Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word B

Definitions of B

1. The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money
2. A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
3. An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A
4. Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.
5. Alternate or secondary part, as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with A, which is the primary part.
6. Abbreviation of born.
7. (texting) Abbreviation of be.
8. (stenoscript) a single consonant /b/ in a word, or a dominant /b/ in a cluster.
9. (astronomy) latitude in the galactic coordinate system
10. (physics) barn
11. (computing) bit
12. (cricket) bye
13. (size) big
14. (stenoscript) the sequence /biː/
15. (cricket) the number of balls faced by a batsman
16. (British) The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
17. (chess) Bishop
18. (music) Bass.
19. (immunology) a B cell.
20. (stenoscript) a suffix -(V)ble (, .)
21. (music) The seventh note in the C major scale.
22. (computing) byte
23. (computer languages) A programming language from which C is derived.
24. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of be and inflections being, been.
25. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of by and homophones buy, bye.
26. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of but.

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