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blt

BLT
B b

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˌbiːɛlˈtiː/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˌbiːɛlˈtiː/

Definitions of blt word

  • noun abbreviation blt bacon, lettuce, and tomato: a sandwich filled with these ingredients 3
  • noun blt a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich 3
  • noun plural blt a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. 1
  • noun blt sandwich: bacon, lettuce and tomato 1
  • noun Technical meaning of blt 1. /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ Synonym for blit. This is the original form of blit and the ancestor of bitblt. It refers to any large bit-field copy or move operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS and TOPS-10 was sardonically referred to as "The Big BLT"). The jargon usage has outlasted the PDP-10 BLock Transfer instruction from which BLT derives; nowadays, the assembly language mnemonic BLT almost always means "Branch if Less Than zero". 2. bacon, lettuce and tomato (sandwich). 1
  • noun blt (cooking, initialism) A sandwich with bacon, lettuce and tomato as the main ingredients. 0

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Origin of blt

First appearance:

before 1950
One of the 5% newest English words
First recorded in 1950-55

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Blt

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

blt popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

blt usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for blt

noun blt

  • hoagie — a hero sandwich.
  • hero — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
  • sub — a submarine.
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • reuben — the eldest son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29, 30.

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