📖 B — The English dictionary · page 30

bleat — Everyday, meaning 1: The shaky «baa» sound a sheep, lamb or goat makes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make that sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To complain in a weak, whining way, as in «stop bleating about it».↗ Example: The lambs bleated for their mothers.↗ · We heard the bleat of a goat in the field.↗ · A sheep bleats, a dog barks and a cow moos.↗ · The little lamb gave a sad bleat.↗ · Stop bleating about your homework and just do it!↗ (informal)↗ · The goats bleated when the farmer brought hay.↗ · He bleated that it was not fair.↗ · And Samuel said: 'What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?'↗ (Prophets 1SA.15.14, JPS 1917)↗

bleed — Everyday, meaning 1: To lose blood from the body, because of a cut or injury.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of colours, to spread into each other or onto other things, like dye bleeding in the wash.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To let air or liquid out of something, as in bleeding a radiator (usually an adult's job).↗ Example: My knee started to bleed when I fell.↗ · Press on the cut to stop it bleeding.↗ · His nose bled after he was hit by the ball.↗ · Gums can bleed if you brush too hard.↗ · Don't wash red socks with white clothes — the colour may bleed.↗ · A small cut bleeds for a few minutes, then a scab forms.↗ · Call for help if someone is bleeding a lot.↗ · The paint bled into the wet paper.↗ · Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.↗

bleeding — Everyday, meaning 1: Bleeding is losing blood from a cut, wound or injury.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Bleeding (noun) is the flow of blood from the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Bleeding (of colours) means spreading from one area into another, like wet paint or dye.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Bleeding (British, informal and rude) is used to make a statement stronger.↗ Example: His knee was bleeding after he fell.↗ · Press on the cut to stop the bleeding.↗ · For a nosebleed, lean forward and pinch your nose.↗ · The bleeding stopped after a few minutes.↗ · Call for help if someone is bleeding badly.↗ · The red dye was bleeding into the white shirt.↗ · The next moment the poor hawk lay bleeding and dying at its master's feet.↗

bleep — Everyday, meaning 1: A short, high electronic sound, like from a machine or phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make such a sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To cover a rude word on TV or radio with a bleep sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK) To call someone, such as a doctor, using a pager.↗ Example: The microwave gave a bleep when the food was ready.↗ · The heart monitor bleeped steadily.↗ · They bleeped out the rude word on TV.↗ · My watch bleeps every hour.↗ · The nurse bleeped the doctor.↗ · What the bleep was that?↗ (a polite way to avoid swearing)↗

bleeping — Everyday, meaning 1: (euphemism) a word used instead of a swear word: «that bleeping dog».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (literal) making short high sounds, like a machine.↗ Example: Where are my bleeping keys?↗ · The bleeping printer is broken again.↗ · The machine kept bleeping all night.↗ · TV bleeps out swear words.↗ · Joke: «Bleeping heck!»↗ · Rough talk: «Shut the bleeping door!»↗

blemish — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A flaw, mark or fault that spoils how something looks or is.↗ Example: No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.↗ (Torah DEU.32.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; (Torah NUM.29.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; (Torah NUM.29.23, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou hast made an end of purifying it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.↗ (Prophets EZK.43.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD shall be in the sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish; (Prophets EZK.46.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt prepare a lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt-offering unto the LORD daily; morning by morning shalt thou prepare it.↗ (Prophets EZK.46.13, JPS 1917)↗

blemished — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Having a fault or flaw, a physical defect.↗

blend — Everyday, meaning 1: To blend is to mix two or more things together so they become one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A blend is a mixture of different things.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To blend in is to look or sound like the things around you so you are not noticed.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In phonics, a blend is two or three letters said together quickly, like «bl», «st» or «str».↗ Example: Blend the sounds to read the word: s-u-n, sun.↗ · Blend the bananas and milk to make a smoothie.↗ · The chameleon blends in with the leaves.↗ · Blend the blue and yellow paint to make green.↗ · «Bl» in «black» is a blend.↗ · This tea is a blend of three kinds of leaves.↗ · The new girl soon blended in with the class.↗ · Use your finger to blend the chalk colours.↗ · And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang waltzes.↗ · Now, he knew that his version of the Sefer Yetzirah contained many mistakes, that ignorant people had blended the original and an early commen- tary"), and consequently the original text did not exist.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

blender — Everyday, meaning 1: A blender is an electric kitchen machine with sharp spinning blades that mixes and chops food into a smooth liquid, like a smoothie or soup.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A blender is also anything or anyone that blends or mixes things.↗ Example: We made a banana smoothie in the blender.↗ · Put the lid on before you switch on the blender.↗ · Never put your fingers near the blender blades.↗ · Unplug the blender before you wash it.↗ · Dad blended the soup until it was smooth.↗ · The blender was very noisy.↗ · My sister uses a stick blender for baby food.↗

bless — Everyday, meaning 1: To bless means to ask God to protect someone or something or bring them good, often by a priest or religious leader.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Bless you!» is what people say when someone sneezes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To be blessed with something means to be lucky to have it («blessed with good health»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Bless him/her» or «bless» is said (mainly UK) to show love or sympathy for someone small or sweet.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: To ask God to protect someone or bring them good.↗ Example: «Atchoo!»↗ «Bless you!»↗ · The priest blessed the new baby.↗ · We are blessed with lovely neighbours.↗ · Grandma always says «God bless» at bedtime.↗ · Oh, bless him, he's fallen asleep in his dinner.↗ · The vicar blessed the animals at the pet service.↗ · Losing the match was a blessing in disguise; we trained harder.↗ · The rain was a blessing for the dry farms.↗ · The LORD bless thee, and keep thee; (Torah NUM.6.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.↗ (Torah DEU.28.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.↗ (Torah GEN.47.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Blessed be the LORD for evermore.↗ (Writings PSA.89.53, JPS 1917)↗ · Bless the LORD, O my soul.↗ (Writings PSA.104.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Then David returned to bless his household.↗ (Prophets 2SA.6.20, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD bless thee, and keep thee;↗ (Torah NUM.6.24, JPS 1917) · "Bless gracious, honey, dat he didn't.↗ (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) · And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.'↗ (Torah NUM.23.25, JPS 1917)

blessedly — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a lucky or fortunate way; fortunately.↗ Example: Presumably, the anatomy of slaughtered livestock would have been fairly familiar to many writers and readers of the time, while blessedly few indeed would have had first-hand knowledge of human innards.]↗ Like what did He make them?↗ (A city) [strife].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

blessest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «blessest» means «you bless», a form of «bless».↗ e.g. To bless means to ask God to protect someone or something or bring them good, often by a priest or religious leader.↗

blesseth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «blesseth» means «blesses», a form of «bless».↗ e.g. To bless means to ask God to protect someone or something or bring them good, often by a priest or religious leader.↗ Example: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee.↗ (Torah GEN.27.29, JPS 1917) · Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one that curseth thee.↗ (Torah NUM.24.9, JPS 1917) · And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God after the measure of the freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God blesseth thee.↗ (Torah DEU.16.10, JPS 1917)

blessing — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A blessing is a prayer asking God to protect and do good to someone or something, or God's favour itself; Christians believe blessings come from God.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A blessing is something good that you are glad and thankful for.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A blessing is permission or approval, as in «with my parents' blessing».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A blessing in disguise is something that seems bad at first but turns out good.↗ Example: The priest gave a blessing at the end of the service.↗ · We say a blessing before dinner.↗ · Good friends are a real blessing.↗ · Missing the bus was a blessing in disguise, because we met Grandma on the way.↗ · She married him with her father's blessing.↗ · Count your blessings: you have a home and people who love you.↗ · A big dog in a small flat is a mixed blessing.↗ · Some men underrate their best blessings.↗ · Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: (Torah DEU.11.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.↗ (Torah GEN.27.41, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.'↗ (Torah GEN.27.35, JPS 1917)↗ · Salvation belongeth unto the LORD; Thy blessing be upon Thy people.↗ (Writings PSA.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and toil addeth nothing thereto.↗ (Writings PRO.10.22, JPS 1917)↗ · He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.↗ (Writings PSA.24.5, JPS 1917)↗

blest — Everyday, meaning 1: (old form of «blessed») Given good luck, favour or happiness, often by heaven.↗ Example: "Blest be the day," said the old king.↗ · She was blest with a kind heart.↗ · The farmer was blest with a good harvest.↗

bleu — Everyday, meaning 1: (French) «Bleu» means «blue»: «le ciel bleu» = the blue sky.↗ It sounds roughly like «bluh» (lips rounded), and it is not an English word.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (cooking) In English menus, «bleu» or «blue» describes a steak cooked very rare, only seared outside.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Cordon bleu» means top-class cooking, and «bleu cheese» is an American spelling of «blue cheese».↗ Example: In French, «bleu» means blue.↗ · «Mon sac est bleu» means «My bag is blue».↗ · The French flag is «bleu, blanc, rouge».↗ · «Une voiture bleue» has an extra e because «voiture» is feminine.↗ · Grandad likes his steak «bleu», almost raw.↗ · She trained as a cordon bleu chef.↗ · The menu said «bleu cheese dressing».↗

blight — Everyday, meaning 1: A disease or damage that spoils plants or crops so they cannot grow well.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that spoils or ruins a place or a life.↗ Example: A blight destroyed the potato crop.↗ · The drought and blight left the fields brown.↗ · Bad weather can be a blight on a village.↗

blighted — Everyday, meaning 1: Spoiled, damaged or ruined, especially by disease, bad weather or bad luck.↗ Example: The blighted apples fell to the ground.↗ · The wet summer left the fields blighted.↗ · Their hopes were blighted by the flood.↗

blimey — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, informal) a cry of surprise, shock or amazement, like «wow!» or «goodness!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (euphemism, origin) a softened form of the old oath «God blind me».↗ Example: Blimey, look at the size of that dog!↗ · Blimey, is that the time already?↗ · «It costs how much?↗ Blimey!»↗ · Cor blimey, it's freezing out there.↗ · Blimey, Charlie, you've grown!↗ · The answer was 1,000?↗ Blimey, I wrote 100.↗ · Blimey O'Reilly, what a mess!↗

blind — Everyday, meaning 1: Blind means not able to see.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To blind someone is to stop them seeing, for a short time or for ever.↗ e.g. The bright light blinded me.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A blind is a covering that you pull down over a window to keep out light.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Blind to something means not noticing it: blind to his mistakes.↗ Example: The blind man walked with a guide dog.↗ · Braille helps blind people read.↗ · Close the blinds, the sun is in my eyes.↗ · The bright light blinded me for a moment.↗ · Moles are almost blind.↗ · We played blind man's buff with a blindfold.↗ · The teacher turned a blind eye to our talking.↗ · Drivers have a blind spot behind the car.↗ · Cursed be he that maketh the blind to go astray in the way.↗ (Torah DEU.27.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.19.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto him: 'Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the LORD?↗ (Torah EXO.4.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Who is blind, but My servant?↗ (Prophets ISA.42.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see.↗ (Prophets ISA.42.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it no evil!↗ (Prophets MAL.1.8, JPS 1917)↗