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B-52

Definition: B-52

B-52

Noun

1. US military aircraft; B- stands for bomber.

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

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Crosswords: B-52

Specialty definitions using "B-52": BUFF's. (references)

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Modern Usage: B-52

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Bombers B-52 (1957)

B-52 (2001)

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

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Commercial Usage: B-52

DomainTitle

Books

  • The B-52 Overture: The North Vietnamese Assault on Special Forces Camp A-242, Dak Pek (The Dell War Series) (reference)

  • Venite venite B-52 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: B-52

Photos:
B-52

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Usage Frequency: B-52

"B-52" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "B-52" is used about 13 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 (singular)53.85%7133,076
Adjective (general or positive)38.46%5157,705
Noun (proper)7.69%1339,140
                    Total100.00%13N/A

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

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Alternative Orthography: B-52


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

42 2D 35 32

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

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

01000010 00101101 00110101 00110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#45 &#53 &#50

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 002D 0035 0032

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

36152320

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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