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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 |
TSB | English | Trypticase soy broth | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ireland | During 2000, Tusa a joint venture between the supermarket multiple Superquinn and TSB Bank was established to offer in-store banking services and is proving successful. (references) |
China | However, the court system is relatively slow compared with the administrative agencies (such as the SAIC and the TSB), which reportedly sometimes conduct raids within hours of receiving a complaint. (references) | |
Trade | Ecuador | Citibank and Lloyds TSB Bank operate branch offices in Ecuador. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TSB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 84.72% of the time. "TSB" is used about 216 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 (proper) | 84.72% | 183 | 22,794 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.87% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.63% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (common) | 2.78% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 216 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Lloyds TSB Group plc |
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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. |
Derivations | |
Words containing "TSB": ratsbane, ratsbanes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bast, bats, best, bets, bits, bots, bust, buts, stab, stob, stub, tabs, tubs. | |
+2 letters: abets, abuts, bahts, baits, baste, basts, bates, baths, batts, beast, beats, beets, belts, bents, beset, besot, bests, betas, beths, bhuts, bints, bites, bitsy, bitts, blast, blats, blest, blets, blots, boast, boats, bolts, boost, boots, borts, botas, botts, bouts, brats, brits, bunts, burst, busts, busty, butes, butts, bytes, debts, obits, sabot, stabs, stobs, stubs, tabes, tabus, tombs, tsuba, tubas, tubes. | |
| 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 53 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 01010011 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T S B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0053 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)545336 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Company Usage | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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