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Definition: PBS |
PBSNoun1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Census | Designation for the (Public Buildings Service), General Services Administration. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
PBS | English | Passbook scheme | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PBSSynonym: phosphate buffer solution (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | PBS Hollywood Presents (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bahrain | Designs for the new plant, which will replace the existing PBS (Lead Sulfite) plant, have been drawn up with the help of the U.S. firm UOP, the technology provider. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dick Van Dyke | Well, kind of. I had expressed an interest in it, you know, and finally PBS came along and said they'd like to do it. So I called her because without her, I wouldn't do it. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Sunday, the Tony awards, first on PBS, then on CBS. This will be the stage I make my big singing opening number. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PBS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.80% of the time. "PBS" is used about 143 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) | 95.8% | 137 | 27,138 |
| Noun (plural) | 4.2% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 143 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PBS": pbs-glycerin, pbs-tween. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "PBS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | сист. обществ. радиовещания. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-p-s" | |
+1 letter: baps, bops, pubs. | |
+2 letters: beeps, blips, bumps, burps, plebs, pubes, pubis. | |
+3 letters: abamps, bebops, becaps, biceps, biopsy, bipeds, bipods, bishop, bleeps, blimps, bloops, blypes, bumphs, bypass, bypast, pibals, plebes, plumbs, probes, rebops, subpar, superb, upbows. | |
+4 letters: aplombs, backups, baptise, baptism, baptist, barhops, beclasp, bedpans, bedpost, beepers, beleaps, bespake, bespeak, bespoke, beweeps, bewraps, biopics, biopsic, bipacks, bishops, blowups, bopeeps, boppers, bowpots, brushup, bumpers, buppies, burlaps, bushpig, bypaths, byplays, ephebes, ephebos, ephebus, hubcaps, mobcaps, pablums, paystub, pebbles, phobias, phobics, phoebes, phoebus, piasaba, postbag, postbox, postboy, potboys, prefabs, probers, probits, publics, publish, pueblos, saprobe, shopboy, soapbox, subpart, subpena, subplot, subtype, upbears, upbeats, upbinds, upboils. | |
| 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)50 42 53 |
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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)01010000 01000010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P B S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0042 0053 |
| 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)503653 |
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