BL
Appearance
BL (or similar) may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Boys' love, a Japanese term for fiction featuring romantic relationships between male characters
- BL Publishing, a division of the wargames manufacturing company, Games Workshop
- Boston Legal, a US legal comedy-drama
Businesses and organizations
[edit]- Balmer Lawrie, an Indian central public sector undertaking conglomerate
- Bell Labs, an audio-technology research and design enterprise
- Boys' Latin School of Maryland, a US private school
- Brisbane Lions, an Australian rules football team in the Australian Football League
- British Library, the UK's national library
- British Leyland, a former UK vehicle manufacturing company
- Pacific Airlines (IATA code BL), a low-cost airline
- Lytvyn Bloc, a Ukrainian political party
Food and drink
[edit]- Bitter lemon, a carbonated soft drink
- Bud Light, an American lager beer
Law
[edit]- Bachelor of Laws (B.L.), an undergraduate degree in law
- Barrister-at-Law, a degree and professional qualification in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Nigeria.
Places
[edit]- BL postcode area, UK, covering Bolton and Bury in Greater Manchester
- Bakerloo line, a London Underground line
- Banja Luka, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Saint Barthélemy [ISO country code BL], a Caribbean overseas collectivity of France
- Basel-Landschaft (Basel-Country), a canton of Switzerland
- Province of Belluno, Italy (car-license plate abbreviation BL)
- Bolivia (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram BL), a central South American country
- Brazil, LOC MARC code
Science and technology
[edit]Mathematics and computing
[edit]- BL (logic), the logic of continuous t-norms
- BL register, the low byte of an X86 16-bit BX register
- Bootloader
Health and medicine
[edit]- Accupressure or acupuncture points, e.g., BL-34 or BL-54
- Burkitt's lymphoma, a disease
- Borderline lepromatous leprosy, a disease
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- B − L (B minus L), in physics
- Backhoe loader, an engineering vehicle
- Black light, a lamp which operates near the ultraviolet range of light
- Carl Ludwig Blume, botanist, abbreviated Bl.
- Breech-loading weapon, designated BL in British artillery
- One of the Thiele/Small electromechanical parameters of loudspeakers
- Base Line, a theoretical reference line from which features are measured or compared
Sports
[edit]- Bundesliga, the highest association football league in Germany
Other uses
[edit]- Ы, Yery or Yeru, a letter in the Cyrillic script, which resembles lowercase B and L written together (bl)
- BL, braille shorthand for blind
- Bakerloo line, a London Underground line
- Bill of lading, a receipt issued by a shipping carrier
- Blessed, an honorific prefix given to beatified Catholics
- Blue Line (Washington Metro)
- Body language, a form of non-verbal communication
- Bhutia-Lepcha, an ethnic grouping of people for which there are reserved seats in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly, in India