b
see also: B
Pronunciation Letter
B
Pronunciation Letter
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see also: B
Pronunciation Letter
- Letter of the English alphabet
b (not comparable)
- Alternative form of b.
B
Pronunciation Letter
- Letter of the English alphabet
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
- Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]
- (cricket) the number of balls faced by a batsman
- The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money
- $2.8 B — “two point eight billion dollars” (i.e., $2,800,000,000)
- (British) The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
- (chess) Bishop
- (music) bass.
- (immunology) A B cell.
b (plural bs)
- A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
- An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
- 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.
- Alternate or secondary part, as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with A, which is the primary part.
- (music) The seventh note in the C major scale.
- French: o octet
(computer languages) A programming language from which C is derived.
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