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Pb

adj, name, noun, symbol, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Initialism of plant-based. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Paraíba: a state of Brazil. abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 2
    Abbreviation of Punjab: a state of India. abbreviation, alt-of
  3. 3
    Initialism of West Papua: a province of Indonesia. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    Initialism of PowerBook (“family of Macintosh laptop computers”). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "When I charge my Powerbook Battery by hooking up the AC adapter to my PB, should I disconnect the AC adapter when the chooser's Battery shows that the batter is charged? Can I safely leave the AC adapter hooked to the PB so I can use the batter for later? Help, I do not want to tear any thing up."

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of peanut butter. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  2. 2
    Abbreviation of power brakes. abbreviation, alt-of
  3. 3
    a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes wordnet
  4. 4
    Initialism of personal best. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. 5
    a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes wordnet
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  1. 6
    Initialism of plate block. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  2. 7
    a unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits wordnet
  3. 8
    Initialism of prime broker or prime brokerage. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  4. 9
    a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey wordnet
  5. 10
    Initialism of patrol bomber. US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  6. 11
    Initialism of parallel bars. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  7. 12
    Initialism of power brakes. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, dated, initialism, uncountable

    "PS, PB, PW, PDL, ice-cold A/C   [power steering, power brakes, power windows, power door locks, ice-cold air conditioning]"

Symbol
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of petabyte. abbreviation, alt-of, formal
  2. 2
    Abbreviation of Pbit. abbreviation, alt-of
  3. 3
    Abbreviation of pebibyte. abbreviation, alt-of, informal
Verb
  1. 1
    To set a new personal best. informal, intransitive, usually

    "Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing."

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