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BCF

Specialty Definition: BCF

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

BCF may stand for:

BCF is the SIL code for the Papua New Guinea language Bamu.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BCF

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

bcf

EnglishBulked continuous fiberN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Photo Album: BCF

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Launching party of DAVID STARR JORDAN at Christy Shipyards. Bob Wolf of BCF in center of photo (tallest) and F. E. Carbine, Regional Director of BCF Great Lakes on far right. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: BCF

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Venezuela

Venezuela currently produces about 6 BCF. The government envisions a modern, environmentally sound industrial base through plentiful cheap gas and cheap electricity. (references)

Venezuela

Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) announced a projected Venezuelan gas production of roughly 14.5 billion cubic feet (BCF) in 2010, which represents an increase of approximately 2 BCF over the prior expansion plans. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BCF

"BCF" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BCF" 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 (common)66.67%6143,867
Noun (proper)33.33%3202,518
                    Total100.00%9N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BCF

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

bcf

49

bcf playboy

4

advanced ama apprenticeships apprenticeships bcf can career center coating coating college coshh distance external fma foundation get gnvq industrial industry ink it learning level level life modern most nvq opentech paint pay person pigment powder powder qualification qualification real real return s s school science solvent story success surface tasc tec technology trained training training visible we work work workplace young

2

bcf carpet dupont

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BCF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-c-f"
 

+3 letters: biface, confab, fabric.

 

+4 letters: backfit, befleck, benefic, bifaces, bifocal, confabs, fabrics, fatback, finback, subfusc.

 

+5 letters: backfill, backfire, backfits, backflow, beatific, beefcake, beflecks, benefice, bifacial, bifocals, blackfin, blackfly, boldface, boniface, clubfeet, clubfoot, cubiform, faceable, fallback, fastback, fatbacks, febrific, feedback, fencible, fibrotic, finbacks, fireback, forcible, forcibly, fullback, halfback, morbific, softback, subchief.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BCF


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

42 43 46

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

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

=

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 01000011 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#67 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0043 0046

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

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

363740

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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