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CBE

"CBE" is a common misspelling or typo for: be, cube, cubed, cue.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: CBE

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

CBE

EnglishCenter for Biomedical EthicsN/A

CBE

FrenchCations basiques échangeablesGeography

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

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Synonyms: CBE

Synonyms by domain: Center for Biomedical Engineering (medicine), Center for Biomedical Ethics, Central Bank of Egypt (finance), cesium bombardment engine (engineering & technology), Cheese Bureau of England (food & agriculture), Chemical Beam Epitaxy (physics), chemical binding effect (chemistry), circuit board extractor (engineering & technology), circuit-breaker for equipment, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (finance), compressioin bonding encapsulation (engineering & technology), computer aided instruction (computing, education), computer assisted instruction, computer-aided teaching, computer-assisted teaching, computer-based education, computer-based instruction, Conference of Biological Editors (biology & biotechnology, publishing & graphic arts).

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Commercial Usage: CBE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Straight and Level: Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth 'Bing' Cross, Kcb, Cbe, Dso, Dfc With Professor Vincent Orange (reference)

  • Algae & the Aquatic Environment (Contributions in Honour of J. W. G. Lind, CBE, Frs): Contributions in Honour of J. W. G. Lund (reference)

  • Young Kauri, 1875-1975 : personal recollections of Sir Alfred Hamish Reed CBE (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: CBE

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The CBE and the Big Four still operate with a unified interest rate structure and borrowing terms, and are thus unable to differentiate themselves in the eyes of their customers. (references)

Banks are, theoretically, free to set their own interest and exchange rates, although in practice the CBE sets very narrow ranges using a number of formal and informal guidelines. (references)

In 1992, the GOE set the exchange rate and allowed what were formerly black market exchange houses to act lawfully under the supervision of the CBE. In the past, the black market served businessmen and individuals travelling abroad. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

The money supply (M-2) grew almost 12% year-on-year during the first 9 months of FY 00/01 with growth for the full fiscal year expected at about 12%. In contrast to 1999 and early 2000, the CBE was more active in sterilizing sales of foreign exchange through "REPOs" of treasury bills. (references)

Trade

Egypt

The CBE uses T-Bill auctions and discount rates in its monetary policy. (references)

Egypt

The CBE regulates the banking system by setting reserve and liquidity requirements and rules for loan classification. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: CBE

"CBE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.69% of the time. "CBE" is used about 130 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)57.69%7538,535
Noun (proper)42.31%5545,713
                    Total100.00%130N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CBE

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

cbe

114

cbe group

22

cbe technology

7

cbe stock

4

cbe ktunh

4

cbe obe

4

cbe vpugkho

3

cbe style manual

3

cbe mbe obe

2

cbe hartk

2

calgary cbe

2

cbe tech texas

2

cbe inc

2

cbe style

2

cbe epals

2

cbe group inc

2

cbe shxeuby

2

cbe format

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

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Anagrams: CBE

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.

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Alternative Orthography: CBE


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

43 42 45

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)

01000011 01000010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#66 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0042 0045

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

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

373639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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