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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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 |
STB | English | Singapore Tourism Board | N/A |
STB | French | Somatotrophine bovine | Biology & Biotechnology, Medicine |
STB | Spanish | Somatotropina bovina | Biology & Biotechnology, Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: STB |
| Specialty definitions using "STB": set-top box, Surface Transportation Board ♦ TLAs. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 96.72% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
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). | |
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. 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)53 54 42 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010011 01010100 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0042 |
| 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)535436 |
| 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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