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B
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- 1 Abbreviation of born. abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
- 1 The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script. letter, lowercase
- 2 The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script. letter, uppercase
"Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]"
- 1 A programming language from which C is derived.
- 1 The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money. uncountable, usually
"$2.8 B"
- 2 A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
- 3 aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil wordnet
- 4 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
- 5 An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A.
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- 6 the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen wordnet
- 7 Abbreviation of bishop. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
"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 (=)"
- 8 Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
"The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff."
- 9 the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet wordnet
- 10 The number of balls faced by a batsman. uncountable, usually
- 11 The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
- 12 (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter wordnet
- 13 Bass. uncountable, usually
- 14 The seventh note in the C major scale.
- 15 a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels wordnet
- 16 Bastard. Australia, countable, euphemistic, usually
"I mean, some little B put in a protest because apparently a pineapple isn't strictly a flower."
- 17 a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder wordnet
- 18 Bitch. countable, euphemistic, usually
"[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.”"
- 19 originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins wordnet
- 20 Abbreviation of blood or blud: used to address a friend, especially a male. Multicultural-London-English, abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
"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.’"
- 21 A B cell. countable, usually
"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."
- 1 The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script. lowercase
- 2 The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script. uppercase
- 1 latitude in the galactic coordinate system
- 2 byte
- 3 barn
- 4 bit
- 5 bye
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- 6 big
- 1 Abbreviation of be. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of
"ima prolly b at home tn"
Etymology
Abbreviations.
From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).
From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).
From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. * (billion): abbreviation of billion * (cricket): abbreviation of balls * (bitch): abbreviation of bitch
From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. * (billion): abbreviation of billion * (cricket): abbreviation of balls * (bitch): abbreviation of bitch
From the use of the letter ‘B’ as an arbitrary label among other letter labels. * (personality type): from contrast with the letter ‘A’ and its corresponding personality type * (academic grade): from the position of the letter ‘B’ in the English alphabet
Possibly a contraction of BCPL (“Basic Combined Programming Language”), the name of a programming language from which B was derived. Dennis Ritchie (a coworker of B’s designer, Ken Thompson) speculated that B might be based on Bon (the name of an earlier, but unrelated, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics), itself either from Bonnie (the name of Thompson’s wife) or “(according to an encyclopedia quotation in its manual), after a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas”.
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