Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Baruch

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of Bachelor of Agricultural Science;
  • noun Bachelor of Applied Science: degrees conferred by some institutions.
  • To kiss.
  • To lull asleep by a continuous, inarticulate, musical hum.
  • noun A ball.
  • The chemical symbol of barium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To kiss.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Charopidae — sole known species is Ba humbugi, a small air-breathing land snail.
  • noun chemistry Symbol for barium.
  • noun physics The CGS symbol for the barye, unit of pressure.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
  • noun a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

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Examples

  • RESSA: Although those words find support in the streets, intellectuals like Dewi dismiss the political threat of what she calls Ba'Asyir's French groups.

    CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2003 2003

  • Egyptians once believed that when death came to a man, the soul of him, which they called the Ba, winged its way to the gods, but that, moved by a sweet unselfishness, it returned sometimes to his tomb, to give comfort to the poor, deserted mummy.

    The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • Now this Soul, this "Ba," is a loving visitant to the dead man.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • Ba is a serious thug with impeccable taste for bloodbath, genocide and zionist racism.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bibi Time? 2009

  • She sees none of the pride found in Ba; and Grandmother Jones, a devout Christian, frowns on the spells, potions and magic taught to Ruba by Ba.

    Stormwitch 2007

  • A Vietnamese biologist has recently discovered two new lizard species in Ba Den mountain, Tay Ninh province.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Orangeburg, S.C., died Feb. 16 in Ba'qubah, Iraq, when she was involved in

    Gulf War II 2005

  • Columbus, Ga., died February 14 in Ba'qubah, Iraq, when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.

    Gulf War II 2005

  • Their remains were re-interred in Ba Huyen Cemetery north of Hanoi in late 1972 or early

    Dennison, Terry A. 1990

  • SYNOPSIS: Gerasimo Arroya-Baez and Richard L. Bowers, two U.S. advisors, two other Americans and a number of ARVN personnel were on duty at Tam Soc operating base in Ba Xuayn Province, near Saigon.

    Bowers, Richard L. 1969

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