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RBC

Definition: RBC

RBC

Noun

1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus.

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

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: RBC

 

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

rbc

DutchRode bloedcellenMedicine

RBC

EnglishRobotic biochromatographyN/A
H-D RBCEnglishHeat-Damaged Red Blood CellN/A

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

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Synonyms: RBC

Synonyms: erythrocyte (n), red blood cell (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: RBC

"RBC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RBC" 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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RBC

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

rbc

1,533

centura rbc

453

rbc ministry

303

rbc insurance

227

rbc mortgage

147

banking online rbc

135

financial rbc

105

rbc center

103

dain rauscher rbc

92

rbc centura bank

70
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RBC

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

Pig Latin

  

rbcay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RBC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-c-r"
 

+1 letter: carb, crab, crib, curb.

 

+2 letters: acerb, baric, birch, boric, brace, brach, bract, brick, brock, bronc, caber, carbo, carbs, carob, cobra, corby, crabs, cribs, crumb, cuber, curbs, rabic, rebec, scrub.

 

+3 letters: arabic, backer, bardic, bicarb, bicker, bicorn, bicron, borsch, boxcar, braced, bracer, braces, brachs, bracts, branch, breach, breech, bricks, bricky, broach, broche, brocks, bromic, bronco, broncs, brooch, brucin, brunch, bucker, buckra, cabers, camber, carbon, carbos, carboy, caribe, carobs, cherub, cobber, cobras, comber, corban, corbel, corbie, corymb, crabby, crambe, crambo, crumbs, crumby, cubers, cumber, curbed, curber, cyborg, fabric, lubric, rebeck, rebecs, recomb, rubace, rubric, scarab, scribe, scrubs, sorbic, terbic, uncurb.

 

+4 letters: abreact, abroach, acerber, acerbic, acrobat, aerobic, arabica, ascribe, baccara, backers, baldric, barchan, barrack, barytic, batcher, bawdric, bearcat, becharm, becrawl, becrime, becrowd, becrust, becurse, becurst, bedrock, belcher, bencher, bescour, bicarbs, bickers, bicolor, bicorne, bicrons, birched, birchen, birches, blacker, blocker, blucher, boraces, boracic, boronic, borscht, botcher, bouncer, boxcars, bracero, bracers, braches, brachet, brachia, bracing, bracken, bracket, bracted, branchy, breccia, brecham, brechan, bricked, brickle, bricole, brioche, brocade, brocket, brocoli, bronchi, broncho, broncos, brucine, brucins, buckers, buckler, buckram, buckras, burdock, butcher, butyric, cabaret, caliber, calibre, cambers, cambric, carabao, carabid, carabin, caramba, carbarn, carbide, carbine, carbons, carbora, carboys, caribes, caribou, catbird, cerebra, chamber, cherubs, ciboria, clabber, clamber, climber, clobber, clubber, clumber, cobbers, cobbier, cobbler, combers, corbans, corbeil, corbels, corbies, corbina, cordoba, corncob, corymbs, cowbird, cowherb, crabbed, crabber, crambes, crambos, cribbed, cribber, crowbar, crumbed, crumber, crumble, crumbly, crumbum, crybaby, cudbear, cumbers, curable, curably, curbers, curbing, cyborgs, embrace, fabrics, iceberg, macaber, macabre, microbe, obscure, pibroch, rebecks, recombs, rhombic, robotic, rockaby, roebuck, rubaces, rubidic, rubrics, runback, scarabs, scribal, scribed, scriber, scribes, scrubby, strobic, suberic, subrace, terebic, unbrace, uncurbs, zebraic.

 

+5 letters: abductor, abrachia, abreacts, abstract, abstrict, acerbate, acerbest, acerbity, acrobats, aerobics, albacore, albicore, arabicas, arbuscle, ascorbic, ascribed, ascribes, baccaras, baccarat, bachelor, bacillar, backdoor, backdrop, backfire, backrest, backroom, backrush, backward, backwrap, backyard, bacteria, bacterin, balancer, baldrick, baldrics, bankcard, barbaric, barbasco, barbecue, barbican, barbicel, barchans, bareback, barleduc, barnacle, barouche, barracks, barranca, barranco, baryonic, batchers, bawdrics, beachier, bearcats, becarpet, becharms, beckoner, beclamor, becoward, becrawls, becrimed, becrimes, becrowds, becrusts, becursed, becurses, bedchair, bedcover, bedrench, bedrocks, beechier, belchers, benchers, berascal, berceuse, berdache, bernicle, bescorch, bescours, bescreen, besmirch, bichrome, bickered, bickerer, bicolors, bicolour, bicornes, bicycler, biracial, birching, birdcage, birdcall, birrotch, bisector, bistroic, bitchery, bitchier, blancher, bleacher, blencher, blockers, blockier, bluchers, bookrack, boracite, borecole, borsches, borschts, botchers, botchery, botchier, bouncers, bouncier, bracelet, braceros, brachets, brachial, brachium, bracings, braciola, braciole, brackens, brackets, brackish, braconid, bracteal, bractlet, brainiac, branched, branches, branchia, brassica, brattice, breached, breacher, breaches, breccial, breccias, brechams, brechans, breeched, breeches, brevetcy, brickbat, brickier, bricking, brickles, bricoles, brioches, brisance, britches, broached, broacher, broaches, brocaded, brocades, brocatel, broccoli, brochure, brockage, brockets, brocolis, bromidic, bronchia, bronchos, bronchus, brooches, brucella, brucines, brunched, brunches, buckaroo, buckayro, buckeroo, bucklers, buckrams, bunchier, burdocks, butchers, butchery, cabarets, cabernet, cabestro, cabresta, cabresto, cabretta, cabrilla, cabriole, calibers, calibred, calibres, cambered, cambrics, capabler, capybara, carabaos, carabids, carabine, carabins, carbamic, carbamyl, carbarns, carbaryl, carbides, carbines, carbinol, carbolic, carbonic, carbonyl, carboras, carboxyl, carboyed, carburet, caribous, carnauba, cartable, catbirds, catbrier, cerebral, cerebric, cerebrum, chambers, chambray, cherubic, cherubim, choirboy, choriamb, chubbier, ciborium, cinnabar, clabbers, clambers, climbers, clobbers, clubbers, clubbier, clubroom, clubroot, clumbers, cobblers, codebtor, colubrid, combater, combiner, comember, corbeils, corbeled, corbinas, cordobas, cornball, corncobs, corncrib, corybant, corymbed, cowberry, cowbirds, cowherbs, crabbers, crabbier, crabbily, crabbing, crabmeat, crabwise, cramboes, credible, credibly, cribbage, cribbers, cribbing, cribbled, cribrous, cribwork, crossbar, crossbow, crowbars, crucible, crumbers, crumbier, crumbing, crumbled, crumbles, crumbums, cubature, cubiform, cucumber, cucurbit, cudbears, cumbered, cumberer, cumbrous, cupboard, curbable, curbings, curbside, cymbaler, describe, drawback, embraced, embracer, embraces, encumber, febrific, fibrotic, fireback, forcible, forcibly, gabbroic, grayback, hardback, icebergs, incumber, inscribe, isobaric, labrusca, lubrical, micawber, microbar, microbes, microbic, microbus, mobocrat, morbific, obduracy, objector, obscener, obscured, obscurer, obscures, obstruct, pibrochs, rabbinic, rabietic, rebranch, recombed, redbrick, reedbuck, reobject, republic, ricebird, robotics, rockabye, roebucks, rollback, roorbach, roorback, rubicund, rubrical, runbacks, saprobic, scabbard, scabbier, scabrous, scrabble, scrabbly, scramble, scribble, scribers, scribing, scrubbed, scrubber, subacrid, subclerk, suberect, subraces, subtract, subvicar, tribadic, tribasic, tribrach, tubercle, turbocar, unbraced, unbraces, unbreech, uncurbed, vambrace, vibrance, vibrancy, vibronic, wellcurb, ytterbic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RBC


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

52 42 43

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)

01010010 01000010 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#66 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0042 0043

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

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

523637

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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