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TCB

Specialty Definition: TCB

DomainDefinition

Computing

TCB /T-C-B/ n.[IBM] 1. Trouble Came Back. An intermittent or difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect or shotgun debugging. Compare heisenbug. Not to be confused with: 2. Trusted Computing Base, an `official' jargon term from the Orange Book. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TCB

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

TCB

DanishSikkert computersystemN/A

TCB

EnglishTransCredit BankN/A

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

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Crosswords: TCB

Specialty definitions using "TCB": TLAs. (references)

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Modern Usage: TCB

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Take care, TCB ("Respect"; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TCB

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

tcb

95

bank tcb

3

band tcb

22

home tcb

3

band go go tcb

19

care hair tcb

3

elvis tcb

10

name se tcb

2

hair product tcb

9

associate tcb

2

squad tcb

6

elvis presley tcb

2

natural tcb

4

inc tcb

2

go go tcb

4

display tcb

2

tattoo tcb

4

hair tcb

2

elvis necklace tcb

4

tcb ring

2

elvis ring tcb

3

inspiration sweet tcb

2

suite tcb

3

relaxer tcb

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: TCB

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TCB


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

54 43 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)

01010100 01000011 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#67 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0043 0042

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

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

543736

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Abbreviations
5. Acronyms
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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