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EBV

Definition: EBV

EBV

Noun

1. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis; associated with specific cancers in Africa and China.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"EBV" is a common misspelling or typo for: Be, Bed, Beg, Bevy, Ebb, Eva, Eve.



Specialty Definitions: EBV

DomainDefinitions

Health

A DNA virus of the herpes group discovered in cultures of Burkitt's lymphoma cells. EBV is the cause of infectious mononucleosis, and it has an integration site on human chromosome 14. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: EBV

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

EBV

EnglishEstimated Breeding ValveFood & Agriculture

EBV

GermanEpstein-Barr-VirusMedicine

EBV

ItalianVirus di Epstein-BarrN/A

EBV

PortugueseVĂ­rus Epstein BarrMedicine

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

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Synonym: EBV

Synonym: Epstein-Barr virus (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Epstein-Barr virus (medicine), estimated breeding value (biology & biotechnology), Estimated Breeding Valve (food & agriculture).

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Crosswords: EBV

Specialty definitions using "EBV": Lymphoma, AIDS-Related. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: EBV

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

It now seems clear that CFS cannot be caused exclusively by EBV or by any single recognized infectious disease agent. (references)

EBV was initially considered the most likely candidate as the causative agent in CFS. More recent studies make it clear that many CFS cases have no association with EBV infection. (references)

CDC's four-city surveillance study found no association between CFS and infection by a wide variety of human pathogens, including EBV, human retroviruses, human herpesvirus 6, enteroviruses, rubella, Candida albicans, and more recently bornaviruses and Mycoplasma. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: EBV

"EBV" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EBV" is used about 2 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)100%2245,945

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

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Expression: EBV

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "EBV": ebv-immortalized.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EBV

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

ebv

85

ebv virus

12

ebv treatment

4

ebv symptom

2

ebv elektronik

2

ebv igg

2

chronic ebv

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

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Modern Translations: EBV

Language Translations for "ebv"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ebvay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: EBV

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-v"

-1 letter: be.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-v"
 

+1 letter: bevy, verb, vibe.

 

+2 letters: above, bevel, bevor, brave, breve, verbs, vibes.

 

+3 letters: aboves, adverb, beaver, beeves, behave, behove, belive, bevels, bevies, bevors, blivet, bovine, braved, braver, braves, breves, brevet, obvert, reverb, verbal, verbid, viable.

 

+4 letters: absolve, abusive, adverbs, beavers, bedevil, beehive, behaved, behaver, behaves, behoove, behoved, behoves, believe, beloved, bereave, beveled, beveler, bevomit, bivalve, blivets, bouvier, bovines, bravely, bravers, bravery, bravest, bravoed, bravoes, bravure, brevets, brevier, brevity, livable, lovable, lovebug, movable, obovate, observe, obverse, obverts, obviate, overbed, overbet, overbid, overbig, overbuy, overdub, proverb, reverbs, savable, subvene, subvert, verbals, verbena, verbids, verbify, verbile, verbose, vibrate, visible, vocable, voluble, votable.

 

+5 letters: ablative, abortive, abrasive, absolved, absolver, absolves, ambivert, avowable, beavered, bedcover, bedevils, bedrivel, beehives, behalves, behavers, behaving, behavior, behooved, behooves, behoving, believed, believer, believes, beloveds, bereaved, bereaver, bereaves, beshiver, beslaved, bevatron, bevelers, beveling, bevelled, beveller, beverage, bevomits, biconvex, bivalent, bivalved, bivalves, bloviate, bouviers, bovinely, brevetcy, breveted, breviary, breviers, burgrave, deverbal, divebomb, drivable, enviable, enviably, evadable, evadible, evitable, evocable, giveable, giveback, inviable, lavaboes, leviable, liveable, loveable, loveably, lovebird, lovebugs, movables, moveable, moveably, observed, observer, observes, obverses, obverted, obviable, obviated, obviates, obvolute, outbrave, ovenbird, overable, overbake, overbear, overbeat, overbets, overbids, overbill, overbite, overblew, overblow, overboil, overbold, overbook, overbore, overborn, overbred, overburn, overbusy, overbuys, overdubs, provable, proverbs, reverbed, riverbed, salvable, saveable, servable, shavable, solvable, sublevel, subovate, subserve, subvened, subvenes, subverts, svedberg, unviable, valuable, vambrace, variable, vendable, vendible, vendibly, verbally, verbatim, verbenas, verbiage, verbiles, verbless, verboten, vertebra, vibrance, vibrated, vibrates, viewable, vincible, violable, vitiable, vocables, voidable, voteable, waveband.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EBV


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

45 42 56

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000010 01010110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#66 &#86

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0042 0056

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

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

393656

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INDEX

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


  

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