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TB

Specialty Definition: Tb

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TB or tb can stand for:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tb."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TB

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

TB

EnglishTalk backN/A

TB

FrenchTaux officiel d'escompteFinance

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

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Crosswords: TB

English words defined with "TB": Pott's disease. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TB": thermal transpiration. (references)
Non-English Usage: "TB" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (terbium).

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Commercial Usage: TB

DomainTitle

References

  • TB Wood's Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Active Learning for Young Children (No Tb 109) (reference)

  • China's Economy: A Basic Guide Tb 5065 (reference)

  • Tb T/A Cognitive Psychology 2e (reference)

  • Tb T/A Pathways to Psychology 2e (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: TB

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Six-year-old children attend the dispensary for the second vaccination that protects them against the TB bacillus. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Almasy..

[Russian poster: Series "Study Corner on TB"; Keep your work areas clean...]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

TB - AIDS Diary / by Linda Troeller. Credit: Library of Congress.

Children in bedroom of their home, Charleston, West Virginia. Their mother has TB. Father works on WPA (Works Progress Administration). See 50129-D. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home in Charleston, West Virginia. Mother has TB, father works on WPA (Work Progress Administration). See 50119-D. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wife and two children of unemployed mine worker. She has TB and syphilis. They are one of five families living in old abandoned company store in abandoned mining community of Marine, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: TB

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

TB is primarily an airborne disease. (references)

TB is largely a preventable disease. (references)

Training to increase the number of TB researchers. (references)

Business

The average cost of such equipment can range from around TB 80,000 to 150,000 per unit (US$ 1,950 to 3,660 per unit). (references)

Violators are fined TB 500. As of early 1998, 35,000 vehicles had been tested and 15,000 were found to have exceeded the emission standard. (references)

BMTA said that it would consider transferring more routes to private bus services this year in a bid to reduce its accumulated debt of TB 20 billion. (references)

Economic History

India

There is a need for new biotech-based vaccines for HIV, cancer, diarrheal diseases, influenza virus, contraception, rotavirus, TB, malaria, H.influenza and pneumonia. (references)

Botswana

In 1995, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) started the BOTUSA Project in collaboration with the Botswana Ministry of Health in order to generate information to improve TB control efforts in Botswana and elsewhere in the face of the TB and HIV/AIDS co-epidemics. (references)

Human Rights

Azerbaijan

TB continued to be the main cause of death in prisons. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

TB component will be devoted to the introduction of DOTS strategy in Ukraine, HIV/AIDS component includes subcomponents aimed at: advocasy and awareness raising; work with the risk groups on HIV/AIDS prevention; implementation of activities to prevent HIV/AIDS transmissions; improvement of care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS. (references)

Ukraine

Our activities address the urgent humanitarian and health needs of the people of Ukraine by: 1) supporting the government in moving from universal housing and communal services subsidies to targeted social services; 2) providing humanitarian assistance and strengthening the ability of non-governmental organizations to deliver social services; 3) laying the foundation for a sustainable system of pensions and social insurance; 4) providing training and supplies to improve the quality of and access to reproductive health care and the screening for and treatment of breast cancer; 5) supporting health partnerships for the promotion of primary health care and exchange of information, training and personnel; 6) providing thyroid cancer screening and psycho-social interventions to child victims of the Chernobyl accident, while strengthening the Ukrainian government's ability to respond to health and environmental crises; and 7) providing technical assistance in addressing both the TB and the STI/HIV/AIDS epidemics. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: TB

"TB" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.78% of the time. "TB" is used about 141 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 (singular)90.78%12828,261
Noun (proper)5.67%8124,375
Noun (common)2.84%4175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)0.71%1339,140
                    Total100.00%141N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: TB

CountryName
USA

TB Wood's Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: TB

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TB": TB-cell, tb-infected, tb-testing.

Ending with "TB": anti-tb.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TB

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

tb

579

photo positive skin tb test

8

tb test

153

joshua tb

8

skin tb test

85

pregnancy tb test

7

tb wood

56

180 43 tb

7

symptom tb

55

lc.com tb

6

tb testing

42

picture positive skin tb test

6

positive tb test

24

530 med tb

6

result tb test

22

reading tb test

6

shot tb

19

385 4 tb

6

tb 303

17

exposure tb

6

tb treatment

15

atypical tb

6

picture positive tb test

11

skin tb testing

6

picture skin tb test

11

tb meningitis

6

doll tb

11

court tb

6

ab dl tb

10

setup.exe tb

5

disease tb

9

pregnancy tb

5

dl tb

9

tuberculosis tb

5

picture tb test

9

latent tb

5

positive skin tb test

9

tb test tine

5

result skin tb test

8

ppd tb

5

tb test tst

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TB

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

Arabic 

  

‏مرض السل (tuberculosis). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

туберкулоза (decline, phthisis, the white scourge, tubercle, tuberculosis). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tuberkulose,som er modstandsdygtig over for lægemidler (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis), undersøgelse for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zenderblokkeerbuis (TB-cell, transmitter blocker cell, transmitter-blocker cell), resistente tuberkelbacterie (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis), resistente tuberkelbacil (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis), resistente tuberculosebacterie (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis), Koch-test (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test), BK-test (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuberkuloosibakteerien tutkiminen (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test), tuberkuloosibakteerien etsiminen (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test). (various references)

   

French

  

tuberculose, phtisie. (various references)

   

German

  

therapieresistente Tuberkulose (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis), Untersuchung zum Nachweis des Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test), Sendersperr-Zelle (TB-cell, transmitter-blocker cell), Piazza-Probe (Piazza tb test), Nullode (TB-cell, transmitter-blocker cell). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φυματίωση ανθεκτική στα φάρμακα (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis), αναζήτηση βακτηριδίων Koch (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tuberkulózis (tuberculosis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tuberculosi resistente alle terapie (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis), teleistruzione (TB teaching, teleteaching), ricerca di BK (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test), prova di Piazza (Piazza tb test), cellula T-B (TB-cell, transmitter-blocker cell). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

テープ'切る (tape cut, tape deck, tape hiss, tape library, tape player, tape recorder, to breast the tape, tuberculosis). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

テーベー (tuberculosis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

tbay

   

Portuguese

  

tuberculose resistente aos medicamentos (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tuberculosis resistente a los medicamentos (drug-resistant TB, drug-resistant tuberculosis), célula T-B (T-B cell, TB-cell, transmitter blocker cell, transmitter-blocker cell), búsqueda de Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection, TB stat test). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ธาตุโลหะสีเทา (สัญลักษ"์ย่อของ terbium). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TB

Derivations

Words containing "TB": antbear, antbears, basketball, basketballs, batboy, batboys, boatbill, boatbills, boatbuilder, boatbuilders, boatbuilding, boatbuildings, bootblack, bootblacks, breastbone, breastbones, carpetbag, carpetbagger, carpetbaggeries, carpetbaggers, carpetbaggery, carpetbagging, carpetbags, catbird, catbirds, catboat, catboats, catbrier, catbriers, cutback, cutbacks, cutbank, cutbanks, dartboard, dartboards, dirtbag, dirtbags, dustbin, dustbins, eastbound, eightball, eightballs, faltboat, faltboats, fastback, fastbacks, fastball, fastballer, fastballers, fastballs, fatback. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: TB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-t"
 

+1 letter: bat, bet, bit, bot, but, tab, tub.

 

+2 letters: abet, abut, baht, bait, bast, bate, bath, bats, batt, beat, beet, belt, bent, best, beta, beth, bets, bhut, bint, bite, bits, bitt, blat, blet, blot, boat, bolt, boot, bort, bota, both, bots, bott, bout, brat, brit, brut, bunt, bust, bute, buts, butt, byte, debt, obit, stab, stob, stub, tabs, tabu, toby, tomb, tuba, tube, tubs.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Company Usage
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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