 46 |
| 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 01000100 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B D F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0044 0046 |
| 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)363840 |
| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Abbreviations | 5. Acronyms 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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