DB, dB or db may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

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Daily Bugle The ''Daily Bugle'' (at one time ''The DB'') is a fictional New York City tabloid newspaper appearing as a plot element in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The ''Daily Bugle'' is a regular fixture in the Marvel Universe, mos ...

'' or ''The DB'', a fictional New York City newspaper in Marvel Comics * ''

Doing Business Report The ease of doing business index was an index created jointly by Simeon Djankov, Michael Klein, and Caralee McLiesh, three leading economists at the World Bank Group. The academic research for the report was done jointly with professors Edward ...

'', by the World Bank Group

Music

* D♭ (musical note) *

DB Records DB Records (stylized as DB RECS) was a record label owned by Danny Beard, active from 1978 to 1997. The label was operated out of the Wax'n'Facts record store in the Atlanta, Georgia neighborhood of Little Five Points. Through the 1980s, th ...

, Atlanta, Georgia, US * The dB's, a band in the 1980 * DJ DB, a New York-based British DJ

Brands and enterprises

* DB (car), a French automobile maker *

Brit Air Brit Air (short for Brittany Air International) was a regional airline based at Morlaix Airport in Ploujean, Morlaix, Brittany, France, operating scheduled services as an Air France franchise from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport, Paris-Orly ...

(IATA airline code) *

DB Breweries DB Breweries is a New Zealand-based brewing company, owned by Heineken Asia Pacific. Founded in 1930 by Sir Henry Kelliher and W Joseph Coutts, the partners purchased Levers and Co. and the Waitemata Brewery Co. in Otahuhu. Asia Pacific Brewer ...

, a New Zealand company *

DB Networks DB Networks is a privately held Information Security company founded in the United States The company is headquartered in San Diego, California, and its regional offices are located in Palo Alto, California and Seattle, Washington. In May 2018, D ...

, an American information security firm *

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the ...

, a German railway company since 1994 *

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Sto ...

(NYSE symbol), a multinational investment bank headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany *

Deutsche Bundesbahn The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (German Federal Railway) was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). The DB remaine ...

, national railway company of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1994 * Dolderbahn, a rack railway in Zürich, Switzerland

Law enforcement

* Dead body, term used in US

law enforcement jargon Law enforcement personnel use a large body of acronyms, abbreviations, codes and slang to provide quick concise descriptions of people, places, property and situations, in both spoken and written communication. References External links Menlo ...

State Security Service (FR Yugoslavia) The State Security Service ( sr, Ресор државне безбедности, Resor državne bezbednosti; abbr. СДБ / SDB or РДБ / RDB) or simply State Security ( sr, Државна безбедност, Državna bezbednost; abbr. ДБ ...

(DB), Serbian secret police

Places

Dâmbovița County Dâmbovița County (also spelt ''Dîmbovița'', ) is a county (județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Târgoviște, the most important economic, political, administrative and cultural center of the county. It has an area of ...

(ISO 3166-2:RO code), Romania * DB Draw, a bridge over the Passaic River, US * Discovery Bay, a residential development in Hong Kong *

Dobyns-Bennett High School Dobyns-Bennett High School is a high school (grades 9–12) in Kingsport, Tennessee, United States. It typically educates around 1,800 students, although enrollment for the 2014–15 academic year exceeded 2,100 students. As a part of Kingsport ...

, Kingsport, Tennessee, US

Science and technology

Database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...

(DB), an organized collection of data on a computer system. * .db, file extension for some database files * Decibel (dB), acoustics and electronics unit * Dubnium, symbol Db, a chemical element * dyne:bolic, a Linux distribution * dry bulb, a temperature definition

Other uses

* ȸ, the db-digraph a ligature of "d" and "b" in African linguistics *

Defensive back In gridiron football, defensive backs (DBs), also called the secondary, are the players on the defensive side of the ball who play farthest back from the line of scrimmage. They are distinguished from the other two sets of defensive players, the ...

, a position in American football and Canadian football *

Defined benefit pension plan Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and a ...

, a scheme for retirement plans *

double-breasted A double-breasted garment is a coat, jacket, waistcoat, or dress with wide, overlapping front flaps which has on its front two symmetrical columns of buttons; by contrast, a single-breasted item has a narrow overlap and only one column of button ...

, a style of garment with wide, overlapping front flaps