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BIANCA

"BIANCA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "white", "fair".

Date "BIANCA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: BIANCA

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Literature

Bianca Wife of Fazio. When Fazio became rich, and got entangled with the Marchioness Aldabella, she accused him to the Duke of Florence of being privy to the death of Bartoldo, an old miser. Fazio was arrested and condemned to death. Bianca now repented of her jealous rashness, and tried to save her husband, but failing in her endeavours, went mad, and died of a broken heart. (Dean Milman: Fazio.
N. B. - The name is employed by Shakespeare both in his Taming of the Shrew and also in Othello. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Bianca

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bianca
Discovery
Discovered byVoyager 2
Discovered in1986
Orbital characteristics
Mean radius59,165 km
Eccentricity0.00088
Orbital period0.43458d
Inclination0.16°
Is a satellite ofUranus
Physical characteristics
Equatorial diameter~51.4 km
Surface area km2
Mass9.3×1016 kg
Mean density1.3 g/cm3
Surface gravity0.0093 m/s2
Rotation period?
Axial tilt
Albedo0.07
Surface temp
minmeanmax
KKK
Atmospheric pressure0 kPa

Bianca is a moon of Uranus. It was named after the sister of Katherine in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew. Other than its orbit and size, virtually nothing is known about it.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bianca."

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Crosswords: BIANCA

Specialty definitions using "BIANCA": AldabellaBartoldo. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BIANCA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (whiteness).

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Modern Usage: BIANCA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Zanna bianca alla riscossa (1974)

I Figli di Zanna Bianca (1974)

La mafia bianca Bisturi (1973)

Zanna Bianca (1973)

Pippo Briciola e Nuvola Bianca (1960)

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

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Commercial Usage: BIANCA

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Books

  • Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines (reference)

  • Bianca E Falliero, O Sia II Consiglio Dei Tre: Melodramma in Two Acts by Felice Romani (The Critical Edition of the Works of Gioachino Rossini, Section I - Operas , So3, Vol 30) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Sol Bianca - The Legacy #2: Separation (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: BIANCA

Illustrations:
BIANCA

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Computer Images:
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Digital Photo Gallery: BIANCA
 

"Bianca in jc II" by Florian Geiger
Commentary: "-i want comments !:-)-."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: BIANCA

"BIANCA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "BIANCA" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)88.89%8124,375
Unclassified Items11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: BIANCA

The following table summarizes the usage of "BIANCA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BiancaFirst name Female15,000710
BiancaLast name20038,564
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: BIANCA

"BIANCA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "white", "fair".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "BIANCA."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
BlanchFemaleEnglishBlanche
BlancheFemaleEnglishN/A
BlancheFemaleFrenchN/A
BiancaFemaleItalianBlanche
BlancaFemaleSpanishBlanche
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: BIANCA

Expression using "BIANCA": dama bianca. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIANCA

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bianca

1,796

bianca solorzano

23

bianca trump

520

bianca marroquin

23

bianca lawson

182

bianca shack

23

bianca cafe

132

bianca smut

21

bianca kajlich

129

bianca trump pic

20

bianca masturbation

82

bianca masturbation index

19

bianca chat

74

bianca overview

17

beauchamp bianca

68

bianca good

16

bbs bianca

59

bianca lawson picture

15

bianca forum

58

bianca latex

15

bianca lee

50

bb bianca

14

bianca white shadow

46

bianca feedback

14

sol bianca

43

bianca lawson pic

13

bianca venere

42

bianca villa

13

bianca smut shack

40

bianca jordan

12

bbs bianca cafe

39

bbs bianca coffee

12

bar bianca coffee discussion

38

bianca trump gallery

11

bianca jagger

34

bianca mp3 sol

11

bianca lena

32

bianca trump mpeg

11

bianca handcuffs

27

bianca spiaggia

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BIANCA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-n"

-1 letter: abaci, cabin.

-2 letters: bani, cain.

-3 letters: aba, ain, ana, ani, baa, ban, bin, cab, can, nab, nib.

-4 letters: aa, ab, ai, an, ba, bi, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-n"
 

+1 letter: carabin.

 

+2 letters: abidance, ambiance, anabatic, anabolic, banausic, barbican, botanica, brainiac, branchia, cannabic, cannabin, cannabis, cannibal, carabine, carabins, cinnabar.

 

+3 letters: abidances, ambiances, anaerobic, antiblack, balancing, baldachin, barbicans, basilican, botanical, botanicas, braincase, brainiacs, branchiae, branchial, caballing, cabbaging, cannabins, cannibals, cantabile, carabiner, carabines, carbamino, carbanion, cinnabars, cobalamin, fabricant, imbalance, incapable, incapably.

 

+4 letters: abdicating, abdication, abeyancies, abreacting, abreaction, acerbating, actionable, actionably, bacitracin, backdating, baldachino, baldachins, barracking, batrachian, beautician, blatancies, botanicals, braincases, cannabinol, cannabises, carabineer, carabinero, carabiners, carabinier, carbanions, cobalamins, cohabitant, crackbrain, fabricants, imbalanced, imbalances, incunabula, machinable, misbalance, rabbinical, subclavian.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BIANCA


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

42 49 41 4E 43 41

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    .-    -.    -.-.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01001001 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

B I A N C A

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0041 004E 0043 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

364335483735

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Digital Art
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Names: Derived from
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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