📖 B — The English dictionary · page 19

believer — Everyday, meaning 1: Someone who believes in a god or a religion.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone who strongly thinks something is true or good.↗ Example: She's a great believer in getting a good night's sleep.↗ · Believers go to the temple to pray.↗ · My dad is a firm believer in fresh air.↗ · The magician turned the sceptics into believers.↗ · He became a believer after he saw the result.↗ · Christians, Muslims and Jews are all believers in one God.↗

bell — Everyday, meaning 1: A bell is a hollow metal thing, often shaped like a cup, that rings when you hit it or shake it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bell is also anything that makes a ringing sound to give a signal, like a doorbell, a bike bell or the school bell.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The ringing of a bell is also called a bell: wait for the bell.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A bell can also be a flower shaped like a bell, such as a bluebell.↗ Example: The bell rings every 45 minutes.↗ · A clock bell rings 3 times at 3 o'clock.↗ · There are 6 bells in the tower.↗ · The bell rang at 8:30 and again 50 minutes later.↗ · When the bell rings, line up at the door.↗ · Ring your bike bell to warn walkers.↗ · Someone rang the doorbell.↗ · The name rings a bell, but I cannot remember her.↗ · The church bells rang for the wedding.↗ · "Cling, clang," tolled the hyacinth bells.↗ · a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about.↗ (Torah EXO.28.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates: (Torah EXO.39.25, JPS 1917)↗ · a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about, to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.↗ (Torah EXO.39.26, JPS 1917)↗ · In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses: HOLY UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the basins before the altar.↗ (Prophets ZEC.14.20, JPS 1917)↗

belladonna — Everyday, meaning 1: A very poisonous plant, also called deadly nightshade, with purple flowers and shiny black berries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drug made from this plant, used carefully in medicine (for example to widen the pupils of the eyes).↗ Example: Belladonna berries are shiny, black and very poisonous.↗ · Never eat wild berries; they might be belladonna.↗ · Belladonna is also called deadly nightshade.↗ · In the mystery story, the poison was belladonna.↗ · Long ago, ladies used belladonna drops to make their pupils big.↗ · Doctors make a medicine from belladonna, used in tiny doses.↗

belle — Everyday, meaning 1: A belle is a very beautiful girl or woman, especially the most admired one at a party: «the belle of the ball».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French) Belle is the feminine form of the French adjective «beau», meaning «beautiful»: «une belle maison» (a beautiful house).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Belle is also a girl's name, as in the heroine of «Beauty and the Beast» (a name).↗ Example: Cinderella was the belle of the ball.↗ · Belle loved reading books in the old story.↗ · In French, «belle» means beautiful: «une belle journée».↗ · The town's belle wore a blue silk dress.↗ · «Ma belle» is a French way to say «my beautiful one».↗ · In old American stories, a Southern belle was a rich young woman from the South.↗

bellicose — Everyday, meaning 1: Bellicose means eager to start a fight or argument; ready to quarrel.↗ Example: The bellicose goat butted every goat it met.↗ · A sturdy, bellicose, forthright man he was.↗ · The bellicose knight wanted a fight with everyone.↗

bellied — Everyday, meaning 1: Bellied is used in compound words to describe what kind of belly (tummy) something has: pot-bellied, big-bellied, red-bellied.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) Bellied means swelled out in a round shape: the sails bellied in the wind.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Belly-up» means dead (for a fish) or failed (for a business).↗ Example: A red-bellied woodpecker tapped on the tree.↗ · They keep a pot-bellied pig as a pet.↗ · The ship's sails bellied out in the strong wind.↗ · The pot-bellied stove warmed the old cabin.↗ · (old slang) "You yellow-bellied coward!" shouted the cowboy.↗ · The big-bellied jug held lots of water.↗

bellow — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb) To shout something in a very loud, deep voice, often in anger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) Of a bull or large animal: to make a loud, deep roar.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A loud, deep shout or roar.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Bellows (always plural form): a tool that pumps air into a fire to make it burn hotter.↗ Example: "Silence!" bellowed the headmaster.↗ · The bull bellowed across the field.↗ · The coach bellowed instructions from the side of the pitch.↗ · We heard a bellow of laughter from the kitchen.↗ · The blacksmith pumped the bellows to heat the fire.↗ · The giant bellowed so loudly the windows shook.↗ · The herd splashed through the pool he had just left, bellowing till the narrow cut rang.↗

bellows — Everyday, meaning 1: A tool with handles and a soft folding middle that pushes out a strong stream of air when you squeeze it, used to make a fire burn hotter.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The folding air part of an accordion, organ or old camera.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Bellows» is also the -s form of the verb «bellow»: to shout or roar loudly.↗ «He bellows at the dog.».↗ Example: The blacksmith pumped the bellows to make the fire glow.↗ · Grandpa uses a pair of bellows to start the fire.↗ · The accordion's bellows squeezed in and out.↗ · Our lungs work a bit like bellows.↗ · The coach bellows at us from the side of the pitch.↗ · The bull bellows in the field.↗ · So there John blew his bellows and hammered his iron and did all the work which came his way.↗ · The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated.↗ (Prophets JER.6.29, JPS 1917)↗

belly — Everyday, meaning 1: The front part of the body between the chest and the legs, where the stomach is; the tummy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The stomach, where food goes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The rounded underside of an animal or of a thing like a plane or a boat.↗ Example: The baby giggled when I tickled her belly.↗ · The dog rolled over to have its belly rubbed.↗ · My belly is full after that big dinner.↗ · A snake slides along on its belly.↗ · He did a belly flop into the pool and it stung.↗ · Your belly button is where the cord joined you to your mum.↗ · The plane's belly touched the runway.↗ · Santa had a round belly that shook when he laughed.↗ · The Members of the Body once rebelled against the Belly.↗ · And he went after the man of Israel into the chamber, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly.↗ (Torah NUM.25.8, JPS 1917)↗ · and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.'↗ (Torah NUM.5.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath many feet, even all swarming things that swarm upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are a detestable thing.↗ (Torah LEV.11.42, JPS 1917)↗ · They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.↗ (Writings JOB.15.35, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly.↗ (Prophets JON.2.2, JPS 1917)↗ · For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.↗ (Writings PSA.44.26, JPS 1917)↗

belong — Everyday, meaning 1: To belong to someone is to be owned by them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To belong to a group is to be a member of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To belong is to be in the right place: «The milk belongs in the fridge».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To belong is to feel at home and welcome.↗ Example: 12 of the books belong to Sam.↗ · The rest belong to his sister.↗ · How many cards belong to Ana?↗ · 8 players belong to the chess club.↗ · Who does this coat belong to?↗ · The cups belong in the top cupboard.↗ · A whale belongs to the mammal group.↗ · Take all your belongings off the bus.↗ · Everyone should feel they belong in our class.↗ · Which shape does not belong?↗ · But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the holy things belonged unto them: they bore them upon their shoulders.↗ (Torah NUM.7.9, JPS 1917)↗ · All the souls belonging to Jacob that came into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six.↗ (Torah GEN.46.26, JPS 1917)↗ · The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.↗ (Torah DEU.29.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.↗ (Prophets 1KI.16.15, JPS 1917)↗ · To the Lord our God belong compassions and forgivenesses; for we have rebelled against Him; (Writings DAN.9.9, JPS 1917)↗ · God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues of death.↗ (Writings PSA.68.21, JPS 1917)↗

belongeth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «belongeth» means «belongs», a form of «belong».↗ e.g. To belong to someone is to be owned by them.↗ Example: Behold, unto the LORD thy God belongeth the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that therein is.↗ (Torah DEU.10.14, JPS 1917) · In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.↗ (Torah LEV.27.24, JPS 1917) · And the LORD shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel.'↗ (Torah EXO.9.4, JPS 1917)

belongings — Everyday, meaning 1: The things that you own and can carry or move, such as clothes, bags and toys.↗ Example: Please take all your belongings when you leave the bus.↗ · Label your belongings with your name.↗ · In a fire drill, leave your belongings and go outside.↗ · She packed her belongings into a suitcase.↗ · Keep your belongings safe on the trip.↗ · The family lost all their belongings in the flood.↗ · He put all his belongings into their charge, and fastened his horse in their out-house.↗

beloved — Everyday, meaning 1: Loved very much: a beloved pet, a beloved teacher.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, old or poetic) A person who is loved, especially a sweetheart.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (church, Bible) Used for people dear to God or to each other, as in «dearly beloved» at the start of a wedding.↗ Example: Our beloved cat lived to be eighteen.↗ · The beloved old teacher retired this year.↗ · Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today…↗ · He wrote poems to his beloved.↗ · The gravestone said "beloved father and grandfather".↗ · Paddington is a beloved children's character.↗ · Once our beloved Aphtanides paid us a visit.↗ · Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him; He covereth him all the day, and He dwelleth between his shoulders.↗ (Torah DEU.33.12, JPS 1917)↗ · If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated; (Torah DEU.21.15, JPS 1917)↗ · then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born; (Torah DEU.21.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.↗ (Writings SNG.5.1, JPS 1917)↗ · 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand.↗ (Writings SNG.5.10, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women?↗ (Writings SNG.6.1, JPS 1917)↗

below — Everyday, meaning 1: Below means lower than something or under it: «the flat below ours».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Below means less than a number or level: «below zero», «below 10».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In writing, «below» means later on the page: «see the picture below».↗ Example: The temperature is 3 degrees below zero.↗ · Write a number below 20.↗ · The shelf below has 8 books.↗ · How many numbers below 10 are even?↗ · Write your answer in the box below.↗ · Water freezes when it is below 0 °C.↗ · Some of the Netherlands is below sea level.↗ · The fish swam below the boat.↗ · The remaining amendments are listed below.↗ · And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.↗ (Torah GEN.35.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Sixth ; He looked below, and sealed the Depth (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Six—He sealed Below and faced downwards and sealed it with Yod-Waw-Heh.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗