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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Big blue International Business Machines. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BIG BLUE |
| Specialty definitions using "BIG BLUE": Control Program for Microcomputers. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | So, the Big Blue. What's it like? (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) That hood wasn't looking at her big blue eyes. (The Narrow Margin; writing credit: Earl Felton; Martin Goldsmith) I hate it! It's boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually repressed accountants and first-year drama students with too many posters of Betty Blue, The Blues Brothers, Big Blue and Blue Velvet on their blue bloody walls! (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson) | |
Lyrics | The sun's still shining in the big blue sky (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox) | |
Tongue Twisters | Big ben blew big blue bubbles. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Big Blue Marble (1974) Big Blue Goose (1956) Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) The Big Blue (1988) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Big Blue Marble. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Big Blue Stem rangeland grass. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
![]() | A big blue bottle fly in the web. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-g-i-l-u" | |
-2 letters: bible, bilge, bugle, bulge, guile. | |
-3 letters: bile, bleb, blub, blue, bulb, gibe, glib, glue, iglu, lieu, lube, luge. | |
-4 letters: beg, bel, bib, big, bub, bug, ebb, gel, gib, gie, gul, leg, lei, leu, lib, lie, lug. | |
-5 letters: be, bi, el, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-g-i-l-u" | |
+3 letters: bejumbling, blubbering, slubbering. | |
+4 letters: belabouring, submergible. | |
+5 letters: nightclubbed, nightclubber, unbridgeable. | |
| 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 49 47      42 4C 55 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01000111 00100000 01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I G   B L U E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0047      0042 004C 0055 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364341236465539 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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