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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | BTW by the way. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Slang | Phrase. Source: Unknown. Definition: By The Way. Context: Used when one wants to signify that they want to express an idea that may be slightly off topic. Social Source: Internet chat room users. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
BTW | English | By The Way | Computer - (slang, Usenet, IRC) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BTW |
| Specialty definitions using "BTW": TLAs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BTW" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (VAT). |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Hula dance" by Jana Werner Commentary: "Hula girls dancing the traditional hawaiian dance. BTW many years ago hula was only a man dance :) and nowadays you can see everywhere all those hawaiian beauties dancing hula :) Enjoy!." | "Tea for You" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "This is a close-up of a tea strainer which makes damn good tea btw." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "BTW" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "BTW" is used about 39 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 (proper) | 92.31% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (common) | 7.69% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
btw | 146 | btw trikes.org | 2 |
administratie btw | 24 | btw ce | 2 |
btw trikers.org | 22 | btw kantoor | 2 |
aangifte btw | 10 | aanvragen btw nummer | 2 |
btw site trike | 9 | btw tarieven | 2 |
btw tr.wales.nhs.uk velinde | 6 | btw trikers | 2 |
btw nummer | 6 | auto btw | 2 |
btw nummers | 5 | abbreviation btw | 2 |
berekenen btw | 4 | belgische btw | 2 |
btw does mean | 3 | btw kent klark | 2 |
btw tarief | 3 | btw overzicht | 2 |
1 2003 btw juli nieuwe per regels | 3 | btw nummer opzoeken | 2 |
btw trike | 3 | btw trikes.com | 2 |
btw subsidy | 2 | 1.4.1.6 btw widcomm | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-t-w" | |
+2 letters: bawty. | |
+3 letters: abwatt, bawtie, bestow, bewept, bowpot, twibil, wombat. | |
+4 letters: abwatts, batfowl, batwing, bawsunt, bawties, beltway, bestows, bestrew, bestrow, between, betwixt, bewitch, bewrapt, blowout, bowknot, bowpots, bowshot, brawest, catawba, howbeit, mistbow, outbawl, ribwort, rowboat, stewbum, teabowl, towboat, twibill, twibils, washtub, webfeet, webfoot, website, webster, wetback, wombats. | |
+5 letters: batfowls, bawdiest, bedstraw, bellwort, beltways, bentwood, bestowal, bestowed, bestrewn, bestrews, bestrown, bestrows, bitewing, blowiest, blowouts, blowtube, bobwhite, boomtown, bowfront, bowknots, bowshots, bowsprit, browbeat, brownest, brownout, catawbas, downbeat, drawtube, mistbows, nutbrown, outbawls, outbrawl, ribworts, rowboats, showboat, snowbelt, stewbums, stowable, sweatbox, teabowls, towboats, tubework, twibills, twinborn, washtubs, wastable, waterbed, webbiest, websites, websters, wetbacks, wettable, wombiest, workboat, writable. | |
| 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 54 57 |
| 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 01010100 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B T W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0054 0057 |
| 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)365457 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Digital Art 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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