Meaning of bill | Babel Free

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1. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
2. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
3. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
4. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
5. A diminutive of the male given name William.
6. count, tally
7. A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
8. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
9. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
10. A diminutive of the male given name Bilal.
    rare
11. operation
12. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
13. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
14. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
15. A surname.
16. A pickaxe or mattock.
17. A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
    obsolete
18. A nickname for the British constabulary. Often called "The Bill" or "Old Bill"
    British, slang
19. tab (e.g. at a bar or pub)
20. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
21. A piece of paper money; a banknote.
    Canada, US
22. account
23. One hundred dollars.
    Canada, US, slang
24. One hundred pounds sterling.
    UK, slang
25. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
26. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
    India, slang
27. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
28. A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
29. A set of items presented together.
30. A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
    UK

Equivalents

Examples

“Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Prime Minister, I beg to introduce a bill entitled[…]”

“Why, I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men.”

“David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.”

“... the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality ...”

“He gave the change for a three dollar bill. Upon examination, the bill proved to be counterfeit.”

“[…]So I wropped 'em up in a five dollar bill and tied 'em up and sent 'em, and they ain't back yet.””

“I ran into the Devil, babe, he loaned me 20 bills.”

“There was no excuse, simply no excuse for not making four or five bills a week. A little initiative, that's all.”

“All we got from her was Stranahan's location, and barely that. A house in the bay, she said. A house with a windmill. Easiest five bills that woman ever made.”

“In the conversation Henshall says he "struggling to find people to go up the roads" explaining how it would be "no good for black people" and how they need a "young white boy to go up there". Stock agrees, saying how he knows "this kid" who "owes me 12 bills".”

“He received a bill of £9 for the groceries.”

“My lord, here is my bill.”

“In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants.”

“Ay, and Rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson; who writes himself Armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero.”

“Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party”

“One of the best stories of the period describes the misadventure of a batch of candidates for confirmation whose names were by accident sent up to the Head-Master on a piece of paper identical in size and shape with the "bill" used by the Masters for the purpose of reporting delinquents. Keate, we are told, insisted on flogging all the boys mentioned in the document […]”

“The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill[…]”

“[…] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.”

“There is a lighthouse on Portland Bill.”

“At Floddon hyllys, / Our bowys, our byllys / Slew all the floure / Of theyr honoure.”

“In the British Museum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authorising him to impress smiths for making two thousand Welch bills or glaives.”

“France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows and bills.”

“The bittern's hollow bill was heard.”

“"My other name's Bill," he said. "I was christened Bill but Mr Thursgood calls me William." / "Bill, eh. The unpaid Bill. Anyone ever call you that?" / "No, sir." / "Good name, anyway." / "Yes, sir." / "Known a lot of Bills. They've all been good 'uns."”

“One of his neighbours opposite, a nice old guy with a stoop and a horrible little Yorkshire terrier, called him Bill - always had done and presumably always would, right up till the day he died. It actually irritated Will, who was not, he felt, by any stretch of the imagination, a Bill. Bill wouldn't smoke spliffs and listen to Nirvana. So why had he allowed this misapprehension to continue? Why hadn't he just said, four years ago, "Actually my name is Will"?”

“Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.””

“Bill Essayli, Trump’s pick in April to temporarily lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, should have departed the post by July 31 under a 120-day limit imposed by federal law, U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright concluded.”

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