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TBT

Abbreviations & Acronyms: TBT

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

TBT

DutchOvereenkomst inzake technische handelsbelemmeringenInternational Organizations

TBT

EnglishAgreement on Technical Barriers to Trade(1979)International Organizations

TBT

FrenchAccord relatif aux obstacles techniques au commerce(1979)International Organizations

TBT

GermanÜbereinkommen über technische HandelshemmnisseInternational Organizations

TBT

ItalianAccordo sugli ostacoli tecnici agli scambiInternational Organizations

TBT

SpanishAcuerdo sobre Obstáculos Técnicos al Comercio(1979)International Organizations

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: TBT

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Argentina

Argentina, a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), signed the TBT agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, affirming its obligations to use international standards to the maximum extent possible. (references)

Brazil

Brazil, a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), signed the TBT agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, affirming its WTO obligations to use international standards to the maximum extent possible. (references)

Argentina

Responsibilities under the TBT agreement include the establishment of a national inquiry point to serve as a central location for information on standards-related issues, including proposed mandatory regulations. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: TBT

"TBT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TBT" is used about 6 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%6143,867

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TBT

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

action mechanism tbt

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

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Anagrams: TBT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-t-t"
 

+1 letter: batt, bitt, bott, butt.

 

+2 letters: batts, battu, batty, betta, bitts, bitty, botts, britt, butte, butts, butty, butut.

 

+3 letters: abwatt, batted, batten, batter, battik, battle, battue, bettas, betted, better, bettor, bitted, bitten, bitter, blotto, blotty, bottle, bottom, bratty, britts, butted, butter, buttes, button, bututs, obtect, obtest, tablet, tidbit, titbit, tubate, tubist, turbit, turbot.

 

+4 letters: abattis, abettal, abetted, abetter, abettor, abuttal, abutted, abutter, abwatts, attaboy, babbitt, baptist, bathmat, bathtub, batiste, batteau, battens, batters, battery, battier, battiks, batting, battled, battler, battles, battues, beretta, betroth, betters, betting, bettors, betwixt, biotite, biretta, bistate, bistort, bittern, bitters, bittier, bitting, bittock, blatant, blatted, blatter, blotted, blotter, bottled, bottler, bottles, bottoms, boycott, brattle, brittle, brittly, burette, bushtit, buttals, butters, buttery, butties, butting, buttock, buttons, buttony, catboat, habitat, obtests, subtest, subtext, tabaret, tabetic, tablets, taboret, tidbits, titbits, totable, towboat, tribute, tubaist, tubists, tugboat, turbeth, turbith, turbits, turbots.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TBT


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

54 42 54

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)

01010100 01000010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#66 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0042 0054

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

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

543654

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Abbreviations
5. Acronyms
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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