BL (or similar) may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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BL Publishing, a division of the wargames manufacturing company, Games Workshop
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Boston Legal
''Boston Legal'' is an American legal drama and comedy drama television series created by former lawyer and Boston native David E. Kelley, produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3, 2004, t ...
'', a US legal comedy drama
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Boys' love, Japanese term for female-oriented fiction featuring idealized romantic relationships between two males
Businesses and organizations
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Bell Labs, an audio-technology research and design enterprise
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Boys' Latin School of Maryland, a US private school
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Brisbane Lions, an Australian rules football team in the Australian Football League
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British Library, the UK's national library
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British Leyland, a former UK vehicle manufacturing company
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Pacific Airlines
Pacific Airlines Joint Stock Aviation Company (, operating as Pacific Airlines) is a low-cost airline headquartered in Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With its operating base at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh ...
(IATA code BL), a low-cost airline
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Lytvyn Bloc, a Ukrainian political party
Food and drink
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Bitter lemon, a carbonated soft drink
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Bud Light
Anheuser-Busch, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, is the largest brewing company in the United States, with a market share of 45 percent in 2016.
The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and nearly 20 in othe ...
, an American lager beer
In law
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Bachelor of Laws (B.L.), an undergraduate degree in law
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Barrister
A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...
-at-Law, a degree and professional qualification in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Nigeria.
Places
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BL postcode area
The BL postcode area, also known as the Bolton postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of ten postcode districts in North West England. These cover most of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton and the northern and ...
, UK, covering Bolton and Bury in Greater Manchester
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Bakerloo line, a London Underground line
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Banja Luka, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Saint Barthélemy SO country code ''BL'' a Caribbean overseas collectivity of France
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Basel-Landschaft (Basel-Country), a canton of Switzerland
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Province of Belluno
The Province of Belluno ( it, Provincia di Belluno; de-AT, Provinz Belluno; lld, Provinzia de Belum) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Belluno.
It has an area of and a total population of about 205,000.
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, Italy (car-license plate abbreviation ''BL'')
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Bolivia
, image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg
, flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center
, flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
(FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram ''BL''), a central South-American country
Science and technology
Mathematics and computing
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BL (logic), the logic of continuous t-norms
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BL register, the low byte of an X86 16-bit BX register
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Bootloader
Health and medicine
*Accupressure or
acupuncture points, e.g., BL-34 or BL-54
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Burkitt's lymphoma
Burkitt lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system, particularly B lymphocytes found in the germinal center. It is named after Denis Parsons Burkitt, the Irish surgeon who first described the disease in 1958 while working in equatorial Africa. ...
, a disease
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Borderline lepromatous leprosy, a disease
Other uses in science and technology
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B − L (B minus L), in physics
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Backhoe loader, an engineering vehicle
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Black light
A blacklight, also called a UV-A light, Wood's lamp, or ultraviolet light, is a lamp that emits long-wave (UV-A) ultraviolet light and very little visible light. One type of lamp has a violet filter material, either on the bulb or in a separat ...
, a lamp which operates near the ultraviolet range of light
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Carl Ludwig Blume, botanist, abbreviated Bl.
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Breech-loading weapon
A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition (cartridge or shell) via the rear (breech) end of its barrel, as opposed to a muzzleloader, which loads ammunition via the front ( muzzle).
Modern firearms are generally breec ...
, designated BL in British artillery
* One of the
Thiele/Small Thiele/Small parameters (commonly abbreviated T/S parameters, or TSP) are a set of electromechanical parameters that define the specified low frequency performance of a loudspeaker driver. These parameters are published in specification sheets by dr ...
electromechanical parameters of loudspeakers
Other uses
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Ы, Yery or Yeru, a letter in the Cyrillic script
* BL,
braille shorthand for blind
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Bakerloo line, a London Underground line
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Bill of lading, a receipt issued by a shipping carrier
* ''Blessed'', an honorific prefix given to
beatified
Beatification (from Latin ''beatus'', "blessed" and ''facere'', "to make”) is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their nam ...
Catholics
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Body language, a form of non-verbal communication
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Bhutia-Lepcha, an ethnic grouping of people for which there are reserved seats in the Sikkim Legislative assembly, in India
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