B
The quantity one billion, usually used to signify a sum of moneyThe quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money.
» Do we need a Plan B?
Brauchen wir einen Plan B?
Нам нужен план Б?
Нам потрібний план "Б"?
Ми потребуємо плану "Б"?
Нам потрібний план Б?
Meaning
12 senses(uncountable, usually)The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money.
$2.8 B
(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.
(uncountable, usually)The number of balls faced by a batsman.
(uncountable, usually)Bass.
(Australia, countable, euphemistic, usually)Bastard.
(countable, euphemistic, usually)Bitch.
(countable, usually)A B cell.
A personality type describing people who are 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.
The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
The seventh note in the C major scale.
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- the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen
- the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet
- aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
- the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet
Examples
223 sentencesDo we need a Plan B?
Нам потрібний план "Б"? — deniko
ruНам нужен план Б? — Inego
deBrauchen wir einen Plan B? — Manfredo
Draw a line from A to B.
Намалюй пряму лінію від точки А до точки Б. — deniko
deZiehe eine Linie von A nach B. — Manfredo
Don't worry, I have a plan B.
Не турбуйся, в мене є план Б. — deniko
ruНе беспокойся, у меня есть план Б. — marafon
We've got to come up with a plan B.
Нам треба розробити план Б. — deniko
I like R&B.
Я люблю ритм-енд-блюз. — deniko
ruЯ люблю ар-н-би. — sharptoothed
deIch mag R&B. — fendtwick
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. From theFrom abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’.
From the use of the letter ‘B’ as an arbitrary label among other letter labels.
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Forms
plural: BsSynonyms
12 synonyms- the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen:type Bgroup B
- aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil:bacillus
- (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter:barn
- a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels:Bel
- a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder:boronatomic number 5
- originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins:B-complex vitaminB complexvitamin B complexvitamin BB vitamin
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
3 patterns- a plan b
- plan b
- got a b