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TZ

Date "TZ" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

"TZ" is a common misspelling or typo for: at, it, its, tizzy, tm, to, tsar.


Specialty Definition: TZ

DomainDefinition

Computing

TZ The Unix environment variable containing the current time zone identifier, e.g. "GMT", "EST". In early versions of Unix this variable simply contained the standard identifier for the zone, an offset in hours from GMT and an identifier to use during daylight saving time (e.g. "GMT0BST"). In later systems it stores the name of a file containing the details of a particular zone such as the dates when DST is in force. Unix manual page: ctime(3V). (1997-07-20) tz The country code for Tanzania. (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TZ

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

TZ

DanishDen Forenede Republik TanzaniaGeography

TZ

DutchVerenigde Republiek TanzaniaGeography

Tz

EnglishTuberculin zymoplasticheN/A

TZ

FinnishTansanian yhdistynyt tasavaltaGeography

TZ

FrenchLa TanzanieGeography

TZ

GermanTansaniaGeography

TZ

GreekΤανζανίαGeography

TZ

ItalianRepubblica Unita della TanzaniaGeography, Law

TZ

PortugueseTanzâniaGeography

TZ

SpanishRepública Unida de TanzaniaGeography

TZ

SwedishFörenade republiken TanzaniaGeography

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

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Crosswords: TZ

Specialty definitions using "TZ": environment variable. (references)
Non-English Usage: "TZ" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania).

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Commercial Usage: TZ

DomainTitle

Books

  • Lexique nuclâeaire franðcais-anglais-chinois = French-English-Chinese nuclear glossary = [Fa Ying Han ho neng tz u hui] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

  • 3/4in (18mm) Black On Green Tape for All Tz But Pt200/1100/1200 (reference)

  • Brother Pt-1200 Label Printer 1 Tz Tape Cutter 6 AAA Batteries (reference)

  • Tzcl4 3/4in Cleaning Cassette for All Tz Except 200 1100 1200 115 (reference)

  • 3/4in (18mm) Black On X-mas Pat All Tz Mach. Except Pt200/1100/1200 (reference)

  • TeleZapper TZ 900 (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: TZ

Photos:
TZ

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Usage Frequency: TZ

"TZ" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TZ" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TZ

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

tz

54

tz 1 metallics

9

helmet tz 1 shogun

23

tz tape

9

helmet shoei tz 1 shogun

23

tz 1 venom

9

helmet shoei tz 1 rat fink

23

shoei tz 1 ignition

8

tz 1 cyclone

23

250 tz yamaha

8

helmet shoei tz 1 eros

23

shoei tz 1 venom

8

helmet tz 1 rat fink

22

shoei tz 1 cyclone helmet

8

helmet tz 1 eros

22

shoei tz 1 metallics

8

tz 1 hot wheels

22

shoei tz 1 solid

8

tz 1 strike

22

shoei tz 1 metallic helmet

8

tz 1 pyro

22

tz 1 metallic helmet

8

shoei tz 1 cyclone

21

bridge tz

7

shoei tz 1 pyro

21

brother tz tape

6

shoei tz 1 strike

20

10 exel tz

6

shoei tz 1 hot wheels

20

252 heinrich sch tz

5

minigolf tz

12

medical tz

5

shoei tz 1

10

7 exel tz

4

tz 1 ignition

10

tz yamaha

4

tz 1 solid

9

christher sch tz

4

tz 1 cyclone helmet

9

tz 231

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: TZ

Derivations

Words beginning with "TZ": tzaddik, tzaddikim, tzar, tzardom, tzardoms, tzarevna, tzarevnas, tzarina, tzarinas, tzarism, tzarisms, tzarist, tzarists, tzaritza, tzaritzas, tzars, tzetze, tzetzes, tzigane, tziganes, tzimmes, tzimmeses, tzitzis, tzitzit, tzitzith, tzuris. (additional references)

Words ending with "TZ": blintz, blitz, bortz, chalutz, chintz, ditz, ersatz, fritz, futz, gigahertz, glitz, halutz, hertz, kibbitz, kibbutz, kibitz, kilohertz, klutz, lutz, megahertz, nertz, plotz, putz, quartz, ritz, schmaltz, shegetz, shmaltz, slivovitz, solonetz, speltz, spitz, spritz, waltz. (additional references)

Words containing "TZ": blintze, blintzes, blitzed, blitzes, blitzing, blitzkrieg, blitzkriegs, bortzes, britzka, britzkas, britzska, britzskas, chalutzim, chintzes, chintzier, chintziest, chintzy, chutzpa, chutzpah, chutzpahs, chutzpas, czaritza, czaritzas, deutzia, deutzias, ditzes, ditzier, ditziest, ditzy, ersatzes, fritzes, futzed, futzes, futzing, glitzes, glitzier, glitziest, glitzy, halutzim, hertzes, hoactzin, hoactzines, hoactzins, hoatzin, hoatzines, hoatzins, howitzer, howitzers, hutzpa, hutzpah, hutzpahs. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: TZ

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "t-z"
 

+1 letter: zit.

 

+2 letters: ditz, futz, lutz, putz, ritz, tzar, zest, zeta, ziti, zits.

 

+3 letters: azote, azoth, blitz, bortz, ditzy, fritz, glitz, hertz, klutz, matza, matzo, nertz, plotz, ritzy, spitz, tazza, tazze, tizzy, topaz, trooz, tzars, waltz, zests, zesty, zetas, zibet, zitis, zizit, zlote, zloty, zooty.

 

+4 letters: azerty, azoted, azotes, azoths, azotic, bezant, blintz, byzant, chintz, ditzes, ersatz, futzed, futzes, glitzy, halutz, hutzpa, kibitz, klutzy, lutzes, matzah, matzas, matzoh, matzos, matzot, patzer, potzer, putzed, putzes, quartz, ritzes, speltz, spritz, stanza, tarzan, tazzas, teazel, teazle, touzle, tweeze, tzetze, tzuris, zaftig, zealot, zeatin, zenith, zeroth, zested, zester, zibeth, zibets, zither, zizith, zlotys, zoftig, zonate, zoster, zygote.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TZ


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

54 5A

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 01011010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#90

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 005A

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

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

5460

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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