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| 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 |
BCA | English | Boeing Commercial Airplanes | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Foreign firms not registered with the BCA must appoint a qualified distributor. (references) | |
Only firms meeting the BCA requirements are allowed to obtain tender documents. (references) | ||
The BCA qualifies firms according to their technical and financial ability to carry out a project. (references) | ||
Economic History | Singapore | Outlook for 2002: The BCA forecasts a total construction demand in 2002 in the region of US$8.82 billion. (references) |
Indonesia | However, IBRA has moved very cautiously on selling the banks under its control to private investors, and postponed the sale of a 30-percent stake in Bank Central Asia (BCA) in July 2001. BCA is Indonesia's third largest bank and one of IBRA's flagship assets, so investors will be watching carefully to see whether and when the sale proceeds. (references) | |
Trade | Cape Verde | The BCA corresponds with some twenty international banks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BCA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "BCA" 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) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| 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 |
bca bearing | 26 |
bca ntn | 3 |
assay bca | 2 |
assay bca protein | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "BCA": bobcat, bobcats, dumbcane, dumbcanes, hubcap, hubcaps, mobcap, mobcaps, subcabinet, subcapsular, subcaste, subcastes, subcategories, subcategorization, subcategorizations, subcategorize, subcategorized, subcategorizes, subcategorizing, subcategory, subcause, subcauses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cab. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c" | |
-1 letter: ab, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c" | |
+1 letter: bach, back, cabs, carb, crab, scab. | |
+2 letters: abaca, abaci, aback, acerb, bacca, backs, bacon, banco, baric, basic, batch, beach, becap, black, brace, brach, bract, cabal, cabby, caber, cabin, cable, cabob, carbo, carbs, carob, ceiba, cobia, cobra, crabs, rabic, scabs, scuba. | |
+3 letters: abacas, abacus, abbacy, abduce, abduct, abject, abulic, amebic, arabic, aucuba, baccae, bached, baches, backed, backer, backup, bacons, bacula, bancos, bardic, basics, beachy, beacon, becalm, became, becaps, bicarb, biface, bipack, blacks, blanch, bleach, bobcat, boccia, bonaci, boxcar, braced, bracer, braces, brachs, bracts, branch, breach, broach, buccal, buckra, cabala, cabals, cabana, cabbed, cabbie, cabers, cabins, cabled, cables, cablet, cabman, cabmen, cabobs, camber, cambia, carbon, carbos, carboy, caribe, carobs, casaba, casbah, ceibas, chabuk, cobalt, cobias, cobras, combat, confab, corban, crabby, crambe, crambo, cubage, cymbal, fabric, hubcap, iambic, mobcap, rubace, sacbut, scabby, scarab, scubas, tambac, tombac. | |
| 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 43 41 |
| 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 01000011 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B C A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0043 0041 |
| 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)363735 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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