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BSF

Specialty Definition: BSF

DomainDefinition

Space

Basics of Space Flight (this document). (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BSF

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

BSF

EnglishBorder Security ForcesN/A

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: BSF

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

India

The Associated Press reported that the BSF inspector-general apologized for the attack; the police investigation into the incident was ongoing at year's end. (references)

India

According to the CPJ, on May 10, 17 journalists were attacked by members of the Border Security Force (BSF). The attack by the BSF left 11 persons dead, 8 of them civilians, and 3 journalists were hospitalized. (references)

Human Rights

India

On April 14, four persons were arrested and taken away by BSF officers in Churachandpur district. (references)

Trade

Israel

The BSF has a website at www.bsf.org.il. (references)

Israel

The BSF supports cooperative research projects of mutual interest to the U.S. and Israel, concerned with science and technology for peaceful purposes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BSF

"BSF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BSF" 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 (proper)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BSF

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

bsf

52

bsf international

23

bsf example tutorial

6

bsf java new

4

bsf tool

3

bsf qc.com

2

bible bsf study

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

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Anagrams: BSF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-f-s"
 

+1 letter: fibs, fobs, fubs.

 

+2 letters: baffs, barfs, beefs, biffs, boffs, buffs, bumfs, flabs, flubs, forbs, fubsy.

 

+3 letters: basify, befits, befogs, bluffs, boffos, briefs, buffos, fables, fibers, fibres, flybys, sobful, subfix.

 

+4 letters: baffies, baffles, bagfuls, bagsful, bashful, batfish, bedfast, befalls, beflags, befleas, befools, befouls, befrets, begulfs, beliefs, bifaces, biffies, biffins, boffins, bouffes, bowfins, boxfish, boxfuls, buffers, buffets, confabs, fablers, fabrics, ferbams, fibbers, fibrils, fibrins, fibrous, fibulas, fimbles, flambes, flyboys, fogbows, foibles, forbids, frisbee, fubsier, fumbles, furbish, fusible, fusibly, gabfest, prefabs, rebuffs, ruboffs, subfile, subfusc, tubfuls.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BSF


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

42 53 46

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 01010011 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#83 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0053 0046

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

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

365340

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Abbreviations
5. Acronyms
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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