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Specialty Definition: BBC

Domain	Definition
Computing	BBC British Broadcasting Corporation. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BBC

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
BBC	English	Bergen Brunswig Corp.	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: BBC

English words defined with "BBC": special. (references)

Specialty definitions using "BBC": 6502 ♦ Acorn Computers Ltd., Advanced RISC Machine ♦ BBC Microcomputer, BBC Networking Club, British Broadcasting Corporation ♦ call-by-value-result ♦ Open University ♦ Seiko RC-4000, Small-C ♦ The Cuckoo's Egg, TLAs ♦ xbeeb. (references)

Non-English Usage: "BBC" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Turkish (the beeb).

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Modern Usage: BBC

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Carpenters 1971 BBC Television Special (1971)

BBC 3 (1965)

Hilsen fra BBC (1951)

The BBC Television Newsreel (1948)

BBC TV Cricket (1938)

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

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Commercial Usage: BBC

Domain	Title
Books	A Question of Trust : The BBC Reith Lectures 2002 (reference) Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the Pbs Series (Best of the Bbc) (reference) Bbc Presents Agatha Christies 13 at Dinner (reference) Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The BBC Experiments, 1931�1933 (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Bbc Report And Accounts (reference) Bbc Gardeners World (reference) Bbc Top Gear (reference) Bbc History Magazine (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	BBC Shakespeare Tragedies DVD Giftbox (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Anarchic Airways - Live at the BBC [IMPORT] [LIVE] (reference) Singing the Bruise: The BBC Sessions, 1970-1972 [LIVE] [IMPORT] (reference) College Rock: Live BBC TV Broadcast [LIVE] (reference) Darkness & Light: The Complete BBC (reference) Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969 BBC Television Coverage) [SOUNDTRACK] [LIVE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BBC

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Turkey	Neither BBC nor Deutsche Welle rebroadcast by year's end. (references)
	Djibouti	The BBC and RTD broadcast 24 hours a day in four languages on the radio. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	The RFI and BBC stations only retransmit internationally produced programming. (references)
Economic History	Switzerland	Generally, CNN International and BBC Prime are available, in English, on most cable systems in the major cities. (references)
	Norway	A minute of prime time on TV Norge costs about $5,000. Key Norwegian decision-makers can also be reached via CNN, CNBC and BBC World, which are available via cable or satellite in all major towns. (references)
	New Zealand	It offers a 24-hour news (CNN and BBC) channel, a movie channel (HBO), a sports channel (ESPN), a family channel (Orange), and a documentary channel (Discovery) combined with local horse racing (Trackside). (references)
Human Rights	United Kingdom	In March a car bomb exploded outside a BBC building in London. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	In addition to domestic and satellite television services, there is a pay cable network, which directly rebroadcasts uncensored Cable News Network (CNN), the BBC, the London-based, Saudi-owned Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), Dubai-TV, Kuwait-TV, Gazira TV, and a variety of other foreign programming. (references)
Travel	Thailand	Thailand is served by the major international cable television channels including CNN, BBC, CNBC, ABN, Star TV, HBO, etc. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BBC

"BBC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "BBC" is used about 4,225 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 (proper)	96.55%	4,079	2,411
Noun (singular)	2.25%	95	33,629
Noun (common)	1.21%	51	47,619
Total	100.00%	4,225	N/A

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

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Expressions: BBC

Expressions using "BBC": BBC Microcomputer ♦ BBC Networking Club. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "BBC": bbc-approved, bbc-bashing, bbc-commissioned, bbc-designed, bbc-funded, Bbc-itv, bbc-rte, Bbc-thames, bbc-trained, bbc-type, bbc-wildlife.
	Ending with "BBC": All-bbc, ex-bbc, Non-bbc.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BBC

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
bbc	19,155	arabic bbc	239
bbc news	11,489	bbc online	235
bbc sport	2,138	bbc africa	207
bbc mega tsunami	2,081	bbc cricket	167
bbc america	1,316	bbc football	154
bbc weather	943	bbc.co.uk eastenders	149
bbc sports	885	bbc news.com	144
bbc world news	860	bbc news uk	144
bbc world service	466	2 bbc radio	143
bbc.co.uk z	461	arabic bbc news	142
bbc.co.uk privacy	411	bbc urdu	137
bbc persian	391	bbc digital scotland	134
bbc.co.uk weather	342	bbc uk	125
bbc radio	334	bbc farsi	119
africa bbc focus	315	bbc eastenders	113
bbc.co.uk tv	310	africa bbc news	106
bbc world	293	1 bbc	100
bbc.co.uk category	288	bbc com	99
bbc.co.uk communicate	254	bbc food	97
bbc radio 1	254	bbc bitesize	97
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BBC

Language		Translations for "BBC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		britská rozhlasová spoleènost. (various references)

Pig Latin		bbcay

Spanish		corporación nacional británica de radiodifusión. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BBC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words containing the letters "b-b-c"
	+1 letter: cobb.
	+2 letters: cabby, cabob, cobbs, cobby, cubby, cubeb.
	+3 letters: abbacy, bicarb, bobcat, cabbed, cabbie, cabobs, chubby, clubby, cobber, cobble, cobweb, crabby, cubebs, scabby.
	+4 letters: abbotcy, babiche, backbit, bibasic, bibcock, bicarbs, bobcats, bobeche, bubonic, buyback, cabbage, cabbala, cabbies, cabbing, cabomba, clabber, clobber, clubbed, clubber, cobbers, cobbier, cobbled, cobbler, cobbles, cobwebs, crabbed, crabber, cribbed, cribber, crybaby, cubbies, cubbish, kebbock, kebbuck, scabbed, scabble, scrubby.
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