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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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 |
TCB | Danish | Sikkert computersystem | N/A |
TCB | English | TransCredit Bank | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: TCB |
| Specialty definitions using "TCB": TLAs. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Take care, TCB ("Respect"; performing artist: Aretha Franklin) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
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. 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)54 43 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)01010100 01000011 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T C B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0043 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)543736 |
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