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BSL

Specialty Definition: BSL

DomainDefinition

Computing

BSL A variant of IBM's PL/S systems language. Versions: BSL1, BSL2. (1998-06-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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"BSL" is a common misspelling or typo for: bal, ball, basal, basil, bell, bill, boll, bull.


Crosswords: BSL

Specialty definitions using "BSL": TLAs. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BSL

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

BSL

EnglishBasic systems languageN/A

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

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Commercial Usage: BSL

DomainTitle

Books

  • SIGN with your BABY Complete Learning Kit - UK EDITION (Book, Training Video, Quick Reference Guide & BSL Booklet Combination) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: BSL

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Japan

The new BSL should make it easier to sell U.S. residential building products in Japan. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

The United States has asked the Japanese government to review certain provisions of the BSL which are overly prescriptive or inconsistent, including fire test requirements and restrictions on the construction of special buildings. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: BSL

"BSL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.06% of the time. "BSL" is used about 265 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)89.06%23619,516
Noun (singular)10.57%2865,706
Noun (common)0.38%1339,140
                    Total100.00%265N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: BSL

CountryName
India

BSL Ltd.

 (more examples...)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BSL

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

bsl

49

4 bsl

10

bsl 3

5

block bsl from

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: BSL

Derivations

Words containing "BSL": bobsled, bobsledded, bobsledder, bobsledders, bobsledding, bobsleddings, bobsleds. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BSL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-l-s"
 

+1 letter: albs, bals, bels, labs, libs, lobs, slab, slob, slub.

 

+2 letters: ables, albas, baals, bails, balas, balds, bales, balks, balls, balms, balsa, basal, basil, bawls, bells, belts, biles, bilks, bills, birls, blabs, blahs, blams, blase, blast, blats, blaws, blebs, bless, blest, blets, blips, bliss, blobs, blocs, blots, blows, blubs, blues, blurs, blush, boils, bolas, bolds, boles, bolls, bolos, bolts, bolus, bowls, buhls, bulbs, bulks, bulls, burls, byrls, clubs, flabs, flubs, globs, lambs, limbs, lobes, lobos, lubes, obols, plebs, sable, sibyl, slabs, slobs, slubs, slurb.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BSL


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

42 53 4C

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 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#83 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0053 004C

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

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

365346

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Company Usage
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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