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| 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 |
TBC | English | Time Base Corrector Il "Correttore della Base dei Tempi" o con termine corrente TBC è l'apparecchiatura capace di assorbire i vari disturbi,restituendo al raster la sua perfetta geometria. | Abbreviation, Post & Telecom |
tbc | French | Tonne brute compensée | Meteorology & Standards |
Tbc | German | Tuberkulose | Biology & Biotechnology, Medicine |
TBC | Italian | Correttore della Base dei Tempi Il "Correttore della Base dei Tempi" o con termine corrente TBC è l'apparecchiatura capace di assorbire i vari disturbi,restituendo al raster la sua perfetta geometria. | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: TBC |
| Non-English Usage: "TBC" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (t.b.), Indonesian (phthisis, tuberculosis), Serbo-Croatian (consumption). |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Tonga | Similarly, the TBC does not allow the Mormon Church to discuss its founder, Joseph Smith, or the Book of Mormon by name. (references) |
Tonga | Due to this policy, the TBC does not allow members of the Baha'i Faith to discuss the tenets of their religion, or to refer to the founder, Baha'ullah, by name. (references) | |
Tonga | The TBC guidelines state that in view of "the character of the listening public," those who preach on Radio Tonga must confine their preaching "within the limits of the mainstream Christian tradition." This policy applies to all churches. (references) | |
Trade | Georgia | Loans were signed with five qualifying banks: TBC Bank, Tbilcredit Bank, Tbilcombank, Tbilunivesalbank, and Tbilintelectbank. (references) |
Georgia | The International Financial Corporation of the World Bank signed an equity purchase agreement and extended a loan to the local TBC Bank. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TBC" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 46.43% of the time. "TBC" is used about 28 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 (singular) | 46.43% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 46.43% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | TBC Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tbc | 137 | racing tbc | 3 |
indoor racing tbc | 13 | tbc video | 3 |
tbc corporation | 12 | bank tbc | 3 |
consulting group tbc | 10 | datavideo tbc 1000 | 2 |
tbc corp | 9 | body kit tbc | 2 |
indoor kart racing tbc | 8 | ipa.com tbc | 2 |
tbc 1000 | 5 | home new page tbc | 2 |
dallas indoor racing tbc | 4 | penyakit tbc | 2 |
tbc tire | 4 | tbc teatro | 2 |
it tbc | 4 | 100 tbc | 2 |
cafes.net tbc | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "TBC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Italian | TBC (restituendo al raster la sua perfetta geometria., Time Base Corrector Il "Correttore della Base dei Tempi" o con termine corrente TBC è l'apparecchiatura capace di assorbire i vari disturbi, tuberculosis), Correttore della Base dei Tempi Il "Correttore della Base dei Tempi" o con termine corrente TBC è l'apparecchiatura capace di assorbire i vari disturbi,restituendo al raster la sua perfetta geometria.. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | tbcay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-t" | |
+2 letters: batch, bitch, botch, bract, butch, cubit. | |
+3 letters: abduct, abject, becket, biotic, bisect, bitchy, blotch, bobcat, botchy, bracts, bucket, bustic, cablet, cobalt, cobnut, combat, cubist, cubits, object, obtect, sacbut, tambac, terbic, tombac. | |
+4 letters: abbotcy, abducts, abiotic, abreact, acrobat, actable, albitic, baccate, backbit, backfit, backlit, backout, backset, barytic, batched, batcher, batches, bearcat, beckets, becrust, becurst, bedtick, benthic, bewitch, biontic, bioptic, biotech, biotics, biscuit, bisects, bitched, bitches, bittock, blotchy, bobcats, borscht, botanic, botched, botcher, botches, boycott, brachet, bracket, bracted, brocket, buckets, bustics, butcher, butches, buttock, butyric, cabaret, cabinet, cablets, cambist, catawba, catbird, catboat, citable, cobalts, cobnuts, cohabit, combats, combust, cubists, cubital, cutback, cutbank, fatback, hackbut, hebetic, iceboat, objects, outback, robotic, sacbuts, sackbut, setback, strobic, subcult, subduct, subject, subsect, tabetic, tambacs, taxicab, terebic, tieback, tobacco, tomback, tombacs, wetback. | |
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