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BLOX

"BLOX" is a common misspelling or typo for: blob, bloc, block, blocks, blot, blow, box.

 

Specialty Definition: BLOX

DomainDefinition

Computing

BLOX A visual language. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BLOX

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

Blox

EnglishBlock order exposure systemN/A

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

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Commercial Usage: BLOX

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: BLOX
 

"Marble Blox 3" by Tina Lorien
Commentary: "Marble."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: BLOX

"BLOX" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BLOX" is used about 3 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 (singular)66.67%2245,945
Unclassified Items33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLOX

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

blox

20

blox knox

9

zoids blox

7

blox ideal

6

blox polar

5

blox knox recipe

3

blox valley

3

blox candy

2

blox mega

2

blox polar snow

2

blox ice

2

arcade blox

2

blox contrac

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BLOX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-l-o-x"

-1 letter: box, lob, lox.

-2 letters: bo, lo, ox.

 Words containing the letters "b-l-o-x"
 

+2 letters: bollix, bollox, boxful.

 

+3 letters: boxfuls, boxhaul, boxlike, buxomly, coalbox, hellbox, lockbox, mailbox, oxblood, pillbox, saltbox, toolbox.

 

+4 letters: bollixed, bollixes, bolloxed, bolloxes, boxhauls, carboxyl, exorable, oxbloods, oxidable.

 

+5 letters: bollixing, bolloxing, boxhauled, carboxyls, coalboxes, hellboxes, lockboxes, mailboxes, pillboxes, saltboxes, toolboxes.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: BLOX


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

42 4C 4F 58

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

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

=

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 01001100 01001111 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

B L O X

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 004F 0058

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

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

36464958

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Digital Art
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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