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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CBD component based development. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Census | (Commerce Business Daily) A newspaper published by the Department of Commerce. Its function is to publicize all procurement notices and awards in the Federal Government. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Central business district, (CBD, also Downtown and Center city) is a term referring to the commercial centre of a city.
The term 'Downtown' is often used in the United States. The term 'CBD' is often used Australasia, but is sometimes used elsewhere.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Central business district."
| 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 |
CBD | English | Center for Biodynamics | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Auckland Marina" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "Westhaven marina, Auckland West, with view of CBD and Sky tower in the background." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "CBD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.35% of the time. "CBD" is used about 43 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) | 95.35% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.65% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| South Africa | CBD Property Fund |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CBD": Mid-cbd. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
cbd | 562 | cbd distributor | 4 |
cbd com | 44 | book cbd distributor | 3 |
cbd christian book distributor | 25 | cbd jpeo | 3 |
book cbd | 23 | book cbd store | 3 |
sydney cbd map | 8 | accommodation cbd sydney | 3 |
cbd runescape | 7 | cbd home school | 3 |
cbd map melbourne | 7 | cbd kid | 3 |
cbd media | 6 | cbd online | 3 |
best cbd seller | 5 | cbd hotel sydney | 2 |
cbd christian book | 5 | cbd sydney | 2 |
cbd hotel perth | 5 | cbd coupon | 2 |
cbd new orleans | 4 | cbd network | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CBD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | city-functies (CBD-functions). (various references) | |
French | fonctions de la "city" (CBD-functions). (various references) | |
German | City-Funktionen (CBD-functions). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | cbday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d" | |
+2 letters: cebid, cubed. | |
+3 letters: abduce, abduct, bached, backed, bardic, becked, bedeck, bodice, bonduc, braced, bucked, cabbed, cabled, cebids, ceboid, combed, cuboid, curbed. | |
+4 letters: abduced, abduces, abducts, abscond, baldric, batched, bawdric, beached, becloud, becrowd, bedecks, bedrock, bedtick, bedunce, belaced, belched, benched, biocide, birched, bitched, blacked, blocked, bodices, bonducs, botched, bounced, bracted, bricked, brocade, buckled, bunched, buncoed, burdock, cabildo, cabined, carabid, carbide, catbird, ceboids, climbed, clubbed, cobbled, codable, cordoba, cowbind, cowbird, crabbed, cribbed, crumbed, cuboids, cudbear, debacle, debauch, debouch, decibel, dibasic, dieback, pedicab, rubidic, scabbed, scribed, sickbed, subacid, subcode, subduce, subduct. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Digital Art 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Company Usage 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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