Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).
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From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).
Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
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From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. * (billion): abbreviation of billion * (cricket): abbreviation of balls * (bitch): abbreviation of bitch
$2.8 B
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 (=)2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 23:
The correct answer is 1.Rxf6 Rxf6 2.Rf1 Raf8 3.Qg5 Kg7 4.Nh5+ Other sub-variations work, such as playing 2.Qg5 then 3.Rf1 or playing 4.Bxf6+ first before playing 5.Nh5+.2023 August 12, GM Noël Studer, “Mastering Chess Puzzles: The Comprehensive Guide to Effective Problem Solving”, in Next Level Chess:
I mean, some little B put in a protest because apparently a pineapple isn't strictly a flower.2003, Gina Riley and Jane Turner, That's Unusual, Sydney: ABC Books, page 153:
[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 down, “Dumb Bitch.” […] Robert then arrived at my house that day to see our son and upon leaving said, “I’ll see you in court you Dumb B.”2011 December 25, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 99:
And then he looked again and she wasn’t there. So he probably thought, ‘Stupid B’. You know.2016 May 23, Caron Lipman, Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny, Routledge, →ISBN, page 179:
Yo, I got this bad B coming from upsy. She just wanna bruck her back and give ucky.2020 March 26, “Chucky”performed by Dezzie:
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.’2018 October 8, Ruby Bloom, “What your favourite social media says about you”, in The Tab:
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.2020 May 2, “Leaving lockdown means understanding immune responses to the virus”, in The Economist:
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From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’. * (billion): abbreviation of billion * (cricket): abbreviation of balls * (bitch): abbreviation of bitch
TB · MB · PB · kB · Bps · GB · B/s · EB
fr o (octet) (byte) · fi t (tavu) (byte)
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
The baddest of the Bs, then, are a rare, precious mix of jerry-built production values and jazzed-up creative juices. But that’s not to say that even with a budget, a B movie can’t still bounce way off the wall, […]1999, Michael Sauter, The Worst Movies of All Time, Or, What Were They Thinking?, page 268:
The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff.
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cs H (musical note) · de H (musical note) · fr si (musical note) · fo H (musical note) · fi h (musical note)
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”.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · B-reel · A-B powering · B-heptomino · B-1 · B meson · there is no Planet B · B story · B-sheaf · Lake Bordeaux B · Part B state · peyssonol B · meningitis B · B-stage · basic B · antihemophilic factor B · Facey B · plan B · prothromboplastin B · B-list · B-field · B-tier · B virus · B-factory · Area B · TIS-B · B vitamin · A-B power · B-side · sulforhodamine B
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