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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 |
CTB | English | Catamaran turnover barge | Building & Civil Engineering, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Botswana | The CTB is responsible for the award of all government tenders. (references) |
Botswana | The tender process is open and lobbying of the CTB or its members is strictly prohibited. (references) | |
Botswana | The appeal of a CTB decision is possible only when evidence of irregularities in the tender process can be produced. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CTB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CTB" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | CTB International Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
ctb | 90 |
ctb mcgraw hill | 56 |
bank.com ctb | 18 |
ctb rev.gov.bc.ca | 17 |
bank ctb | 5 |
ctb lady luna | 5 |
ctb inc | 3 |
ctb mcgraw | 2 |
34 ctb | 2 |
ctb test | 2 |
cso ctb measurement result | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-t" | |
+2 letters: batch, bitch, botch, bract, butch, cubit. | |
+3 letters: abduct, abject, becket, biotic, bisect, bitchy, blotch, bobcat, botchy, bracts, bucket, bustic, cablet, cobalt, cobnut, combat, cubist, cubits, object, obtect, sacbut, tambac, terbic, tombac. | |
+4 letters: abbotcy, abducts, abiotic, abreact, acrobat, actable, albitic, baccate, backbit, backfit, backlit, backout, backset, barytic, batched, batcher, batches, bearcat, beckets, becrust, becurst, bedtick, benthic, bewitch, biontic, bioptic, biotech, biotics, biscuit, bisects, bitched, bitches, bittock, blotchy, bobcats, borscht, botanic, botched, botcher, botches, boycott, brachet, bracket, bracted, brocket, buckets, bustics, butcher, butches, buttock, butyric, cabaret, cabinet, cablets, cambist, catawba, catbird, catboat, citable, cobalts, cobnuts, cohabit, combats, combust, cubists, cubital, cutback, cutbank, fatback, hackbut, hebetic, iceboat, objects, outback, robotic, sacbuts, sackbut, setback, strobic, subcult, subduct, subject, subsect, tabetic, tambacs, taxicab, terebic, tieback, tobacco, tomback, tombacs, wetback. | |
| 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)43 54 42 |
| 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)01000011 01010100 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C T B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0054 0042 |
| 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)375436 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Company Usage | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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