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b¹

  • /b/ phoneme
  • /biː/ letter, name

Sounds like be, bee, Bea

letter B · bs · b's

  1. letter, lowercase The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

number B · bs · b's

  1. lowercase The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

b²

adjective

  1. abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of born.born

symbol

  1. latitude in the galactic coordinate system
  2. barn
  3. bit
  4. bye
  5. big

b³

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

verb

  1. Internet, abbreviation Abbreviation of be.be ima prolly b at home tn

B⁴

  • /b/ phoneme
  • /biː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).

letter b · Bs · B's

  1. letter, uppercase The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script. Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

number b · Bs · B's

  1. uppercase The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

B⁵

  • /b/ phoneme
  • /biː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’.

* (billion): abbreviation of billion

* (cricket): abbreviation of balls

* (bitch): abbreviation of bitch

noun Bs

  1. uncountable, usually The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money. $2.8 B
  2. UK, uncountable, usually The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
  3. abbreviation, uncountable, usually Abbreviation of bishop.bishop 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 (=)
  4. uncountable, usually The number of balls faced by a batsman.
  5. uncountable, usually Bass.
  6. Australia, countable, euphemistic, usually Bastard. I mean, some little B put in a protest because apparently a pineapple isn't strictly a flower.
  7. countable, euphemistic, usually Bitch. [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 dow
  8. Multicultural London English, abbreviation, uncountable, usually Abbreviation of blood or blud: used to address a friend, especially a male.blood or blud 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.’
  9. countable, usually A B cell. 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.

symbol

  1. byte

B⁶

  • /b/ phoneme
  • /biː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

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

noun Bs

  1. A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
  2. An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A.
  3. 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.
  4. The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
  5. The seventh note in the C major scale.

B⁷

  • /b/ phoneme
  • /biː/ letter, name

Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

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”.

proper noun

  1. A programming language from which C is derived.

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