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DBL

Abbreviations & Acronyms: DBL

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

DBL

EnglishDanish Bilharziasis LaboratoryN/A

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

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Commercial Usage: DBL

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Trail Blazer/One Eyes Jacks Dbl Feat. (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

  • Overhead Projector Closed Dbl Head 2200lumens Enxlamp 3yr Warrant (reference)

  • Belkin 6FT EXT SCSI Peripheral Cent50M/Cent50M 38 Cond DBl Sh (reference)

  • 120MM CASE FAN W/ HEAT-SENSOR DBL BALL BEARING (reference)

  • Molex Premise Networks Usoii DBl Port Fascia-Ald 25/Bg For Usoii Ksj Keystone Jack Inserts (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: DBL

"DBL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DBL" is used about 4 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DBL

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

dbl

92

dbl realtor

50

dbl distributing

40

dbl realty

14

dbl estate real

11

dbl distributor

10

dbl distribution

6

dbl distributing inc

6

dbl electronics

5

adidas attitude dbl

5

dbl new york

3

dbl pasadena

3

dbl feliz los

3

air d dbl go man nike zoom

3

dbl pasadena realtor

2

dbl fist

2

dbl properties

2

day.com dbl

2

dbl distributers

2

400 dbl double switch throw throw transfer

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

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Derivations: DBL

Derivations

Words containing "DBL": coldblood, coldblooded, handblown, mindblower, mindblowers, roadblock, roadblocked, roadblocking, roadblocks, sandblast, sandblasted, sandblaster, sandblasters, sandblasting, sandblasts, shadblow, shadblows, windblast, windblasts, windblown, woodblock, woodblocks. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DBL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-d-l"
 

+1 letter: bald, bled, bold.

 

+2 letters: badly, balds, baldy, baled, bedel, bield, blade, bland, bleed, blend, blind, blond, blood, blued, bolds, build, dobla, lobed, lubed.

 

+3 letters: albedo, ambled, bailed, balded, balder, baldly, balked, ballad, balled, bawled, beadle, bedell, bedels, bedlam, beglad, beheld, behold, belady, belaud, beldam, belied, belled, belted, bields, bifold, bilged, bilked, billed, bindle, birled, bladed, blades, blamed, blared, blawed, blazed, bleeds, blende, blends, blinds, blonde, blonds, bloods, bloody, blowed, blumed, bodily, boiled, bolder, boldly, bolide, bolled, bolted, boodle, bordel, bowled, bridal, bridle, buddle, bugled, builds, bulbed, bulged, bulked, bulled, bundle, burled, butled, byrled, cabled, dabble, dibble, diobol, djebel, doable, doblas, doblon, double, doubly, drably, dumbly, dyable, edible, fabled, gabled, globed, kobold, lambda, lambed, libido, limbed, lobbed, mobled, ribald, tabled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DBL


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

44 42 4C

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

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

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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)

01000100 01000010 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#66 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0042 004C

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

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

383646

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Abbreviations
5. Acronyms
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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