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STB

Specialty Definition: STB

DomainDefinition

Computing

STB set-top box. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Agriculture

Surface Transportation Board, the federal body regulating railroads created by Congress when it eliminated the Interstate Commerce Commission. Agricultural interests closely follow STB deliberations proceedings on railroad mergers, service issues, and related matters because of their potential impact on grain and other commodity transportation costs. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: STB

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

STB

EnglishSingapore Tourism BoardN/A

STB

FrenchSomatotrophine bovineBiology & Biotechnology, Medicine

STB

SpanishSomatotropina bovinaBiology & Biotechnology, Medicine

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

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Crosswords: STB

Specialty definitions using "STB": set-top box, Surface Transportation BoardTLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: STB

DomainTitle

Books

  • Arbeidswet 1919 : wet van 1 november 1919, Stb. 624, houdende bepalingen tot beperking van de arbeidsduur in het algemeen en tot het tegengaan van gevaarlijke arbeid : wet van 13 juli 1951, Stb. 281, houdende vervanging van de bezettingsregeling betreffen (reference)

  • Huurwet: Wet van 13 oktober 1950, Stb. K 452, houdende regelen nopens de huurprijzen van onroerend goed en de bescherming van de huurders, zoals deze laatstelijk is gewijzigd bij de wet van 18 december 1969, Stb. 557. Wet jaarlijkse huurverhogingen met aa (reference)

  • STB SYSTEMS, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • Stoomwet : wet van 25 maart 1953, Stb. 179, regelende het toezicht op het gebruik van stoom- en damptoestellen, met bijlagan (reference)

  • Wegenwet : wet van 31 juli 1930, Stb. 342, houdende vaststelling van voorschriften omtrent openbare wegen, zoals die wet is gewijzigd bij de wetten van 11 maart 1939, Stb. 522, 22 maart 1946, Stb. G 67, 15 juli 1948, Stb. I. 299 en 2 december 1953, Stb. 5 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: STB

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

U.S. companies supply the hotel with both the STB (the central processing unit is U.S.-made) and the browser, and Beijing Telecom provides the service. (references)

The STB, which uses a 56K modem, costs RMB2, 000 ($240). The technician from the U.S. company believes the company will sell 100,000 STBs in China within the next 12 months. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

According to Socis Gallup monitoring, the top five TV channels in advertising terms are: Inter, 1+1, ICTV, UT-1 (the central state channel), and STB. Commercial radio in Ukraine is developing quickly and is also widely used for advertising. (references)

Tunisia

AT THE END OF 2000, TUNISIA'S LEADING COMMERCIAL BANK, (SOCIETE TUNISIENNE DE BANQUE - STB), MERGED WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK (BANQUE DE DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE - BDET) AND THE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT BANK (BANQUE NATIONALE DE DEVELOPPEMENT TOURISTIQUE - BNDT) UNDER THE STB BANNER. (references)

Tunisia

THREE TUNISIAN BANKS, SOCIETE TUNISIENNE DE BANQUE (STB), BANQUE DE DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE (BDET) AND BANQUE NATIONALE DU DEVELOPPEMENT TOURISTIQUE (BNDT), WERE MERGED UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE STB AT THE END OF 2000. THE CENTRAL BANK CONTINUES ITS SHIFT FROM DIRECT MANAGEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR TOWARD A MORE TRADITIONAL SUPERVISORY AND REGULATORY ROLE, WHILE STILL INTERVENING AGAINST INFLATIONARY PRESSURES, AS THE STATED PURPOSE OF ITS MONETARY POLICY IS TO PRESERVE THE VALUE OF THE CURRENCY BY KEEPING INFLATION AS LOW AS THAT OF ITS PARTNERS AND COMPETITORS. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

The Government made no known progress in resolving a number of high profile and possibly politically motivated killings from 1999. For example, no progress was made in solving the 1999 killing of the security chief of the independent television station STB or the 1999 killings of the chairman of the regional arbitration court, Borys Vihrov, and the director of local television station, Ihor Bondar in Odesa. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: STB

"STB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.72% of the time. "STB" is used about 61 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)96.72%5944,010
Noun (singular)3.28%2245,945
                    Total100.00%61N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STB

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stb

201

seznam stb

9

stb system

121

stb tv tuner

7

stb velocity 128

44

driver stb system

7

stb system inc

43

stb tv

7

stb video

41

stb pci tv

6

driver stb

38

3dfx stb

6

128 driver stb velocity

32

card daughter mvp stb

6

stb video card

30

stb 3d nitro

6

stb velocity

29

foglar stb

6

driver stb video

28

stb travel

5

stb nitro

23

havre le stb

5

c cablelabs docsis dvb dvb dvb ird mhp mhp set stb top

18

driver nitro stb

5

stb velocity 4400

16

stb system video card

4

4400 driver stb velocity

16

128 download driver stb velocity

4

seznamy stb

16

stb horizon 64

4

card driver stb video

14

stb nvidia

4

driver stb velocity

12

driver stb system video

4

software stb

12

stb 128

4

stb tv pro

10

agenti stb

4

product stb

9

detector stb

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: STB

Derivations

Words containing "STB": breastbone, breastbones, dustbin, dustbins, eastbound, fastback, fastbacks, fastball, fastballer, fastballers, fastballs, firstborn, firstborns, frostbit, frostbite, frostbites, frostbiting, frostbitings, frostbitten, mistbow, mistbows, postbaccalaureate, postbag, postbags, postbase, postbellum, postbiblical, postbourgeois, postbox, postboxes, postboy, postboys, postburn, trustbuster, trustbusters, waistband, waistbands, westbound, wristband, wristbands. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: STB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bast, bats, best, bets, bits, bots, bust, buts, stab, stob, stub, tabs, tubs.

 

+2 letters: abets, abuts, bahts, baits, baste, basts, bates, baths, batts, beast, beats, beets, belts, bents, beset, besot, bests, betas, beths, bhuts, bints, bites, bitsy, bitts, blast, blats, blest, blets, blots, boast, boats, bolts, boost, boots, borts, botas, botts, bouts, brats, brits, bunts, burst, busts, busty, butes, butts, bytes, debts, obits, sabot, stabs, stobs, stubs, tabes, tabus, tombs, tsuba, tubas, tubes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STB


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

53 54 42

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

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

=

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)

01010011 01010100 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0042

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

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

535436

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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