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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Tbl 1. A language by M.E. Lesk for formatting tables, implemented as a preprocessor to nroff. (1994-11-01) 2. Table Building Language. A simple language by Robert Freiburghouse of MIT which combines user-defined actions into an abstract machine. It can be used to build table-driven predictive parsers and code generators in the MULTICS Fortran compiler and several PL/I compilers, including VAX-11 PL/I. ["Engineering A Compiler: VAX-11 Code Generation and Optimisation", P. Anklam et al, Digital Press 1977]. (1994-11-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TBL |
| Specialty definitions using "TBL": abstract machine. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "TBL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "TBL" is used about 11 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 (singular) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
tbl | 22 |
bin cgi mapbrowse tbl tiger.census.gov | 16 |
file tbl | 3 |
fabrications tbl | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "TBL": bootblack, bootblacks, hotblood, hotbloods, outblaze, outblazed, outblazes, outblazing, outbleat, outbleated, outbleating, outbleats, outbless, outblessed, outblesses, outblessing, outbloom, outbloomed, outblooming, outblooms, outbluff, outbluffed, outbluffing, outbluffs, outblush, outblushed, outblushes, outblushing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-t" | |
+1 letter: belt, blat, blet, blot, bolt. | |
+2 letters: belts, betel, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blent, blest, blets, blite, blitz, bloat, blots, bluet, blunt, blurt, bolts, botel, built, butle, butyl, tabla, table, tubal. | |
+3 letters: ablate, ablaut, ablest, abvolt, albata, albeit, albite, atabal, balata, ballet, ballot, basalt, battle, beetle, belted, belter, betels, bethel, billet, blasts, blasty, bleats, blight, blintz, blites, blithe, blivet, bloats, blotch, blotto, blotty, bluest, bluets, blunts, blurts, boatel, bolete, boleti, bolted, bolter, botels, botfly, bottle, brulot, brutal, bullet, bustle, butled, butler, butles, butyls, bytalk, cablet, cobalt, giblet, goblet, labret, lobate, oblast, oblate, riblet, stable, stably, sublet, sublot, subtle, subtly, tablas, tabled, tables, tablet, tabuli, tibial, timbal, tombal, treble, trebly, tribal, trilby, tubful, tubule, tumble, twibil, tymbal, unbelt, unbolt. | |
| 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 42 4C |
| 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 01000010 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T B L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0042 004C |
| 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)543646 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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