b
characterEtymology
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”.
Definitions
The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin…
The second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.
Abbreviation of born.
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latitude in the galactic coordinate system
barn
bit
bye
big
Abbreviation of be.
- ima prolly b at home tn
- i am looking for any safari i am trying to fill my dex and it would b rly nice :D especially fire,ice, flying, since i don't a lot of those but everyone is welcome to add me :DD
- if u aren't tryna b like this don't hmu
The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money.
- $2.8 B
The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks…
The grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
Abbreviation of 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 (=)
- 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+.
The number of balls faced by a batsman.
Bass.
Bastard.
- I mean, some little B put in a protest because apparently a pineapple isn't strictly a flower.
Bitch.
- And then he looked again and she wasn’t there. So he probably thought, ‘Stupid B’. You know.
- Yo, I got this bad B coming from upsy. She just wanna bruck her back and give ucky.
Abbreviation of blood or blud
Abbreviation of blood or blud: used to address a friend, especially a male.
- 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.’
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.
byte
A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in…
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…
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 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, […]
The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted…
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.
A programming language from which C is derived.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for b. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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