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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Bt |
Agriculture | Bacillus thuringiensis is a naturally occurring soil bacterium commonly known as Bt. It is a biological pesticide (biopesticide) used as a spray or dust and also in several genetically engineered plants. The plants have a gene from Bt inserted into their own genetic material. This new gene produces a natural protein that kills insects after the protein is ingested. The toxins are specific to a small subset of insects. Cotton has been genetically altered to control the tobacco budworm, bollworm and pink bollworm. Potatoes have been altered to control the Colorado potato beetle. A new hybrid of Bt corn, altered to be resistant to the European corn borer, became available for the 1997 planting season. Bt degrades rapidly to non-toxic compounds. It is not known to present any human or animal hazards. However, recent reports suggest that it may harm certain beneficial insects, such as monarch butterflies. Pest resistance management (PRM) plans are required by the Environmental Protection Agency as part of the registration. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A sporulating bacterium which produces a toxin that destroys the insect gut and kills the pests. When an insect eats vegetation containing the spores, it remains alive for several days, but its gut becomes paralyzed and it cannot eat. Though death does not occur as quickly as in the case of chemical insecticides, intoxication by Bt causes a quick paralysis which halts insect feeding and thus prevents further economic loss soon after treatment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviaton Bt) is the holder of a title of honor (a baronetcy) invented by King James I in 1611 to raise funds. It is a hereditary title, but is not a peerage title.A baronet is entitled to be knighted, and to have his eldest son that was born in wedlock knighted when the latter reaches the age of maturity.These rights, however, were questioned by kings beginning with George IV, who held that the past Sovereigns who created baronetcies could not bind future Sovereigns. The last recorded instances of these rights being exercised are in the 19th century.
Baronetcies, with a few exceptions, can only be inherited by, or inherited through, males.
Baronet is not a peerage title and does not disqualify the holder from standing for election to the British House of Commons. However since 1999 neither do hereditary peerages, so the distinction has become historical. British Baronets can be found in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.
Some notable baronets:
- Sir George Cayley (Aviation pioneer)
- Sir Humphry Davy (Chemist)
- Sir John Parnell (Politician)
- Sir Robert Peel (Politician)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Baronet."
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BT is the stage name of musician Brian Transeau.Born in Maryland, and classically trained from the age of thirteen, he attended Berklee School of Music in Boston for one year before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles, then back to Washington, DC. For some reason Transeau's music was not very well received in the United States during the early 1990s, however he moved temporarily to Europe where his music was discovered by Sasha, a British DJ who introduced BT's music into the club circuit. Instantly popular, BT's 1996 album Ima helped shape the future of the burgeoning progressive house scene as it merged with, and later came to define, the trance music style. However, unlike so many artists of the trance genre, BT has lost neither his momentum nor his edge. While Ima was comprised solely of the "progressive" sound, 1997's ESCM was more experimental (although it still produced several big records for the Electronic dance music scene). BT's 1999 album Movement in Still Life continued his experimentation outside of the trance genre he helped to define, though an interesting dichotomy emerged between his more adventurous work and the more structured, commercially viable tracks.
In recent years he has also moved into film scoring including Go! (1999), Under Suspicion (2000), Driven (2001) and The Fast and the Furious (2001).
Also of interesting note, unlike many EDM artists, Transeau frequently performs his music live on-stage.
Singles:
Albums:
- "Moment of Truth" (1993)
- "Relativity" (1993)
- "Embracing the Sunshine"
- "Loving You More" featuring Vincent Covello (1995)
- "Blue Skies" featuring Tori Amos (1996)
- "Divinity" (1996)
- "Quark" (1997)
- "Flaming June" (1997)
- "Love, Peace & Grease" (1997)
- "Remember" (1997)
- "Shineaway" (1997)
- "Believer" (1999)
- "Godspeed" (1999)
- "Mercury and Solace" (1999)
- "Fibonacci Sequence" (2000)
- "Never Gonna Come Back Down" (2000)
- "Dreaming" (2000)
Remixes:
- Ima (1996)
- ESCM (1997)
- Movement in Still Life (2000)
- R&R (Rare & Remixed) (2001) - A collection of BT's remix work.
- 10 Years in the Life (2003) - "Best of" album.
Film scores:
- Tori Amos, "Talula" (1996)
- Tori Amos, "Amos Putting the Damage On" (1997)
- B-Tribe, "Nanita-A Spanish Lullaby"
- Cabana, "Bailando Con Lobos"
- Dina Carrol, "Run To You" (1997)
- Crystal Method, "Keep Hope Alive" (1997)
- Deep Dish, "Stranded" (1997)
- Depeche Mode, "It's No Good" (1997)
- DJ Rap, "Bad Girl" (1998)
- Paul Van Dyk, "Forbidden Fruit" (1996)
- Gipsy Kings, "La Rumba De Nicolas" (1996)
- Grace, "It's Not Over Yet"
- Lenny Kravitz, "If You Can't Say No" (1998)
- Sarah McLachlan, "I Love You" (1999)
- Madonna, "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" (1998)
- Billie Ray Martin, "Imitation of Life/Running Around Town" (1996)
- Billie Ray Martin, "Space Oasis"
- Mike Oldfield, "Let There Be Light"
- Diana Ross, "Take Me Higher"
- Seal, "I'm Alive"
- Shiva, "Freedom"
- Wild Colour, "Dreams"
Sample CDs:
- Go! (1999)
- Under Suspicion (2000)
- Driven (2001)
- The Fast and the Furious (2001)
More information is available at http://www.btmusic.com
- BT - Breakz from the Nu Skool (2002)
- BT - Twisted Textures (2002)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brian Transeau."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
BT Group plc (commonly known as 'British Telecom' or BT) is the privatised former British state telecommunications operator.
History of BT
- private National Telephone Company
- absorbs other private telcos
- nationalised in 1912 as part of the General Post Office
- GPO broken up into British Telecom and Post Office
- privatised again as British Telecommunications plc
- BT split into group companies, new holding company name
- mmO2 demerged
BT as it is today
BT owns and runs the telephone exchanges and local loop connections for the vast majority of British fixed-line telephones.
As the dominant operator in British telecommunications, BT's businesses are ostensibly operated under special government regulation by the British telecoms regulator Oftel.
The collapse of the alternative telco market in Britain has had adverse consequences for Oftel's strategy for telecoms deregulation in the UK, and leaves BT as the unchallenged dominant operator in ADSL connections, as well as traditional fixed-line telephony. As of February 2002, just 200 local loop connections have been 'unbundled' from BT operation under local loop unbundling.
BT Group has these main businesses:
The former mobile telecommunications business of BT ("BT Cellnet") has now been demerged into a separate business named "mmO2". This was a move designed to remove the burden of debt with which the company had encumbered itself, much of which was acquired during the bidding round for the 3rd generation mobile telephony (commonly known as 3G) licenses.
- BT Global Services: business services and solutions (formerly BT Ignite)
- BT Openworld: retail Internet
- BT Retail: retail telecoms
- BT Wholesale: wholesale telecoms network
- BT exact: Research and Development, and consultancy
See also:
- Local loop unbundling, System X
BT's "Web patent"
BT has a controversial patent, US patent number 4873662, which it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of hyperlinks on the World Wide Web. Opponents of BT's claims hold that the patent is not valid, due to prior art by both Douglas Englebart and Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu. On February 11, 2002, a court case relating to BT's claims started in a US federal court against Prodigy Communications Corporation. Whilst the UK license has long since expired, the US patent is not due to expire until 2006.
A U.S. court ruled on August 22, 2002 that the BT patent is not applicable to Web technology, and granted Prodigy's request for summary judgment.
See also
- Firebird, Rainbird, UK topics
External links
- BBC story on BT's claimed 'web patent'
- link to BT's patent text at USPTO
- Court judgment against BT
- http://www.groupbt.com/
- http://www.o2.com/
- BT's 'Telecommunications History' webpage
- Complaint against BT by Freeserve
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "British Telecom."
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BT may stand for:
- Bacillus thuringiensis, see Bt
- Bhutan (ISO country code)
- Bodensee-Toggenburg-Bahn, the Swiss railway company
- Brian Transeau, the Dance music artist BT
- British Telecom
- Bt toxin
- B.T, the Danish tabloid newspaper
- BT-2, BT-5, BT-7, the Soviet fast tanks
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BT."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bt is short for Bacillus thuringiensis, a soil bacterium that produces poisons that are toxic to a range of insects. There are several strains of Bt, which are usually quite specific as to the insect they target. Bt is also basically non-toxic to humans. It is therefore often used as a pest control agent, especially in organic farming where the use of chemical pesticides is verboten.
- Alternate uses: see Bt (disambiguation)
Recently several crops (including corn and potato) have been genetically modified to produce Bt poison proteins. This has generated some controversy, especially regarding the ill effects Bt corn was purported to have on the monarch butterfly.
See also: pesticide, organic farming, genetically modified organism
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bt."
| 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 |
BT | Danish | Kongeriget Bhutan | Geography |
BT | Dutch | Koninkrijk Bhutan | Geography |
BT | English | Boyle-Temperature | N/A |
BT | Finnish | Bhutanin kuningaskunta | Geography |
BT | French | Budget total réestimé | Computing |
BT | German | Königreich Bhutan | Geography |
BT | Greek | Μπουτάν | Geography |
BT | Italian | Regno del Bhutan | Geography |
BT | Portuguese | Butão | Geography |
BT | Spanish | Bután | Geography |
BT | Swedish | Konungariket Bhutan | Geography |
| Bt. | English | Baronet | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BT |
| Specialty definitions using "BT": Bacillus thuringiensis, Biopesticide, British Telecom, Bt corn, Bt gene, Bt maize, Bt protein ♦ digital private networks signaling system, digital private networks signalling system ♦ genetically engineered Bt corn, Genetically Modified Organisms ♦ integrated digital access ♦ service provider, SuperJanet. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sir Humphry Davy, Bt., P.R.S. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Life of Sir John Bland-Sutton, Bt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "BT tower" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "BT tower London, shot from some new UCL accomodation nearby. ." | "Hot Line" by Craig Young Commentary: "This is an old BT 300 type telephone. Original red ones are becoming rare." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | ISDN is widely available from a number of providers, BT being the largest. (references) | |
BT provides data network services through Concert, its managing global network. (references) | ||
BT no longer attempts to service all the needs of its customers from its own in-house resources. (references) | ||
Economic History | Uk | Most observers agree that the inertia of BT and the inability of the regulator OFTEL to force the pace have caused the delay in local loop unbundling. (references) |
Ireland | However, some degree of centralization, most likely in terms of technology/brands/suppliers, is anticipated over time as their respective parent organizations, Vodafone and BT, endeavor to achieve economies of scale. (references) | |
Ireland | The telecommunications sector in Ireland has seen major developments since full liberalization in December 1998. There is strong competition in the fixed line segment with BT Esat, MCI Worldcom, and Nevada competing to take market share from Eircom. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRIA | Austria has gone even further than its EU partners: Novartis corn and Monsanto BT corn, approved by the European Commission, are not permitted in Austria. (references) |
Travel | Ireland | A wide range of business services including point-to-multipoint data transmission, computer-to-computer file transfer networking, fax, telex, and video communications are offered by Eircom plc and BT Esat. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 74.48% of the time. "BT" is used about 1,049 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) | 74.48% | 781 | 8,852 |
| Noun (common) | 25.52% | 268 | 17,996 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,049 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | BT Australian Equity Management Limited | Sweden | BT Industries AB |
| Switzerland | BT & T Time A.G. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "BT": Bt corn ♦ Bt gene ♦ Bt maize ♦ Bt plant ♦ Bt protein ♦ genetically engineered Bt corn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BT": bt-du, bt-specific, bt-written. | |
Ending with "BT": ex-bt, Non-bt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
bt | 1,486 | bt online | 28 |
bt broadband | 147 | bt ignite | 28 |
bt internet | 143 | bt uk | 27 |
848 bt | 134 | 878 bt driver | 27 |
878 bt | 127 | 878 bt ham radio | 26 |
bt speedway | 127 | bt lyrics | 24 |
bt directory enquiries | 72 | 848 bt driver xp | 23 |
bt cellnet | 68 | bt phone | 19 |
bt cellular phone | 66 | bt index stock | 18 |
bt click | 56 | bt bt.com online | 15 |
bt openworld | 56 | bt group | 15 |
bt stock | 48 | bt h22u | 14 |
americanexpress.com bt | 44 | bt cruiser | 14 |
848 bt driver | 43 | bt music | 14 |
bt directory | 39 | 878 bt driver window xp | 14 |
bt phone book | 31 | bt torrent | 13 |
bt directory phone | 31 | bt somnambulist | 13 |
bt commercial | 30 | 100 browning bt | 13 |
bt corn | 29 | 878 bt para xp | 13 |
apple bt garamond | 29 | bt 905 | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), Bacillus thuringiensis (Bacillus thuringiensis). (various references) | |
French | zone franc (french franc zone BT), usure variable (varying degrees of wear BT), superposition d'impôts (snowballing of taxes BT), soumis à l'impôt (liable for tax BT), redevable de l'impôt (liable for tax BT), protéine Bt (Bt protein), plante Bt (Bt plant), maïs Bt (Bt corn, Bt maize, genetically engineered Bt corn), imposition forfaitaire BT (empirical tax assessment BT), imposable (liable for tax BT), gène Bt (Bt gene). (various references) | |
Italian | Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), Bacillus thuringiensis (Bacillus thuringiensis). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | btay.(various references) | |
Spanish | planta Bt (Bt plant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BT": debt, doubt, misdoubt, redoubt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BT": bobtail, bobtailed, bobtailing, bobtails, codebtor, codebtors, debtless, debtor, debtors, debts, doubtable, doubted, doubter, doubters, doubtful, doubtfully, doubtfulness, doubtfulnesses, doubting, doubtingly, doubtless, doubtlessly, doubtlessness, doubtlessnesses, doubts, indebted, indebtedness, indebtednesses, misdoubted, misdoubting, misdoubts, obtain, obtainabilities, obtainability, obtainable, obtained, obtainer, obtainers, obtaining, obtainment, obtainments, obtains, obtect, obtected, obtest, obtested, obtesting, obtests, obtrude, obtruded, obtruder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-t" | |
+1 letter: bat, bet, bit, bot, but, tab, tub. | |
+2 letters: abet, abut, baht, bait, bast, bate, bath, bats, batt, beat, beet, belt, bent, best, beta, beth, bets, bhut, bint, bite, bits, bitt, blat, blet, blot, boat, bolt, boot, bort, bota, both, bots, bott, bout, brat, brit, brut, bunt, bust, bute, buts, butt, byte, debt, obit, stab, stob, stub, tabs, tabu, toby, tomb, tuba, tube, tubs. | |
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