b
Short definition from Wiktionary
Character
- The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
- The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
Numeral
- The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
- The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
Adjective
- Abbreviation of born.
Symbol
- latitude in the galactic coordinate system
- barn
- bit
- bye
- big
- a single consonant /b/ in a word, or a dominant /b/ in a cluster.
- the sequence /biː/
- Abbreviation of be, being, or been.
- Abbreviation of by, buy, or bye.
- Abbreviation of but.
- byte
- Chemical symbol for boron.
Verb
- Abbreviation of be.
Noun
- The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money.
- The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
- Abbreviation of bishop.
- The number of balls faced by a batsman.
- Bass.
- Bastard.
- Bitch.
- Abbreviation of blood or blud: used to address a friend, especially a male.
- A B cell.
- 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.
- 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.
Suffix
- A suffix ending in -ble, optionally with a preceding vowel (-ible, -able).
Proper noun
- A programming language from which C is derived.
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