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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Bz |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
BZ may stand for:
- 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, an odorless military incapacitating agent
- Belize (ISO country code)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BZ."
| 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 |
BZ | Dutch | (Ministerie/Departement van)Buitenlandse Zaken | Public Administration, Law |
bz | English | Benzoyl | Chemistry |
Bz | German | Benzol | Chemistry |
BZ | Greek | Μπελίζε· Μπελίζ | Geography |
BZ | Spanish | Belice | Geography |
| Bz. | English | Buzzer | Electrical Engineering, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BZ |
| Non-English Usage: "BZ" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (Belize). |
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| "Bz" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Doutone / middle aged female. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "BZ" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "BZ" is used about 7 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 (singular) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bz | 157 | bz surfboard | 4 |
bz bodyboards | 53 | bz pl sa wbk | 4 |
berlin bz | 22 | bz redlightmail.com | 3 |
bz body boards | 16 | 2rw822 a2 bz | 3 |
bz power | 16 | bz production | 3 |
bz canada | 15 | boards bz surf | 3 |
bz surf board | 15 | bz communitybank | 3 |
bz boards | 13 | bz fashions | 3 |
bz flag | 11 | 35 bz zis | 2 |
bz sa wbk | 10 | board body bz | 2 |
bz q | 8 | bz domain | 2 |
bo bz chat home page people | 7 | bodyboarding bz | 2 |
bz bodyboard | 7 | bz power.com | 2 |
bz heel | 6 | bz hall | 2 |
berlin.de bz | 5 | bz surf | 2 |
bz product | 5 | 2bz.com bz | 2 |
auf bz draht | 4 | bz montana | 2 |
boards boogie bz | 4 | bz sas.com | 2 |
bz wbk | 4 | actor bu bz entertainment | 2 |
bz motor | 4 | bz xajh.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "BZ": subzero, subzone, subzones. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-z" | |
+1 letter: biz. | |
+2 letters: bize, bozo, buzz, zebu. | |
+3 letters: abuzz, baiza, baize, bazar, bazoo, bezel, bezil, bizes, blaze, blitz, bonze, booze, boozy, bortz, bozos, braza, braze, zebec, zebra, zebus, zibet, zineb, zombi. | |
+4 letters: ablaze, baizas, baizes, banzai, bazaar, bazars, bazoos, beezer, begaze, benzal, benzin, benzol, benzyl, bezant, bezazz, bezels, bezils, bezoar, bizone, bizzes, blazed, blazer, blazes, blazon, blintz, blowzy, bonzer, bonzes, boozed, boozer, boozes, borzoi, braize, brazas, brazed, brazen, brazer, brazes, brazil, breeze, breezy, bronze, bronzy, buzuki, buzzed, buzzer, buzzes, byzant, gazabo, gazebo, kibitz, rebozo, zareba, zariba, zebeck, zebecs, zebras, zibeth, zibets, zinebs, zombie, zombis. | |
| 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 5A |
| 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 01011010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B Z |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 005A |
| 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)3660 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Digital Art 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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