Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- The symbol for the element boron.
- The symbol for magnetic flux density.
- abbr. baryon number
- abbr. Baseball base
- abbr. Music bass
- abbr. billion.
- abbr. bishop (chess)
Wiktionary
- n. The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
- n. The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
- n. The second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- abbr. cricket the number of balls faced by a batsman
- abbr. The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money
- abbr. UK The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
- abbr. chess Bishop
- n. A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
- n. An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
- n. Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
- n. Alternate or secondary part, as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with A, which is the primary part.
- n. music The seventh note in the C major scale.
- n. computing byte
- n. A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type A antigen in their blood. They can receive blood from type B or type O, but cannot receive blood from AB or A.
- n. chemistry The symbol for boron.
- n. computing Hexadecimal symbol for 11.
- n. biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for either glutamine or glutamic acid
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek letter Β (B, "Beta"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While Brooks gave highest marks to ABC ( "A"), Clinton a "B," and Obama a "D+," I'm scoring ABC with a C -, Clinton a B -, and Obama to B-- he'd get a B+ for not losing his temper, if I practiced grade inflation.”
“So far, at least 16 genes have been identified encoding 4 subfamilies of the regulatory subunits: B, B′, B″ and B′″”
“ She earned a B, a B+, a grudging A -; her grammar improved as she read and worked in her other classes.”
“If he were a teacher, and not a senior White House adviser and the towering former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he says, he would have given the new rules just an ordinary B-- not even a B-plus.”
“Overall, I would grade our outlook a B/B+, but lean towards the B+.”
“If he were a teacher, and not a senior White House adviser and the towering former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he says, he would have given the new rules just an ordinary B -- not even a B-plus.”
“Maryland received a B in K-12 achievement, school financing and "the teaching profession;" a B+ in standards, assessments and accountability as well as in the category "chance for success.”
The Washington Post: Maryland schools No. 1? Depends on who's grading.
“I liked them all very much, although There Will Be Blood curves towards the bottom of the scale with a grade of B while Hard Eight and Boogie Nights hover about the A- / B+ range, so I figured maybe I had just been having a bad day with Magnolia.”
“VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Scott Ritter: Barack Obama, Meet Team B'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Team B doesnt produce intelligence, but rather ideological assertions used as justification for policy.”
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Scott Ritter: Barack Obama, Meet Team B
“Meanwhile, after the attack Basnet was rushed to B& B hospital at Satdobato, Lalitpur, where he was treated for the gunshot wounds and now is in a recovering state.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘B’.
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I can haz cheezeburgerisms
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bilby's once and future nicknames
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All Things Scrabble
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Boy or Girl Letters?
I recently had a discussion with my family on the sex of language. So I was just wondering about y'all's opinions on the gender/sex of American English letters.
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Answers
Life is full of tests and challenges--with our busy schedules, it can be hard to find the time to study. Are you a student bombarded by a pop quiz? A witness testifying about that industrial accide...
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu See Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Mar 23, 2010
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