Meaning of B | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
   letter, lowercase
2. latitude in the galactic coordinate system
3. The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money.
   uncountable, usually
4. byte
5. A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
6. A programming language from which C is derived.
7. barn
8. 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
9. An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A.
10. bit
11. Abbreviation of bishop.
    abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
12. Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
13. bye
14. The number of balls faced by a batsman.
    uncountable, usually
15. The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
16. big
17. Bass.
    uncountable, usually
18. The seventh note in the C major scale.
19. Bastard.
    Australia, countable, euphemistic, usually
20. Bitch.
    countable, euphemistic, usually
21. Abbreviation of blood or blud: used to address a friend, especially a male.
    Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
22. 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, […]”

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