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Big Board

Definitions: Big Board

Big Board

Noun

1. A stock exchange in New York.

2. The large display board at the New York Stock Exchange that reports on stocks traded on the exchange.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Big Board

Synonyms: N. Y. Stock Exchange (n), New York Stock Exchange (n), NYSE (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Big Board

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Mart

Noun: stock market, stock exchange, securities exchange; bourse, board; the big board, the New York Stock Exchange; the market, the open market; over-the-counter market; privately traded issues.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Big Board

Specialty definitions using "big board": power-on self-test. (references)

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Modern Usage: Big Board

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Keep bringing people in, they're gonna see everything. They'll see the big board. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Mr. President, you can't just let the Russian Ambassador in the war room! He-he might see the Big Board! (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

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

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Commercial Usage: Big Board

DomainTitle

Books

  • Too Big for Bottles: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets (Too Big Board Books) (reference)

  • Elmo Likes (Sesame Street Great Big Board Books) (reference)

  • Take It Easy, Zak and Wheezie (Great Big Board Book) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Big Board

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

big board gulp message

16

big board business

5

big board board ironing

4

big board bulletin kid

3

big board guy surf

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Big Board

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gabbroid.

Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-g-i-o-r"

-2 letters: gabbro.

-3 letters: aroid, board, braid, broad, dobra, rabbi, rabid, radio.

-4 letters: abri, agio, arid, barb, bard, bird, boar, bora, brad, brag, brig, brio, dago, darb, drab, drag, drib, gadi, garb, gird, giro, goad, grab, grad, grid, obia, orad, ragi, raid, road.

-5 letters: abo, ado, ago, aid, air, arb, bad, bag, bar, bib, bid, big.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-g-i-o-r"
 

+2 letters: bombarding.

 

+4 letters: billboarding.

 

+5 letters: biodegradable, breadboarding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Big Board


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

42 69 67      42 6F 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01100111 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#103 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0067      0042 006F 0061 0072 0064

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

36757323681678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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