Pronunciations (2)
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/b/
Pronunciation notes
- phoneme
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/biː/
Pronunciation notes
- letter
- name
Character
The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
Usage- letter
- uppercase
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Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]
Numeral
The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
Usage- uppercase
- number
Noun
The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money.
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
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$2.8 B
The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
Usage- UK usage
- Uncountable
- usually
The number of balls faced by a batsman.
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
Bass.
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
Bastard.
Usage- Australia
- Countable
- euphemistic
- usually
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I mean, some little B put in a protest because apparently a pineapple isn't strictly a flower.
Bitch.
Usage- Countable
- euphemistic
- usually
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[quoting an ethnographer’s account:] He then called me a “dumb B” and hung up the phone. Meredith pauses, looks at Graciela, and says, “Okay, I need you to be as specific as you can, so that means you’re going to have to tell me what he called you, exactly.” […] Graciela grabs the pen and writes down, “Dumb Bitch.” […] Robert then arrived at my house that day to see our son and upon leaving said, “I’ll see you in court you Dumb B.”
And then he looked again and she wasn’t there. So he probably thought, ‘Stupid B’. You know.
Yo, I got this bad B coming from upsy. She just wanna bruck her back and give ucky.
A B cell.
Usage- Countable
- usually
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Mind your Bs and Ts […] And if the combined efforts of macrophages, b cells and t cells are sufficient, the pathogen will be beaten back and eventually cleared from the body.
byte
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Noun
A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A.
Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
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The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff.
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The baddest of the Bs, then, are a rare, precious mix of jerry-built production values and jazzed-up creative juices. But that’s not to say that even with a budget, a B movie can’t still bounce way off the wall, […]
The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
The seventh note in the C major scale.
Proper noun
A programming language from which C is derived.
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- A-B powerA-B poweringantihemophilic factor BArea BB-1basic BB-factoryB-fieldB-heptominoB-listB mesonB-reelB-sheafB-sideB-stageB storyB-tierB virusB vitaminFacey BLake Bordeaux Bmeningitis BPart B statepeyssonol Bplan BPre-Pottery Neolithic Bprothromboplastin Bsulforhodamine Bthere is no Planet BTIS-B
Noun
aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
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originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins
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a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder
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a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
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the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet
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the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen
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