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upper case, lower case b, plural Bs or B's
The second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script. quotations examples
Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]
1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
upper case, lower case b
The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script. examples
(cricket) the number of balls faced by a batsman examples
The quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money examples
(Britain) The grade of pencil that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead. examples
(chess) Bishop examples
(music) Bass. examples
(immunology) a B cell. quotations
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
(stenoscript) a suffix -(V)ble (-ible, -able.) examples
plural Bs
A personality type of someone who is relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work. examples
An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A examples
Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc. quotations examples
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
Alternate or secondary part, as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with A, which is the primary part. examples
(music) The seventh note in the C major scale. examples
(computing) byte examples
(computer languages) A programming language from which C is derived. examples