Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- abbreviation complete blood count
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun acronym the complete blood count; a clinical test which counts the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in one cubic milimeter of blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism Canada, television, radio Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- initialism Japan, television, radio : Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company
- initialism medicine
complete blood count - initialism US Congressional Black Caucus
- initialism Canada, US, slang Canadian-born Chinese
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood
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Examples
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*Note: An e-mail from cbc.ca/nl webmaster John Gushue pointed out that I incorrectly identified the CBC picture in this piece as having been taken at Williams scrum discussing Ruelokke.
Archive 2006-09-01 Ed Hollett 2006
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Elf with Will Ferrell as the Santa's helper of the title CBC at 8.
Thestar.com - Home Page Debra Yeo 2010
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On the CBC, I do know where you are coming from, but as a public broadcaster the CBC is actually tied to all parties and mandated to represent all of Canada.
words 2005
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There are many here in western Canada who would debate whether or not the CBC is a mouthpiece for the government (or more accurately, the Liberal government).
words 2005
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This anti-American bias at the CBC is the consequence of a "garrison mentality" that has systematically informed the broadcaster's coverage of the US.
garrison mentality 2005
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We need to ensure that the CBC is able to connect with Canadians.
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I was astonished because the CBC is a broadcast corporation.
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Canadians must believe with "exasperated proprietary affection" the CBC is theirs.
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For now, let me turn to the upside, what the CBC is here for, the nature of the service we intend to provide Canadians in the future by reshaping the corporation with the resources we have.
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Indeed the CBC is the only service which is dedicated to being Canadian, to telling Canadian stories, to looking at the world through Canadian eyes, and to establishing the values and history of the country in which we live.
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