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DB
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Appendix:Variations of "db"
English
Noun
en law enforcement en dead body.
en 1952 LIFE 32 1 20 With an extra-long weekend before Christmas and New Year's Day coming up, the police of motorized, subwayless Los Angeles had learned by experience to expect plenty of wrecked cars and DBs (dead bodies) on their hands.
en American football Canadian football en defensive back.
en databases en database.
en MongoDB
en US military en depot brigade.
en UK pensions en defined benefits.
en television en delayed broadcast.
en dirty book: a pornographic publication.
en diplomatic bag.
en cricket en dot ball.
en rhythmic gymnastics en difficulty of body.
Derived terms
en databases DBMS DDBMS ODBC OODBMS ORDBMS RDBMS
Translations
initialism of database
Portuguese: pt BD f
Proper noun
en rail transport en de deutsche Deutsche de Bahn German Railways. Previously used by its predecessor, Deutsche Bundesbahn.
in place name histories en Domesday Book.
en classics en w:Behistun Inscription Inscription of Darius at Bisutun.
en fandom slang en w:Dragon Ball.
en stock symbol en w:Deutsche Bank.
en Laura He China woos Tesla, JP Morgan and other Western companies as foreign investment slumps w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/economy/china-pboc-foreign-investment-drive-intl-hnk 2023-09-19 Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and head of the country’s foreign exchange regulator, chaired a symposium with representatives from foreign companies, including JP Morgan, Tesla (TSLA), HSBC (HSBC), Deutsche Bank (DB), BNP Paribas, Japan’s MUFG Bank, German chemical producer BASF, commodities trader Trafigura and Schneider Electric, according to a statement posted on the websites of the PBOC and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). https://web.archive.org/web/20260104182321/https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/economy/china-pboc-foreign-investment-drive-intl-hnk 4 January 2026
Usage notes
Sense 4: used chiefly to refer to the manga and the first anime series (both named Dragon Ball) rather than the franchise as a whole.
Anagrams
en bd B & D B/D BD Bd Bd. b/d bd bd.
German
Proper noun
de prop f
de rail transport de w:Deutsche Bahn, the national railway company of Germany
Indonesian
Pronunciation
id /ˈde.be/
Noun
id demam berdarah hemorrhagic fever
Romanian
Proper noun
ro prop
ro @abbrev of:Dâmbovița county c/Romania