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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Bamf /bamf/ 1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"] interj. Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity. Often used in virtual reality (esp. MUD) electronic fora when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or exit. 2. The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality fora like MUDs. 3. In MUD circles, "bamf" is also used to refer to the act by which a MUD server sends a special notification to the MUD client to switch its connection to another server ("I'll set up the old site to just bamf people over to our new location."). 4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another location or resource ("A user was asking about some technobabble so I bamfed them to `http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/'".). 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 |
BAMF | English | British Art Market Federation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| 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 |
bamf | 19 |
bamf central | 4 |
bamf canada | 4 |
bamf doll | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-m" | |
-1 letter: bam. | |
-2 letters: ab, am, ba, fa, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-m" | |
+2 letters: ferbam, flambe. | |
+3 letters: ferbams, fibroma, fimbria, flambee, flambes. | |
+4 letters: bedframe, birdfarm, blameful, farmable, fibromas, filmable, fimbriae, fimbrial, flambeau, flambeed, foamable, formable, framable, subframe. | |
+5 letters: bedframes, birdfarms, fibromata, fimbriate, flabellum, flambeaus, flambeaux, flambeing, flammable, frambesia, framboise, frameable, subfamily, subframes. | |
| 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)42 41 4D 46 |
| 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)01000010 01000001 01001101 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A M F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004D 0046 |
| 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)36354740 |
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