Meaning of B | Babel Free
bDefinitions
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The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script. letter, lowercase
- latitude in the galactic coordinate system
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The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money. uncountable, usually
- byte
- A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
- A programming language from which C is derived.
- barn
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The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead. British, uncountable, usually
- An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A.
- bit
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Abbreviation of bishop. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
- Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
- bye
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The number of balls faced by a batsman. uncountable, usually
- The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
- big
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Bass. uncountable, usually
- The seventh note in the C major scale.
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Bastard. Australia, countable, euphemistic, usually
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Bitch. countable, euphemistic, usually
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Abbreviation of blood or blud: used to address a friend, especially a male. Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
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A B cell. countable, usually
Equivalents
Examples
“Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]”
“$2.8 B”
two point eight billion dollars (i.e., $2,800,000,000)
“1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 e.p. Nxd6 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Qe3+ Be7 9. Nbd2 0-0 10. 0-0-0 Re8 11. Kb1 (=)”
“The correct answer is 1.Rxf6 Rxf6 2.Rf1 Raf8 3.Qg5 Kg7 4.Nh5+ Other sub-variations work, such as playing 2.Qg5 then 3.Rf1 or playing 4.Bxf6+ first before playing 5.Nh5+.”
“I mean, some little B put in a protest because apparently a pineapple isn't strictly a flower.”
“[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.”
“You’re a fuckboy whose most used phrase is, "wag one b, wys?"[.] Pulling girls at Gravity Monday is the highlight of your week. You constantly send selfies flexing your muscles and showing off your ‘six pack.’”
“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.”
“The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff.”
“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, […]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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