Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- The symbol for the element terbium.
- abbr. Bible Tobit
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A symbol sometimes used for the chemical element terbium. Tr. is more common.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
- n. a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
- n. a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
- n. infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
- n. a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits
- n. a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
Examples
“For flour tortillas, I use 2 cups of flour to 4 Tb of fat (half butter half shortening) 1/2 ts salt and 1/2 ts baking powder.”
“(Tb) Jones feels distressed when he thinks of what he will undergo if he goes to hospital.”
“I made this with onion, garlic, 1 can of garbanzos, 1 can of diced tomatoes, 10 frozen spinach pkg, ~ 3 cups homemade chicken stock and 2 Tb commercially prepared pesto.”
Chickpea (Garbanzo Bean) Soup Recipe with Spinach, Tomatoes, and Basil
“I accept that when the Assembly Government wanted 400 road kills to assess the corelation between Bovine Tb in cattle and badgers, there could have been a theoretical benefit in that the proof would have been available sooner, but that position is long gone.”
“Over the last 10 years, the number of cattle slaughtered as a result of Bovine Tb in Wales alone has increased 10 fold to almost 8,000 in 2007.”
“When I visited Ireland and discussed this with Irish politicians and vets, I was told that the number of Bovine Tb cases had fallen hugely.”
“The serious matter of how we tackle the Bovine Tb crisis in the countryside in very important.”
“But if we are going to eradicate Bovine Tb, we have to slaughter all cattle which are suspect (which we do) and all badgers (which we don't).”
“Next, I drizzled 2 Tb peanut oil, 2 Tb soy sauce, 2 tsp sesame oil, and 1 clove garlic, minced, then tossed everything around to mix well.”
“I laid them into the pan and sprinkled 1 tsp kosher salt, and 1 Tb raw sugar.”
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