📖 B — The English dictionary · page 24

bewildered — Everyday, meaning 1: Bewildered means confused and not sure what is happening or what to do.↗ Example: «Not to-night?» asked the lost boys, bewildered.↗ · The wife was very bewildered.↗ · I felt bewildered when the rules changed.↗ · My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.↗ (Prophets ISA.21.4, JPS 1917)↗

bewilderment — Everyday, meaning 1: Bewilderment is a state of being confused and not understanding what is going on.↗ Example: Urashima was lost in bewilderment and trouble.↗ · The old man stood in bewilderment.↗ · Her face showed bewilderment at the sudden news.↗ · In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with bewilderment, and his rider with madness; and I will open Mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.↗ (Prophets ZEC.12.4, JPS 1917)↗

bewitch — Everyday, meaning 1: To bewitch someone is to put a spell on them with magic.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To bewitch someone can also mean to charm them so completely that they cannot look away.↗ Example: I'll bewitch you!↗ · Spit on the blade of my knife and bewitch it for me.↗ · The Fairy of the Dawn has eyes that will bewitch you.↗

bewitched — Everyday, meaning 1: Under a magic spell put on by a witch or wizard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Charmed and delighted, as if by magic: bewitched by the music.↗ Example: The princess was bewitched by the wicked witch.↗ · The prince was bewitched into a frog.↗ · Mole was bewitched by the sparkling river.↗ · Toad stared at the motor car as if bewitched.↗ · The audience was bewitched by her singing.↗ · The cottage looked bewitched in the moonlight.↗ · Clearly her husband must be bewitched.↗

bewitching — Everyday, meaning 1: Very charming or lovely, so that it seems to cast a spell on you.↗ Example: The bewitching music made everyone dance.↗ · She had a bewitching smile.↗ · The princess was so bewitching that the prince could not look away.↗

beyond — Everyday, meaning 1: Beyond means on the far side of something, further away than it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Beyond means later than a certain time or more than a certain amount.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Beyond means too much for something, as in «beyond belief» or «beyond repair».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The beyond is the unknown, or what some people believe comes after death.↗ Example: The village is just beyond the hill.↗ · Can you count beyond one hundred?↗ · Don't go beyond the fence.↗ · The broken toy was beyond repair.↗ · The view was beautiful beyond words.↗ · Space stretches far beyond our solar system.↗ · The match went on beyond five o'clock.↗ · She went above and beyond to help me.↗ · Beyond it again lies the Many-Coloured Land.↗ · And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder.↗ (Torah GEN.35.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; (Torah DEU.4.41, JPS 1917)↗ · beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying: (Torah DEU.1.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Gilead abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships?↗ (Prophets JDG.5.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.↗ (Writings JOB.36.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Ah, land of the buzzing of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; (Prophets ISA.18.1, JPS 1917)↗

bi — Everyday, meaning 1: (prefix) Two or twice, as in bicycle (two wheels), bilingual (two languages), biannual (twice a year).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Short for bisexual: attracted to more than one gender.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Short for "bye" in some texting (bi or bai — slang).↗ Example: A bicycle has two wheels.↗ · Bisect the angle with your compass.↗ · She is bilingual: she speaks English and Welsh.↗ · Birds are bipeds because they walk on two legs.↗ · Binary numbers use only 0 and 1.↗ · He told his friends he is bi.↗ · ") See Nestle in Hasting's Bi/i/e Diclionnry, vol IV, p 542.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: 'Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and wail before Abner.'↗ And king David followed the bier.↗ (Prophets 2SA.3.31, JPS 1917)↗

biannual — Everyday, meaning 1: Happening twice a year.↗ Example: We have a biannual dentist check-up.↗ · The school holds a biannual book fair, in spring and autumn.↗ · The magazine is biannual, so there are two issues a year.↗ · The garden club meets biannually.↗ · Our biannual car service is due next month.↗

bias — Everyday, meaning 1: Bias is an unfair way of favouring one person, side or idea over others, often without good reason: a referee with a bias towards one team.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To bias someone or something is to make them unfair or one-sided; «biased» means unfair and one-sided.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In maths and science, bias is when results are pushed in one direction by the way you test or collect data, so they are not fair or accurate.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In sewing, cutting cloth «on the bias» means cutting diagonally across the threads.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In bowls (lawn bowls), the bias is the weight that makes the ball curve.↗ Example: The referee was accused of bias towards the home team.↗ · This website is biased because it only shows one side.↗ · Ask lots of different people so your survey is not biased.↗ · A coin that lands on heads too often may have a bias.↗ · Try to read the news without bias.↗ · Everyone has some bias, so it helps to check other views.↗ · The advert biased people towards buying the sweets.↗ · AI can copy the bias in the data it learns from.↗

biased — Everyday, meaning 1: Unfairly favouring one person, side or idea over another, often without good reasons.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths and science) Not fair or not random, like a biased coin or dice that lands one way more often.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (past form of bias) Made someone or something unfair.↗ Example: The referee was biased towards the home team.↗ · This article is biased because it only gives one side.↗ · A biased dice landed on six far too often.↗ · Try not to be biased when you judge the drawings.↗ · The survey was biased because they only asked their friends.↗ · Everyone can be a little biased without noticing.↗ · Our science test was unfair and biased, so we did it again.↗

bible — Everyday, meaning 1: (the Bible, capital B) The holy book of Christians; the Christian Bible contains the Old Testament and the New Testament, and the Hebrew Bible is the holy book of Jews.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a bible) A copy of this book.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) The most useful and trusted book on a subject: this cookbook is my bible.↗ Example: Christians read the Bible in church.↗ · The story of Noah's Ark comes from the Bible.↗ · My grandparents have a big old family Bible.↗ · (informal) This guidebook is the hikers' bible.↗ · In court, some people swear on the Bible to tell the truth.↗ · We read a Bible story in RE.↗ · Her chief inheritance had been an old Bible, which she read and valued.↗ · Three Hebrew words are used in the Bible to represent the idea of making, producing or creating.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Bible dictionaries generally give the word as Cherubim, but in Hebrew the initial letter is always K and not Ch.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Most literally, it means ‘waste(land)’, the lifeless open desert, a translation of [Genesis 1:2] so far captured in English only by Robert Alter’s The Hebrew Bible (2019), who poetically renders תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ tohu vavohu as “waste and welter”; cf.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

biblical — Everyday, meaning 1: (Bible) To do with the Bible or found in the Bible, like biblical stories.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Very great or huge, like a flood in the Bible ("rain of biblical proportions").↗ Example: We read the biblical story of Noah's Ark.↗ · In biblical times people travelled by donkey and on foot.↗ · The rain was of biblical proportions; the whole street flooded.↗ · The play was based on a biblical story.↗ · Many famous paintings show biblical scenes.↗ · My dad's beard is getting biblical!↗ · The vicar explained the biblical meaning of the parable.↗ · From thence I have resuscitated Biblical history.↗ · other Biblical form of Holy mysterious animal, as given in I. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Author of the "Guide for Rational Inquiries into the Biblical Scriptures," "Toms des Morgenlandes," Translator of "Nathan the Wise" from the German, etc., etc., etc. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Wind is of course the herald of the storm, the Biblical symbol par excellence of the divine theophany, making wind a potent symbol of divine imminence.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

bibliotheca — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Latin word for a library or collection of books.↗

bicarbonate — Everyday, meaning 1: Short for bicarbonate of soda (also called baking soda or sodium bicarbonate), a white powder used in cooking and cleaning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) A chemical salt containing the group HCO3; in the body it helps keep blood at the right acid level.↗ Example: Add a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda to the cake mix.↗ · We mixed bicarbonate and vinegar to make our volcano erupt.↗ · Bicarbonate of soda can clean a dirty oven.↗ · The fizz is carbon dioxide gas made by the bicarbonate.↗ · Mum keeps a box of bicarbonate in the fridge to stop smells.↗ · Baking soda is another name for bicarbonate of soda.↗

biceps — Everyday, meaning 1: The biceps is the big muscle at the front of your upper arm that bends your elbow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Biceps can also name a similar muscle at the back of the thigh.↗ Example: Bend your arm and feel your biceps get hard.↗ · The biceps pulls the forearm up.↗ · Muscles work in pairs, like the biceps and triceps.↗ · He showed off his big biceps.↗ · Lifting shopping bags uses your biceps.↗ · When the biceps relaxes, the triceps straightens the arm.↗

bicker — Everyday, meaning 1: To bicker is to argue or quarrel about small things, again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A bicker is a small wooden drinking bowl or cup, and a bicker of spirits is a cupful of drink.↗ Example: The two sisters bicker about who sits by the fire.↗ · Why do you always bicker with your brother?↗ · The old man drank a bicker of ale before bed.↗

bickering — Everyday, meaning 1: Arguing about small, unimportant things, again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb form) Squabbling in a petty way.↗ Example: Stop bickering, you two!↗ · My brother and I were bickering about who got the front seat.↗ · The constant bickering made the car trip feel long.↗ · They were bickering over the last biscuit.↗ · After a while the bickering turned into laughter.↗ · Mum is tired of all the bickering at bedtime.↗ · The friends bickered but soon made up.↗

bicycle — Everyday, meaning 1: A bicycle is a vehicle with two wheels that you ride by pushing pedals with your feet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is often called a bike.↗ Example: A bicycle has 2 wheels.↗ · There are 6 bicycles and 2 cars.↗ · He rides his bicycle 5 km a day.↗ · The bicycle costs 120 dollars.↗ · Always wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle.↗ · She learned to ride a bicycle without stabilisers.↗ · The brakes on my bicycle use friction to stop the wheels.↗ · Lots of people in the Netherlands go to work by bicycle.↗ · Others rode on bicycles or on wooden horses.↗

bid — Everyday, meaning 1: To bid farewell is to say goodbye.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) To bid someone is to order or ask them to do something: «I bid you come in.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: At an auction, to bid is to offer a price, and a bid is that offer.↗ Example: She bid farewell to her friends at the gate.↗ · «Come now,» the king bid him.↗ · At the auction, Ann made the highest bid for the painting.↗ · 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue.↗ (Torah NUM.15.38, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee.'↗ (Prophets JON.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant: 'Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.4.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Bid Jerusalem take heart, and proclaim unto her, that her time of service is accomplished, that her guilt is paid off; that she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.↗ (Prophets ISA.40.2, JPS 1917)↗

bidder — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who offers money for something at an auction.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A company or person who offers to do a job for a certain price.↗ Example: The painting was sold to the highest bidder.↗ · There were ten bidders at the farm auction.↗ · The bidder in the green hat raised her paddle.↗ · Online, the last bidder won the toy at the final second.↗ · The council chose the bidder with the best plan.↗ · Only one bidder offered more than the starting price.↗ · Now it was not the custom to show a slave to a private bidder, but as no one dared to disobey the vizir his request was granted.↗

bidding — Everyday, meaning 1: Offering money for something at an auction.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned) A command or request: «do someone's bidding» means to do what they tell you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) Making an offer, or (formal, old) saying something to someone, as in «bidding goodnight».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (card games) Saying how many tricks you think you can win.↗ Example: The bidding for the painting started at one hundred pounds.↗ · The genie did his master's bidding.↗ · Two people were bidding for the same bike online.↗ · The dog came at his bidding.↗ · She was bidding everyone goodnight.↗ · A bidding war pushed the price up.↗ · “Madam, I have done your bidding.↗ · 'What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, forasmuch as she hath not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?'↗ (Writings EST.1.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said: 'And who among all thy servants is so trusted as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and giveth heed unto thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?↗ (Prophets 1SA.22.14, JPS 1917)↗