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;"Before the Common Era": equivalent to BC ("Before Christ") or Ante Christum Natum ("ACN") and opposed to Common Era ("CE"), Anno Domini ("A.D."). For a discussion, see Common Era. ;European Central Bank (ECB): in Romance languages ;Bell Canada Enterprises: Canada's largest telecom corporation
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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 |
BCE | English | Budapest Commodity Exchange | N/A |
BCE | French | Banque centrale européenne | European Union |
BCE | Italian | Banca centrale europea | European Union |
BCE | Portuguese | Banco Central Europeu | N/A |
BCE | Spanish | Banco central europeo | European Union |
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. | |
| "BCE" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 38.89% of the time. "BCE" is used about 18 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 (common) | 38.89% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Canada | BCE Emergis Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
bce bell biz canada enterprise inc not | 31 |
b3 bce c3 c5 podr | 5 |
1610im bce btc | 3 |
bce btc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "BCE": subceiling, subceilings, subcell, subcellar, subcellars, subcells, subcellular, subcenter, subcenters, subcentral, subcentrally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e" | |
-1 letter: be. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e" | |
+1 letter: beck, bice, cube. | |
+2 letters: acerb, beach, becap, becks, beech, belch, bench, bices, bocce, boche, brace, caber, cable, cebid, ceiba, celeb, coble, combe, cubeb, cubed, cuber, cubes, rebec, xebec, zebec. | |
+3 letters: abduce, abject, amebic, baccae, bached, baches, backed, backer, beachy, beacon, becalm, became, becaps, becked, becket, beckon, beclog, become, bedeck, beechy, bemock, beylic, biceps, bicker, biface, bisect, bleach, blench, bocces, boccie, boches, bodice, boucle, bounce, braced, bracer, braces, breach, breech, broche, bucked, bucker, bucket, buckle, cabbed, cabbie, cabers, cabled, cables, cablet, cabmen, camber, caribe, cebids, ceboid, ceibas, celebs, chebec, cherub, cobber, cobble, cobles, cobweb, combed, comber, combes, coombe, corbel, corbie, crambe, cubage, cubebs, cubers, cumber, curbed, curber, ibices, icebox, object, obtect, rebeck, rebecs, recomb, rubace, scribe, terbic, xebecs, zebeck, zebecs. | |
| 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 45 |
| 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 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0043 0045 |
| 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)363739 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Company Usage | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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